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Editorial: Now They Care About What's Right?
Prosecutor TV personalities want justice for Dog Chapman. Why not for the rest of us too?
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Web Scan
Pregnancy and drug use, Maryland criminal justice, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, reformers on air.
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NY Police Handcuff Children and Shoot a Dog all for a $60 Bag of Pot
With Radley Balko busy uncovering conspiracies in Mississippi I guess Iâll address this weekâs paramilitary policing disaster:
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Riverside DA Takes Aim at Dispensaries With Sweeping Claim About California's Prop. 215
RIVERSIDE DA GROVER TRASK MAKES SWEEPING CLAIM THAT PROP 215 IS AGAINST FEDERAL LAW -- ADMITS STATE LAW PROTECTS PATIENTS AND COOPS, BUT NOT DISPENSARIES
Riverside DA Grover Trask has joined with San DIego, San Bernardino and Mercced counties in opining that Prop 215 is unenforceable because marijuana is against federal law. His opinion may be found at http://www.canorml.org/temp/Trask_white_paper.pdf.
In The Trenches
New JPI Report on Drug Treatment and Incarceration in Maryland
JPI is please to announce the release of our latest policy report, "Progress and challenges: An analysis of drug treatment and imprisonment in Maryland from 2000-2005."Â The report, authored by Kevin Pranis, shows that while many Maryland jurisdictions are making progress towards the goal of providing "treatment, not incarceration"Â for nonviolent substance abusers, the state's investments in treatment have not kept pace with demand, and the state spends far more to imprison people convicted of drug offenses than it spends to treat drug involved people through the criminal justice system. The report was covered in The Washington Post, The Associated Press, The Baltimore Sun, The Carol County Times, The Maryland Daily Record, and other papers and electronic media across the state, and in Washington, DC.
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14 Year Old Juvenile Informant; Dead at 16 years of Age. According to Police.
I thought everyone would find this interesting. I almost forgot that I had this reply that I received from a Newspaper Journalist. The Content concerned a Child that had been used as a Confidential Informant, since the tender age of 14 years old. The child ended up dead at 16 years old and his best friend has been sent to the "Pen" for 28 years. Nothing happened to the Police Officer that placed the 16 year old boy in mortal danger. This all happened in the Texas 81st Judicial District. Pay attention to the end of the article: Read on
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Kinky
More polititions NEED to rethink their whole strategies for many issues concerning this country!! BETTER yet the people of this country should do it for them. After all it is the peoples tax money paying the saleries of these Gov't officials/ DEA and we all know what a waste of money/resourses that is!!!
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Feature: Drug Arrests Hit Another Record High, More than 786,000 Marijuana Arrests Alone in 2005
Drug arrests in general and marijuana arrests in particular continue to rise.
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Feature: US Uses Annual Drug Certification Report to Attack Bolivia, Venezuela
The Bush administration used its annual drug certification exercise to lash out at Bolivia and Venezuela, and those two countries returned the favor.
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Texas Rangers Do Not Interfere With Other Police Agencies?
The Texas Ranger I spoke with today over the phone said to me that She does not interfere with other police agencies. This would explain how Tulia, TX came about. We all know how long the legal system in Texas took to resolve that injustice.
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Feature: House Votes to Require School Districts to Allow Random, Warrantless Mass Search Policies
The House voted Tuesday to force local school districts to gut student privacy protections.
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Spying on Rock Festivals: High-Tech Hidden Surveillance at Wakarusa
UPDATE: Drug War Chronicle story about this incident online now.
We wrote about police harassment of attendees at the Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival when the event occurred in June, but little did we know that was only the tip of the iceberg. Now, thanks to the bragadoccio of a high-tech surveillance equipment manufacturer and a resultant puff piece in an industry rag, we know that state, local, and federal law enforcement officials were all on hand at Wakarusa to check out a demo of some very sophisticated surveillance equipment. With hidden cameras, night vision equipment, and thermal imaging, cops were able to surveil up to 85% of the festival grounds, spot drugs and money changing hands, watch people roll joints, and subsequently make arrests.
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Significance of Colorado and Nevada marijuana initiatives -- even if they lose
In my latest post on my blog, I speculate about the moral implications of the Nevada and Colorado Initiatives.
Significance of Colorado and Nevada marijuana initiatives -- even if they lose
In The Trenches
Call for Papers--International Journal of Drug Policy
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DRUG POLICY
Call for Papers
Special Issue
Women and Harm Reduction: Spanning the Globe
Guest editors:
Susan Sherman, Adeeba bte Kamarulzaman and Patti Spittal