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FEATURE ARTICLE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Supreme Court Kowtows to Clinton Administration Appeal | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Update Note: In this breaking news story the Supreme Court has in fact granted the emergency stay. See: US HIGH COURT BARS MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISTRIBUTION http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1266/a08.html | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(MarijuanaNews note: The 9th Circuit declined to grant an emergency stay of its own ruling on the right to medical marijuana, so the "Justice" Department is now seeking an emergency stay from the Supreme Court. They are asking Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who is from Arizona and handles such matters for the 9th Circuit, to delay the application of the Breyer ruling until after the Supreme Court has decided the case. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
It could take up to two years for the Court to rule, so such a stay would leave patients without a federal right to medical marijuana in the interim. It would have no effect on the state initiatives. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
If O'Connor grants the stay, the OCBC would then appeal to the rest of the Court for two Justices to override the emergency stay. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Most requests for stays are denied, but this one is being sought by the
Solicitor General himself. [This is a civil case, and as such is
handled by the SG rather than by the Attorney General.] His direct
involvement indicates again that the decision was made at the highest
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Recently, in a private setting the SG claimed that the government would
argue its case on the scientific merits of medical marijuana, but
actually they have never argued the merits in the lower courts, so they
will be unable to do so at the Supreme Court. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
From the beginning, their argument has been simply that the Congress
has the arbitrary power to deny the right of a medical necessity claim.
That is also the argument used by the government in its appeal of the
Breyer ruling. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
I have not yet seen the filing for the emergency stay, but the filing for the Writ of Certiorari for an accelerated hearing, which would hasten the appeals process by about a year, uses that argument. They say, "The court of appeals seriously erred in holding that medical necessity is a defense under the CSA (Controlled Substances Act) "A common law defense of necessity is available only 'when a real legislature would do the same under those circumstances.'" | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Of course, it is tempting to say that if we had "a real legislature"
marijuana prohibition would never have happened in the first place.
Certainly, the appalling people who govern us seem more like a parody
of lawmaking than the real thing. The government is asking the court to
say that people who have "serious" medical conditions for which there
is "no reasonable alternative" to medical marijuana must suffer
"imminent harm" simply because the Congress has the arbitrary power to
deprive them of medical marijuana. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Thus, the essential question before the court is not whether marijuana
has medical value. The government never argued that it does not. It
never addressed the science. The question is simply whether arbitrary
power trumps fundamental rights. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Robert Raich, the OCBC's outstanding attorney, was up late last night
filing both a response to the request for the emergency stay and
requesting more time to respond more fully. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
If O'Connor - or the other Justices - deny the government's request for
the emergency stay, it will be very helpful to medical marijuana
patients in the interim, and indicate a real problem for the government
for the longer haul. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
If the stay is granted, it is likely that there will be a new round of federal harassment of the California clubs, but the need for medical marijuana is so great that they will come back just as they did before. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
It will probably be two weeks or more before O'Connor rules, so the
Breyer ruling remains in effect in the meantime.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Be sure and log on to http://www.pottv.net/ for the 420 MarijuanaNews
with Richard Cowan weekdays at 4:20PM Pacific time. If you miss any
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WEEKLY NEWS IN REVIEW (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Domestic News- Policy | ||||||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (1-4) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Although still subtle, there is considerable evidence that public
approval of the drug war is fading; referring to "the failed drug war"
has become common; this SF Chronicle praising Tom Campbell's
opposition to plan Colombia editorial referred to the wod- almost in
passing- as "a dismal failure." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Certainly that same Tom Campbell, who is opposing drug war hawk Diane
Feinstein in California, is the single politician with the heaviest
bet on such a changing perception. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Another example is D.A.R.E.'s fading popularity, as chronicled by
James Bovard in the conservative Washington Times. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Further evidence: this editorial denunciation of drug testing would have been hard to imagine anywhere a year ago- let alone Augusta, GA. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(1) CAMPBELL'S COURAGEOUS STANCE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Last week, we noted that both major presidential candidates have
avoided the subject of America's military intervention in Colombia.
Since then, President Clinton signed a human rights waiver that frees
$1.3 billion in aid to Colombia, even though President Andres Pastrana
has barely met the conditions imposed by Congress. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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All the more reason to applaud the courage of Rep. Tom Campbell, a
Republican who wants to make it an issue in his campaign for U.S.
