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Feature Article Eulogy for Jim Rosenfield by Tim Perkins, Chris Conrad, and Tom O'Connell | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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We at DrugSense would like to wish the very best holiday season to all the dedicated and hard working supporters of the reform movement and the happiest and most productive imaginable of new years. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Unfortunately one of our hard working supporters has passed on and we will have to continue the fight without him. Jim Rosenfield passed away last Friday. Below are just three of the scores of eulogies we have received. Jim's hard work on behalf of reform will be missed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Passing Of A Warrior, Jim Rosenfield | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Activist, friend and computer wiz kid, Jim Rosenfield, passed away Friday, December 17th., of a heart attack. His wife, Victoria says that he died happy; he was doing the thing he loved most, ballroom dancing. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Jim was an relentless media hound; involved with, and founding many
political organizations and media watch groups including, Media
Awareness Project (MAP), She Who Remembers, Cannabis Freedom Fund
(PAC), ACLU, DRCNet, NORML, November Coalition, American Medical
Marijuana Association (AMMA) and others. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
He Will Be Deeply Missed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Jim leaves behind his wife Victoria; two young children, Ariel and
Richard; and his best buddy, "Stash" the dog. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Tim Perkins | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jim Rosenfield was a force for change. As a committed activist, Jim set about each project with a logical mind and dogged determination. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
He enjoyed verbal sparring matches with his colleagues, and was not always a diplomat when he chose words. But Jim was a visionary who understood the importance of the Internet as a tool for social reform long before most of us. I remember how he chided me into getting my first email account in 1994, then helped me get over one hurdle after another until I was communicating on-line. He encouraged me to develop the original Human Rights and the Drug War website in 1997, he helped me with the HTML code, tweaking those little irregularities I still don't have the hang of, and he helped me upload the site. He made sure it was done right. And I always knew that if I got stuck, I could call Jim and he'd plug along with me until we had it worked out. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
That is just one reason why I'll miss Jim. His efforts to bring people
to work together, his passionate care for the prisoners of the Drug
War, his outrage at DARE's lies, his determination to force the program
out of schools, and his readiness to lend a hand: these are a few more.
Each of us has our own personal reason for offering our respects here
today, because that's what Jim was: an authentic person who cared about
others. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
I feel honored to have worked with a person the caliber of Jim
Rosenfield. I am still in shock at his sudden passage, but recognize
that our greatest tribute to Jim is not to stop and mourn his passage.
It is our privilege to pick up the banners he carried and move forward
under them. And so I ask you all to join me now in making a commitment
to building a fitting memorial for Jim Rosenfield: a lasting and
honorable Drug Peace. Thank you. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
-- Chris Conrad | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jim's death was a real shock to me; he was one of the people who inspired me to become active on the Internet on behalf of drug policy reform; sadly, I met him only once- at the 1995 Santa Monica meeting of DPF. A rump meeting of electronic activists at which Jim played a major role radicalized me in terms of wanting to do something constructive for drug policy reform. Although I was never to see Jim again, I was constantly in his presence electronically and sometimes on the phone- debating with him, applauding him and occasionally disagreeing with him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
To say that he had enormous energy and dedication is gross
understatement; in addition to his own website, he was a major presence
in terms of covering the LA media and he was constantly goading all of
us to do that little bit extra. He will be greatly missed, and will
never be completely replaced. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
My heart goes out to his family in this tragic hour. Jim will always be
remembered by all of us who were inspired by him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Tom O'Connell | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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WEEKLY NEWS IN REVIEW (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Domestic News- Policy COMMENT: (1-3) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The most significant policy news last week was release of the annual
"Monitoring the Future" survey, which for better or for worse, is now
the accepted scorecard on how the drug war is doing in the
all-important youth department. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The best way to understand the various interpretations: artful and
increasingly desperate attempts to put a good face on failure. McCzar
