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Table of Contents

* Breaking News (12/21/24)


* Feature Article


Debate With ONDCP on Medical Marijuana Issues
By Kevin Zeese

* Weekly News In Review


Medical Marijuana-

Medical Marijuana Gains Momentum
D.C.  Won't Give Results Of Marijuana Referendum
What's Congress Smoking?
Nearly No Research Done on Pot
Authorities Consider Medical Use of Marijuana

Drug War Policy-

The War At Home
Iowa Rule Letting Police Search Cars Leads to US Supreme Court
A Call to Action Issued on AIDS Among Alameda Blacks
NY Review of Books November 19, 1998
CIA Turned a Deliberate Blind Eye to Contras' Drug Smuggling
Accused Ex-Cop Gets Disability
Newsbuzz - Bugging Plants

International News-

Decriminalisation of Drugs: The Debate Continues With Divergent
Scenarios.
Venezuela: Charges Vowed Against U.S.  Agents
Hells Angels Are Among The Most Murderous in the World
Yardies Linked To UKP10M Trade In Scotland's Heroin Capital
Colombia: Wire: Guerrillas Attack Police Garrison In State

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* Quote of the Week


Albert Einstein

* Special Notice


Thanks to DrugNews Screeners - Don Beck and Kevin Fansler


FEATURE ARTICLE    (Top)


DEBATE WITH ONDCP ON MEDICINAL MARIJUANA ISSUES

By Kevin Zeese

Yesterday, (11/7/98) I debated Chuck Blanchard, General Counsel of ONDCP, before approximately 85 members of the Special Interest Group on Addictive Behaviors.  The topic was medical marijuana.

Before the debate Chuck asked what I thought of ONDCP's response to the medical marijuana votes.  I asked what he meant and he described their non-response.  It is evident that they have made a strategic decision to not respond to the initiatives and in that way not draw attention to them.  Obviously they have learned from the 1996 votes. (Although when we discussed threats to doctors after the 1996 votes, Chuck mentioned that McCaffrey has repeatedly told him that he did not threaten doctors in 1996.  Further he said he looked at the tapes of the press conference and did not see any threats.) He acknowledged that the right wing in Congress will pressure them to respond, but he thinks they will be able to stick to their non-response strategy.

He also mentioned they are waiting for the results of the Institute of Medicine review on medical marijuana.  He said it will be out in January or February, although he emphasized that they really did not know when it will be released since IOM is independent of the government.  It seems to me the IOM review will be the key to their reaction.  If they acknowledge the medical benefits of marijuana that will give them some cover to move forward positively, if not, they will have an excuse not

The basic public position of ONDCP is there should not be a special exception to the normal drug approval process.  The FDA review process is what should be followed, the initiatives are an end run around science.  He stated NIH is very open to research requests and noted they had already approved the Abrams study.

On the study front one important new thing he said was that any research on medical marijuana will have to show that it is something other than the already approved THC that is causing the positive medical benefit.  This is a strange requirement that I have never heard before.  He claims it is required by the Controlled Substances Act for all Schedule I drugs.  If this is their approach then it will create very difficult obstacles to medical marijuana research.

He also noted that THC has been recommended for rescheduling to Schedule III and that a lot of research will be going on around developing a vaporizer and a suppository for THC.

Beyond the "let research decide" mantra he mentioned that the current initiatives cause problems because there is no controlled distribution system, increase the availability of marijuana generally and will result in increased adolescent use because kids will think mj is okay.

While he acknowledged that many of the people who support medical marijuana and certainly the voters who voted for it were concerned about compassion for the ill (they were fooled like in the laetrile debates of the late 70s) the funders behind the initiatives have a broader agenda -- reform generally.  They were using issues like medical marijuana to chip away at the drug laws.

Of course, I responded to all of these assertions, but will not bore you with that.


