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THIS JUST IN (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
(1) SURPRISE - TERROR WAR AIDS DRUG WAR (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
One Arizona Border Unit Sees Marijuana Haul Triple. | ||||||||||||||||||||
PHOENIX -- As Congress and President Bush wrangle over the USA Patriot
Act, the Border Security bill, and other tools of the war on terror,
they may want to keep another law-enforcement group in mind - the
nation's drug-fighters. | ||||||||||||||||||||
That's because the war on terror is proving to be a boon to the war on drugs. Drug seizures are up all along the US-Mexico border. Nowhere is the trend clearer than along a desolate 118-mile patch of Arizona desert across the border from the Mexican state of Sonora. | ||||||||||||||||||||
In what is rapidly becoming one of the highest drug-trafficking and
people-smuggling sectors along the border, US Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) officers there have seized 13,000 pounds of marijuana
since Oct. 1, triple the amount captured in the same period last year.
That year, fiscal 2005, also set a record. The reasons for the success?
Better intelligence-sharing, increased manpower, and improved
technology that border officials have received in the aftermath of the
9/11 terror attacks. | ||||||||||||||||||||
The primary aim for upgrading America's border defenses was to prevent
potential terrorists from crossing into the US, either individually or
hidden among professional smuggling groups. But a side benefit has been
progress for the nation's war on drugs. As the CBP has apprehended
greater numbers of people at the nation's southern border, it has also
seized larger and larger quantities of drugs. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(2) CITY - PRIVATE POT SALES NOT ALLOWED (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Council Says Letting Clubs Peddle Marijuana Would Invite Fed Crackdown | ||||||||||||||||||||
OAKLAND -- Measure Z, which made private, adult use of cannabis the
Police Department's lowest law enforcement priority, does not allow
commercial sales of the drug at private clubs, the City Council decided
Tuesday. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Brimming with outrage, more than a dozen supporters of the measure --
passed with 65.2 percent of the vote in November 2004 -- accused
council members of thwarting the will of the voters by narrowing the
measure's scope. | ||||||||||||||||||||
But a majority of the council decided allowing private clubs to sell
cannabis to adults would threaten the city's medical marijuana
dispensaries by inviting the federal government to crack down on
Oakland. | ||||||||||||||||||||
"It would be an enforcement nightmare," said Councilmember Jean Quan
(Montclair-Laurel). | ||||||||||||||||||||
Councilmembers Nancy Nadel (Downtown-West Oakland) and Desley Brooks
(Eastmont-Seminary) voted no, and Vice Mayor Jane Brunner (North
Oakland) abstained. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nadel and Brooks said they favored referring the matter to the Measure Z oversight committee to craft a definition of private marijuana use, cultivation, sale, possession and distribution under the ordinance. | ||||||||||||||||||||
"We have to have facilities where adults can use cannabis like they can
drink cocktails and smoke cigars elsewhere in the city of Oakland,"
said Dale Gieringer of California NORMAL. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Richard Lee, the owner of SR 71, one of the city's medical marijuana
dispensaries, said private clubs have been operating since the passage
of Measure Z. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(3) COURSE CORRECTIONS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
To Cut Prison Bill, States Tweak Laws, Try Early Releases Cost Nears
$35 Billion a Year, Driving Programs to Keep Prisoners From Returning
Some Over 65 Get Paroled
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When Theresa Lantz took over as Connecticut's corrections commissioner
in early 2003, the state's prison and jail population had hit a high of
19,320 inmates. Prisons were so crowded that 500 state inmates were
being housed in Virginia -- at an annual cost of $12 million -- and an
additional 2,000 were about to be shipped. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Less than three years later, the state's prison and jail population is
down 6.2%, and state inmates are all housed in Connecticut. Ms. Lantz
credits a state law that promoted the release of less-dangerous
offenders -- for example, by letting those accused of minor crimes stay
home while awaiting trial. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Connecticut is one of many states taking steps to reduce its prison
population. That has little to do with any change in tough-on-crime
thinking and a lot to do with dollars and cents. Housing criminals is
expensive: The average cost was $22,650 a year per person in 2001, the
last year for which figures are available. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Strict adherence to tough sentencing laws "became incredibly expensive without necessarily enhancing public safety," says Ms. Lantz. | ||||||||||||||||||||
The two-decade trend of severe penalties has led to a surge in
corrections spending. In fiscal year 2006, states are expected to spend
$34.6 billion, up 24% from five years earlier, according to the
National Conference of State Legislatures. Only Medicaid has grown
faster in the past decade among state budget items. "Something has got
to give," says Scott Pattison, executive director of the National
Association of State Budget Officers. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(4) EVEN ILLEGAL DRUGS ARE NOW TAXED (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Taxes has never been on top of the list for favorable conversation for
most. Our food is taxed, or income is taxed, but now they've started
taxing people's illegal drugs. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Arizona started the ball rolling by coming up with the marijuana and drug tax. Since that time, more than 20 other states have passed various marijuana and drug taxes. There are tax stamps for marijuana, controlled substances, LSD, psychedelic mushrooms, and others. | ||||||||||||||||||||
In those states, people who possess cannabis or other illegal drugs are legally required to purchase and affix state-issued stamps onto their contraband. The total cost of the tax is determined by the quantity of contraband one has. Unlike typical criminal laws prohibiting the possession and sale of controlled substances, drug tax stamp laws primarily assess financial penalties on the defendant for not having the stamp. On occasion, criminal sanctions may also be imposed. | ||||||||||||||||||||
The stamps range in price from 35 cents to $4,000. The State Revenue
Department said some of the expensive stamps have never been purchased.