easily takes the prize for inventiveness. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(1) STUDY: LOCAL DRUG 'EPIDEMICS' PLAGUE U.S. (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The nation's drug problem is increasingly evolving into a collection of local "epidemics," according to a report issued yesterday by the Clinton Administration's Office of National Drug Control Policy. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The report noted, for example, that marijuana has become the no. 1 cash crop in poor areas of Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia, and that there has been a dramatic increase in the production and use of methamphetamines, or speed, in parts of Missouri, Kansas and Iowa. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"We do not just have a national drug problem; what we really have is a
series of local drug epidemics," McCaffrey said. "it is not just
cocaine out of Colombia." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
McCaffrey made the remarks after a two-day conference on "High
Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas," 31 regions around the country with
drug difficulties that law enforcement officials are targeting. the
$190 million program is aimed at local problems that are growing even
as the nation's overall rate of drug abuse has been cut in half since
1979 to about 6.8 percent, officials said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(2) STUDENTS' USE OF CLUB DRUG ECSTASY UP 55% (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
WASHINGTON - The use of the illegal "club drug" Ecstasy rose this year
by roughly 55% among high school sophomores and seniors, surging
particularly in the Northeast and in other urban areas where teens
appear to be using the drug to fuel all-night partying. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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The growth of Ecstasy use among high school students - a trend that has
been tracked only since 1996 - comes after the synthetic amphetamine
with hallucinogenic qualities made a strong early appearance and then
dropped off for two years in a row (in 1997 and 1998). In 1999,
however, its popularity appeared to be on the rebound, with 5.6% of
high school seniors and 4.4% of sophomores saying they had taken the
drug in the past year. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(3) TEEN DRUG USE LEVELS OFF BUT 'CLUB DRUGS' RESURGE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
User preferences turn from crack to ecstasy | ||||||||||||||||||||||
WASHINGTON -- An annual study shows that illicit drug use among the
nation's teens is leveling off, health officials said yesterday, though
use of steroids and the drug "ecstasy" is climbing. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"Today's report confirms that we have halted the dangerous trend of
increased drug use among our young people," said Donna Shalala,
secretary of Health and Human Services. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (4) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The headline is meant to describe local Washington State conditions,
but even a cursory reading of the article reveals the truth:
proliferating "High Intensity" areas are part of a trend; 31 today- 61
tomorrow? | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Claims success sound hollow in the face of solid evidence that illegal
drug markets are exploding. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(4) DRUG TRAFFIC IS RISING, REPORT SAYS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Washington state faces many 'challenges' | ||||||||||||||||||||||
From Mexican black tar heroin coming up Interstate 5 to potent "B.C.
buds" crossing the Canadian border and "Nazi" meth labs in Pierce and
other counties, a report released yesterday by the White House drug
office describes a complicated and growing threat from drugs in
Washington state. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"I wouldn't say we are winning," said Dave Rodriguez, who heads the
federal High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program in the state. "But
we are much better organized, we're doing multi-jurisdictional task
forces and have better communication. That's progress." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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The program has become one of the foundations of the White House's war
on drugs. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"This report gives you some insight into the perils they (law
enforcement) are facing," Barry McCaffrey, the White House drug czar,
said at a news conference. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
While five years ago the emphasis was on cocaine and crack, McCaffrey
said, the drug trade has changed with heroin, meth and such designer
drugs as Ecstasy now having top priority. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (5-6) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Against this backdrop of lunatic explanations for exploding drug
markets, there is a modicum of hope: Tom Campbell's candidacy may make
drug policy an issue in Campaign 2000; also the trend toward universal
drug testing by large employers may be cooling. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(5) OUR DRUG POLICIES ARE BROKEN (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The line between courage and stupidity can be a fine one. Tom Campbell
is walking that line, hoping his U.S. Senate candidacy won't fall victim
to his candor. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Last week in newspaper interviews, the Republican congressman from
California proposed an experiment: fighting street crime by giving
addicts the drugs they crave in a government clinic. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Our current policy isn't working, he says. If it's broken, why not try
to fix it? | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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But the conventional wisdom says that politicians can't talk about