WEEKLY NEWS IN REVIEW    (Top)

COMMENT:    (Top)

Week after week, Congress and the media refused to focus on anything beyond the Presidential sex scandal, despite poll after poll giving Clinton sustained high job-approval ratings.  Several days after an election which reversed the usual off-year trends to a historic degree and toppled the second most powerful political figure in the nation, many still seem unable to comprehend the public's unambiguous message on impeachment.

In that setting, is it any wonder they are also slow to understand the significance of last week's vote on medical marijuana?


Medical Marijuana-


COMMENT:    (Top)

Considering Medical marijuana first this week underscores its huge significance to drug policy reform.  California and Arizona's unequivocal 1996 rejection of current policy was too easily dismissed by ideologues as aberrant.  In the interim, both laws were vitiated within their respective states by entrenched politicians and craven judiciaries.  Last week's electoral success of medical marijuana together with the defeat of its political foes in California is just beginning to be understood by more intelligent editorial sources such as the SF Examiner.

The Baltimore Sun reported on the silly Congressional attempt to nullify the DC vote while the Washington Post poked fun at it.  Bob Barr, cited in both articles, is indeed an important symbol; defeat of politicians of his stripe is the ultimate challenge for drug policy reform.  ONDCP's response has already been signaled; they will insist on a need to wait for validation by "science;" the AP article suggests that could be a very long wait, indeed.  The courts represent another, and even less certain mechanism for effecting change; it's ironic that a detailed account of the class action lawsuit wasn't printed until Election Day.

MEDICAL MARIJUANA GAINS MOMENTUM

Surprise victories for medical marijuana proposals in five states Tuesday mean California's Proposition 215 was no fluke - and the federal government will be under pressure to change its hard-line stance, advocates said yesterday.

But officials at the White House's office of drug policy said they were unfazed by the election results in Arizona, Nevada, Alaska, Washington and Oregon.

[snip]

Pubdate:   Thu, 5 Nov 1998
Source:   San Francisco Examiner (CA)
Copyright:   1998 San Francisco Examiner
Contact:  
Website:   http://www.examiner.com/
Author:   Ulysses Torassa
URL:   http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n1004.a10.html


D.C.  WON'T GIVE RESULTS OF MARIJUANA REFERENDUM

Congress Barred Release Of Votes On Measure To Allow Medicinal Use

WASHINGTON - After casting their ballots on whether to legalize the use of marijuana for medical treatment, district residents tuned to the local news on election night to find out the results.  That's when they saw the tally: Zero "yes" votes.  Zero "no" votes.

Zero votes, period.

How could this be, when thousands remembered voting on Initiative 59 that very morning?

It turns out that Congress, which controls the inner workings of district affairs, squelched the release of the results after one of its most conservative members did not like the smell of the medical marijuana measure.

[snip]

Source:   The Baltimore Sun
Copyright:   1998 by The Baltimore Sun, a Times Mirror Newspaper.
Contact:  
Website:   http://www.sunspot.net/
Pubdate:   Thu, 5 Nov 1998
Author:   Ellen Gamerman, Sun National Staff
URL:   http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n1009.a03.html


WHAT'S CONGRESS SMOKING?

Inside a computer, inside the Board of Elections and Ethics at One Judiciary Square downtown, "lies the answer," Alice P.  Miller said yesterday.

The question is whether it should be legal to use marijuana for medical reasons.  It was on the ballot Tuesday in the District, just as it was on the ballot in Arizona, Nevada and Washington state.

[snip]

Miller, the election board's executive director, might be dismembered or dispatched to a concentration camp if she asked.  Okay, not quite. But Miller hasn't asked because it might not be politically healthy for District officials and other living things to know the outcome of the city's Initiative 59.  There's Bob Barr, after all.