Senate. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Unlike other politicians, Campbell openly acknowledges that the drug war -- at home and abroad -- has been a dismal failure... | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(2) COLUMN: THINK OUTSIDE THE POLITICAL BOX (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
LOS ANGELES -- When Tom Campbell, a Republican, rose to speak, few of
the 15,000 journalists covering the Democratic National Convention
listened. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
His early evening address went largely unreported by the mainstream
media. Most of its members probably were trolling for news at one of
the many parties that daily served as the opening act to the Democrats'
prime-time program at the Staples Center, the cavernous arena that
housed this past week's gathering. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Shadow Convention was the place to hear talk of revolutionary, not evolutionary change. No one offered up more of that than Campbell, a quirky California congressman making a long-shot bid this year to unseat Dianne Feinstein, the state's senior U.S. senator. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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He labeled this nation's drug war "a failure." He complained that while
most drug users in this country are white, the vast majority of those
who have been jailed for drug crimes are Hispanic or African-American.
And he worried aloud that incarceration, not treatment and education,
would continue to be this nation's major approach to fighting the drug
war. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(3) DARE'S DYING GASPS? (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The nation's most popular drug education program may be on the ropes.
The Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program is increasingly
being tossed out of school systems as the evidence becomes
overwhelmingly of its failure to deter drug use. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(4) EDITORIAL: A BRAINLESS PLAN (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
State Sen. Mike Fair, R-Greenville, is drawing up legislation that
would require South Carolina teachers to undergo random testing for
illegal drug use. He calls the proposal a "no-brainer.' | ||||||||||||||||||||||
If by that he means it's a brainless plan, he's got a point. There is
no indication Palmetto State teachers, as a group, have any serious
problems with drugs. We don't need solutions to problems that don't
exist. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (5-7) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
It doesn't help their cause that those running our drug policy
continue to shoot themselves in the foot: McCzar's penchant for
secretly taping conversations was disclosed by Newsweek and an item
from Insight accuses ONDCP of rigging numbers to support their ad
campaign. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Meanwhile a widely published interview with Laurie Hiett revealed she
and her husband had been even more clueless than suggested when news
of her arrest first broke. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(5) THE DRUG CZAR AND HIS SECRET TAPES (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
September 4 issue -- Legendary newspaperman A. M. Rosenthal was
speaking freely. "I'm just saying this to you," he confided to White
House drug czar Barry McCaffrey during a November 1996 telephone chat.
Not quite. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Unknown to Rosenthal, his conversation with McCaffrey--in which they
discussed how to attack financier George Soros for his efforts to
liberalize drug laws --was being taped. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(6) IS THE DRUG CZAR SKIRTING THE LAW? (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy is under fire
for manipulating data in a report to Congress to cover shortcomings in
his federal antidrug program. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bill Clinton's drug czar, Barry McCaffrey, has had no shortage of
trouble recently.... | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Now McCaffrey's office is in more hot water. Insight has discovered
that ONDCP manipulated data in a formal report to deceive Congress, a
likely violation of federal law. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(7) PARTY GIRL MADE MOCKERY OF THE U.S. WAR ON DRUGS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
FORT WORTH, Texas -- The colonel's wife loves cocaine. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
You can hear it in her voice -- part party girl, part drama queen -- as she recounts the time she bought a one-pound brick of the pure stuff. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
After snorting two lines, Laurie Hiett says, "I'm like, 'Oh my God, I am so wired.' . . . It was this beautiful thing, you know?" | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Her escapade wouldn't mean much if she were just another coke addict. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
But Hiett sampled her brick inside the women's restroom of the fortress like U.S. embassy in Bogota, Colombia, where her husband, Col. James Hiett, was in charge of the Army's high-stakes antidrug operation. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (8) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Declining popularity or not, drug war law enforcement still strikes
fear into those who oppose it; a column in National review suggests we
may all be encrypting before too much longer. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(8) RED MEAT ENCRYPTION: DECODING THE FBI'S CARNIVORE PROGRAM. (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The FBI's new Carnivore cyber-snooping device may turn out to be one of
the best developments ever for Internet privacy... | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The outrage over Carnivore is not about Carnivore's immense
computational power; that's simply a natural outcome of scientific
progress. Rather, the outrage is the cavalier manner in which due
process and judicial oversight are being fractured. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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It's ironic that the Clinton FBI's relentless assault on privacy could actually help grow the consumer market for convenient, powerful encryption. But it's no less ironic than the most lawless administration in U.S. history has the hubris to claim that trampling civil liberties even further is necessary for a lawful society. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (9-13) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Critical scrutiny of drug policy has been provoked by a stream of
articles chronicling the growth, desperate conditions, and racism
within our system of "justice." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
DC's Justice Policy Institute has been the source of many such data releases; they amply support the conclusions in Jason Zeidenberg's short OP-Ed; one carried by an exceptional number of dailies. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Karen Dillon followed up her two series on forfeiture abuses with
articles looking at the larger question of the systemic abuses causing
widespread distrust of police- and need for another national
commission to look at the problem. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dave Mitchell, of the small but influential Point Reyes Light- took a
hard look at deteriorating prison conditions in California, and then
explains why fearless investigative reporting is so critical in this
area. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(9) OPED: CONTINUING TO IMPRISON DRUG USERS IS FRUITLESS, EXPENSIVE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The United States is imprisoning drug offenders at an alarming rate.
