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At 11:15 Sunday,Dec.9,2007. The jury in the trial of serial torture murder suspect:"Robert(Willie)Picton ended 10 days of deliberations,halted at one point because the judge erred in his charge to the
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Who Your Friends Are
Since the drug bill announcement it's getting hard to tell who your friends are.The feds are sending 10 million dollars to Vancouver as our "share"of the drug war booty.The mayor has decided that the cash should go to his pet CAST program .This is a deeply flawed plan based on an interresting idea.The mayor wants to give prescription drugs to addicts.Sounds like a brilliant idea,right?Wrong.Sam(Vancouver mayor Sam Sullivan)says who gets what and how it's dispensed.I don't know where Sam went to med.
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Press Advisory: Ninety-Nine Percent Say They Wouldn't Use Hard Drugs If Legalized, According to Zogby Poll
The results of a new poll -- commissioned by DRCNet -- suggests that prohibition of "hard" drugs may not reduce their use.
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Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
Troopers telling lies, troopers selling cocaine, cops peddling coke, Border Patrols agents peddling pot, cops peddling cocaine and pot, but not a single jail or prison guard this week!
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Latin America: Mexico's President Says Fighting Drugs, Crime His Highest Priority
One year after he took office, Mexican President Felipe Calderon says the war on drugs remains his highest priority. Some 24,000 troops are in the field, but the traffic and the violence appear to continue unabated.
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Sentencing: Racial Disparities in Drug Sentences the Norm in the Nation's Most Populous Counties, Study Finds
A report released this week by the Justice Policy Institute finds that racially disparate sentencing is the norm in the nation's most populous counties.
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Europe: British Drug Council Calls for Heroin, Cocaine Prescribing By Nurses, Pharmacists, Chides Government's Drug Strategy Consultation
As Britain's Labor government prepares to announce a new long-term drug strategy in the spring, the battle is heating up. Now, the government's own Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs is calling for nurses and pharmacists to be able to prescribe heroin and cocaine, and chiding the government for making a joke of consultations around the new strategy.
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Feature: The Bible, a Black Bag, and a Drug Dog -- A Florida Drug War Story
In the latest installment of the Chronicle's occasional series on the day-to-day workings of the drug war, we go to Florida, where a drug interdiction exercise disguised as a traffic enforcement effort, some sheriff's radio shenanigans, a suspicious Bible, and a drug dog left one Key West man wondering what hit him.
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Feature: The 2007 International Drug Policy Reform Conference -- Mr. Costa Meets the Opposition
The 2007 International Drug Policy Reform Conference opened with a bang Thursday in New Orleans as the United Nation's top drug fighter addressed a skeptical and sometimes hostile audience.
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2007 International Drug Policy Reform Conference
If you're wondering why the blog has been kinda quiet this week, it's because the entire StoptheDrugwar.org staff is at the International Drug Policy Reform Conference. We're enjoying New Orleans with fellow reformers from around the country and beyond.
As much as I'd love to blog the whole thing, I'm finding myself delightfully distracted by old friends, excellent panels, and the city itself. This place is like Amsterdam for alcoholics, and while I've managed to keep myself under control, I won't deny enjoying the privilege of being allowed/encouraged to drink beer in the street at night.
Fortunately for you, Pete Guither is less indulgent than myself, and he's managing to blog the hell out of the conference over at DrugWarRant. He'll be at it for two more days, so check him out because I can't guarantee much content over here until the Drug War Chronicle comes out tomorrow.
The biggest stir thus far has been an appearance by Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. That's right folks, the World Drug Czar actually engaged the reform community and lived to tell about it. In addition to Pete's coverage, Jacob Sullum has a nice wrap up at reason.
If the blogging bug bites me, I'll be back, otherwise see ya next week.
As much as I'd love to blog the whole thing, I'm finding myself delightfully distracted by old friends, excellent panels, and the city itself. This place is like Amsterdam for alcoholics, and while I've managed to keep myself under control, I won't deny enjoying the privilege of being allowed/encouraged to drink beer in the street at night.
Fortunately for you, Pete Guither is less indulgent than myself, and he's managing to blog the hell out of the conference over at DrugWarRant. He'll be at it for two more days, so check him out because I can't guarantee much content over here until the Drug War Chronicle comes out tomorrow.
The biggest stir thus far has been an appearance by Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. That's right folks, the World Drug Czar actually engaged the reform community and lived to tell about it. In addition to Pete's coverage, Jacob Sullum has a nice wrap up at reason.
If the blogging bug bites me, I'll be back, otherwise see ya next week.
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Resource: Reformer's Calendar Accessible Through DRCNet Web Site
Visit our new web site each day to see a running countdown to the events coming up the soonest, and more.
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Students: Intern at DRCNet and Help Stop the Drug War!
Apply for an internship at DRCNet for this fall (or spring), and you could spend the semester fighting the good fight!