drugs unless they foam at the mouth. It's supposed to be political
suicide to say that our drug policies are broken, if the fix doesn't
involve throwing more people in jail. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Is that really true? We'll see as the Senate race continues. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(6) TIGHT LABOR MARKET SHAKES UP WORKPLACE DRUG TESTING (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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That little plastic cup with the temperature gauge on the side has
become a comforting talisman for employers anxious to drive away drug
use. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
For job seekers, the drug test is as commonplace a ritual as selecting the perfect interview outfit or spell-checking the resume one more time. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Now the ultra-tight labor market and other pressures are testing the
drug test with distinct results: both less testing and more testing,
depending on where you look. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Law Enforcement & Prisons | ||||||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (7-9) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
In another week in which failure after failure dogged our punitive
approach to drugs, there was evidence that some of the failures are
being at least partially recognized for what they are. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The Houston Chronicle also approved McCzar's shift from prisons to
"treatment" without- however- any recognition that "Public Health"
directed by law enforcement is an obscenity. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The dimensions of the LA police scandal continued to grow; it is now
clearly beyond any possibility of rational correction. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Another police killing, this time in Texas, was unusual in that the
victim was "anglo;" typically, it was a marijuana warrant served by a
seventeen man SWAT team. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(7) EDITORIAL: ANOTHER WAY -- CAN'T BUILD ENOUGH JAILS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Can't Build Enough Jails, So Give Drug Treatment A Chance | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Whether methods employed by American law enforcement officials and the
criminal justice system -- zero tolerance and harsh mandatory prison
sentences -- are the most effective and appropriate ways of dealing
with this country's massive drug crime problems is food for serious
debate. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
At least two components of the issue, however, are entirely clear --
the drug problem has exploded the nation's prison population, and there
will never be enough jail space to hold the seemingly unlimited supply
of drug-related criminals, many of whom are addicts. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Now, Gen. Barry McCaffrey, the country's drug policy director, has proposed incorporating drug testing and treatment into the criminal justice process, from arrest to release from prison. That makes sense. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(8) RAMPART PROBE MAY NOW AFFECT OVER 3,000 CASES (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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More than 3,000 questionable cases will have to be scrutinized as a
result of the Rampart police scandal, vastly more than previously
reported, and both Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Gil Garcetti and
Public Defender Michael Judge now say the massive review means they
will need additional resources to handle the task. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(9) NORTH RICHLAND HILLS POLICE FATALLY SHOOT SUSPECT (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS -- A police tactical team member fatally shot the
son of a true-crime writer yesterday after he pointed a gun at officers
who burst into his home, police said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Troy James Davis, 25, was shot twice in the chest at his house in the
8200 block of Ulster Drive. Police had gone there to serve a
search-and- arrest warrant in connection with an informant's tip that
there were drugs in the house. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (10) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
A ray of sanity: a column in the Baltimore Sun, a newspaper that had just exposed a major juvenile justice scandal, took an intelligent tack on the significance of a grisly "drug-related" mass slaying. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(10) COLUMN: SHAME, GUILT SHOULD FOLLOW ANGER OVER 6 KILLINGS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Anger Over Mass Killings Should Be Followed By Guilt | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Mass Killings Should Induce Guilt | ||||||||||||||||||||||
WHERE'S THE anger? That's the question callers and letter-writers to
The Sun have posed in the 13 days since five women were executed in
East Baltimore's Belair-Edison community, allegedly by members of an
O'Donnell Heights drug gang. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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But there are at least two other emotions Baltimoreans should feel in
light of the horror of Dec. 5. Shame and guilt come most immediately to
mind. We should all feel ashamed and guilty. We all know that the
overwhelming majority of crimes are linked to drugs. Thus, our
self-righteous anger aside, the six killings should hardly come as a
surprise to us. But we should feel ashamed and guilty that, with all
the data linking crime to drugs available to us, we haven't taken
seriously the calls of some to decriminalize drugs and treat the
