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FEATURE ARTICLE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
KANE'S WORLD February 2000 by Mari Kane | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Kill the Meth Bill | ||||||||||||||||||||||
America loves the outlaw, especially in glitzy Los Angeles. That's
something I discovered last year over dinner at a Hollywood Bowl
concert with my mother, sister and daughter. We were talking about the
business I'm in- industrial hemp- and mom said she had a dream where
she met a certain movie star hemp celebrity and, in it, he told her
that I was going to go to jail. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
By the time I finished choking on my pasta salad there seemed to be a
lull in the din, and I said, perhaps a little too loudly, "well, I
might just have to go to jail." As soon as the words left my mouth I
was in an EF Hutten commercial with the voice-over saying: "when Mari
Kane talks, people listen." The vibe that a crowd of opera buffs heard
my announcement of guilt was so strong you could have heard a napkin
drop. Sitting there, I got the feeling they were more than a bit
titillated as they wondered if they'd seen me on TV. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
My reason for imparting this amusing memory and the reason I blurted
out that I was headed for jail, is because it now looks, more than
ever, that I am. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
This is because the Federal bill I told my mother and sister about that
evening is still alive. It is S.486, and is called the Defeat of
Methamphetamine Act but will be remembered as the Death of Free Speech
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Sponsored by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), the co-author is none other than
my own Senator, Diane Feinstein (D-CA) from the state where the most
valuable crop is cannabis. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Anyone who was shocked to learn that taxpayer dollars are being used to insert anti-drug themes into Hollywood productions will be mortified to know that producers of pro-drug information are soon to become canaries in a constitutional coal mine. The part that would put me in jail reads: | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"It shall be unlawful for any person to teach or demonstrate the
manufacture of a controlled substance, or to distribute by any means,
information pertaining to, in whole or in part, the manufacture or use
of a controlled substance, with the intent that the teaching,
demonstration, or information be used for, or in furtherance of, an
activity that constitutes a Federal crime." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
I've never been arrested, have always filed my taxes and I vote
regularly. But it just so happens that I have a web site devoted to
industrial hemp, the legal stuff that is connected, both politically
and genetically, to marijuana. I never thought of hemppages.com as a
tool for teaching an activity that constitutes a Federal crime, but it
does contain an excellent article on medical marijuana by Harvard MD
Lester Grinspoon, as well as various stories about Prop 215 and
cannabis-related books for sale. If the Meth bill becomes law, I will
be a criminal for posting all of this information! | ||||||||||||||||||||||
It's a wacky world where one can go to jail not for growing,
trafficking or dealing drugs, but by simply talking about them! Today's
law-abiding activist is tomorrow's political prisoner. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Last year at the Hollywood Bowl I laughed about this bill, incredulous
that it would ever go anywhere. Now, I'm very, very concerned since the
Senate has passed their version of the bill and has sent it off to the
House. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
While the Meth bill is a clear violation of the First Amendment, House
sponsor Chris Cannon is unconcerned about it's constitutionality and is
emboldened by a recent case where Paladin Press settled a suit in which
a reader of their how-to-commit-a-murder guide, "Hit Man," used the
book in a real-life triple murder. The victim's families sued Paladin
in civil court and the publisher settled for $5 million. If S.R. 486 is
passed, the government will use this precedent to defend drug
censorship. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
However, Paladin's book promoted murder- an age-old crime against humanity, where anti-drug war publishers are non-violently passing information on a 70 year-old political quagmire. There is a difference. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The desire for free speech and religion are what drove the Pilgrims to
this continent in the first place and by abandoning these principles to
Drug War hysteria we will propel ourselves back to pre-Enlightenment
Europe. If the drug debate is allowed to be silenced by the law then
any kind of speech can be repressed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The Defeat of Meth bill should be killed immediately and our
representatives need to be reminded that while drug paranoia may come
and go, the Constitution is here to stay. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
As for me, I won't ever shut up - even under lock-down. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Author Mari Kane is the publisher of The International Hemp Journal
(formerly known as HempWorld), and Hemp Pages-The Hemp Industry Source
Book, and is a board member of the Hemp Industries Association and
