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FEATURE ARTICLE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
Tobacco bill Another Washington Boondoggle / By Mark Greer | ||||||||||||||||
The dissolution of the Congressional tobacco deal was completely
predictable. | ||||||||||||||||
It should be no surprise to anyone that the tobacco companies have
wisely chosen to withdraw from the latest power and money grab from
Washington under the guise of the disgustingly overused claim by
politicians that "We're protecting our children." Not only do the
tobacco companies realize that this precedent is the initial stage of
eventual prohibition of tobacco but any rational person should be able
to see how grossly these laws undermine personal freedom and free
enterprise. Regardless of what we think of tobacco, the laws themselves
are antithetical to American values and beliefs. Penalizing products we
don't like or that we think are potentially harmful is a dangerous and
demonstrably foolish course of action. | ||||||||||||||||
Watching the feeding frenzy from both sides of the isle is a testament to how completely devoid of logic our so-called leaders have become. On this weeks Meet the Press, Congressman Henry Waxman came as close as anyone has to the heart of why this course of action is such folly by saying "No one is talking about prohibition." Of course he got it completely wrong because that is exactly what we are talking about. | ||||||||||||||||
Attempting to curb teen smoking by raising taxes by $1.10 per pack will
not only prove to be the same dismal failure that drug prohibition has
proven to be but we can expect the same dire results. A black market
will begin to emerge, criminals will become wealthy by selling stolen
and illicitly grown tobacco products and by undercutting the high
prices resulting from the new taxes. Another unholy alliance between
criminals, our "leaders," and the criminal justice system will ensue.
Children will be even more attracted to using the illicit cigarettes
because "drug dealers" have no compunction whatever over who they
market to and because we've taught our children that breaking the law
is fun and has little in the way of consequences. | ||||||||||||||||
The potential profit of $1.10 per pack is simply too good for criminals
to pass up. This is more than the average profit made per transaction
by street level crack dealers. The results are predictable and
inevitable. Soon after the passage of such laws the first reports of
hijacked cigarette shipments and underground tobacco products will
emerge. All of course to the hand wringing of the same short sighted
politicians that caused the problem. | ||||||||||||||||
We have a 70 year track record in trying to control peoples behavior.
It is euphemistically and inaccurately called the war on drugs. It, has
actually been a war on the poor, and minorities and has lead to this
country having more people in prison than any other industrialized
nation in the world. Another predictable result of this trillion
dollar boondoggle is that any half wit sixth grader can buy drugs at
will and teen drug use is at an all time high. American citizens had
better prepare for round two of this lunacy because that is exactly
where we are headed with tobacco. | ||||||||||||||||
If we allow those in power to proceed down this slippery slope of increasing prohibition simply because we are addicted to the wishful thinking that prohibition will help curb teenage smoking, drug use, or anything else, then we deserve more of the same increased crime, clogged judicial systems, increased teen use, and billions of wasted law enforcement dollars that have resulted from drug prohibition. | ||||||||||||||||
Has someone passed a law against logical thinking in Washington?
Prohibition has never worked even once throughout the entire history of
man. It never can work because it is based on the flawed premise that
government can control peoples appetites. People get what they want.
That is an undeniable fact. Why is this so hard for politicians to
grasp? | ||||||||||||||||
The exact same arguments about the cruel and self-serving tobacco
companies could be made about nearly every fast food franchise in the
country or scores of other legitimate businesses. Fat has undoubtedly
killed many more people than tobacco ever will. It is not at all beyond
the imagination to envision some overweight Congressman thumping his
chest and extolling the virtues of his new bill the "Kiddie Fat
Reduction Act" which will protect our children by taxing all products
with a high fat content. I can hear the cheers now. What next eight
dollar Big Macs? | ||||||||||||||||
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WEEKLY NEWS IN REVIEW | ||||||||||||||||
Domestic News- The Drug War | ||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
These six articles record drug policy insanity in ways that
range from the general to the highly specific. Mathea Falco's
entire piece is worth reading because it's a realistic | ||||||||||||||||