problem as the public health crisis it is. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cannabis | ||||||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (11-14) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
A cluster of articles revealed just how the issue of medical cannabis
has exposed the maddeningly irrational and obdurate thinking of law
enforcement and politicians on cannabis prohibition. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationally, campaign realities persuaded Al Gore to take a reasonable
position in answer to direct questions; later, both he and the White
House tried to distance themselves from that answer. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
In California, three years after medical cannabis was overwhelmingly
approved, a bona fide patient was finally acquitted by a jury; the
arresting authority still plans no change in policy. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(11) GORE SUPPORTS 'FLEXIBILITY' ON MEDICAL MARIJUANA (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
DERRY, N.H., Dec. 14 - Vice President Gore said tonight that the government should give doctors greater flexibility to prescribe marijuana to relieve medical suffering as he broke once again with Clinton administration policy on a contentious social issue. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Campaigning in advance of the New Hampshire primary in February, Gore told a town hall audience here of his late sister's struggle with cancer in the mid-1980s and said suffering patients and their doctors "ought to have the option" of using marijuana to alleviate the pain. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(12) WHITE HOUSE PAPERS OVER GAP WITH GORE ON MARIJUANA (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday sought to paper
over differences it has with Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites)
over the medical use of marijuana, a day after Gore endorsed the
concept at a candidate forum in New Hampshire. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
``I don't think his statements last night really put him at odds in a
fundamental way with what the administration's position is,'' White
House spokesman Joe Lockhart told reporters. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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``Smoked marijuana will never be medicine,'' the head of the White
House anti-drug effort, Barry McCaffrey, said on Wednesday in response
to a reporter's question about Gore's statement, | ||||||||||||||||||||||
However, he said, research was continuing into the possible medical
benefits of components of marijuana. ``This deserves to be a scientific
medical issue, not a political issue,'' he said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(13) DEFENDANT WINS POT CASE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Man accuses police of ignoring state's medicinal marijuana law | ||||||||||||||||||||||
In what could be a landmark medical marijuana case, a jury on Wednesday acquitted a 49-year-old Redding man charged with growing pot for sale. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(14) VERDICT WON'T CHANGE POLICY (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Shasta County law enforcement officials said Thursday that they won't
change their stance on marijuana use. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"We take direction from the district attorney on how we enforce it (marijuana use)," Blankenship said. "If you're in possession of less than an ounce, we cite and release. If it's a felony, we book you. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"Our scope, the enforcement end, is limited." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Ed Pecis, commander of the Shasta Interagency Narcotics Task Force,
echoed that sentiment, say his agents would continue their enforcement
as they have been. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (15) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dave Herrick ( a patient himself) was the first distributor of medical
cannabis in California to be arrested, tried and convicted of felony
marijuana sales. His conviction was overturned on appeal, but not
before his entire sentence had been served. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(15) DAVE HERRICK'S STRANGE ODYSSEY THROUGH THE U.S. WAR ON DRUGS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
When the letter arrived, David Lee Herrick was sitting on his bunk during a lockdown at California's Salinas Valley State Prison. He opened it, scanned the first few pages, and decided he couldn't bear the pressure. He passed the letter to his bunkmate. "You've been reversed, man." For a moment, Herrick thought he had either heard wrong or was the victim of a sick practical joke. The letter was from the California Court of Appeals and concerned Herrick's May 1998 conviction on two counts of selling marijuana. Herrick's alleged "customer" was a terminally ill California resident who had a doctor's note allowing him to smoke cannabis under Proposition 215, the medical-marijuana initiative passed into law by state voters in November 1996. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
According to the letter, a few days earlier, on Sept. 3, the appeals
court had unanimously overturned his marijuana conviction, citing
prosecutorial misconduct by a now-retired Orange County deputy district
attorney named Carl Armbrust. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Australia is aflutter over how the decision of some states to allow
safe "injection rooms," has generated a crude threat to the domestic
legal poppy industry, plus UN pressure which is being applied through a
willing Prime Minister. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(16) AUSTRALIA: THREAT TO POPPY BOOM (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