Californians for Industrial Renewal. She can be contacted at
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WEEKLY NEWS IN REVIEW (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Domestic News- Policy COMMENT: (1-3) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The interlocking and self-reinforcing 'anti-meth" propaganda campaign
ground on with some help from CASA's Joe Califano and the AG. The
thrust is that meth is ravaging the rural poor, much like crack
attacked inner-city ghettos in the Eighties. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The remedy being prepared by a compliant Congress which this
propaganda seems intended to support: more money, more cops, stiffer
penalties, and- in fine print that activists are hip to- but has yet
to make it to media radar screens: potential cancellation of the First
Amendment for all druggies and legalizers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(1) ATTORNEY GENERAL JANET RENO RELEASES METHAMPHETAMINE STUDY; (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Collaboration Among Education, Public Health, Law Enforcement, Public
Safety Agencies Needed to Address Problem | ||||||||||||||||||||||
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 -- Attorney General Janet Reno and General Barry
McCaffrey, Director of the Office of the National Drug Control Policy
(ONDCP), released a report recommending that collaboration among
education, public health, law enforcement and public safety agencies
is critical to addressing the growing methamphetamine problem in the
United States. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"The findings of the Methamphetamine Interagency Task Force will enable us to take the next step toward ridding our communities of the public safety and health problems caused by methamphetamine," stated Attorney General Reno. "By combining prevention and treatment with education and enforcement, we can enable those who are abusing methamphetamine to break the cycle of drugs and crime and become productive citizens." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(2) UPHILL BATTLE AGAINST METH EPIDEMIC - DAY 5A (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Despite increasing resources, authorities say they've been unable to slow production or use of methamphetamine in the Inland area. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The insatiable demand for methamphetamine generates billions of dollars a year nationwide, fueling an industry of clandestine manufacturers undeterred by prison, poor health or the threat of death. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Despite state-of-the-art technology, expertly trained staff and
increasing financial resources, many law-enforcement experts question
whether even their best efforts will allow them to suppress the meth
trade. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"Definitely, there's no light at the end of the tunnel on this," said Lt. Al Hearn, who heads the Riverside County Sheriff's Department's major narcotics unit, which targets large-scale trafficking operations. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(3) TEENAGE DRUG USE HIGHEST IN RURAL AREAS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
WASHINGTON -- Adolescents in small-town and rural America are much more
likely than their peers in urban centers to have used drugs, according
to a private study released yesterday. The report urges the government
to reverse the alarming trend by funding the war on drugs in
non-metropolitan areas as well as it does in foreign countries such as
Colombia. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Eighth-graders in rural America are 104 percent likelier than those in big cities to use amphetamines, including methamphetamines, and 50 percent likelier to use cocaine, according to the study released by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (4-6) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Despite the AG's reassuring promises to "control" meth if given enough money and power, there was (the usual) abundant evidence of drug warrior paranoia and frustration with any sign of heresy. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(4) N.M. GOV. CHASTISED ON DRUG STANCE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- The New Mexico Senate condemned Gov. Gary
Johnson on Wednesday for supporting the legalization of cocaine, heroin
and marijuana. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Senators voted 37 to 4 for the resolution, which was brought to the floor by Johnson's fellow Republicans in the Democrat-controlled Senate. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The House is considering a similar measure. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(5) WHITE HOUSE ACCUSED OF HAMPERING WAR ON DRUGS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
WASHINGTON - A key House subcommittee chairman is accusing the Clinton
administration of sabotaging the war on drugs by sharply reducing the
Pentagon's ability to stop U.S.-bound shipments. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., based his accusation on a report by
congressional investigators that said the number of flight hours
devoted to counterdrug missions declined 68 percent from 1992 through
1999. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(6) LOCKNEY DISTRICT TO TEST STUDENTS, TEACHERS FOR DRUGS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Lockney, Texas - Beginning Tuesday, students from sixth through 12th
grades and all teachers in the Lockney Independent School District will
