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FEATURE ARTICLE (Top) | ||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (Top) | ||||||||||||||
Sometimes it seems that Canada is far ahead of the U.S. in its drug policies and leadership. We want to encourage and support any paper with the courage and wisdom to question the "leaders" who are so consistently blind to reason, facts and science on drug policy issues. | ||||||||||||||
Please consider sending a brief note of encouragement to the Ottawa
Citizen (Canada) Circulation 500,000 (By Canadian standards a very
large paper) | ||||||||||||||
Contact: | ||||||||||||||
GONZO DRUG CZAR | ||||||||||||||
If the world-wide war on drugs has a commander-in-chief, it is President Bill Clinton's "Drug Czar," retired general Barry McCaffrey. | ||||||||||||||
Those who still support the failed policy of drug prohibition should note
the latest musings of their leader. | ||||||||||||||
Testifying before a U.S. Senate committee, Gen. McCaffrey sounded as if he were auditioning for a part on the X-Files when he claimed, "There is a carefully camouflaged, exorbitantly funded, well-heeled, elitist group whose ultimate goal is to legalize drug use in the United States." | ||||||||||||||
The general's comments followed the publication the previous week of a
two-page newspaper ad calling for an end to the war on drugs. The
letter was signed by more than 500 prominent individuals from around
the world, and included subversives like George Shultz, Ronald Reagan's
Secretary of State, former UN Secretary General Javier Perez de
Cuellar, Nobel-laureate Milton Friedman, and journalist Walter
Cronkite. The general's Senate audience knew exactly what and whom he
was getting at. | ||||||||||||||
Was this petition "carefully camouflaged"? It was organized -- quite
openly - -- by the Lindesmith Center. That this American institute is
funded by billionaire financier George Soros is well-known. And Mr.
Soros is hardly a shadowy character: His philanthropic efforts,
including assistance for former communist countries making the
transition to freedom, have been impressive. He deserves better than
the general's innuendo. | ||||||||||||||
What about the claim that the legalization movement is "exorbitantly
funded"? Exorbitant is a relative thing. The United States spends $30
billion a year on its drug war and accompanying propaganda. Relative to
that $30 billion, its funding is insignificant. | ||||||||||||||
As for the charge of elitism, that is an example of the worst sort of political rabble-rousing, a cheap shot not worth comment. | ||||||||||||||
But the drug-warrior-in-chief wasn't done. He went on to tell the Senate that drug reformers had, "Through a slick misinformation campaign, E [perpetrated] a fraud on the American people, a fraud so devious that even some of the nation's most respected newspapers and sophisticated media are capable of echoing their falsehoods." | ||||||||||||||
In other words, it's inconceivable that journalists could look at the
facts and reasonably come to a conclusion different than the general's.
Every publication that disapproves of drug prohibition -- among them
National Review, The Economist, and yes, this newspaper -- has simply
been duped by the conspiracy. | ||||||||||||||
General McCaffrey's bitter, paranoid attacks, coming as they did hard upon the UN conference on drugs and the debate about drug prohibition that it prompted, exposed just how empty the drug warriors' case really | ||||||||||||||
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Bereft of evidence, belied by experience, drug prohibitionists have few rational arguments to make -- so they insult, vilify, and denounce. | ||||||||||||||
It's an old rule in politics: When the facts are against you, throw mud
in their eyes. | ||||||||||||||
Copyright 1998 The Ottawa Citizen | ||||||||||||||
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WEEKLY NEWS IN REVIEW (Top) | ||||||||||||||
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Drug War Policy- | ||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (Top) | ||||||||||||||
The UN session, in an action reminiscent of infamous Soviet "5-year plans," and without taking notice of the opposition to their policy uncovered by an open letter in the New York Times, approved a list of measures to eliminate the criminal drug market in ten years. | ||||||||||||||
However, the federal government did notice that opposition. Barry
McCaffrey flashed his resentment of criticism by foolishly describing
signers of the letter as a "fringe" movement in remarks before a
Senate Committee. He was heard by the public when "Nightline" did a
Special on federal response to the Times ad. | ||||||||||||||
Another imprudent denigration of the signatories also backfired. The
infamous WSJ "500 Geniuses" editorial produced many outraged
responses. 7 were published; including those of Lynn Carol and Mark
Greer. No letters supporting the WSJ position appeared; one wonders if
they received any. | ||||||||||||||
Meanwhile, "Drug Crazy" hit the bookstores. In this first review we've