Hitz is the same IG who gave the CIA a clean bill of health after Gary Webb's "Dark Alliance" series was aired. It's clear that defining contract workers as not belonging to the Agency was a key factor in "deniability" of Agency involvement. The SJMN has long since recanted, Webb was disgraced and forced out; how many people will ever read this belated admission? | ||||||||||||||||
Milloy's tongue-in-cheek piece is brilliant and also worth reading
in its entirety. As to whether the wod is racist, do bears poop in
the woods? It's important that two black intellectuals have
chosen to go public with something everyone knows, but black
politicians haven't yet been willing to touch. The new Iowa law
suggests that drug hysteria has been elevated to a frightening
intensity in the heartland. Finally, yet another mistaken NYPD
drug raid- time for Bob Herbert to chime in. | ||||||||||||||||
AMERICA'S DRUG PROBLEM AND ITS POLICY OF DENIAL | ||||||||||||||||
For almost 100 years, Americans have considered other countries the
primary source of their drug problems. When the first drug laws
were adopted in the early decades of this century, the public
associated drugs with immigrant groups and minorities: opium with
Chinese laborers in the west, cocaine with blacks, and marijuana
with Mexican immigrants in the southwest. These drugs were seen as
foreign threats to the social fabric, undermining traditional moral
values and political stability. Today this link between foreigners
and illicit drugs continues to influence United States | ||||||||||||||||
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DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL | ||||||||||||||||
In testimony before the House Select Committee on Intelligence on March
16, the Central Intelligence Agency once again suffered a blow to its
reputation. This time the injury was self-inflicted. The CIA's own top
watchdog, Inspector General Frederick P. Hitz, admitted that although
"dozens of individuals and a number of companies" involved in the
agency's covert war against Nicaragua during the '80s were suspected
drug traffickers, the CIA had legal authority to ignore their crimes as
long as they were helping contra rebels fight the left-wing Sandinista
government. | ||||||||||||||||
Hitz revealed that between 1982 and 1995 the spy agency had an
agreement with the Justice Department, allowing it to ignore drug
trafficking by its "agents, assets and non-staff employees." The
directive, known as a "Memorandum of Understanding" (MOU), did not
exempt the agency's full-time, career employees, who are known as CIA
"officials." However, the agency did not have to tell the Justice
Department about the criminal activities of "agents" or "assets" --
terms used interchangeably to refer to its paid and unpaid spies. Also
exempt were CIA contractors, such as pilots, accountants and military
trainers, who supplied the agency with specific goods and services
rather than intelligence. "There was no official requirement to report
on allegations of drug trafficking with respect to non-employees of the
agency," Hitz told the committee. | ||||||||||||||||
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SENDING MIXED MESSAGES ON DRUGS | ||||||||||||||||
The new media messages about drugs are really blowing my mind. | ||||||||||||||||
On the radio, you can hear an anti-marijuana spot warning that the evil
weed causes memory loss. That's bad. | ||||||||||||||||
At the same time, you can read in news magazines that some legally
prescribed antidepressants also may have adverse side effects, such as
memory loss. But that's okay, because a new pill to enhance memory is
in the pipeline. | ||||||||||||||||
Cocaine and heroin are bad, we are told, because they artificially stimulate or block natural biochemical functions. However, mood drugs such as Zoloft and Prozac are good, even though they do the same thing. | ||||||||||||||||
Just say no to drugs, the media messages say, except to those made by
pharmaceutical companies. | ||||||||||||||||
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IS THE DRUG WAR RACIST? | ||||||||||||||||
The government's policy has scorched the inner cities and put a
generation of young black men behind bars. Two leading African-
American scholars reflect on the damage done. | ||||||||||||||||
America's war on drugs has ravished the inner cities it aspired to
save. Without curbing drug traffic, the crusade has sent a generation
of young black males into the criminal-justice system, which offers
them not rehabilitation but firsthand instruction in violent crime.
While blacks make up thirteen percent of the national population and
thirteen percent of the country's monthly drug users, they account for
thirty-five percent of arrests for drug possession, fifty-five percent
of convictions and seventy-four percent of prison sentences, according
to the Sentencing Project, a nonprofit that promotes criminal-justice
reform. Between 1986 and 1991, the number of blacks held in state
prisons on drug charges rose by 465 percent, the project also reported.