[snip]

Pubdate:   November 5, 1998
Source:   Washington Post (DC)
Section:   B - Page 01
Feedback:   http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/edit/letters/letterform.htm
Website:   http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Copyright:   1998 The Washington Post Company
Author:   Steve Twomey
URL:   http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n1009.a05.html


NEARLY NO RESEARCH DONE ON POT

Despite ongoing controversy over marijuana's medical efficacy, almost no research is being done on the topic.

Some proponents of medical marijuana say sufficient research was performed in the 1970s and '80s, when the federal government provided marijuana for studies done mostly by states.

Many of those studies were suspended in 1991 when the National Institutes of Health concluded there wasn't enough proof that marijuana would be better than a synthetic version of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the drug's major chemical component.

Proponents said the studies were going to prove the opposite, but the government stopped supplying the marijuana.

[snip]

Pubdate:   Sun, 08 Nov 1998
Source:   Associated Press
Copyright:   1998 Associated Press.
Author:   Michelle Boorstein
URL:   http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n1019.a08.html

AUTHORITIES CONSIDER MEDICAL USE OF MARIJUANA

WASHINGTON - Responding to a request from a federal judge, the Justice Department is considering whether to permit government-supervised use of marijuana as a treatment for certain sick people.

If Justice agrees to settle a lawsuit as proposed by a district judge in Philadelphia, government-approved marijuana could be available to thousands of AIDS and cancer sufferers and other patients.  In return, the 160 plaintiffs in the case would drop their lawsuit.

[snip]

Pubdate:   Tue, 3 Nov 1998
Source:   USA Today (US)
Contact:  
Mail:   USA Today.  Letters to the Editor,
1000 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22229
FAX: 703-247-3108
Website:   http://www.usatoday.com/news/nfront.htm
Author:   Richard Willing
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n992.a03.html


Drug Policy-


COMMENT:    (Top)

Gore Vidal's long, elegantly vitriolic rant against American repression has beautifully tied our drug policy to our government's other troubling assaults on freedom.  The article has been broken into four parts for convenience only; it's a must-read for everyone with a serious interest in drug policy.

The Iowa case is typical of the creeping erosion of personal liberty Vidal complains of; a series of such cases has been used to increase police search authority based ultimately on nothing more than unsubstantiated suspicion.  One can already sense how this court will rule.

The next article highlights drug reform's other "wedge issue" which probably has significant voter appeal.  In terms of public health urgency, needle exchange is much more significant than medical marijuana; the decline in AIDS deaths in the US is due to more effective treatment and is misleading; the real news is that the overall HIV infection rate is still increasing.

Michael Massing, author of "The Fix," a book on drug policy, has also written a long review of influential ex-NYPD Commissioner William Bratton's 'Turnaround," in which Bratton claims credit for the widely publicized decline in NYC's crime rate.  With extravagant claims made on behalf of many different approaches to crime and drugs, there is a real need for us to keep abreast of these issues.  Both Massing's review and Bratton's book deserve to be read.

The CIA-Contra connection, which was dismissed back in the Eighties when raised by Senator Kerrey, and once again in the mid-nineties, when raised by Gary Webb in the San Jose Mercury News, is back under discussion; this time it's an article from a British newspaper.

On the lighter side, a felon who just happens to be a policeman, was awarded disability for the gambling "addiction" which led him to burglarize houses on his beat.  Somehow we don't think the decision would have been the same if the addiction in question were to heroin.

Finally, an article from Oregon describes one of the dirty tricks used by police to increase their arrest totals (and forfeiture revenue).


THE WAR AT HOME

The U.S.  Bill Of Rights Is Being Steadily Eroded, With Two Million Telephone Calls Tapped, 30 Million Workers Under Electronic Surveillance, And, Says The Author, Countless Americans Harassed By A Government That Wages Spurious Wars Against Drugs And Terrorism.

[snip]

Drugs.  If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.