seen; the reviewer came to exactly the right conclusions; hopefully
others will also. | ||||||||||||||
Finally, there's an improbable British account of an apparent US strategy to wage biological warfare on the opium poppy. Quite apart from the irresponsibility of breeding a pest which might effect other crops; haven't the geniuses at the DEA heard of synthetic opioids? | ||||||||||||||
UN ADOPTS PLANS TO COMBAT WORLDWIDE ILLICIT DRUG USE | ||||||||||||||
The UN General Assembly has called for all its member states to join an
international campaign to combat illegal drug use. In a series of
documents adopted at the end of the "drug summit" held in New York (
June 8-10), the Assembly called for the states to attack not only the
production and trafficking of illicit drugs but also to work to reduce
the demand for these drugs. | ||||||||||||||
By 2003, member states are to have established or enhanced
drug-reduction programmes; strengthened legislation to combat illicit
manufacture, trafficking, and abuse of synthetic drugs; taken steps to
halt the laundering of illegal drug profits; and improved cooperation
between judicial and law enforcement authorities so that they can
effectively deal with the international criminal organisations involved
in the drug trade. | ||||||||||||||
By 2008, member states are to have eliminated or significantly significant reduction in demand; and eradicated or significantly reduced cultivation of coca bushes, cannabis plants, and opium poppies. | ||||||||||||||
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THE BATTLE OVER HOW TO FIGHT THE WAR ON DRUGS | ||||||||||||||
FORREST SAWYER, ABC NEWS: They say the war on drugs is a multi-billion
dollar disaster. | ||||||||||||||
MICHAEL MASSING; Our drug budget now is $17 billion a year and even by the drug czar's own admission, we're only treating one half the addicts. | ||||||||||||||
FORREST SAWYER; A disaster that has caused more harm than drug abuse
itself. | ||||||||||||||
KEVIN ZEESE, COMMON SENSE FOR DRUG POLICY; In fact, we invest more now in prisons than we do universities because of the drug war. | ||||||||||||||
FORREST SAWYER; But the general leading the way says those critics, who
are some of the most influential people in the world, are dangerously
wrong. | ||||||||||||||
GEN BARRY MCCAFFREY, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL DRUG POLICY OFFICE; Don't
give prominence to this drug legalization argument. It's sort of a
fringe group. It has increasingly, with enormous cunning, gotten an
argument into the public dialogue of this country. | ||||||||||||||
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LTE in WSJ: PROHIBITION IS IMMORAL | ||||||||||||||
It is one thing for The Wall Street Journal editorial page to support
the mislabeled "war on drugs" ( "500 Drug Geniuses," Review & Outlook,
June 10); it is quite another for you to misrepresent the views of
those of us who believe that the "war on drugs is now causing more harm
than drug abuse itself." | ||||||||||||||
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Milton Friedman | ||||||||||||||
Do you really believe that all drug use constitutes abuse, and that the government should make such personal decisions for us? | ||||||||||||||
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Lynn Carol | ||||||||||||||
You described us ( for I was one of the signatories) as naive
"geniuses" who were issuing pabulum to the world; claimed that we were
all dupes of George Soros, and suggested that the signatories might be
drug users. | ||||||||||||||
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Henry G. Jarecki, M.D. | ||||||||||||||
How can any rational thinker analyze our drug policy and fail to
conclude that it is a monumental failure? We have more people in prison
than any industrialized nation. We've spent hundreds of billions of
dollars on the drug war. We've destroyed families and lives and
undermined Constitutional freedoms. We've made inner city children, who
should have been young business men, into drug dealers. And what do we
have to show for all this effort? Any child or adult with a few dollars
in his pocket can buy any illicit drug in existence anywhere in the
country. | ||||||||||||||
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Mark Greer | ||||||||||||||
STONE CRAZY | ||||||||||||||
The war against drugs, says a new book, is a colossal failure. | ||||||||||||||
Drug Crazy. How We Got Into This Mess and How We Can Get Out. By Mike
Gray. Random House. $23.95. | ||||||||||||||
If World War II had been as successful as America's "war on drugs,"
we'd all be chowing down on bratwurst and naming our newborns after
Adolf and Eva. | ||||||||||||||
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In "Drug Crazy," though, reformers are handed some powerful
ammunition. By forcefully detailing the drug war's fiscal costs and
erosions of civil liberties, its futilities and hypocrisies and
corruptions, Gray has made a strong case for a radical re-evaluation of
our laws. | ||||||||||||||
