Drug War Chronicle
(formerly The Week Online with DRCNet)
Issue #442
-- 6/30/06
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- FEATURE:
REEFER
MADNESS
FROM
THE
UNITED
NATIONS
ON
INTERNATIONAL
ANTI-DRUG
DAY
The
UN
and
US
drug
czars
made
some
remarkable
statements
at
a
press
conference
announcing
the
UN's
2006
World
Drug
Report
and
International
Day
Against
Drug
Abuse
and
Illicit
Trafficking.
- FEATURE:
SUMMER
MUSIC
FESTIVAL
SEASON
IS
HERE,
AND
SO
ARE
POLICE
CHECKPOINTS
--
KNOW
YOUR
RIGHTS!
Summer
is
music
festival
time
--
but
rock
'n'
roll
and
massive
crowds
can
make
law
enforcement
twitchy,
and
concert-goers
too
often
find
themselves
face
to
face
with
the
law.
- FOLLOW-UP:
MEDICAL
MARIJUANA
GAINS
SUPPORT
IN
CONGRESS
--
SLIGHTLY
--
SOME
SURPRISES
Due
to
staff
travel
schedule,
Drug
War
Chronicle's
full
report
on
the
Hinchey-Rohrabacher
medical
marijuana
amendment
vote
is
waiting
until
next
week.
However,
we
here
report
to
you
on
the
results
and
some
highlights.
- DRCNET
BOOK
REVIEW:
RACE
TO
INCARCERATE,
REVISED
EDITION,"
BY
MARC
MAUER
(2006,
THE
NEW
PRESS,
$15.95
PB)
With
a
world
record
2.2
million
people
behind
bars,
the
US
leads
the
world
in
per
capita
incarceration.
In
"Race
to
Incarcerate,"
veteran
criminal
justice
analyst
and
reformer
Marc
Mauer
explains
what
happened
and
why.
- "SCOOPS"
IN
DRUG
WAR
CHRONICLE
LAST
WEEK
We
are
pleased
that
Drug
War
Chronicle
had
two
last
week
--
we
hope
you'll
click
back
on
those
articles
if
you
haven't
already
read
them.
- LAW
ENFORCEMENT:
THIS
WEEK'S
CORRUPT
COPS
STORIES
A
pair
of
crooked
Baltimore
cops
are
going
to
prison
for
a
long,
long
time,
while
in
two
separate
incidents
down
in
Louisiana,
two
deputies
get
busted
on
drug
and
gun
charges.
- LAW
ENFORCEMENT:
REVELATION
OF
MAJOR
SLEAZE
AMONG
"OPERATION
LIVELY
GREEN"
INFORMANTS,
COVER-UP
BY
FBI
AGENT
A
federal
sting
operation
purportedly
aimed
at
military
and
law
enforcement
personnel
in
the
Southwest
suspected
of
cooperating
with
drug
traffickers
has
generated
media-worthy
sleaze
and
corruption
for
months.
This
week
it
reached
a
new
high
in
low.
- NEWSBRIEF:
CALIFORNIA
LEGISLATURE
VOTES
TO
GUT
PROP.
36
--
COURT
CHALLENGE
IMMINENT
In
a
vote
late
Tuesday,
the
California
legislature
radically
rewrote
voter-approved
Prop.
36,
the
state's
treatment-instead-of-incarceration
law.
Proponents
warn
the
bill
is
unconstitutional
and
threatens
the
initiative
process.
- HARM
REDUCTION:
RESPONDING
TO
WAVE
OF
FENTANYL
OVERDOSE
DEATHS,
SENATOR
DURBIN
PROPOSES
OD
PREVENTION
BILL
With
Chicago
among
the
major
cities
suffering
a
wave
of
overdose
deaths
from
heroin
cut
with
the
powerful
synthetic
opiate
fentanyl,
Illinois
Senator
Richard
Durbin
is
proposing
legislation
to
send
federal
funds
to
state-designed
overdose
prevention
programs
in
a
bid
to
cut
the
death
toll.
- HEMP:
CALIFORNIA
INDUSTRIAL
HEMP
BILL
WINS
ANOTHER
COMMITTEE
VOTE
The
California
hemp
bill
sponsored
by
San
Francisco
Assemblyman
Mark
Leno
has
conquered
another
hurdle.
- EUROPE:
ITALIAN
MINISTERS
ANNOUNCE
DRUG
LAW
REVISIONS
Ministers
from
the
freshly
elected
government
of
Premier
Romano
Prodi
said
they
would
move
quickly
to
reform
a
harsh
drug
law
passed
late
during
the
Berlusconi
administration.
The
Health
Minister
isn't
even
waiting
for
that.
- SOUTHWEST
ASIA:
IRANIAN
OFFICIAL
SAYS
COUNTRY
COULD
IGNORE
DRUG
TRAFFICKERS
IF
UN
DOESN'T
UP
ANTI-DRUG
AID
Iranian
officials
used
the
occasion
of
the
UN's
Global
Anti-Drug
Day
to
criticize
the
lack
of
Western
help
in
their
effort
to
stop
the
tons
of
opium
and
heroin
crossing
through
their
country
on
its
way
from
Afghanistan
to
Europe.
- WEB
SCAN
Scalia
Word
Twisting,
Government
Waste,
Len
Bias
Legacy,
Ira
Glasser,
World
Drug
Report,
Zogby
Poll,
John
Stossel,
Steph
Sherer,
Nathan
Riley
- WEEKLY:
THIS
WEEK
IN
HISTORY
Events
and
quotes
of
note
from
this
week's
drug
policy
events
of
years
past.
- WEEKLY:
THE
REFORMER'S
CALENDAR
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