TASMANIA'S $170 million poppy industry would be devastated if heroin
injecting rooms were introduced in the state, the Poppy Advisory and
Control Board said yesterday. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The comments follow the news that Australia would be in breach of UN
obligations if any state set up the shooting galleries. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Prime Minister John Howard has urged states to abort plans after he
received a letter from the UN International Narcotics Control Board
decrying the NSW proposal. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(17) AUSTRALIA: STATES DEFY HOWARD ON DRUG TRIAL (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
JOHN Howard raised the stakes in the injecting-rooms row last night,
saying he had asked for legal advice on how to stop some states
setting them up. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
But his firm stance was matched by the NSW, Victorian and ACT
governments yesterday, which said they would press ahead with plans for
shooting galleries despite the Prime Minister's calls for them to
abandon the schemes. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Shades of forfeiture: Canada's politicians are taking a page from the US copybook, hoping to cut themselves directly into the profits of the illegal markets created by a diabolical drug policy. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(18) CANADA'S NEW "PROCEEDS-OF-CRIME" BILL (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The federal government is about to reintroduce one of its potentially
most dangerous legislative initiatives. Left in its present form, Bill
C-81 will try to turn financial managers into police informants, grant
Customs officers the power to strip travellers of undeclared cash and
create a new bureaucracy to sift through financial records without a
targeted individual's knowledge or consent. All this is supposedly
necessary to combat a scourge called "money laundering" and to help
take away from criminals the proceeds of their crimes. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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This article describes how illegal drug exports- once seen as an
economic boon - are now crippling Colombia's economy. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(19) COLOMBIA'S ECONOMIC SHOCK (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Drug withdrawal: country thrown into recession as cocaine gangs cut off
flood of contraband goods. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bogota, Colombia - for nearly all this decade, Colombia's economy was
on a cocaine high. construction boomed. car sales climbed. real estate
values soared. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The country was awash in imported luxury goods. in Bogota's affluent
north, swanky marble-floored shops sold rolex watches, $200-a-pair
Italian shoes, $90,000 land rovers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Regardless of whether they were involved in the drug trade, most
Colombians benefited indirectly as billions of dollars flooded into the
economy via the cocaine gangs. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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It's not just drug traffickers who are pulling their cash out of
Colombia. upper-class Colombians are also shifting investments abroad
-- a sign of lost confidence in the economy, says Salamon Kalmanovitz,
a director of the country's Central Bank. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Kalmanovitz says his countrymen invested $670 million abroad in the
first eight months of this year, twice as much as in all of 1998 and
three times as much as in 1997. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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HOT OFF THE 'NET (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Jim Rosenfield's Rabbi Opposes Reform | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Prior to his untimely passing, Jim Rosenfield had often requested that
his Rabbi come out in opposition to the drug war. The article below was
the first of a series that Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben has committed to
publish. It was a fitting tribute to Jim that this article was
released on the day of Jim's memorial service. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The 'War On Drugs' And The Death Of Compassion | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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California Drug Policy Initiative now On-line | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The California drug policy initiative was cleared for | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Harm Reduction Site for Dance Drugs | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Emanuel Sferios Reports | ||||||||||||||||||||||
I finally got our media section up on our harm reduction website, with
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This is a very good informational site for providing information
testing services and other information on MDMA and other "dance drugs."
DrugSense is supporting this organization with email lists and related
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DrugSense is proud to announce the addition of the popular and
innovative "Cannabis News" to our family of supported web sites.
Be on the lookout for a (long) list of these web sites in the new
year. Welcome aboard Martha! | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians
called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukka'
and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People
passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or
'Happy Hanukka!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall!'"
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