That increase partly reflects the inequality of federal sentencing
rules, under which a person convicted of possessing five grams of crack
cocaine receives the same five-year mandatory minimum as someone caught
selling 500 grams of powder cocaine. | ||||||||||||||||
Such evidence has turned Glenn C. Loury and Orlando Patterson into
vociferous critics of the war. Two of America's leading public
intellectuals, both men espouse cautious, unromantic liberalism on
issues like affirmative action are socially conservative about family
values. | ||||||||||||||||
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DRUG TESTING IN IOWA: DOES IT UNFAIRLY TARGET EMPLOYEES? | ||||||||||||||||
"Reasonable Suspicion" Grounds For Random Alcohol & Drug Testing;
Civic Employees Exempt From Law; Few Protection Measures For
Employees | ||||||||||||||||
Employers in Iowa now have much more power when it comes to testing their employees and applicants for alcohol or drug use, due to the signing of House Bill 299 by legislators, earlier this month. | ||||||||||||||||
The bill expands the right of private companies to randomly test sample
groups of employees for drugs or alcohol, as well as administer tests
to individual employees, based on the employer's "reasonable
suspicion." Refusal or failure of any test is grounds for suspension or
dismissal, depending on the employers policies. | ||||||||||||||||
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ANOTHER POLICE RAID ON A HOME YIELDS NO DRUGS, BUT MUCH TRAUMA | ||||||||||||||||
NEW YORK -- Police officers broke down the door of a Brooklyn
apartment, guns drawn, tossed a stun grenade into the front hall and
handcuffed everyone inside, including a mentally retarded 18-year-old
girl who was taking a shower. They were looking for guns and drugs.
They found only a terrified family. | ||||||||||||||||
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Marijuana | ||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
Pot, in its various guises, continues to be the most important battle
in the drug war. A just- released film about the Northern California
marijuana wars is apparently so focused on nonsense that there is no
residual policy message. On the real Mendocino battlefield, the board
of supervisors voted to accept federal bribes for at least another
year of warfare. | ||||||||||||||||
The CSM piece updates the San Francisco CBC soap opera fairly
accurately | ||||||||||||||||
'HOMEGROWN': DEAD BOSS WITH DRUG CARGO: A STOOGE'S STUFF OF DREAMS | ||||||||||||||||
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So, with Stephen Gyllenhaal as director and co-writer with Nicholas
Kazan, "Homegrown" is off and romping with its spirited cast through a
plot that mingles murder mystery, rustic comedy, outlaw sociology,
plant husbandry, lusty romance and layers of old-fashioned avarice,
which is to say old-fashioned business. | ||||||||||||||||
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MENDOCINO COUNTY TO KEEP FUNDS TO FIGHT POT | ||||||||||||||||
UKIAH - After an emotional four-hour debate Tuesday, Mendocino
County supervisors decided to keep accepting yearly $250,000 state
allocations targeting marijuana growers rather than end an anti-pot
war local critics contend can't be won. | ||||||||||||||||
For the second year, Supervisors John Pinches and Charles Peterson
could not muster a third vote to become the first county in
California to say no to the pot money. | ||||||||||||||||
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MARIJUANA STILL DIVIDES CALIFORNIA | ||||||||||||||||
SAN FRANCISCO -- Despite renewed efforts to shut down the nation's
most famous medicinal marijuana club, a gold stenciled pot leaf
remains boldly emblazoned across its store front facade and traffic
is as brisk as ever. | ||||||||||||||||
Upstairs, patrons with a physicians' recommendation buy various grades of marijuana cigarettes, or baked goods, and consume them in a setting that's more like a disco than a doctor's office. | ||||||||||||||||
The mood is relaxed and confident, seasoned by months of legal
challenge that show no sign of letting up. Last week, a California
bid to close the club immediately was denied, but a full hearing is
slated for June. | ||||||||||||||||
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Tobacco | ||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
The obvious linkage between tobacco policy and drug policy continues to be steadfastly ignored by most pundits, even as their own rhetoric makes it ever more obvious. Krauthammer, an ardent supporter of drug prohibition is almost comical in his excoriation of the "..but what about the kids?" argument, clearly forgetting that it's the last refuge of drug warriors under pressure to justify their lunacy. | ||||||||||||||||
LAND OF THE SMOKE-FREE | ||||||||||||||||
There is no case for stiff new penalties against America's tobacco
firms | ||||||||||||||||
The extraordinary political battle over the future of America's
tobacco industry seems likely to come to a climax over the next few
weeks. Will Bill Clinton work with Republicans on Capitol Hill to
impose drastic new penalties on the once-mighty industry? Or will
president and Congress settle for posturing - each aiming to outbid
the other ahead of this autumn's Congressional elections, proposing
ever more outlandish punishments, until the process collapses
without yielding legislation? The tobacco firms too have a choice
to make. Now that Congress has picked apart the deal they agreed
with state governments last June - a deal that, on any | ||||||||||||||||
Complicated stuff. Let us simplify. The politicians are debating,
in effect, whether to thump the industry severely or beat it to
within an inch of its life. Perhaps even now it isn't too late to
point out there is no case for doing either. | ||||||||||||||||
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THICKENING SMOKE | ||||||||||||||||
The latest strategy to derail tobacco legislation in Congress involves
loading it up with unrelated provisions aimed at illegal drug use. This
attempt to change the subject ( and to embarrass President Clinton as
soft on drugs in the process) is a cynical manipulation by Big Tobacco
and its allies in Congress. With a majority of Americans wanting a
meaningful tobacco control law this year, members need to resist
extraneous junk and stay focused on the mission, which is saving a new
generation of children from getting hooked on smoking. On Wednesday a
group of Senate Republican leaders, citing figures showing that high
school marijuana use is increasing faster than smoking, unveiled their
proposal to use tobacco industry revenues to enforce narcotics laws.
