June 17, 1998 #051 |
A DrugSense publication
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- * Breaking News (12/30/24)
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- * Feature Article
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CMA Backs Rescheduling of Marijuana
By Rick Bayer, MD
Weekly News In Review
UN General Assembly-
Chirac, Rising From Electoral Blunder, Seeks to Lead Again
Clinton Urges International Stand Against Drugs
U.N. Aide Would Fight Drugs With 'Alternative Development'
Colombia, Myanmar Urge Alternative Crops
Big Names Sign Letter Criticizing War on Drugs
UN Special Session: Response-
U.S. Proved 'War on Drugs' is Insane
U.N. should take lead in fighting this scourge
Cheerleaders Against Drugs
Open Letter: Response-
The Drug War; A War On Poor, Lower Classes
Stand Up Against Soros' Drug Liberals
Pointing The Finger
500 Drug Geniuses
Concern Over Drug Legalization
Domestic News-
Test Of `Heroin Maintenance' May Be Launched In Baltimore
Fruit Flies Open New Understanding About Effects Of Alcohol
Report Shows More Cops Involved In Illegal Activities
International News-
Canada - Government Defies Court Order To Open Files On "Illegal"
Drug Sting
A Bolivian Legislator Who Just Says `Yes' To Coca
Sweden - Stockholm Is The Chicago Of Northern Europe
- * Hot Off The 'Net
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Ask Newt Gingrich a Question On-Line
- * DrugSense Tip Of The Week
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New "Top Stories Feature"
- * Quote of the Week
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Martin Luther King
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FEATURE ARTICLE (Top) |
CMA Backs rescheduling of marijuana
By Rick Bayer, MD
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During the California Summit on Medical Marijuana recently, the
California Medical Association (CMA) came out in favor of rescheduling
marijuana (mj) away from Schedule I, a drug schedule that prohibits
medical prescribing, into an unspecified schedule that presumably would
allow physician prescription of marijuana as medicine. The actual CMA
Board of Trustees wording was:
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"Due to the lack of scientific justification for Schedule I
classification of marijuana and the consequent virtual standstill in
research on its medical benefits or harm, CMA's Board of Trustees last
week voted to support efforts to reschedule marijuana."
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"In addition, the Board supported efforts to obtain federal approval
for a safe, reliable source of marijuana in California for research.
Reacting to the hazardous and completely uncontrolled distribution of
marijuana for medical use through buyers clubs and street sources, the
Board also supported federal control over distribution for medical use
in California through closely regulated sources."
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Although this appears somewhat cryptic and conservative, it is moving
in the right direction and should not be taken for granted. In Oregon,
on this fall's ballot, recriminalization of 1 oz. of marijuana
threatens our 25 years of decriminalization history. Therefore, it
appears that even "standing still" cannot be taken for granted.
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I recently worked very hard to help my Oregon Medical Association (OMA)
House of Delegates (governing body) see the wisdom in "not supporting"
rather than "opposing" the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act (OMMA). My main
opposition called it "neutrality" and so did "The Oregonian" newspaper
(the largest in the Pacific Northwest). This is a big victory for
patients and other activists in Oregon and elsewhere. Among the doctors
present at the OMA House of Delegates, compassion won out. The
consensus and mood was that 'our patients should not be sent to jail
for using marijuana to seek relief from their medical problem'.
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To some activists, these may seem relatively small gestures on the part
of the California and Oregon Medical Associations. To others, however,
these are momentous albeit glacial-like evolutions. Today, a friend
faxed to me an editorial from an Eastern Oregon newspaper [The LeGrande
Observer] attacking the OMA for its neutrality on OMMA. The newspaper
felt the OMA should have opposed OMMA.
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Maybe it would be helpful if many of us in the medical marijuana
movement acknowledged and thanked these associations for supporting
dying and suffering patients. If we take a moment to thank them, it may
help the executive staffs and boards feel like the associations made
the right decisions. The Website of the OMA is
http://www.ormedassoc.org/ and that of the CMA is
http://www.cmanet.org/. It would be foolish to take anything for
granted and we need momentum to maintain our current gains as well as
to achieve our future goals.