be tested for drugs. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
All students, not just those in athletics or other extracurricular activities, will be required to take the test, school officials said. Lockney is a town of 2,100 people 43 miles northeast of Lubbock. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Parents have been asked to sign consent forms. If parents refuse the
tests are considered positive, and students will face repercussions the
same as if they had failed the test, officials said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (7-9) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Also as usual, there was enough evidence that our national policy
really is a catastrophic failure to justify the warriors' worst fears
and frustrations. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Now; if they could only be induced to recognize the role of their
policy in creating the problem... | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(7) STRUGGLE WITH A STUBBORN DRUG TRADE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Closing D.C. Open-Air Markets Isn't Easy | ||||||||||||||||||||||
A police cruiser recently rolled up on 57th Place, a troubled patch of
Southeast Washington. Behind the wheel, Anthony Guice, a stern and
strapping public housing police officer, spotted a group of young men
he had come to know as neighborhood drug dealers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 57th Place project illustrates the difficulties - even with the most extraordinary efforts - of eliminating open-air drug markets, one of the most visible symbols of lawlessness in urban America. More than a decade after the city began a concerted effort to eliminate street sales, Washington today has at least 60 open-air markets, each defined as a two-to three-block area where drugs are peddled outdoors. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(8) HEROIN OVERDOSE DEATHS RISE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Factory-direct drug shipments from Mexico are bringing more powerful
and less-expensive loads of heroin into Salt Lake County, resulting in
a sixfold increase in overdose deaths in recent years. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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The number of heroin deaths increased from 20 in 1991 to 130 in 1998,
the latest year for which statistics are available | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(9) WIFE OF ARMY ANTI-DRUG OFFICER PLEADS GUILTY TO DRUG CHARGES (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
NEW YORK - The wife of a former U.S. Army anti-drug officer in
Colombia has pleaded guilty to drug charges in a scheme to smuggle
$700,000 worth of heroin into the United States from her husband's
post. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Laurie Anne Hiett said her husband, Col. James Hiett, the former head of U.S. anti-drug operations in Bogota, never knew of her plan. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Law Enforcement & Prisons | ||||||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (10-13) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Army wives aren't the only ones tempted to stray; substance
prohibition creates myriad chances to corrupt police: as the first-
and only- agents empowered to deal directly with criminal
entrepreneurs, they are tempted both by pay offs and the chance to
enter the drug business for themselves. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
They also have special incentives to lie- both in order to cover for aggressive colleagues and to secure convictions in victimless crimes. The LAPD Rampart scandal, which continued to unfold at a glacial pace under Garcetti's reluctant direction, may ultimately dwarf all others. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(10) COP DRUG-BUY CASH MISSING (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
EVANSVILLE, INDIANA - Thousands of dollars disappeared from the
drug-purchasing fund of the Evansville Police Department while former
Vanderburgh County Sheriff Ray Hamner was chief from 1980-89,
authorities said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The discovery, announced Tuesday, was made in the course of a probe of
the drug-buying money that disappeared from Hamner's office during his
two terms as sheriff from 1991-98. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(11) OFFICER ALLEGEDLY WAS PLANNING TO STEAL MORE DRUGS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
LONG BEACH--A Long Beach police officer accused of stealing six
kilograms of cocaine from an undercover law enforcement agent was
contemplating two other narcotics thefts before his arrest, a federal
prosecutor said Friday. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Officer Julio A. Alcaraz, 36, was taken into custody early Thursday
following a nearly three-year investigation into allegations that he
was stealing narcotics from drug dealers while on patrol in his police
cruiser. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(12) COP'S ALLEGATIONS INVESTIGATED (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Officer said she felt pressured to falsify documents in shooting after
'no-knock' raid | ||||||||||||||||||||||
A special prosecutor is looking into allegations by a well-respected
Denver cop that her superiors pressured her to falsify documents in a