They said they would move to attach it to every tobacco bill that comes
up. In the House, meanwhile, Speaker Newt Gingrich is leaning toward
submerging his own long-promised teen smoking proposal into a broader
bill fighting drug abuse. | ||||||||||||||||
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THE NEW POLITICAL SCAM: IT'S ALL FOR THE KIDS | ||||||||||||||||
ONCE UPON a time, a politician would promise to do anything -- abolish taxes, hold back the tides, run over his grandmother -- in the name of the ``working man.'' Not anymore. Nowadays everything is done in the name of ``families'' or, better still, for ``children.'' | ||||||||||||||||
From Iraq to gun control, from global warming to air bags, there is
nary a public policy issue that is not sold as a way to protect
kids. Sure, gun locks might save an adult or two. But the important
thing is what they do for the little ones. | ||||||||||||||||
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International News COMMENT: (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
The first article (Australia) confirms other experience that benign enforcement of marijuana laws is not associated with either increased crime or addiction to "harder"drugs. The second (Netherlands) confirms that while drugs remain illegal, benign enforcement is strictly a matter of official forbearance and can change overnight. | ||||||||||||||||
In Britain, the Independent is championing decriminalization of
marijuana, but favors continued outlawing of "hard" drugs- a policy
which doesn't seem to be working any better in Aberdeen than in other
parts of the globe. | ||||||||||||||||
It appears that the benighted lunacy which passes for our international drug policy is forging ahead with plans to make both Colombia's civil war and environmental damage to even worse. | ||||||||||||||||
The headline writer in Toronto is not as sanguine about the prospects of drug war victory as Pino Arlaachi. The upcoming UN special session on drugs will be our best chance to call attention to the travesty of a global criminal market created by US law and sustained UN treaty. | ||||||||||||||||
DECRIMINALISING DOPE PRODUCES NO NEW HIGHS | ||||||||||||||||
A TWO-YEAR national marijuana study has found decriminalisation has not
caused any increase in its use in Australia. | ||||||||||||||||
The findings of the study carried out by the Drug and Alcohol Services
Council of South Australia in conjunction with other national research
facilities for Australia's health and justice ministers was presented
to a meeting in Melbourne yesterday, but the ministers left any action
on the report up to individual jurisdictions. | ||||||||||||||||
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AMSTERDAM IN PURGE ON SEX AND DRUGS | ||||||||||||||||
FOR many visitors to Amsterdam, the most startling sights have long
been the "coffee shops" where marijuana is openly sold and the "window
brothels" that display prostitutes like mannequins. But the sex and
drugs capital of Europe is undergoing a purge to rid itself of its
reputation as a city where anything goes. | ||||||||||||||||
Nearly half the 400 cafes that supplied soft drugs have been shut down
on the orders of Schelto Patijn, the forceful mayor, mostly on the
grounds that they have broken rules governing the amount of stock on
the premises or have traded hard drugs. | ||||||||||||||||
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A SQUANDERED OPPORTUNITY | ||||||||||||||||
Drug tsar Keith Hellawell's White Paper misses the point, argues Graham
Ball | ||||||||||||||||
TACKLING Drugs to Build a Better Britain, the title of drug tsar Keith
Hellawell's proposals for solving the country's biggest social crisis,
sounds like a spin-doctor's daydream. | ||||||||||||||||
The White Paper, unveiled last Monday, is long on rhetoric and
short on logic. For many involved in countering drug problems, it
represents a squandered opportunity. | ||||||||||||||||
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ADDICTS SWAMP GP SURGERIES | ||||||||||||||||
Doctors tell of struggle to cope as Aberdeen suffers big rise in
numbers using hard drugs | ||||||||||||||||
Doctors in Aberdeen are struggling to cope with a huge surge in demand
for help from drug addicts, some as young as 14. | ||||||||||||||||
One inner-city practice has had a 100-fold increase in the number of
people requiring treatment in just five years. Addicts outside the GP
network are having to wait up to ten months to be seen by the city's
only dedicated drug abuse service. | ||||||||||||||||
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COCAINE AND THE HIGH COST OF HELICOPTERS | ||||||||||||||||
SAN JOSE DEL GUAVIARE, Colombia-On a government airstrip here in the
sweltering heart of a no man's land roamed by Marxist guerrillas,drug
