Drug War Chronicle
(formerly The Week Online with DRCNet)
Issue #449
-- 8/18/06
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- EDITORIAL:
THERE'S
ALWAYS
ANOTHER
DRUG
CARTEL...
The
capture
of
cartel
leader
Javier
Arellano-Felix
made
a
lucky
day
for
the
US
DEA.
But
even
they
don't
think
anything's
really
going
to
change
from
it.
- FEATURE:
COLORADO
MARIJUANA
POSSESSION
LEGALIZATION
INITIATIVE
MAKES
THE
BALLOT
An
initiative
that
would
legalize
the
possession
of
up
to
an
ounce
of
marijuana
by
adults
in
Colorado
has
been
certified
for
the
November
ballot.
Now
the
campaign
gets
underway.
- FEATURE:
"BEYOND
ZERO
TOLERANCE"
CONFERENCE
AIMS
TO
PROVIDE
NEW
PARADIGM
FOR
EDUCATORS
For
the
past
two
decades,
school
districts
across
the
land
have
adopted
zero
tolerance
policies
for
drug
use
and
other
misbehavior.
In
October,
a
conference
in
San
Francisco
will
point
to
a
better
approach.
- FEATURE:
SSDP,
DRUG
WAR
RANT
BLOG
SCORE
MEDIA
HIT
WITH
ATTACK
ON
DEA
DRUG-TERROR
EXHIBIT
The
DEA
got
more
than
it
bargained
for
when
it
brought
its
drug-terror
traveling
exhibit
to
Chicago
last
week.
- LAW
ENFORCEMENT:
THIS
WEEK'S
CORRUPT
COPS
STORIES
It's
an
unusual
week
for
the
corrupt
cops
stories,
with
a
narc
caught
thieving,
a
cop
caught
making
false
arrests,
a
jail
guard
caught
trafficking
in
a
big
way,
and
a
state
judge
caught
with
methamphetamine
and
precursors.
- LATIN
AMERICA:
US
FEDS
BUST
MAJOR
MEXICAN
TRAFFICKER,
EXPECT
VIOLENCE,
CONTINUED
DRUG
TRAFFICKING
AS
RESULT
Federal
law
enforcement
officials
risked
serious
injury
from
all
the
back-patting
going
on
at
their
Thursday
press
conference
celebrating
the
capture
of
drug
lord
Javier
Arellano-Felix.
But
they
also
acknowledged
his
arrest
would
ultimately
amount
to
little.
- HARM
REDUCTION:
GLOBAL
HARM
REDUCTIONISTS
ISSUE
URGENT
DECLARATION
CALLING
FOR
ACTION
ON
DRUG
USE
AND
HIV
With
governments
slow
to
adopt
harm
reduction
measures
to
fight
the
spread
of
injection
drug
use-related
HIV
and
some
UN
agencies
acting
more
as
obstacles
than
as
assets,
19
international
and
regional
harm
reduction
and
other
groups
issued
a
joint
declaration
this
week
seeking
to
incite
some
movement.
- METHAMPHETAMINE:
ONE
MONTH
IN
ONE
TEXAS
COUNTY
COURTHOUSE
OPENS
A
WINDOW
ON
THE
DRUG
WAR
VERSION
2.006
Grayson
County,
Texas,
is
nothing
special,
just
your
average
heartland
county.
That's
what
makes
a
review
of
its
court
cases
so
revealing.
- METHAMPHETAMINE:
THIRD
MURDER
TRIAL
FOR
WOMAN
IN
CALIFORNIA
METH
POISONING
INFANT
DEATH
CASE
California
prosecutors
hope
the
third
time
is
the
charm
in
their
effort
to
secure
a
murder
conviction
against
a
woman
whose
infant
son
had
methamphetamine
in
his
blood
when
he
died.
She's
already
serving
10
years
for
child
endangerment.
- SOUTHWEST
ASIA:
AFGHAN
OPIUM
CULTIVATION
JUMPS
TO
RECORD
LEVEL
Preliminary
reports
suggest
the
Afghan
opium
crop
will
be
at
record
levels
and
40
percent
larger
than
last
year,
despite
hundreds
of
millions
of
dollars
spent
to
suppress
it.
- EUROPE:
BRITISH
PUBLIC
SUPPORTS
MORE
RATIONAL
DRUG
POLICIES,
SURVEY
SAYS
A
new
survey
of
British
attitudes
toward
drug
policy
reform
suggests
a
new
realism
and
pragmatism.
Will
the
politicians
follow
the
wisdom
of
the
voters?
- 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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next
year,
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