The number of people serving time in American prisons and jails for
nonviolent drug crimes (458,131) is almost equal to the total number
of Americans who were behind bars in 1980 (474,368), according to a
recent study by the Justice Policy Institute. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Today nearly one out of four American prisoners is serving time for a
nonviolent drug crime. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Americans have the right to be safe from violent criminals. But we
should demand that our government pursue fiscally prudent and humane
policies to limit drug addiction. Locking up nonviolent drug offenders
is no solution. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(10) LAW ENFORCEMENT WOES ARE RAMPANT NATIONWIDE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
In just the last two years, cases of racial profiling, police abuse and
corruption have flared up all over the country. In addition to the
recent beating of a suspect by Philadelphia police that was caught on
camera, here are a few other examples: | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(11) TO PROTECT AND COLLECT (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bush Would Create Commission To Examine Police Problems | ||||||||||||||||||||||
If he is elected president, George W. Bush plans to create a national commission that would examine controversies that have arisen in law enforcement and the criminal justice system in recent years. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Democratic candidate Al Gore did not commit to establishing a
commission but would deal with problems in a strong fashion if he saw
evidence that action was needed, said Alex Zaroulis, Gore's Missouri
spokeswoman. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bush and Gore issued statements to The Kansas City Star in response to
questions the newspaper posed about drug forfeiture abuses and in
response to a call from the International Association of Chiefs of
Police for a commission. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(12) PROTECTING SOCIETY FROM CRIMINALS, BAD COPS, AND INHUMANE PRISONS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
For high school graduates with no special talents - except a propensity
for not taking guff from nuts and troublemakers - there are few jobs
that pay as well as being a prison guard for the California Department
of Corrections. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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We wanted to remind law enforcement, elected officials, and
correctional institutions that we are watching them. Because a
criminal- justice system has the potential to abuse people in horrible
ways, we wanted to make sure everyone knows this paper stands ready to
defend victims when the system malfunctions and to recognize heroes
when it works well. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finally, we hoped to create an historical record that researchers
decades from now can use to see what the state of law enforcement was
in Marin County in the year 2000. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cannabis & Hemp- | ||||||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (13-16) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The federal government's implacable opposition to medical use was left
intact by the Supreme Court's 7-1 vote. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
In Auburn, CA the start of Steve and Michele Kubby's (local) trial of
was signalled by a cloud of legal (for now) smoke just outside the
courthouse. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
On the same day a Kentucky jury took a mere 30 minutes to acquit Woody Harrelson his lawyer was notified by other clients, the Oglala Sioux nation, that the DEA had quietly destroyed the hemp crop they'd planted in April (See hot off the Web and www.marijuananews.com). | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finally, a Washington state newspaper fretted about the influx of
potent BC bud, but like other American colleagues, has yet to notice
that on July 31, the Ontario Supreme Court had ruled that Canadian
cannabis prohibition laws are unconstitutional. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(13) MEDICINAL POT USE SET BACK (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The U.S. Supreme Court issued an emergency order Tuesday barring an
Oakland, Calif., cooperative from distributing marijuana to members
whose doctors prescribe the narcotic to relieve pain. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The order sends a non-binding but chilling message to 35 other clubs
currently supplying medicinal marijuana to 20,000 Californians under
Proposition 215, a 1996 ballot initiative being challenged by the
Justice Department. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jesse Choper, a University of California-Berkeley law professor, says
the order has "substantial significance" in all eight states. He says
the ruling signals that federal law penalizing all marijuana use must
be followed until a final decision is made on the constitutional right
to medicinal use of the substance. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(14) EDITORIAL: KUBBY TRIAL BEGINS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The trial of former gubernatorial candidate (and part-time Orange County resident) Steve Kubby and his wife Michele on 19 criminal counts of possession, cultivation, sale and possession for sale of marijuana begins in earnest today before Superior Court Judge John L. Cosgrove in Auburn, in Placer County. The Kubbys both have notes from doctors recommending that they use marijuana for medical conditions, but the case revolving around 265 plants found at their former home near Lake Tahoe is being prosecuted like a standard drug trafficking case. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Since the voters made Proposition 215 into Section 11362.5 of the
Health and Safety Code, implementation has been spotty and
unpredictable. Some localities seem eager to cooperate with patients
while others prefer to arrest them and "let the courts sort it out."