controversial police shooting. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Specifically, the Denver Rocky Mountain News has learned from police sources, the officer felt pressure to make it appear as though there had been earlier reports of trouble at Mena's home when there had not. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The officer filed a complaint against superiors with the department's
Internal Affairs Bureau, the sources said. Then, on Tuesday, she was
transferred from her post in District 2 to a position in the office of
Division Chief Gerry Whitman, who oversees the department's patrol
officers, the sources said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(13) 99 REPORTEDLY FRAMED BY FORMER L.A. COPS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
LOS ANGELES -- Significantly broadening the scope of the Rampart
Division corruption scandal, Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard C. Parks
has disclosed that 99 people are believed to have been framed by
disgraced ex-officer-turned-informant Rafael Perez and his former
partners. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Parks, in his most detailed update on the scandal since it broke in
September, also called upon District Attorney Gil Garcetti to move
forward as quickly as possible to dismiss cases "en masse" instead of
prolonging the investigation and delaying "the obvious." He said at
least three wrongly convicted people remain behind bars. Others have
either served their time, have been paroled or placed on probation,
officials said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cannabis & Hemp- | ||||||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (14) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Anyone tempted to regard ONDCP bureaucrats as either honest or
rational would have to explain their behavior in literally changing a
long-standing policy for indefensible reason. No wonder the Dept. of
Agriculture sees little economic future for industrial hemp. Talk
about self- fulfilling prophecies! | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(14) HEMP TAKES A HIT (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The Feds Just Might Drive This Growing Industry Out Of Its Head. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Five years ago, vocal hemp supporters Kathleen Chippi and David Almquist put their money where their mouths were by opening the Boulder Hemp Company. The pair's activism by way of commerce has since produced a line of cookies, snacks and baking mixes made with hemp flour, which they grind from hemp seeds shipped in from around the globe... | ||||||||||||||||||||||
But Chippi and Almquist's struggle to meet consumer demand has been
nothing compared to their battle with more formidable foes: the U.S.
Customs Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the nation's
"drug czar," retired four-star Army general Barry McCaffrey. This
coalition has deemed that sterilized industrial-hemp seeds -- which
have been legally shipped into the United States for decades -- are a
threat to public safety. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (15-17) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
On the medical cannabis front, the good news is that a bill was
introduced in the Maryland Legislature; the bad news is that a DC
federal judges (predictably) found Renee Emery-Wolfe guilty- although
letting her off with a slap on the wrist. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
In California, William Harrison became the second patient acquitted by a jury on ridiculous "cultivation for sale" charges but the DA still got her pound of flesh: a gun police found could be combined with a pre-215 conviction for cultivation to produce another "felony." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
That's Harrison's second strike; do you see how California's system
works to protect the innocent? | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(15) MEDICAL POT BILL INTRODUCED (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Three Frederick County state lawmakers are co-sponsoring a bill to
legalize marijuana for medical uses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Delegate David Brinkley, R-Frederick, Delegate Louise Snodgrass,
R-Frederick/Washington, and Delegate Sue Hecht, D-Frederick/Washington,
are backing the bill to allow people suffering from certain medical
conditions to use marijuana. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(16) WOMAN CONVICTED AFTER USING MARIJUANA IN CONGRESSMAN'S OFFICE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
A woman with multiple sclerosis has been convicted of drug possession
for lighting a marijuana cigarette in a congressman's office when she
felt the onset of an attack related to her illness. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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She could have sentenced the mother of four to six months in jail and
fined her $ 1,000, but instead ordered Wolfe to perform 50 hours of
community service and pay court costs of $50. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(17) JURY ACQUITS MEDICAL MARIJUANA GROWER (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
A Calaveras County jury on Friday acquitted an Angels Camp man of felony cannabis cultivation charges and charges of possession for sale. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
However, the jury found William Harrison, a local sculptor, guilty of
being a felon in possession of a firearm. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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International News | ||||||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (18-19) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