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THE WEST'S SECRET WEAPON TO WIN THE OPIUM WAR | ||||||||||||||
It does not look like the nerve centre of the best-kept secret in the
war against drugs. The perimeter walls are dull concrete topped with
barbed wire; the buildings drab; a guardhouse and a huge mechanical
steel gate offer the only entry. | ||||||||||||||
But the compound set beyond the sprawl of tractor factories and grey
apartment blocks of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, could hold the
answer to tackling the international trade in heroin. | ||||||||||||||
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Behind the locked steel doors, spores of a refined and rampant strain of a fungus called Pleospora papaveracea are stored and cultured. This could be the weapon that cuts off the heroin trade at source by devastating the opium poppy fields of Asia's golden crescent and golden triangle, the principal sources of raw material for the heroin trade. | ||||||||||||||
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Drug Trade | ||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (Top) | ||||||||||||||
This week's mix of news contained several articles underscoring the
adaptability of the illegal drug market in bringing its products to
market despite police interference (it helps if the industry standard
is one of unconcern for either the health or welfare of low-level
employees). | ||||||||||||||
Amish participation in the criminal drug market received nation-wide publicity; it should be considered a marketing triumph for prohibition- but of course won't be seen that way at all. | ||||||||||||||
Even in this era, the submarine story sounds improbable, however, here
it is. | ||||||||||||||
WOMEN RECRUITED BY DRUG TRAFFICKERS | ||||||||||||||
MIAMI -- Canadian women are increasingly being recruited by drug
traffickers who use their "innocent" reputation with border guards to
smuggle drugs, U.S.federal officials say. | ||||||||||||||
Following vacations to Jamaica, four Ontario women since March have
pleaded guilty in Miami for conspiring to import cocaine by swallowing
the substance wrapped in condoms. | ||||||||||||||
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TWO AMISH MEN ACCUSED OF COCAINE DEALS WITH MOTORCYCLE GANG | ||||||||||||||
Federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania yesterday accused two Amish men
of buying cocaine from a gang called the Pagan Motorcycle Club and
distributing the drug to other young members of the religious group
at parties known as "hoedowns." | ||||||||||||||
"We've seen plenty of underage drinking cases but a drug case is
unheard of" among the Amish, said John Pyfer, who is representing
Abner Stoltzfus, 24. | ||||||||||||||
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MIAMI--It was a typical night at Porky's, a strip joint known for its Russian dancers in the seedy Miami suburb of Hialeah. | ||||||||||||||
The girls were grinding on the dance floor while, inside the club's
inner office, cut off from the driving rhythms, owner Ludwig Fainberg
was talking business. Big business, federal prosecutors now say: drug
business, Russian Mafia business and how the two were coming together
in a single deal. | ||||||||||||||
And the U.S. government was listening. | ||||||||||||||
According to documents recently filed in federal court here, on that night in April 1995 Fainberg explained to an undercover U.S. drug enforcement agent a deal he was brokering between Russian organized crime and Colombian drug lords to provide a $35-million Soviet navy submarine to the biggest cocaine cartel in South America. | ||||||||||||||
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Courts & Prisons | ||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (Top) | ||||||||||||||
As America continues its drug war-inspired orgy of incarceration,
prison tax bills may be the first issue to grab the attention of
voters. There are some signs that the compensatory mechanisms which
have kept prison costs from being an issue may finally have been maxed
out. The near-certainty that this will become a hot topic in
California shortly after 2000 is another good reason to prefer Davis
over Lungren in November. | ||||||||||||||
An irony of the second story is that Oklahoma, one of the destinations
for surplus Wisconsin inmates, sends its own surplus prisoners to be
warehoused in private Texas prisons. | ||||||||||||||
With its usual blithe indifference to either justice or political
reality, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of double jeopardy,
facilitating even more prison overcrowding. | ||||||||||||||
Speaking of the Supremes: lest we become too encouraged by their
ruling on forfeiture, just notice that the test case didn't involve
drugs. | ||||||||||||||
A PRISON FOR THE FUTURE | ||||||||||||||
Kern County: Private firm is ready to make a bid to house state's
felons. | ||||||||||||||
Sometime this week, bulldozers will begin to carve the high-desert landscape of Kern County to make way for a $94 million development unique in California: a massive, privately built prison. | ||||||||||||||