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Watching medical associations and others agree with some of our
positions is a sign of progress that should generate enthusiasm for our
efforts. In Oregon, it should be much less traumatic to win our OMMA
campaign since we do not have to campaign against the OMA. Please
recall that the CMA was opposed to Proposition 215. In California and
the entire world, it is now important that the CMA now endorses
rescheduling of marijuana away from Schedule I. This is the type of
mainstream support we need to encourage in order to win electoral
contests and pressure our federal government.
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Let us acknowledge and be encouraged by this evolution of opinion among
some very conservative medical institutions. Things will never change
as fast as we desire but these changes still remain very desirable.
Most importantly, these new positions should be used to change laws and
attitudes that currently criminalize dying and suffering patients for
medical use of marijuana. On this, we can all agree.
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Rick Bayer, MD
Board Certified, American Board of Internal Medicine
Spokesperson and Chief Petitioner, Oregon Medical Marijuana Act
Director, Oregonians for Medical Rights
6800 SW Canyon Drive
Portland, OR 97225
503-292-1035 (voice)
503-297-0754 (fax)
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WEEKLY NEWS IN REVIEW
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COMMENT: (Top) |
Without question, the 2nd week of June was the most important news
week in the recent history of the drug war, perhaps as much a
watershed as after the February '96 Buckley editorial in National
Review or the November '96 passage of 215 in California.
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A measure of progress within our movement is the extent to which we
are now able to both monitor and exploit developments in the news.
What made the past week momentous was the focus of the world press on
the UN Special Session in New York and the success of the reform
movement in exploiting that focus.
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UN General Assembly, Special Session on Drugs-
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COMMENT: (Top) |
It's ironic that hard core drug warrior Chirac, by insisting that
heads of state attend the General Assembly on Drugs, set the stage for
the reform message to receive the widest possible coverage.
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Clinton's muddled message (the drug war is both a success and a
failure) started things off. Editorial comment from around the world
was decidedly mixed
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Pino Arlacchi's resurrection of previously tried (and failed) crop
substitution was to receive little support, except predictably, from
two of the more corrupt drug producing nations, Burma and Colombia,
which both stand to be beneficiaries.
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The biggest news from New York was not went on within the UN, but what
was barred from the Assembly- a plea for alternative strategies voiced
in an open letter to Kofi Annan.
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CHIRAC, RISING FROM ELECTORAL BLUNDER, SEEKS TO LEAD AGAIN
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PARIS---There was still a tinge of shock in Jacques Chirac's voice
as the French president recounted discovering in mid-May that
President Bill Clinton, Prime Minister Tony Blair and other leaders
attending the Group of Seven summit meeting did not intend to go to
the United Nations for the special session on the world's drug
problems that begins Monday.
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"This seemed unthinkable to me," recalled Mr. Chirac, who
immediately began lobbying the leaders of the world's richest
countries and Russia to add a trip to New York "as an act of faith"
and compassion. "How could we have this meeting be meaningful
without the participation of the leaders of major drug-consuming
countries, which contribute so much to the problem?" he asked.
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Source: | International Herald-Tribune |
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Author: | Jim Hoagland, Washington Post Service |
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CLINTON URGES INTERNATIONAL STAND AGAINST DRUGS
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Armed with plans for a $2 billion media
campaign to help stanch the flow of narcotics across international
borders, President Clinton today asked world leaders to ``stand as
one against this threat'' without blaming each other for the
problem.
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In an opening address at the U.N. General Assembly special session
on drugs, Clinton told representatives of about 150 countries,
including 35 heads of state and government, that it is time to stop
bickering over whether blame for international drug trafficking
lies with countries that demand drugs or those that supply them.
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UN GE: Wire: United Nations To Hold Drug Summit
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U.N. AIDE WOULD FIGHT DRUGS WITH 'ALTERNATIVE DEVELOPMENT'
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UNITED NATIONS -- With President Clinton and other world leaders
coming here Monday for a special session of the General Assembly on
the world's drug problems, the U.N.'s top anti-narcotics official
has submitted a two-pronged strategy that moves beyond the
conventional approach of intercepting illegal drugs and arresting
traffickers.
