Drug War Chronicle
(formerly The Week Online with DRCNet)
Issue #443
-- 7/7/06
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- EDITORIAL:
IS
ECSTASY
A
DANGEROUS
DRUG?
Whether
ecstasy
is
truly
dangerous
depends
on
how
you
look
at
it,
but
the
numbers
themselves
make
the
claim
a
tough
sell.
- MEDICAL
MARIJUANA:
FIVE
ARRESTED,
13
DISPENSARIES
RAIDED
BY
DEA
IN
SAN
DIEGO
Just
a
week
after
the
US
House
of
Representatives
voted
to
continue
funding
Justice
Department
raids
on
medical
marijuana
patients
and
providers
in
states
where
it
is
legal,
the
feds
struck
again.
- FEATURE:
BATTLE
OVER
CALIFORNIA'S
PROPOSITION
36
TO
HEAD
TO
COURT
Last
week,
the
California
legislature
voted
to
approve
changes
to
Proposition
36,
the
state's
"treatment
not
jail"
law,
that
would
alter
the
law's
basic
philosophy.
This
week,
Prop.
36
supporters
are
waiting
for
Gov.
Arnold
Schwarzenegger
to
sign
the
bill
into
law.
Then
they
will
immediately
file
suit
to
have
the
new
law
overturned.
- FEATURE:
WISCONSIN
DRUG
REFORM
ACTIVIST
AND
SENATE
CANDIDATE
BEN
MASEL
ASSAULTED,
ARRESTED
BY
CAMPUS
COPS,
PLANS
TO
SUE
Wisconsin's
best
known
drug
policy
reformer,
Weedstock
organizer
Ben
Masel,
was
pepper-sprayed
and
arrested
by
University
of
Wisconsin-Madison
police
as
he
collected
signatures
for
his
senatorial
campaign
the
evening
of
June
30.
- SAD
NEWS:
DRUG
POLICY
SCHOLAR
LYNN
ZIMMER
DEAD
AT
59
New
York
University
sociologist
and
prominent
academic
supporter
of
drug
policy
reform
Lynn
Zimmer
succumbed
to
multiple
sclerosis
last
Sunday.
- LAW
ENFORCEMENT:
THIS
WEEK'S
CORRUPT
COPS
STORIES
This
week,
we
have
a
pair
of
missing
Border
Patrol
agents
and
a
pair
of
drug-smuggling
prison
guards.
- VOTE
HEMP
ALERT:
PROPOSED
NORTH
DAKOTA
HEMP
RULES
North
Dakota's
agriculture
commissioner
has
proposed
licensing
farmers
to
grow
industrial
hemp.
Vote
Hemp
is
gathering
positive
feedback
on
the
proposed
rules
before
the
July
20
deadline.
- AUSTRALIA:
MEMBER
OF
SOUTH
AUSTRALIA
PARLIAMENT
SAYS
RAVES
SAFER
THAN
HOTEL
BARS,
URGES
TESTING
PROGRAMS
FOR
ECSTASY
AND
OTHER
PILLS
South
Australian
Democratic
MP
Sandra
Kanck,
who
in
May
told
parliament
"ecstasy
is
not
a
dangerous
drug,"
attended
a
rave
Saturday
night
and
told
ABC
Radio
she
felt
safer
there
than
at
a
hotel
bar.
Kanck
said
she
attended
the
rave
as
part
of
educating
herself
during
Australia's
current
debate
on
drugs
and
urged
other
MPs
to
do
the
same.
- EUROPE:
RUSSIAN
OFFICIAL
CALLS
FOR
BAN
ON
MAGAZINES
OVER
DRUG,
SEX
CONTENT
Russia's
crackdown
against
the
drug
culture
continues,
with
one
of
the
nation's
highest
legal
officials
calling
for
three
popular
teen
magazines
to
be
shut
down
for
promoting
an
unhealthy
interest
in
sex
and
drugs.
- HARM
REDUCTION:
DELAWARE
NEEDLE
EXCHANGE
BILL
PASSES
HOUSE,
AWAITS
GOVERNOR'S
SIGNATURE
Delaware's
Senate
and
now
House
have
approved
a
needle
exchange
bill
that
the
governor
is
expected
to
sign.
This
leaves
New
Jersey
as
the
only
state
in
the
nation
without
a
law
authorizing
needle
exchange
programs.
- HARM
REDUCTION:
MASSACHUSETTS
GOVERNOR
VETOES
NEEDLE
SALES
BILL
Massachusetts
Gov.
Mitt
Romney
vetoed
a
bill
last
Friday
that
would
have
allowed
the
sale
of
syringes
without
a
prescription,
claiming
it
could
lead
to
increased
heroin
use.
With
the
bill's
easy
passage,
the
legislature
could
choose
to
override
the
veto.
- CANADIAN
SENATOR
AND
FORMER
MAYOR
ROASTS
UN
ANTI-DRUG
CHIEF
IN
E-MAIL
OVER
"WORLD
DRUG
REPORT"
Vancouver's
former
mayor,
now
a
senator,
wants
the
world
to
know
what
he
thinks
of
UN
drug
czar
Antonio
Costa.
- WEB
SCAN
Politicians
Who
Have
Used
Marijuana
Radio
Ad,
Tony
Papa
on
Dwight
Gooden,
VICS
Cannabinoid
Chronicles
- WEEKLY:
THIS
WEEK
IN
HISTORY
Events
and
quotes
of
note
from
this
week's
drug
policy
events
of
years
past.
- WEEKLY:
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REFORMER'S
CALENDAR
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