For the first 10 years, of the Arizona stamps, 83 sheets of the one
gram cannabis stamp were sold, and three sheets of the cannabis one
ounce stamp were sold. No one has ever purchased any of the cannabis
one kilo, ($352.74) or any of the three controlled substances (one
gram, $8.80; one ounce, $250; and one kilo, $4,000). Keep in mind, you
have to buy a whole sheet at a time. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nearly half of the U.S. states have the marijuana tax stamp laws on
their books, few citizens observe them. Most of the citizens of these
states don't even know that such a law exist in their state. Others
fear that complying with the law will get them busted. The legislative
intent of drug tax laws is to impose an additional penalty, tax
evasion, upon drug offenders after they are arrested and criminally
charged with a drug violation. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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WEEKLY NEWS IN REVIEW (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Domestic News- Policy
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COMMENT: (-) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Tough anti-meth laws have been passed around the country under the
auspices of "saving the children." A study in Iowa shows the laws
aren't helping much. Meanwhile, the annual release of the Monitoring
the Future survey regarding teen drug use comes a sense of deja vu:
some teen drug use is up, some is down, but prohibitionists see both
moves as justification of their policies. And while many wrings
their hands about the kids, the New York Times asks, what about the
seniors?
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Also last week: two brave stands by individuals challenging drug war
orthodoxy. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(5) STUDY: STATE METH CRACKDOWN NOT REDUCING CHILD ABUSE CASES (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
DES MOINES -- Despite the state's crackdown on methamphetamine labs,
a new study says the number of child welfare cases involving
parental meth use in southwest Iowa has remained steady over the
past two years at about 49 percent. | ||||||||||||||||||||
The study was conducted by Carol Gutchewsky, a social work
administrator in western Iowa. She looked at ongoing child welfare
cases in the Iowa Department of Human Services' Council Bluffs
Service Delivery Area, a 16 county area. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Gutchewsky said she did the study because many social workers were
reporting an increasing number of child abuse cases where meth was
involved. | ||||||||||||||||||||
According to the study, of 1,469 child abuse cases examined in 2003,
720 involved parental meth use. In 2005, 781 of 1,605 cases involved
parental meth use. Both account for about half of the cases handled
in that area. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Gutchewsky said her study looked only at known meth use, not suspected use. That included parents who were arrested, had positive drug tests or gave birth to babies with meth in their systems. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(6) DRUG SURVEY OF STUDENTS FINDS PICTURE VERY MIXED (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Alcohol use and cigarette smoking among teenagers are at historic
lows, but the number of high school students abusing prescription
drugs like Oxycontin is rising, and sedative abuse is at its highest
in 26 years, according to an annual national study released
yesterday. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Asked whether they had used tranquilizers, barbiturates or sedatives for nonmedical use in the last year, 14 percent of high school seniors, 11 percent of 10th graders, and 7 percent of 8th graders said yes, according to the Monitoring the Future study, which the federal government considers the best benchmark of teenage drug use. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Among high school seniors, 7.2 percent had used sedatives without a
prescription in the last year, up from a low of 2.8 percent in 1992,
and a level not reached since 1979, when 7.5 percent of seniors
reported using them. And 5.5 percent of seniors reported using
Oxycontin, a potent pain killer, up from 4 percent in 2002, when the
survey first asked about the use of the drug. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(7) OLD HABITS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
After decades of drug addiction, Adriane Allen believes she has
finally grown too old to smoke crack. At 57, she has chest pains,
has lost most of her teeth and has trouble moving her arms. Lately,
she worries about how her grandchildren will remember her when she
is gone. | ||||||||||||||||||||
"I definitely do not want them mourning me as an addict, that I died
as an addict," said Ms. Allen, shaking her head, covered with gray
hair and fidgeting uncontrollably during an interview at a New York
City needle-exchange center. | ||||||||||||||||||||
"You get tired of being tired," she continued. "They say that is a
drug addict's saying, but it is true, you do get tired of being
tired. I am tired of walking around in a daze. I am tired of walking
around with sunglasses on. Blocking out real life. I am ready to
face my demons and just say I don't want it anymore."