[snip]

Pubdate:   November 1998
Source:   Vanity Fair
Page:   96
Copyright:   1998 The Conde Nast Publications Inc.
Contact:  
Website:   http://www.vanityfair.com
Author:   Gore Vidal
URL:   http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n991.a01.html
URL:   http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n990.a08.html
URL:   http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n991.a02.html
URL:   http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n991.a03.html


IOWA RULE LETTING POLICE SEARCH CARS LEADS TO US SUPREME COURT

Des Moines, Iowa Patrick Knowles knew he was speeding that day. Frustrated that his old car was sputtering, he had stomped on the gas pedal to keep the engine from dying.

When a policeman drove by and quickly turned around, Knowles knew he probably would be pulled over and given a speeding ticket.  He did not expect the officer to tell him he needed to search his car.

[snip]

Tuesday, the U.S.  Supreme Court will hear Knowles' argument that the search violated the U.S.  Constitution's protection against unreasonable searches and that the marijuana should not be used as evidence.

[snip]

Source:   Associated Press
Copyright:   1998 Associated Press.
Pubdate:   2 Nov 98
Author:   Mary Neubauer-The Associated Press
URL:   http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n988.a03.html


A CALL TO ACTION ISSUED ON AIDS AMONG ALAMEDA COUNTY BLACKS

Alameda County became the first in the nation Thursday to declare a medical state of emergency over an epidemic of AIDS among African-Americans, who accounted for half of all AIDS cases countywide last year.

The board of supervisors voted unanimously to sound the alarm after hearing a report that the deadly disease strikes African-Americans in the county at a rate five times higher than whites.

[snip]

Pubdate:   6 Nov 1998
Source:   San Jose Mercury News (CA)
Contact:  
Website:   http://www.sjmercury.com/
Copyright:   1998 Mercury Center
Author:   Renee Koury, Mercury News Staff Writer
URL:   http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n1019.a08.html


NY REVIEW OF BOOKS NOVEMBER 19, 1998

A Review Of:

Turnaround:   How America's Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic by
William Bratton and Peter Knobler 329 pages, $25.00 (hardcover) published by Random House

Getting Away With Murder: How Politics Is Destroying the Criminal Justice System by Susan Estrich 161 pages, $19.95 (hardcover) published by Harvard University Press

Politics, Punishment, and Populism by Lord Windlesham 278 pages, $35.00 (hardcover) published by Oxford University Press

The continuing decline in the nation's crime rate-in 1997, it fell for the sixth consecutive year-has helped to draw attention to a small group of police chiefs and crime experts who are widely believed to have brought it about.  They include William Bratton, New York's former police commissioner; Jack Maple, who served as Bratton's deputy and who is now advising the New Orleans police department; the political scientist James Q.  Wilson; George L. Kelling, coauthor of the recent book Fixing Broken Windows,[1] and Herman Goldstein, a professor at the University of Wisconsin and the author of Problem-Oriented Policing.

Pubdate:   Thu, 19 Nov 1998
Source:   New York Review of Books
Section:   p32-36
Copyright:   New York Review of Books, 1998
Contact:  
Website:   http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/
Author:   Michael Massing
URL:   http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n1018.a03.html


CIA TURNED A DELIBERATE BLIND EYE TO CONTRAS' DRUG SMUGGLING

The Central Intelligence Agency deliberately ignored evidence of drug smuggling by its Contra allies in the Eighties, the agency has admitted.

The revelations are contained in an internal report by former CIA Inspector-General Frederick Hitz which investigated widespread allegations that the CIA co-operated with cocaine traffickers.

[snip]

Pubdate:   Sat, 07 Nov 1998
Source:   Independent, The (UK)
Mail:   1 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5DL England
Contact:  
Website:   http://www.independent.co.uk/
Copyright:   Independent Newspapers (UK) Ltd.
Author:   Andrew Marshall in Washington
URL:   http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n1013.a06.html


ACCUSED EX-COP GETS DISABILITY

Gambling habit leads to pension; may have led to on-duty thefts

A city retirement board Thursday granted a disability pension of about $27,000 a year to former San Jose police officer Johnny Venzon Jr., charged with stealing from people on his beat.  His disability: the uncontrollable gambling authorities believe led to his alleged string of on-duty burglaries.