Sometime later this month, a Senate committee will consider a constitutional amendment that would assure that not a single felon convicted in California courts will ever spend a day inside it. | ||||||||||||||
In a state where politicians and voters have consistently embraced
enhanced-sentencing laws, but have in recent years shied away from
nearly every proposal to build new prisons, the private project in
California City is destined to become a battleground in a
big-spending political war. | ||||||||||||||
On one side is the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, which has become one of the state's most powerful unions because of its fast-growing membership and its savvy alliance with Gov. Pete Wilson. It is joined by every major public-safety union in the state. | ||||||||||||||
On the other is the Corrections Corp. of America, the nation's largest private-prison firm. It is joined by others in the industry as well as nearly every association of local governments in the state. | ||||||||||||||
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1,000 MORE FACE OUT-OF-STATE PRISON | ||||||||||||||
Legislators raise total to 3,200 as Wisconsin prisons are brimming | ||||||||||||||
Madison -- With no room to spare in Wisconsin's crowded prison system,
lawmakers Tuesday gave Corrections Secretary Michael Sullivan authority
to send 1,000 more convicts to prisons in other states. | ||||||||||||||
The Joint Finance Committee approved the transfer of 600 inmates to
private prisons run by the Corrections Corporation of America in
Oklahoma and Tennessee. | ||||||||||||||
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HIGH COURT OKS STIFF "3-STRIKES' SENTENCES | ||||||||||||||
Tough-on-crime law does not constitute double jeopardy | ||||||||||||||
The Supreme Court sharpened the teeth of California's "three strikes"
law Friday, making it easier for states to stiffen sentences for repeat
offenders based on past crimes. | ||||||||||||||
In a decision hailed by the law's author and criticized by San
Francisco's chief deputy public defender, the justices ruled, 5-4, that
the constitutional protection against being tried twice for the same
crime does not apply to sentencing proceedings in non-death penalty
cases. | ||||||||||||||
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JUSTICES STRIKE DOWN FORFEITURE AS EXCESSIVE | ||||||||||||||
Case Involved Gas Station Owner Taking Large Amount of Undeclared Cash
to Syria | ||||||||||||||
A sharply divided Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the federal government cannot seize and keep the money of a person trying to carry funds out of the country simply because the person failed to fill out the proper Customs Service forms. The decision marked the first time the court had struck down a government fine as unconstitutionally excessive, and dissenting justices said the reasoning may jeopardize a vast range of financial penalties the government imposes. | ||||||||||||||
The case produced an unorthodox 5-to-4 voting alliance and a majority
opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas that said a punitive forfeiture is
forbidden if it is "grossly disproportional to the gravity" of the
offense. | ||||||||||||||
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Medical Marijuana | ||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (Top) | ||||||||||||||
Not much this week; just updates of two ongoing stories- the
systematic British consideration of (commercial) medical cannabis and
the cliff-hanger in Nevada. | ||||||||||||||
SMOKING CURE ON TRIAL | ||||||||||||||
Vanessa Houlder on a research programme that could lead to a currently
illegal drug being cleared for medicinal use. | ||||||||||||||
Rarely has a new research programme caused such a stir. When last week
the UK Government gave the go-ahead to a cannabis farm that would grow
plants for the first large-scale clinical trials of the drug, it seemed
to signal an important change in attitude. | ||||||||||||||
There is now the political will to approve cannabis as a drug, in the
view of Geoffrey Guy, the pharmaceutical entrepreneur behind the
initiative. Four years ago, his request to conduct a similar programme
received a frosty response. | ||||||||||||||
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http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n506.a05.html | ||||||||||||||
MEDICAL MARIJUANA PETITION NETS MORE SIGNATURES THAN ESTIMATED | ||||||||||||||
CARSON CITY -- Initial counting by county clerks around Nevada shows
advocates of a plan to authorize marijuana for medical treatment turned
in a few thousand more signatures than they thought. | ||||||||||||||
The secretary of state's office said Friday reports from 11 of the 13 counties that got medical marijuana petitions showed a raw count of 73,756 signatures. The petitioners had estimated the total from all 13 counties at 70,155. Most of the change occurred in Clark County, up from 43,694 to 45,955; and Washoe County, up from 16,111 to 17,201. | ||||||||||||||