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As the first of the baby boomers approach 60, addiction treatment
centers are bracing for a growing population of older drug addicts.
Many aging users, veterans of the counterculture 60's, started using
drugs as teenagers and have progressed to harder substances and
addiction, while others turned to illicit drugs, abuse of
prescription medications or increased alcohol intake later in life,
with the loss of jobs or spouses. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(8) FAMILY'S HEMP INDUSTRY MIGHT BE PIPE DREAM (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
ST. LOUIS ( AP ) - Members of a family say they were growing hemp,
not marijuana, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota
and asked federal appeals judges Monday to return the matter to a
lower court to consider the legality of their crop. | ||||||||||||||||||||
The White Plume family tried three times to grow an industrial hemp
crop on Oglala Sioux reservation land from 2000 to 2002, only to
have the plants seized and destroyed by the federal government. The
family was later ordered by a judge to halt the plantings
permanently. | ||||||||||||||||||||
"Our contention is we're not growing a drug, and since we're not
growing a drug, we don't need to apply to the government for
permission," said lawyer Bruce Ellison, who represents brothers Alex
and Percy White Plume. | ||||||||||||||||||||
A lawyer for the government said the family could have applied to
the Drug Enforcement Agency to seek permission to grow the crop.
Without that permission, the plantings could not be allowed, said
Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Salter.
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The White Plumes have not been criminally charged. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(9) PAIN SUFFERER TAKES MESSAGE ON THE ROAD (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
A Boston man walking cross-country to raise awareness about chronic
pain stopped in Oklahoma City last week to talk about treatment
options and roadblocks during an OU Medical Center forum. Attorney
General Drew Edmondson complained during the forum about law
enforcement efforts that restrict doctors from prescribing
controlled medication for chronic pain. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Dennis Kinch, a chronic pain sufferer and spokesman for the National
Pain Foundation, talked during Thursday's forum about the health
problems that took away everything he loved. Kinch left Chicago in
September on a walking trip along U.S. Highway 66 to raise awareness
about chronic pain and options available. | ||||||||||||||||||||
"As I watched them ( other pain sufferers ), I said I couldn't let any more families be broken up over pain. I couldn't let any more people be suicidal, because that's where I was," Kinch said. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Kinch said he had chronic pain for four years before he was
diagnosed with Paget's disease and ankylosing spondylitis --
degenerative spinal bone and joint diseases. By that time he had
lost his job, children, insurance and home and began losing his
ability to walk. | ||||||||||||||||||||
After moving from Colorado to Boston, he received treatment at the
Massachusetts General Hospital Pain Center, where he learned how to
cope with his pain and how to walk again. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (10-13) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Last week: a plea in New Jersey to change drug school-zone laws; an
acquittal for a police officer who shot an innocent man in the back;
New York's drug-reform law helps few get out of prison; and a pair
of Memphis police acknowledge planting drugs on suspects, and then
extorting cash from them. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(10) CHANGING DRUG-FREE ZONE LAWS MAKES SENSE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
IT SEEMED like a good idea at the time. If you want to be serious
about fighting crime, make rules that are very strict and
inflexible. A prime example was the law that says if someone is
convicted of a drug crime that occurs within 1,000 feet of a school
they will be subject to a more severe penalty than someone who is
arrested 1,001 feet from a school. Caught within the zone, you face
a mandatory prison sentence of three years with no parole. Even a
judge can't change it. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Outside the zone, though, plea bargains, probation, treatment and
the like are much-used alternatives to incarceration. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Over the 18 years that the law has been on the books, it certainly
has gotten results - just not good ones. | ||||||||||||||||||||
A greater share of New Jersey inmates - 33 percent - is in prison for drug-related crimes than in any other state, compared to 11 percent in 1986. In 1986, violent crimes accounted for 61 percent of the state's prison population, compared to 40 percent today. | ||||||||||||||||||||
In 1986, 23 percent of whites and 22 percent of blacks entering
prison were charged with drug offenses. But today, 64 percent of New
Jersey's prisoners are African-American, though only 14.5 percent of
the state's entire population. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(11) NARCOTICS AGENT WALKER FOUND NOT GUILTY (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Raucous Scuffle Occurs Outside Court As Protesters Scream at Defense
Attorney
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A jury this morning found state narcotics officer Mike Walker not