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Pino Arlacchi, the executive director of the U.N. International
Drug Control Program, proposes the ambitious target of eliminating
opium poppies and coca plants, the raw ingredients of heroin and
cocaine, in 10 years as well as substantially reducing marijuana.
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Author: | Christopher S. Wren |
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Pubdate: | Sun, 07 Jun 1998 |
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COLOMBIA, MYANMAR URGE ALTERNATIVE CROPS
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Leaders from two of the world's major sources of narcotics told a
U.N. drug conference Tuesday that programs to wipe out illicit
crops will fail without money to help farmers grow alternative
crops.
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The United States has been noncommittal to a U.N. proposal to
provide financial incentives to Third World farmers to stop growing
cannabis, opium poppies and coca, the raw ingredient of cocaine.
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Pubdate Wed, 10 Jun 1998
Source: | Orange County Register ( Ca) |
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BIG NAMES SIGN LETTER CRITICIZING WAR ON DRUGS
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UNITED NATIONS---A drug reform institute financed by the
billionaire philanthropist George Soros has amassed signatures of
hundreds of prominent people around the world on a letter asserting
that the global war on drugs is causing more harm than drug abuse
itself.
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The signers include a former United Nations secretary-general,
Javier Perez de Cuellar, a former U.S. secretary of state, George
Shultz, the Nobel peace laureate Oscar Arias of Costa Rica, the
former CBS television anchorman Walter Cronkite, two former U.S.
senators Alan Cranston and Claiborne Pell, and the South African
human rights activist Helen Suzman.
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Pubdate Wed, 10 Jun 1998
Source: | Orange County Register ( Ca) |
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UN Special Session: Media Response-
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COMMENT: (Top) |
Separate editorial responses to the substance of the UN debate and to
the open letter are interesting to examine. The former range from the
frank jeering of Tim Meehan in the Ottawa Citizen to the obvious
confusion of the Dallas Morning News. Most were openly skeptical, as
exemplified by the New York Times. The Times' "Cheerleader" editorial
may have been the most important single development of the week.
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U.S. PROVED 'WAR ON DRUGS' IS INSANE
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While addressing the United Nations General Assembly regarding illicit
drugs ( "New 'war on drugs' has familiar ring," June 9), U.S. President
Bill Clinton mentioned in passing that "For the first time in history,
more than half the world's people live under governments of their own
choosing. In virtually every country, we see the expansion of
expressions of individual liberty."
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It's a shame this can't be said for the U.S., where the wasteful,
futile and insane War on Drugs has:
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* made the U.S. the world's highest per capita jailer of its own
citizens;
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* rendered the U.S. Constitution, once the envy of the world, not worth
the paper it is printed on because of the jihad against drugs;
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* made alcohol prohibition and Vietnam look like roaring successes by
comparison.
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Source: | Ottawa Citizen ( Canada) |
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Pubdate: | Wed, 10 Jun 1998 |
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Author: | Timothy J. Meehan |
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U.N. SHOULD TAKE LEAD IN FIGHTING THIS SCOURGE
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Ambitious is the word to use in describing the global anti-drug
strategy crafted by former anti-Mafia crusader Pino Arlacchi. Because
the plan by the current head of the U.N. anti-drug agency is so
sweeping - promising as it does massive reductions in the worldwide
availability of cocaine and heroin - it virtually sets itself up for
skepticism. But instead of carping at such a vision, the nations of the
world should eagerly second Mr. Arlacchi's overriding message: the need
to reduce demand and supply at the same time.
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Fortunately, the approach generally dovetails with the views of another
influential player in the fight, President Clinton. In a speech Monday,
he used the occasion of the U.N. General Assembly's first session in a
decade dedicated exclusively to drug-related issues, to warn that
merely pointing fingers helps no one.
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Source: | Dallas Morning News |
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Pubdate: | Fri, 12 Jun 1998 |
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CHEERLEADERS AGAINST DRUGS
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Manhattan is filled this week with world leaders attending a
well-intentioned but misdirected United Nations conference on drugs.
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With drugs more plentiful and cheaper than ever worldwide, the leaders
are mostly extolling failed strategies to combat the problem.
