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Sad
News:
Drug
Policy
Scholar
Lynn
Zimmer
Dead
at
59
7/7/06
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/443/lynnzimmer.shtml
Queens College sociologist
Professor Lynn Zimmer died Sunday morning at age 59. She was diagnosed
with multiple sclerosis in 2000.
Zimmer was one of the early
academic supporters of the Drug Policy Foundation (predecessor group to
the Drug Policy Alliance) and published extensively on drug policy issues,
including drug testing, drug education, and drugs in the media. Zimmer
may be best known for coauthoring "Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts," with
her friend and colleague Dr. John Morgan in 1997. "Marijuana Myths"
has been published in seven languages and remains the best-selling scholarly
work on marijuana.
A fierce critic of drug prohibition
and the drug war, Zimmer was also known for carefully and critically examining
proposals for drug legalization. Zimmer's accomplishments in drug
reform were honored by both The Lindesmith Center-Drug Policy Foundation
(now DPA), which awarded her the Lindesmith Award for Achievement in the
Field of Scholarship and NORML, which granted her the Lester Grinspoon
Award for Achievement in the Field of Marijuana Law Reform from the National
Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws in 2000.
DPA executive director Ethan
Nadelmann has written a personal
remembrance of Zimmer and is encouraging others to share
their own recollections.
Lynn Zimmer died too young
and will be missed.
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Issue #443
-- 7/7/06
Editorial:
Is
Ecstasy
a
Dangerous
Drug?
|
Medical
Marijuana:
Five
Arrested,
13
Dispensaries
Raided
by
DEA
in
San
Diego
|
Feature:
Battle
Over
California's
Proposition
36
to
Head
to
Court
|
Feature:
Wisconsin
Drug
Reform
Activist
and
Senate
Candidate
Ben
Masel
Assaulted,
Arrested
By
Campus
Cops,
Plans
to
Sue
|
Sad
News:
Drug
Policy
Scholar
Lynn
Zimmer
Dead
at
59
|
Law
Enforcement:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
|
Vote
Hemp
Alert:
Proposed
North
Dakota
Hemp
Rules
|
Australia:
Member
of
South
Australia
Parliament
Says
Raves
Safer
Than
Hotel
Bars,
Urges
Testing
Programs
for
Ecstasy
and
Other
Pills
|
Europe:
Russian
Official
Calls
for
Ban
on
Magazines
Over
Drug,
Sex
Content
|
Harm
Reduction:
Delaware
Needle
Exchange
Bill
Passes
House,
Awaits
Governor's
Signature
|
Harm
Reduction:
Massachusetts
Governor
Vetoes
Needle
Sales
Bill
|
Canadian
Senator
and
Former
Mayor
Roasts
UN
Anti-Drug
Chief
in
E-Mail
over
"World
Drug
Report"
|
Web
Scan:
Politicians
Who
Have
Used
Marijuana
Radio
Ad,
Tony
Papa
on
Dwight
Gooden,
VICS
Cannabinoid
Chronicles
|
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This
Week
in
History
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Weekly:
The
Reformer's
Calendar
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