traffickers and right-wing death squads sits a row of six UH-1H
helicopters, the primary weapon Colombian police have to combat both
the flow of drugs to the United States and the spread of lawlessness
here. | ||||||||||||||||
But the helicopters can't fly. They are part of an aging fleet of 36
"Hueys" provided to Colombia by the United States -- most of which have
been grounded over the past two months because of mechanical problems,
seriously eroding the ability of police to find and destroy cocaine and
heroin laboratories, detect clandestine airstrips and interdict drug
shipments flowing northward. | ||||||||||||||||
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A TWO-EDGED SWORD FOR THE WAR ON DRUGS | ||||||||||||||||
U.S. thinks deadly herbicide is just right for Colombia's fields | ||||||||||||||||
BOGOTA, Colombia - It is so strong that just a few granules sprinkled
over a pesky tuft of grass on a driveway in San Francisco killed an oak
tree several metres away. | ||||||||||||||||
Dow Agro Sciences, the manufacturer of the herbicide known as
Tebuthiuron, or Spike, warns customers never to apply it near trees,
water sources or any place where it can accidentally kill desirable
plant life. Dow specifically says this is not the product for
wide-scale eradication of illicit drug crops. | ||||||||||||||||
Which is how U.S. authorities want to see it used in Colombia. | ||||||||||||||||
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NEW GLOBAL WAR ON DRUGS TACKLES A LOSING BATTLE | ||||||||||||||||
27 world leaders set to sign U.N. pledge next month | ||||||||||||||||
UNITED NATIONS - The world is about to go to war against drugs. | ||||||||||||||||
Again. | ||||||||||||||||
After years of fighting a losing battle against the $400 billion (U.S.)
global narcotics industry, the international community has come up with
a strategy it thinks could finally make a difference. | ||||||||||||||||
At least 27 leaders will sign a pledge in New York next month to
dramatically reduce drug addiction in their countries over the next
decade. | ||||||||||||||||
`The addiction problem we face now isn't a spontaneous expansion of
traditional culture. Today's world market has been created by forces
like organized crime.' - Pino Arlaachi, head of the United Nations Drug
Control Program | ||||||||||||||||
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WAR ON DRUGS DISASTROUS FAILURE | ||||||||||||||||
Oppressive Fantasies Of Prohibition Create Criminals As Blinded
Leadership Remains Bogged In Inertia | ||||||||||||||||
Normally, when a course of action has proven such an overwhelming
failure that it feeds the problem, that approach is dropped in favor of
new ideas. | ||||||||||||||||
Not so with the war on drugs. This annual, multi-billion dollar debacle
whose prohibition fuels the engine of the black market is curiously
defended at all costs by the agents of inertia. | ||||||||||||||||
They'd rather ply the safe side of the political street than embark on
innovative policy requiring leadership. | ||||||||||||||||
Increasing numbers of law enforcement veterans and conservative pundits are questioning the philosophy of criminalizing the personal use of various drugs. So why do other conservatives worship personal responsibility, yet insist on the criminalization of private choice? | ||||||||||||||||
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HOT OFF THE 'NET (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
A web page called TRAC has been designed to provide accurate and unbiased
evaluation of the DEA, FBI, ATF, and IRS. | ||||||||||||||||
About TRAC | ||||||||||||||||
The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) is a data
gathering, data research and data distribution organization associated
with Syracuse University. | ||||||||||||||||
It is loaded with useful information, graphs, etc. (often not too
flattering) on these organizations. e.g. the DEA's efficiency has
dropped recently and over half of all cases handled by the FBI are
either drug or bank related. | ||||||||||||||||
http://www.trac.syr.edu/ | ||||||||||||||||
The ad may be viewed on the ACLU web site along with commentary and a
public feedback area. | ||||||||||||||||
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TIP OF THE WEEK | ||||||||||||||||
There's a very good search engine type page at | ||||||||||||||||
It can help new web surfers to discover a wide array of useful sites
including drug related info and much more. | ||||||||||||||||
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK | ||||||||||||||||
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder
respectable, and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind.'
- George Orwell - | ||||||||||||||||
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