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Pino Arlacchi, the Italian official who heads the organization's
International Drug Control Program, is promising to eliminate coca leaf
and opium poppies, the basis of cocaine and heroin, in 10 years.
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Such claims get in the way of effective programs to reduce drug use.
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Pubdate: | Tue, 09 Jun 1998 |
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Source: | New York Times (NY) |
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Author: | Editorial page editors |
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Open Letter: Response-
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COMMENT: (Top) |
As revealing as the editorial skepticism with which the world's media
greeted the UN deliberations, was the publicity and endorsement they
accorded the open letter to Kofi Annan.
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Alexander Cockburn's op-ed in the LA Times may be the most realistic
appraisal of all. If accurate, it warns us not to become too elated
over our present success in embarrassing the drug war.
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Also revealing is the outrage provoked among hard-core
prohibitionists- in Sweden, at the Wall Street Journal, and from a
lonely Abe Rosenthal at the Times.
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Finally, Barry McCaffrey's attempt to make light of the legalization
movement while also confessing that it worries him reveals his
thinking to be as muddled as Clinton's.
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THE DRUG WAR: A WAR ON POOR, LOWER CLASSES
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Historically, the drug wars have been a pretext for social and political
repression.
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"We believe the global war on drugs is now causing more harm than drug
abuse itself." This was the banner on a double-page ad in the New York
Times on Monday, timed to coincide with the big United Nations' special
session in New York on drugs. Hundreds of prominent people from around
the world signed on to the view that the drug war has been a disaster
and "the time has come for a truly open and honest dialogue about
future global drug control policies."
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So to call for a "truly open and honest dialogue" about drug policy, as
all those distinguished signatories in the advertisement requested, is
about as realistic as asking the U.S. government to nationalize the oil
industry. Essentially, the drug war is a war on the poor and the
dangerous classes, here and elsewhere. How many governments are going
to give up on that?
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Source: | Los Angeles Times - COLUMN/OPED |
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Author: | Alexander Cockburn |
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http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n447.a08.html
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STAND UP AGAINST SOROS' DRUG LIBERALS
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Governments of the world must stand up against drug liberalism. The UN
session on narcotics is promising. Politicians must never fall for the
cynical surrender that the legalization movement stands for. Today the
Swedish social minister Margot Wallstrom will address the UN about the
importance to fight against drugs. Queen Silvia of Sweden is taking
part of the panel discussion about children, youth and narcotics during
the UN meeting about drugs. It is nice that Sweden can show a broad
unity on the narcotics issue.
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Source: | Aftonbladet ( Sweden) |
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Translation: | Olafur Brentmar |
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POINTING THE FINGER
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The three-day meeting on fighting drugs was one of the more useful
United Nations conferences in decades.
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It was well led by Pino Arlacchi, the Italian Mafia-buster, drew chiefs
of state and narcotics specialists from every part of the world, and
wound up with a plan to eliminate the growing of illegal heroin and
cocaine in 10 years -- certainly difficult but certainly doable.
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So, months before the opening Monday, a campaign to attack the
conference was planned.
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It was worked out by Americans who devote their careers and
foundation grants not to struggling against narcotics but
legalizing them under one camouflage or another.
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Source: | New York Times (NY) |
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Pubdate: | Fri, 12 Jun 1998 |
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500 DRUG GENIUSES
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With 500 of the world's prominent people serving as foot soldiers,
there's now a war on against the war on drugs. As the U.N. General
Assembly opened a special anti-drugs session this week, an
international group of eminences urged the world to cede victory to the
drugs' allure and concentrate its money and attention on making the
addicts more comfortable.
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The letter is mostly the sort of high-minded pabulum needed to attract
such famous names as former U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de
Cuellar or former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz. The word
"legalize" never appears. Nor do the words cocaine, heroin, marijuana,
methamphetamine or designer drugs. For the "We Believe" signers, it's
all just "drugs." We hope all these sophisticated folks won't feel
their judgment is being too terribly offended if we say quite bluntly:
They have just been enlisted in Mr. Soros's legalization crusade.