The disposition of this therefore, could affect how other localities
treat medical marijuana patients. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(15) ACTOR WOODY HARRELSON ACQUITTED OF DRUG CHARGE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Actor Ends 4-year Battle Over Growing Hemp | ||||||||||||||||||||||
BEATTYVILLE, Ky. A jury acquitted actor Woody Harrelson of misdemeanor
marijuana possession charges Thursday, ending Mr. Harrelson's four-year
court battle to get the state to differentiate between hemp and
marijuana. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The five-woman, one-man panel deliberated about 25 minutes before
returning with its verdict. Mr. Harrelson, who spent much of the day
signing autographs for hundreds of fans, could have received a maximum
one year in jail and $500 fine. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(16) O CANNABIS! (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Border Agents Say They Can't Stem The Tide Of Potent 'B.C. Bud' Into
The United States From Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||
BLAINE - It comes concealed in heat-proof bags stowed on engines under
the hoods of cars. It comes hidden in plastic pipes stashed in water or
in the propane tanks of recreational vehicles. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
It has been found in a sea kayak that crossed the Strait of Georgia to
land on Lopez Island in the San Juans, and it has been tossed - by a
smuggler's ironic error - into the trunk of a U.S. Border Patrol
officer's car along a lonely road near the berry fields east of this
Whatcom County border town. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Smuggling of "B.C. Bud," a potent form of marijuana bred and grown in
British Columbia, has surged from a trickle to a torrent the past four
years, and law enforcement agencies on both sides of the border have
found it nearly impossible to stem the flood. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (17-18) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Editorial comment ran overwhelmingly against plan Colombia-especially
Clinton's waiver of human rights requirements; an Irish editorial
eloquently anticipated the judgment of history. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
For those wanting to know about the folly in more detail, the six part
CNN piece is a good read. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(17) DRUGS AND INJUSTICE: EUROPE URGED TO WITHHOLD SUPPORT (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
As President Clinton prepares to visit Bogota in the middle of next
week Ana Carrigan raises doubts about his mission and asks disturbing
questions concerning the real US agenda | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ironically, with Clinton keen to enhance the image of his presidency,
Plan Colombia may leave a stain on his legacy and present a poisoned
chalice for his successor. It also poses a problem for his European
allies who will need to unite if they are not to be dragged into the
Colombian quagmire. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Far from helping Colombia to "strengthen its democracy", Clinton's
policies have done the opposite. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(18) A WAR WEAVES COMMON THREAD OF TERROR (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
A young guerrilla fulfills her dream of joining the insurgency; an
ex-guerrilla switches sides to fight for a right-wing paramilitary
squad; a coca grower finds himself caught between rival armed groups
and the Colombian police; a boy is evicted from his childhood home and
forced to live on the bloody streets of a commune; a mother agonizes
over her 3-year-old son kidnapped at gunpoint from their home in an
affluent Bogota neighborhood. Latin America's longest-running civil war
unfolds through the lives of five people. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (19) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
How ironic that even as McCzar stubbornly insists we're "winning" the
drug war, the DEA is snidely accusing the Europeans of not doing their
bit. Won't they realize these are global criminal markets and DEA
criticisms apply equally to the US? | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(19) EUROPE FAILS TO STEM RISING DRUG TIDE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Traffickers Are Defeating Overstretched Police, US Says | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Europe is losing the war against drugs, according to intelligence
reports from the US Drug Enforcement Administration obtained by the
Guardian. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The reports reveal dramatic increases in drug production - from poppy
crops used to make heroin in Afghanistan, to the manufacture of ecstasy
in the Netherlands - and police forces stretched thin while trying to
cope with Europe's porous borders. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The drug traffickers have been so successful that they have compiled
huge hidden stockpiles throughout western and eastern Europe to ensure
an uninterrupted supply. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (20) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
In a move which brought quick denunciation from international human
rights organizations, the Mexican government silenced an
environmentalist by sentencing him to prison for-what else? drug
violations! | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(20) JAILED MEXICAN ENVIRONMENTALIST SENTENCED TO SIX YEARS IN PRISON (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) -- A peasant leader recently recognized by a U.S. environmental group for his efforts to protect old-growth forests was sentenced to more than six years in prison Monday. Human rights and environmental groups immediately denounced the decision. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
A judge sentenced Rodolfo Montiel, leader of a rural ecological group
in Mexico's Pacific coast state of Guerrero, to six years and eight
months in prison. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
A second member of his group, Teodoro Cabrera Garcia, received a
10-year sentence. Both were convicted on drug and illegal arms
possession charges. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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HOT OFF THE 'NET (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Sioux Reservation Raided by the DEA | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Industrial-Hemp Plants Were Being Raised For Building Project | ||||||||||||||||||||||
As noted above a federally protected (NOT!) Sioux reservation was
raided by the DEA for growing hemp. This story broke beyond our cutoff
deadline. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Harsh McCaffrey Review in Salon | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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