An interesting item from Britain confirms that their drug tsar doesn't think any more clearly than ours- no matter how his title is spelled. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Still in Britain, Mary Ann Sieghart's opinion that there's a
disconnect between the public and politicians on cannabis prohibition
is no doubt true; she may not be giving enough weight to the deterrent
effect implacable US opposition can exert on the Blair (or any other)
Government. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(18) ANTI-DRUGS CHIEF WANTED TO BUY ALL TALIBAN'S OPIUM (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
A plan to buy up and destroy all the heroin produced by Afghanistan to
stop it reaching Britain was floated by Keith Hellawell, the
Government's drugs tsar. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Details of the plan were disclosed to The Telegraph as Mr Hellawell
faced what he said was a new whispering campaign on the day he was
called before three departmental ministers over their concern that
Whitehall's drug policy was ill-coordinated. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(19) A NEW POLITICAL GENERATION IS ENDING THE CANNABIS TABOO (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
You're Only As Old As Your Reefer | ||||||||||||||||||||||
What I like about Labour's attitude to drugs is that they say one thing
and do another. They say they are acting tough, when in fact they are
focusing more on treatment than punishment... | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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You can see these people not so much inching as millimetring their way
towards a more sensible policy. Dr Mowlam thinks cannabis should be
allowed for the terminally ill - only they, it seems, will not be
gripped by reefer madness. The Liberal Democrats think they are brave
in calling for a royal commission, though many of them privately would
be happy to legalise. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
What they all want is the cover of respectability. And that is
arriving. The Police Foundation report on cannabis is imminent, and
likely to call for a softening in the law... | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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It is demographics that will soon make such a policy politically
palatable. A senior Liberal Democrat told me last week that drug
legalisation, along with housing, was the main subject broached by his
young constituents. As the 1960s generation takes power, in Westminster
and elsewhere, the taboo will dissolve. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (20-21) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Mexico, confident after being told by Albright not to sweat
certification, held a news conference stressing how much dope and
property they've seized lately; doesn't that make you want to pop down
for a mid-winter vacation? | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Further South, the US contribution to Colombia's military build-up was
fleshed out by Eric Lichtblau of the LA Times. I've appended the URL
for an analysis which should be read in tandem: "Latin American
Lebanon," by Canadian journalist Eric Margolis. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(20) MEXICO TRUMPETS DRUG-FIGHTING SUCCESS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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MEXICO CITY - Mexican police and soldiers over the last six years have destroyed more than 800 square miles of marijuana and poppy crops - an expanse bigger than Orange County, officials said Wednesday. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
In one of their most comprehensive reports on counternarcotics, Mexican
officials said they have seized 6,224 tons of illicit drugs since
December 1994, most of it marijuana. They've arrested tens of thousands
of suspects. And they've confiscated scores of homes, automobiles,
boats and planes. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(21) COLOMBIAN JUNGLE BASE IS FOCUS OF U.S. ANTI-DRUG AID (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
TRES ESQUINAS, Colombia--This base in the lush South American jungle is ground zero for President Clinton's emergency proposal to help fund a massive expansion of Colombia's anti-narcotics operation. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Billed as a way to reduce the drug production of a country that supplies 80% of the world's cocaine, the aid package could turn out to be merely "a smoke screen" for fueling Colombia's 40-year battle against leftist guerrillas, said Winifred Tate, a Colombia specialist at the Washington Office on Latin America, a nonprofit research group. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"This isn't good drug policy, and it isn't good human rights policy. I think this is going to make everything much worse," she said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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UK Medicinal Cannabis Project Launches Website | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The Project is a group of organisations and individuals committed to
the development of non-smoked prescription cannabis-based medicines for
treating a wide variety of conditions with a view to making these
medicines available to patients as soon as possible. All research and
development being carried out as part of the Project is performed under
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