guilty of voluntary manslaughter for fatally shooting Rodolfo "Rudy"
Cardenas -- touching off a brief, but raucous scuffle outside the
San Jose courtroom. | ||||||||||||||||||||
As defense attorney Craig Brown tried to address reporters after the
verdict, about two dozen protesters, some carrying signs bearing
photos of Cardenas, encircled him screaming "no justice, no peace"
and "murderer."
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Though the protesters drowned him out, Brown kept on trying to
speak. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Sheriff's deputies and plain clothes Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement
agents then tried to push the protesters away and form a human
barrier. One protester, a woman, fell to the ground and could be
heard saying "get your hands off me."
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When Brown left, the BNE agents formed a shield around him. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Neither Walker nor prosecutor Lane Liroff addressed reporters
immediately after the verdict. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Walker, 34, was the first state agent to be put on trial for killing
someone in the line of duty. | ||||||||||||||||||||
On Feb. 17, 2004, state agents were asked to assist a parole agent
in doing surveillance on David Gonzales, a parolee with gang ties
who had failed to report a change of address. As they staked out
Gonzales' 14th Street location, Cardenas drove by and caught
Walker's attention. Walker followed Cardenas, believing he was the
target, and a wild vehicle pursuit ensued. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Walker caught up with the father of five at a North Fourth Street
retirement home, where Cardenas ditched his van, fled down an
alleyway and scaled a chain-link fence. Walker followed and,
stopping at the fence, shot the 43-year-old San Jose man in the
back. | ||||||||||||||||||||
The agent claimed self-defense. He insisted he saw a gun in
Cardenas' hands and that the man appeared ready to engage in a gun
battle. Cardenas was unarmed. Although police said they found a
small folding knife in his front pants pocket, the discovery came a
day after the killing and led some to speculated whether the
evidence was planted. | ||||||||||||||||||||
The case drew outrage from a cross-section of the community,
particularly because Cardenas' killing came on the heels of another
controversial police shooting. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(12) FEW STATE PRISONERS FREED UNDER EASED DRUG LAW (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
When Gov. George E. Pataki signed a law a year ago reducing what he called "unduly long sentences" for drug crimes, he predicted that hundreds of nonviolent drug offenders would be released from prison. | ||||||||||||||||||||
But so far, only 142 prisoners - about 30 percent of those
originally eligible for new sentences under the revised law - have
been freed, according to a report released yesterday by the Legal
Aid Society. | ||||||||||||||||||||
The new law "has not resulted in a whole heck of a lot in terms of
real impact on folks who were serving long sentences," said Gabriel
Sayegh, a policy analyst for the Drug Policy Alliance, which
supports further changes in the drug laws and organized a news
conference to publicize the Legal Aid report. | ||||||||||||||||||||
The new sentencing provisions were the most widely heralded aspect
of the Drug Law Reform Act of 2004, which changed the mandatory
sentencing laws imposed in 1973 when Nelson Rockefeller was
governor. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(13) 2 COPS PLEAD GUILTY, HELP CASE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
They Admit Roles In Charges Against Third Officer Who's Been
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Two Memphis police officers pleaded guilty in federal court
Wednesday to charges they extorted cash and planted drugs on
motorists in bogus traffic stops. | ||||||||||||||||||||
West Precinct officers Adam Gagnier, 29, and Jennifer Vickery, 35,
have agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors investigating
similar incidents involving at least one other officer currently
under indictment. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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In what appears to be a continuation of the DEA medical cannabis
raids in San Diego County last week, federal agents raided and shut
down a San Francisco medical cannabis dispensary called Hopenet on
Tuesday. Although no charges had been laid at the time of writing,
the DEA searched the home of Steve and Catherine Smith, seizing
starter plants, cannabis and computers, before raiding the club
later on that evening. Neighbors and supporters have suggested that
this organization was legitimate and very well run, with a number of
low-income patients receiving medical cannabis at no cost from the
dispensary. | ||||||||||||||||||||
In a case that's sure to cause much controversy, 21-year old Brent
Ehret faces 37 years in prison following a car accident that led to
the death of an 80-year old woman. In the first homicide case in the
region to use the state's new DUID legislation, Ehret was charged
with one count of vehicular homicide with a controlled substance in
his blood and one count of causing great bodily harm by use of a
vehicle with a controlled substance in his blood after testing
positive for THC metabolites following the accident, despite
claiming that he hadn't ingested any cannabis since he night before
and was not intoxicated at the time of the accident.
