Drug War Chronicle
(formerly The Week Online with DRCNet)
Issue #444
-- 7/14/06
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- EDITORIAL:
NOT
PLAYING
BY
THE
RULES,
NOT
MAKING
SENSE
Legislators
and
law
enforcers
should
not
disrespect
the
constitutional
frameworks
intended
to
limit
their
power.
- APPEAL/BOOK
OFFER:
RACE
TO
INCARCERATE,
BY
MARC
MAUER
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about
the
unprecedented
rise
in
the
use
of
imprisonment
in
the
United
States
over
the
last
25
years.
- FEATURE:
JUDGE
THROWS
OUT
PART
OF
ALASKA
MARIJUANA
RECRIMINALIZATION
LAW,
UP
TO
AN
OUNCE
IS
NOW
LEGAL
AT
HOME
Gov.
Frank
Murkowski's
two-year
effort
to
recriminalize
marijuana
in
Alaska
hit
a
roadblock
Monday
when
a
Superior
Court
judge
struck
down
the
part
of
the
law
he
pushed
through
the
legislature
earlier
this
year.
- FEATURE:
METHAMPHETAMINE
AS
CHILD
ABUSE
LAWS
GAIN
GROUND,
BUT
DO
THEY
HELP
OR
HURT?
Michigan
is
the
latest
of
at
least
21
states
to
define
some
drug
offenses
as
child
abuse
categorically.
Is
that
right,
and
does
it
help
or
maybe
hurt?
- LAW
ENFORCEMENT:
THIS
WEEK'S
CORRUPT
COPS
STORY
Some
New
Jersey
cops
got
too
friendly
with
drug
dealers,
while
a
Pennsylvania
park
ranger
and
a
New
Mexico
jail
guard
got
caught
trying
to
be
drug
dealers.
- LAW
ENFORCEMENT:
GOOSE
CREEK
AGREES
TO
PAY
UP,
CHANGE
WAYS
IN
SETTLEMENT
OF
NOTORIOUS
HIGH
SCHOOL
DRUG
RAID
CASE
A
federal
judge
Tuesday
gave
final
approval
to
a
landmark
settlement
in
the
infamous
South
Carolina
school
raid
case.
Included
was
a
provision
to
enforce
the
Fourth
amendment.
- SENTENCING:
CALIFORNIA
GOVERNOR
SIGNS
BILL
AMENDING
PROPOSITION
36,
IS
IMMEDIATELY
SUED
Gov.
Schwarzenegger
Wednesday
signed
a
bill
to
substantially
alter
the
state's
voter-approved
"treatment
not
jail"
ballot
measure.
One
of
the
authors
of
the
measure
immediately
filed
suit
to
block
the
new
law
from
going
into
effect.
- SEARCH
AND
SEIZURE:
VERMONT
JUDGE
SAYS
STATE
CONSTITUTION
PROVIDES
PROTECTION
EVEN
IF
FEDERAL
DOESN'T
Though
the
US
Supreme
Court
ruled
last
month
that
police
officers
who
violate
"knock
and
announce"
search
warrant
rules
can
use
the
ill-gotten
evidence
against
defendants,
that's
not
good
enough
for
at
least
one
Vermont
judge.
- SENTENCING:
JUSTICE
KENNEDY
LASHES
OUT
AT
HARSH
PRISON
TERMS
US
Supreme
Court
Justice
Anthony
Kennedy
told
a
gathering
of
judges
in
Southern
California
Sunday
US
sentencing
practices
were
harsh
and
troubling.
- HARM
REDUCTION:
SAN
DIEGO
REINSTATES
NEEDLE
EXCHANGE
PROGRAM
The
city
of
San
Diego
Wednesday
rejoined
the
ranks
of
cities
offering
needle
exchange
programs
as
a
public
health
service
when
the
city
council
voted
to
reinstate
the
privately-funded
program.
- FIRST
AMENDMENT:
NEW
MICHIGAN
LAW
BANS
METHAMPHETAMINE
RECIPES
ON
INTERNET
Little
noticed
among
the
package
of
anti-methamphetamine
bills
signed
last
week
by
Michigan
Gov.
Jennifer
Granholm
was
one
that
bans
publication
of
recipes
for
cooking
meth
and
provides
civil
sanctions
for
violating
it.
- MIDDLE
EAST:
US
TROOPS,
IRAQI
POLICE
SEIZE
MARIJUANA
PLANTS
US
troops
and
Iraqi
police
seized
and
destroyed
a
bumper
crop
of
marijuana
plants
last
week,
according
to
a
report
in
Stars
and
Stripes.
- WEB
SCAN
WOLA
on
Mexican
Drug
Trade
Violence
and
Corruption,
Sentencing
Project
and
Others
Report
to
UN
Human
Rights
Committee,
CURE
on
Prisons
in
OAS
- 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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