Free Willie!
After a 50 year investigation, Operation Follow Willie Nelsonâs Tour Bus has finally produced results:
Willie Nelson and some friends were cited yesterday for illegal music downloading marijuana and mushroom possession.
Conference: The Scientific Vision of the Coca Leaf
English precis: Three-day conference in Lima on "The Scientific Vision of the Coca Leaf," sponsored by the Peruvian Coca Leaf Association, begins September 21. Full details in Spanish below.
Ver completo : http://peru.indymedia.org/calendar/event_display_detail.php?event_id=404
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Already nearly 700 StoptheDrugWar.org members and readers are confirmed to have contacted their representatives about defeating H.R. 5295, the bill that would make it dramatically easier for schools to engage in abusive mass searches. And, SSDP and DPA are rallying their lists as well. Click http://ga0.org/campaign/searches_bill to do your part.
Freedom of Information and the U.S. Department of Justice
There has been another gang fight (9/17/2006) at the Federal Correctional Institution ("FCI") La Tuna, New Mexico/Texas (the prison actually straddles the border, though almost all prisoner claims must go to a Texas court).
How the Drug War Targets Women
The drug war has come down on women like a huge hammer in recent years. During the 1990s drug offenders accounted for the largest source of the total growth among female inmates (36 percent). As of 2004, almost one-third of all women prisoners were convicted of drug offenses; in federal prisons, this figure was 65%. In 1979 only ten percent of women in state prison were drug offenders.
The Great Debate: Heads vs. Feds
High Times editor Steve Hager squares off against former DEA agent Bob Stutsman in the latest of a series of debates on marijuana legalization.
Elizabeth Hall Chapel, 421 N. Woodland Blvd., Daytona Beach, Florida. Admission is free and the public is invited.
A Look Inside Brazil's Drug "Commands"
Brazil, Latin America's largest and most populous nation gets surprisingly little press in the US. The mass media paid some attention back in May, when the country's "commands"--the criminal gangs formed in Brazil's prisons that control the drug trade and act as a de facto government in some of the favelas (ghettos) surrounding Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro--rose up in open rebellion against the Brazilian state. But since then, the silence in the US press has been deafening.