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Our third story brings us back to California for news from another
controversial legal situation. Pam Slater-Price, Chairwoman of the San
Diego County Board of Supervisors, has written a column defending the
Board's decision to refuse medical cannabis ID cards and suing the
state for its implementation of Prop. 215. Slater-Price - who suffers
from a longtime case of compassionapathy and a serious vision problem
known as "political shortsightedness" - argues that California's
medical cannabis law is in violation of federal law. | ||||||||||||||||||||
And from Canada this week, we have an interview with long-time
cannabis activist David-Malmo Levine, who outlines the benefits of a
regulated cannabis market. This is followed by news from the U.K.
that Sting has joined other celebrities, musicians, researchers,
lawmakers and activists by signing an open letter urging P.M. Tony
Blair not to upgrade cannabis once again. The letter cites that
police have saved over 200,000 hours since cannabis was downgraded
to a non-arrestable offense early last year. | ||||||||||||||||||||
With Christmas right around the corner, your humble cannabis/hemp
editor and all of the staff at DrugSense would like to with you all
a happy, healthy holiday and a New Year filled with common sense,
kindness, and compassion. Let's make 2006 the year that prohibition
beats down its last victim; we all want and deserve a drug peace
right now!
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(14) FEDS RAID HOME, GROWING FACILITY OF POT CLUB PAIR (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Federal agents raided the home of a San Francisco couple who operate a South of Market medical marijuana club Tuesday, seizing 122 marijuana plants and at least $20,000 in assets, the couple said. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Agents later raided a nearby building where Steve and Catherine
Smith grew marijuana for their Hope Net cooperative and club. But
they ran into a crowd of protesters when they went to the club
itself at 223 Ninth St. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Four Drug Enforcement Administration agents sat in vehicles in front
of the club as the crowd, which eventually grew to about 60 people,
surrounded them, waving signs and chanting slogans. After five
hours, the agents left without raiding the club, and the crowd
erupted in cheers. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The raid was the first in the city since June, when federal agents
seized marijuana and other items from two cannabis clubs on Ocean
Avenue in the Ingleside district and a third on Judah Street in the
Inner Sunset District. Nineteen people were accused of drug
trafficking and money laundering. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(15) MAN CHARGED AFTER POT FOUND IN SYSTEM FOLLOWING FATAL CRASH (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
A Lake Geneva man could face 37 years in prison after he allegedly
had marijuana in his system during a fatal crash in Muskego last
September. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Brent Ehret, 21, was charged Friday with one count of vehicular
homicide with a controlled substance in his blood and one count of
causing great bodily harm by use of a vehicle with a controlled
substance in his blood. He was also charged with possession of
marijuana and drug paraphernalia. | ||||||||||||||||||||
District Attorney Paul Bucher said Friday that the case was the
first homicide case in the county to incorporate a new state law
against drugged driving. About a year ago, the Legislature enacted a
law making it illegal for anyone to drive with any detectable amount
of controlled substances in his or her system. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(16) SUPERVISORS RIGHT TO QUESTION MEDICAL MARIJUANA (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
As members of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, we recently
voted to clarify the laws surrounding implementation of Proposition
215, an initiative authorizing medical marijuana identification
cards. | ||||||||||||||||||||
State law says the sale of marijuana to medicinal users is legal.