[snip]

Pubdate:   6 Nov 1998
Source:   San Jose Mercury News (CA)
Contact:  
Website:   http://www.sjmercury.com/
Copyright:   1998 Mercury Center
Author:   Bill Romano, Staff Writer
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n1012.a01.html


NEWSBUZZ - BUGGING PLANTS

Local defense lawyers are up in arms after discovering that the Portland Police have been secretly tracing phone calls-perhaps for years-to get leads on suspected marijuana growers.

Defense lawyers, led locally by Pat Birmingham, discovered earlier this year that the Portland Police installed a device called a trap on the phone line of American Agriculture.  The store, located on Southeast Stark Street, sells high-tech indoor growing equipment, and police suspect it's a favorite outlet for marijuana growing supplies.

A phone trap records the phone numbers of all incoming calls.

[snip]

Pubdate:   Sun, 8 Nov 1998
Source:   Willamette Week (OR)
Contact:  
Website:   http://www.wweek.com/
Author:   Maureen O'Hagan
URL:   http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n1016.a06.html


International News


COMMENT:    (Top)

Last week we scooped the English-language media with our story of Droleg, the Swiss national referendum on drug legalization.  A current check of Drug News reveals that the story is still our private scoop- no other reports in English.  The translation of a more recent article confirms that the referendum will take place on Nov.  29. Polling to check the pulse of the electorate is relatively unknown in Switzerland, so apparently no one has a clue how this will turn out.

Remember the ill-fated Operation Casablanca, a much-ballyhooed DEA sting which led the Mexicans to threaten US agents with prosecution for violating their sovereignty? It turns out that some Venezuelans were also less than pleased and have made similar threats.

The reports from Canada and Scotland are eerily similar; violent drug gangs of exotic strangers battling for turf; they combine classic drug-scare journalism with an acknowledgement that profitable criminal markets are powerful lures to immigration.

Finally, another monotonous report from Colombia: the guerrillas strike again.  Just think of what morale must be among government conscripts sent to remote bases in the interior.

DECRIMINALISATION OF DRUGS: THE DEBATE CONTINUES WITH DIVERGENT
SCENARIOS.

REFORMS.  The voting on the Droleg initiative that will take place end of November will be decisive for current reforms.  With the publication of several competing proposals on the topic, discussions won't be easy.

After a long period of calm, the approach of the vote on the Droleg initiative at the end of November has reopened the political debate on prohibited drugs.  The "Sonntags-Zeitung" (a Zurich newspaper) fired the first salvo Sunday in exposing a report of the Parliamentary working group, "Politique de la Drogue" (Politics of Illegal Drugs), on proposed modifications to the federal law on narcotics (LFS).  In this report, the four governmental parties consider the possibility of testing the decriminalization of drug use solely in certain cities, similarly to the model of experimental prescription of heroin.

[snip]

Translation:   Peter Webster
Source:   Le Temps (Switzerland)
Pubdate:   22 September 1998
Contact:  
Website:   http://www.letemps.ch/
Author:   Sylvie Arsever
URL:   (article): http://www.letemps.ch/archive/1998/09/22/suisse_3.htm
URL:   http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n991.a05.html

CARACAS, VENEZUELA - Venezuela plans to prosecute U.S.  undercover agents who took part in a drug money laundering sting operation that led to the indictment of five Venezuelans, the country's ambassador to the U.S.  said in an interview published Sunday.

Operation Casablanca, which resulted in the arrest of more than 100 suspects from several Latin American countries in May, violated Venezuelan sovereignty, Ambassador Pedro Luis Echeverria told the newspaper El Nacional.