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Pubdate: | Wednesday, 10 June 1998 |
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Source: | The Wall Street Journal |
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CONCERN OVER DRUG LEGALIZATION
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UNITED NATIONS, ( June 9) IPS - The United States admits it is
concerned -- but not alarmed -- by the growing new demand for the
legalization of drugs in the country.
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"We are very disturbed by the trend," Gen. Barry McCaffrey, director of
the Office of National Drug Control Policy, said and added that, if
polling data was considered, there was "not a shred of support" for
legalization.
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McCaffrey, however, dismissed as insignificant the increased support
for legalization within the intellectual and academic communities. "It
is a case of the mouse that roared," he told reporters here today.
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Pubdate: | Wed, 10 Jun 1998 |
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Source: | Inter Press Service |
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Domestic News
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COMMENT: (Top) |
A couple of highly significant developments with great potential for
affecting drug policy were nearly eclipsed by events at the UN: there
is a good chance that a heroin maintenance trial may be conducted in
Baltimore under the auspices of Johns Hopkins. Predictably, opposition
from the feds will be fierce.
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At UCSF, researchers have moved closer to the elusive goal of
establishing a genetic basis for alcoholism.
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Unsurprisingly, the lure of easy money from thriving illegal markets
is corrupting record numbers of law enforcement officers. The numbers
are still small, but may be just the tip of a big iceberg.
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TEST OF `HEROIN MAINTENANCE' MAY BE LAUNCHED IN BALTIMORE
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Health Commissioner, Experts Back Plan To Give Drug To Addicts;
`Will Be Politically Difficult'
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Johns Hopkins University drug abuse experts and Baltimore's health
commissioner are discussing the possibility of a research study in
which heroin would be distributed to hard-core addicts in an effort to
reduce crime, AIDS and other fallout from drug addiction.
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The plan for a trial of "heroin maintenance" for some Baltimore addicts
who have refused or failed in traditional drug treatment is still at a
preliminary stage. Conscious that the issue could be politically
explosive, the doctors involved are treading carefully and trying to
persuade colleagues in other cities to launch such studies
simultaneously.
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Pubdate: | Wednesday, 10 June 1998 |
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Source: | Baltimore Sun ( MD) |
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Author: | Scott Shane, Sun Staff |
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Toll free number: 800-829-8000
Mail: | The Baltimore Sun Company 501 N. Calvert Street P.0. Box 1377 |
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FRUIT FLIES OPEN NEW UNDERSTANDING ABOUT EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL
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BOSTON (AP) -- Drunken flies that carry a genetic mutation named
``cheapdate'' are helping scientists unravel one of life's mysteries:
why some people can hold their liquor better than others.
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The research found that fruit flies -- and perhaps people, too -- are
especially apt to get inebriated if they naturally produce low levels
of a chemical called cyclic AMP.
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These are, of course, just flies, but scientists have long known that
the basic processes of life in such simple creatures often turn out to
be virtually identical to the ones involved in more complicated
animals, like people.
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Pubdate: | Thurs, 11 Jun 1998 |
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Author: | Daniel Q. Haney, AP Medical Editor |
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REPORT SHOWS MORE COPS INVOLVED IN ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES
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WASHINGTON - In greater numbers and in more places than ever, police
are succumbing to the temptations posed by huge sums of cash from
illegal drugs.
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Official corruption, which has raged for years in the nation's big
cities, is spreading to the hinterlands. So rampant has it become that
the number of federal, state and local officials in federal prisons has
grown fivefold over the last four years, increasing from 107 in 1994 to
548 today, according to the federal Bureau of Prisons.
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Although only a tiny fraction of the nation's law-enforcement officials
are behind bars, the increase in their numbers reflects a harsh
reality: Despite the government's "war on drugs," the problem is
defying concerted efforts to stamp it out.
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Source: | Seattle Times (WA) |
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Pubdate: | Sun, 14 Jun 1998 |
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Author: | Jack Nelson and Ronald J. Ostrow, Los Angeles Times |
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International News
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COMMENT: (Top) |
We're used to thinking of the RCMP as squeaky-clean, as opposed to the
police of Mexico or certain American cities, but this article in the
Ottawa Citizen suggests that they may be humanly fallible after all.
