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Mexico Violence, Jail or Not to Jail for Relapse, Drug War for Budget Cutting, the Marijuana War on Young People, by Talvi, Newman, Conason and Armentano on Alternet, Huffington Post and Salon.
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Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
Cops dealing drugs, cops stealing money. More of the same old same old.
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Death Penalty: Iran Bars Executions of Minors for Drug Offenses, Continues to Execute Adults
Iran has announced it will not execute drug offenders who are minors. Meanwhile, it continues to execute drug offenders who are adults.
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Europe: Dutch Marijuana Export Industry Generates $2.7 Billion a Year, Prohibition-Related Violence
Four out of every five pounds of pot grown in the Netherlands is destined for export, says a top Dutch cop, and the black market trade is generating violent crime as well as big profits.
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South Pacific: DEA Mass Body Search of Plane Passengers Spurs Angry Reaction in Marianas
Earlier this month, DEA agents strip-searched 147 Chinese nationals arriving in Saipan on vacation. The government of the Northern Mariana Islands is most unhappy.
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Addiction Treatment: Canadian NAOMI Study Finds Heroin Maintenance Safe, Cheap, Effective
Research results from the North American Opiate Maintenance Initiative (NAOMI) are in, and the researchers say heroin maintenance is safe, effective, and economical.
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Marijuana: Florida State Students Approve Marijuana-Alcohol Penalty Equalization Initiative
For the second time in three years, students at Florida State University have approved an initiative calling on administrators to equalize penalties for marijuana possession and underage alcohol consumption on campus.
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Initiatives: Drug Czar, Prison Guards Gang Up on California's Treatment-Not-Jail Proposition 5
With election day less than two weeks away, the drug czar and California's prison guard union are trying to defeat California's groundbreaking treatment-not-jail Nonviolent Offender Rehabiliation Act (NORA) initiative.
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Feature: Beyond 2008 -- Looking Past the November US Elections
Right now, all eyes are on November 4, but leading drug reform groups are already looking down the road to 2010 and beyond.
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Weekly: This Week in History
Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past.
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Job Opportunities: Marijuana Policy Project, Arizona and Nevada
The Marijuana Policy Project is hiring for six exciting positions -- one in Arizona, five in Nevada preparing for a 2012 ballot initiative.
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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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A new way for you to receive DRCNet articles -- Drug War Chronicle and more -- is now available.
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Offer: Unique and Important New Book on Medical Marijuana
"Dying to Get High," by sociologists Wendy Chapkis and Richard Webb, is a groundbreaking work that provides an in-depth portrait of one of the country's most well-known medical marijuana collectives.
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Weekly: Blogging @ the Speakeasy
"Smoking Pot Won't Make You Stupid, But Stupid People Do Smoke Pot," "Parents Are Using Drug Dogs on Their Own Children," "Wow, I Almost Forgot It Was Drug Free Work Week," "Why Do Prison and Alcohol Lobbies Oppose Drug Treatment?," "Giuliani Robocall Attacks Obama on Drug Sentencing," "The Drug War is Destroying Mexico Right Before Our Eyes," "Could Mexico City Become the Next Amsterdam?," "The Drug War Sends White People Into Treatment, While Black People Get Felonies," "Drug Czar Tells Cartels to Surrender or Die," "More Drug War = More Violence," "Further Evidence That the Drug War Doesn't Protect Children," "DEA Thrills Schoolchildren With Awesome Drug War Parade."
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Volunteers Needed: Phone Campaign in DC, Writers from Anywhere
StoptheDrugWar.org (DRCNet) is seeking volunteers in the DC area to help with our membership drive; and from anywhere to help with a writing-based project starting next month.
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Smoking Pot Wonât Make You Stupid, But Stupid People Do Smoke Pot
Despite major ballot initiatives pending in Massachusetts and Michigan, these are the two most-reported marijuana stories of the month:
1. Some guy who tried to trade pot for a meal at McDonalds.
2. Miss Teen Louisiana losing her crown after ditching the bill at a restaurant and leaving behind her purse, which contained her ID and some marijuana.
No matter what happens, the media will always be primarily interested in the most trivial, embarrassing marijuana-related news that can possibly be drudged up. Nothing we say or do is ever going to change that. And for what itâs worth, I must admit that stories like this are just priceless and deserve every click.
But as long as this kind of inconsequential fluff continues to dominate marijuana-related press coverage, the worst stereotypes will endure and the effort to stimulate serious discussion of our marijuana laws will remain a steep uphill battle.
1. Some guy who tried to trade pot for a meal at McDonalds.
2. Miss Teen Louisiana losing her crown after ditching the bill at a restaurant and leaving behind her purse, which contained her ID and some marijuana.
No matter what happens, the media will always be primarily interested in the most trivial, embarrassing marijuana-related news that can possibly be drudged up. Nothing we say or do is ever going to change that. And for what itâs worth, I must admit that stories like this are just priceless and deserve every click.
But as long as this kind of inconsequential fluff continues to dominate marijuana-related press coverage, the worst stereotypes will endure and the effort to stimulate serious discussion of our marijuana laws will remain a steep uphill battle.