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Tobacco | ||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (Top) | ||||||||||||||
Not much tobacco news following the death of the Senate bill. This
description of the illegal market which briefly came into being when
Canada increased taxes shows just how hard it is even for a
"legitimate" business to resist the lure of an illegal market. The
Canadian manufacturers of Players and DuMaurier certainly knew the
score. | ||||||||||||||
SUSPECT ACCUSES TOBACCO FIRMS OF SMUGGLING | ||||||||||||||
MASSENA, N.Y. - In 1992, Canadian cigarette companies exported twice as many cigarettes to the United States as they had the previous year. On paper, it was as if Americans suddenly decided to smoke twice as many exotic Canadian brands such as Players, Export A and DuMaurier. | ||||||||||||||
In fact, most of those cigarettes were shipped right back into Canada in a short-lived but profitable black market that started when Canada imposed a smoker's tax of $2 per pack. Smugglers pocketed the $2 by buying the cigarettes tax-free in the United States and selling them at taxed rates in Canada, netting hundreds of millions of dollars. | ||||||||||||||
A major smuggling point was here in Massena, just a few miles from the
Canadian border. | ||||||||||||||
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International News | ||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (Top) | ||||||||||||||
There is a plethora of international news; some of the increase reflects expanding coverage of overseas press by our NewsHawks, some is a response to the recent UN Special Session. There is also the fact that we are now able to archive some foreign language press accounts in translation, a privilege for which we are most grateful. The overall message in the international news is that the criminal drug market created by US policy is destructive and out of control. | ||||||||||||||
Our drug warriors can take some comfort from the fact that Sweden
still behaves like a clone of the US, at least when it comes to drug
policy. | ||||||||||||||
RCMP CHIEF SAYS LACK OF FUNDS MEANS MOB `ON A ROLL' | ||||||||||||||
Assessing the war on drugs: | ||||||||||||||
Organized crime in Canada is now so pervasive that police have been
reduced to putting out isolated fires in a blazing underworld economy,
says RCMP Commissioner Philip Murray. | ||||||||||||||
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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT | ||||||||||||||
Scottish penal policy is in crisis. Our prison population per head of
population is the second highest in Europe, 15 per cent higher than in
England and Wales; 70 per cent of the prisoners remanded in custody
awaiting trial or sentence do not receive custodial sentences; the
suicide toll among prisoners is a national disgrace. | ||||||||||||||
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WAR ON DRUGS IMPOVERISHES FARMERS | ||||||||||||||
The Bekaa valley in Lebanon gets little from UN | ||||||||||||||
BAALBEK, Lebanon - During Lebanon's long civil war, the Bekaa Valley
flourished as one of the world's most fertile regions for growing
cannabis for hashish and poppies for heroin. In 1992, as it struggled
to emerge from more than a decade of self-destruction and lawlessness,
Lebanon successfully controlled its illicit drug crops, with the
support of the United States. But in the process it left tens of
thousands of farmers indigent. | ||||||||||||||
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THE WALLS ARE CRUMBLING | ||||||||||||||
Traditional drug policy has failed. I believe we change the trend by
prescribing heroin." This is not a legalise-it-disciple or a member of
the Green party speaking, it is the police chief of the city of
Bielefeld, Horst Kruse. Along with police chiefs and high-ranking
medical officials, even conservative politicians nowadays demand a
change in drug policy. A stock-taking on the occasion of today's German
action day on drug policy. | ||||||||||||||
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Editors note: Our newshawk is the executive director for European Cities on Drug Policy. Please check out their website at: http://www.oeko-net.de/ecdp/ http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n496.a06.html | ||||||||||||||
UNCOMPROMISING CLIMATE IN DRUGS DEBATE | ||||||||||||||
Stockholm -TT- Anyone who criticize today's heavy handed narcotics
policy is immediately branded as a drug liberal. | ||||||||||||||
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So says Henrik Tham, Professor of Criminology at Stockholm University,
in answer to the Social Ministers demand in a debate article in Sundays
Dagens Nyheter for the Swedes who backed the call for a new drug policy
to step forward and explain themselves. | ||||||||||||||
Henrik Tham is one of the twelve Swedes who, in connection with the UN
summit on drugs at the beginning of June, signed a call for a new and
milder drugs policy. | ||||||||||||||
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