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The Bolivian story amply illustrates just one of the reasons that
Arlacchi's simplistic crop substitution idea won't work.
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We couldn't resist the report on crime in Stockholm as a companion
piece to the militant drug prohibitionist sentiment expressed in the
editorial above.
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GOVERNMENT DEFIES COURT ORDER TO OPEN FILES ON 'ILLEGAL' DRUG STING
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Privy Council Refuses To Release Secret Cabinet Documents; Justice
Department Stops Trial In Mountie Money-Laundering Operation Privy
Council Clerk Jocelyne Bourgon said the documents are exempt from
disclosure.
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VANCOUVER -- The federal government, defying a court order, is blocking
the disclosure of legal opinions and other documents showing how RCMP
brass approved undercover currency exchange operations in Montreal and
Vancouver.
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Deputy RCMP Commissioner Terry Ryan and Jocelyne Bourgon, Clerk of the
Privy Council, have each filed sworn affidavits in British Columbia
Supreme Court, saying the documents about the police-run currency
exchanges are confidential.
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But, as the Citizen has reported this week in a series of articles
examining the Montreal operation, the cash-strapped and short-staffed
undercover unit was overwhelmed by the amount of business it received
and could keep track of only a fraction of the illicit drug loot and
suspected cocaine dealers passing through.
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Pubdate: | Sat, 13 Jun 1998 |
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Source: | Ottawa Citizen (Canada) |
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Author: | Andrew McIntosh, The Ottawa Citizen |
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A BOLIVIAN LEGISLATOR WHO JUST SAYS `YES' TO COCA
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LAUCA ENE, Bolivia -- Like congressmen all over the world, Evo Morales
hugs babies and makes fist-thumping speeches. But that's where the
similarities end. For starters, this congressman chews coca leaves in
public.
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In fact, as Morales returned to his district recently, he was not at
all embarrassed to be photographed caressing the coca bushes that grow
on his property. During his election campaign last year, he ran on the
slogan "Vote for coca!" He won 70 percent of the vote in a field of 10,
which is perhaps not particularly surprising since his district, the
tropical region of Chapare, produces 85 percent of the refined cocaine
produced in Bolivia every year.
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Since President Hugo Banzer Suarez announced in January his intention
to eradicate the coca industry in Chapare by the year 2002, Morales has
been leading road blockades and accusing the president and his family
of being international traffickers themselves -- charges that he has
failed to substantiate but that have won him screaming newspaper
headlines and considerable national television exposure.
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Pubdate: | Sat, 13 Jun 1998 |
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Source: | New York Times ( NY) |
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STOCKHOLM IS THE CHICAGO OF NORTHERN EUROPE
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Open War in the Underworld
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Peaceful Stockholm is well on the way to changing from the Venice of
the North into the Chicago of the North. Gangster wars have taken
dozens of lives already this year. The latest victim was a well known
45 year old iraqi. He was mowed down in broad daylight at the weekend.
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Shootouts in cafes, well planned murders in public places, hired
killers bomb explosions, bullets in the back of the neck, machine gun
fights and other serious crimes have taken place in Stockholm this
year. A common element in all of these crimes is that they have been
carried out by foreigners or immigrants with connections to the
underworld
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Smuggling of narcotics and cigarettes as well as the night club
business is behind these violent crimes. Owning a night club is a good
way of laundering dirty money.
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Source: | Vestra Nyland ( Finland) |
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Translation: | "John Yates" () |
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HOT OFF THE 'NET (Top) |
Ask Newt Gingrich a Question On-Line
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Gingrich Announces New Internet Service/Live Chat Tomorrow
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Speaker Will Respond to Questions from the Public Via RealAudio, Text
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House Speaker Newt Gingrich today announced the launch of "Ask the
Speaker," a new Internet feature that will allow Americans to ask
questions and get answers directly from the Speaker on the legislative
and policy issues they care about. Twice a month, the Speaker will
select a question from those submitted and answer it in RealAudio
format, which will then be made available to the public via SpeakerNews
http://speakernews.house.gov A text version of the answer will also
be made available.
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Ask your question at http://speakernews.house.gov/asknewt/
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