[snip]

Pubdate:   Mon, 2 Nov 1998
Source:   Chicago Tribune (IL)
Section:   Sec.  1
Copyright:   1998 Chicago Tribune Company
Contact:  
Website:   http://www.chicagotribune.com/
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n990.a04.html


PROVINCE'S CHAPTERS OF THE HELLS ANGELS ARE AMONG THE MOST MURDEROUS IN
THE WORLD.

Montreal - As the body count continues to rise in Quebec's vicious biker war, one of its generals-a Hells Angel honcho known as "mom"-went to trial this week amid some of the heaviest security ever seen in a Canadian courtroom.

"Mom" is the nickname of Maurice Boucher, the bespectacled and oddly preppie-looking overlord of "les Hills," as riders of the outlaw gang are known to Quebecers.  He is accused in the killings of two Quebec prison guards - hits apparently ordered to teach a lesson after corrections officials showed disrespect for Angels in custody.

[snip]

Pubdate:   Nov.  7, 1998
Source:   Orange County Register (CA)
Contact:  
Website:   http://www.ocregister.com/
Copyright:   1998 The Orange County Register
Author:   Colin Nickerson
URL:   http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n1019.a03.html


SCOTLAND:   YARDIES LINKED TO UKP10M TRADE IN SCOTLAND'S HEROIN
CAPITAL

A NETWORK of drug dealers, with direct links to the notorious Yardie gangs of Jamaican criminals operating in the English Midlands, has moved into Fraserburgh, the new heroin capital of Scotland.

Afro-Caribbean drug barons, supplying heroin and crack cocaine, are targeting that Banff and Buchan area to secure a lucrative base for their operations in the north-east, where the market is estimated to be worth UKP10 million a week.

[snip]

Pubdate:   Sat, 7 Nov 1998
Source:   Scotsman (UK)
Contact:  
Website:   http://www.scotsman.com/
Copyright:   The Scotsman Publications Ltd
Author:   FRANK URQUHART
URL:   http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n1020.a07.html


GUERRILLAS ATTACK POLICE GARRISON IN STATE CAPITAL

BOGOTA, Colombia - Fighting raged all day Sunday in a remote southeastern town after about 800 leftist rebels attacked a police base, killing at least four police officers, wounding nine and cutting off communications.

The guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, rained homemade missiles on the police garrison in Mitu, capital of Vaupes state, where 120 officers were stationed, Gen.  Rosso Jose Serrano told a news conference.

Serrano said the last radio contact with the garrision was at 2 p.m., eight hours after the attack began.  Such missiles, fired from modified propane gas cylinders, were used in an Aug.  3 assault that leveled a police anti-narcotics base in the same region.

[snip]

Pubdate:   Mon, 2 Nov 1998
Source:   Associated Press
Copyright:   1998 Associated Press
Author:   Frank Bajak Associated Press
URL:   http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n992.a05.html


HOT OFF THE 'NET    (Top)

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The Cronkite Report, "The Drug Dilemma: War or Peace?" with Walter Cronkite, 48 minutes, 1995.  Veteran TV anchorman and journalist, Walter Cronkite examines the dilemma and abject failure of the War on Drugs.

He interviews mothers in prison with outrageously long, Draconian sentences for trivial drug offenses, and poignantly shows the innocent victims of this misguided civil war.  Cronkite compares the drug war with the Vietnam War and tells us it's time to declare peace and save lives.

http://www.crrh.org/hemptv/news_cronkite95.html

Investigative Reports, "The War on Drugs: R.I.P." with Bill Curtis, 48 minutes, 1995.  This show documents many of the horrors of the drug war, and advocates that it should "Rest In Peace." It ends with conservative economist Milton Freeman saying we should stop the war and regulate the illegal drug market.

http://www.crrh.org/hemptv/docs_IR-wod-rip.html


QUOTE OF THE WEEK    (Top)

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein


SPECIAL NOTICE    (Top)
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