Federal law says it is illegal. My colleagues and I on the board
voted not to distribute user cards. Later we voted to challenge
state implementation of the law. | ||||||||||||||||||||
The courts will now decide whether federal law pre-empts or
supersedes state law. That's the clarification we need. Holding a
card may give medicinal users a false sense that what they are doing
is legal. Additionally, the board might very well be in violation of
federal law if we distribute the cards. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(17) THIS MAN LOVES HERB MORE THAN YOU (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Edmonton-reared David Malmo-Levine was our keynote pot activist in the '90s, writing for The Gateway, organizing wild rallies and handing me lit joints on television as police stood at the edge of Gazebo Park, staring. It was a funny time--no 1960s or anything, but still one when tens of thousands of shivering students would march on the Legislature. Gone is Malmo-Levine's floppy hat, same with the five-foot prop joint. He's evolved into a history professor and lives on the West Coast. Graciously, he comes bearing gifts. | ||||||||||||||||||||
[See Magazine] Tell us what you've been doing in the last decade? | ||||||||||||||||||||
I moved to Van in '95. I started working for Hemp BC and wrote
articles for Cannabis Culture, opened up a pot-dealing service
called the "Harm Reduction Club" which lasted about five months
before the police shut it down. I spent the next few years studying
herbal medicine, constitutional law, and organic farming. I started
a show called High Society for pot-tv.net. Our legal challenge
finally made it to the Supreme Court in 2003. I argued that the
proper use of cannabis was harmless, and that the Constitution
protected harmless people. The Supreme Court agreed that proper use
was harmless but then went on to say that there was no "harm
principle" found in the Constitution, and that our community was
similar to pimps, cannibals, animal abusers, and incestuous
people -- not quite harmful, not quite harmless -- better left to
Parliament to decide. Since then, I've opened up "The Vancouver
School of Drugwar History and Organic Cultivation."
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(18) STING CAMPAIGNS FOR CANNABIS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Rocker Sting is campaigning to stop British prime minister Tony
Blair from upgrading the legal categorisation of cannabis from a
class C to class B drug. | ||||||||||||||||||||
The Roxanne hitmaker fears the political leader is planning a
high-profile policy u-turn which will see him vow to tackle drug use
head-on and reclassify the drug, despite officially downgrading it
from class B to its current status in January. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Sting, 54, has added his signature to a letter for Blair alongside
those of actress Jean Simmons and former Spandau Ballet star Gary
Kemp, insisting the reclassification has been a success, saving up
to 200,000 hours of police time. | ||||||||||||||||||||
The letter reads: "Such a move would simply add to public confusion,
inconsistency and the waste of police resources, without delivering
any health or social benefits."
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COMMENT: (19-22) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
In Bolivia, coca farmer Evo Morales swept last week's Bolivian presidential elections with what appears to be over half of the popular vote, avoiding a run-off election. A socialist firebrand, Evo Morales was called an "illegal-coca agitator" by the U.S. earlier this year. Morales repeatedly promised to halt Bolivian involvement with U.S. coca-eradication programs. Noted Morales: "It's not possible that the coca leaf can be legal for Coca Cola and not for us. It's hypocritical." Morales notes the coca plant can be used in medicines, teas, soft drinks, flour, and other products. | ||||||||||||||||||||
In Toronto, Canada, the city government is doing what it can to reduce the harm caused by smoking crack - it is handing out crack pipes. The new policy, which was passed by a 24-15 vote last week, also urged that possession of marijuana should no longer be a criminal offence. The city will be conducting a study of existing safe-injection sites as part of the overall harm reduction effort. | ||||||||||||||||||||
We leave you this week with an editorial from Dan Gardner which ran
in the Victoria Times-Colonist newspaper, in British Columbia,
Canada. Gardner points out that turf battles to control the
lucrative illicit drug trade are caused by prohibition, contrary to
what governments assert. "Higher enforcement is associated with
higher homicide," not the other way around, say the experts. Don't
expect prohibitionist governments, flush with funds and powers to
fight the "drug war", to pay much attention. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(19) MORALES REPEATS VOW TO KILL ANTI-COCA PROGRAMS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
COCHABAMBA, Bolivia The leftist who claimed victory in Bolivia's presidential race on Monday repeated his promise to end a U.S.-backed program to eradicate coca plants, saying the crop that provides the raw material for cocaine is part of Bolivian culture. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Evo Morales himself a coca farmer who played an important role in
protests that unseated two governments also pledged Monday to
respect private property, apparently seeking to reassure investors
despite his plans to assert state ownership over Bolivia's vast
natural gas reserves. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Morales has been an irritant for Washington for years while he has
built close ties with Cuban President Fidel Castro and Chavez. A
State Department report earlier this year referred to him as an
"illegal-coca agitator."
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The site of his news conference the offices of the coca growers
union where he rose to political prominence showed that his apparent
victory did not mellow his crusade against U.S. coca-eradication
efforts. | ||||||||||||||||||||
"We are betting on an effective fight against narcotrafficking
because neither cocaine nor drug trafficking is part of Bolivian
culture," Morales said. | ||||||||||||||||||||
He has not said how he will stop illegal drug exports, complaining
instead that "the drug fight against drug trafficking has been a
pretext for the U.S. government to install military bases ... and
these polices will be revised."
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Morales also defended coca as an integral part of
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"It's not possible that the coca leaf can be legal for Coca Cola and
not for us. It's hypocritical," he said.
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In Atlanta, Coca-Cola Co. spokeswoman Kirsten Watt declined to say this month whether cocaine-free coca extract is part of the drink's secret recipe. It has been widely reported that cocaine-free extract derived from coca is part of the drink's secret recipe. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(20) LIKELY NEW BOLIVIAN LEADER OUT TO CHANGE THE DRUG WAR (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
He Champions Non-Narcotic Uses of Cash Crop Coca
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LA PAZ, BOLIVIA - Pointing to a bag of chalky green powder in her
living room, Silvia Rivera described the substance as flour made
from coca, a plant more often associated with cocaine than baking
supplies. | ||||||||||||||||||||
"I use it to make lasagna noodles," said Rivera, a drug-policy
adviser to Evo Morales, the leftist poised to become Bolivia's next
president. | ||||||||||||||||||||
"They're scrumptious."
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With Rivera's help, Morales hopes to radically change the nature of
the drug war in Bolivia, the source of 16 percent of the world's
cocaine. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Coca plants provide the main ingredient of cocaine as well as the
leaves that Quechua and Aymara Indians have chewed for centuries to
ward off hunger and fatigue. Many Bolivians view the plant as
sacred. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Morales would encourage farmers to grow coca to make teas, soft
drinks, holistic medicines and other traditional products. An Aymara
Indian who grows the leaf himself, Morales, 46, also would like to
export coca-based goods. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(21) CITY GIVING CRACK PIPES TO PROTECT ADDICTS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Crack users will be given pipes and the city will study whether to
set up sites where addicts can use drugs under a wide-ranging drug
strategy approved by city council yesterday. | ||||||||||||||||||||
The drug policy -- which also aims to reduce the concentration of bars in certain areas of the city -- passed by a 24-15 vote. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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And it says possession of small amounts of marijuana shouldn't be a
criminal offence. | ||||||||||||||||||||
The strategy sets no deadline for the study of safe injection sites
and a committee will examine just where crack pipes will be handed
out. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(22) THE MISSING PIECE TO THE GANG-VIOLENCE DEBATE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Now that politicians and the public have finally started to discuss guns, gangs and murder, countless explanations have been offered. It's about fatherless families, weak immigration rules and a soft-touch criminal justice system, one side says. No, it's about racism and poverty, the other side counters, and too many guns. | ||||||||||||||||||||
All these points are important and worthy of discussion, but there's
something missing. Most gang-related murders have one thing in
common, one motivation, and yet scarcely a word has been said about
this missing piece. But it is the key. Take it out of the equation
and most of the killing stops. | ||||||||||||||||||||
To see this missing element in all its bloody glory, take a look at
events in Mexico, a country embroiled in a gang war that makes the
violence in Toronto look like a high-school debate. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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That the illicit drug trade is violent is no surprise to anyone, but what most people don't know is that violence in black markets tends to be cyclical. A mature market, with established networks and powerful figures in place, tends to minimize bloodshed. It's when the status quo is disrupted that all hell breaks loose. | ||||||||||||||||||||
That's exactly what happened in Mexico in March 2003, when Mexican
authorities arrested the drug lord who controlled the Nuevo Laredo
smuggling conduit. President Vicente Fox praised the arrest as a
great victory and proof his country was making progress in the fight
against the drug trade. | ||||||||||||||||||||
It doesn't look like such a triumph now. "Why are we in this
situation?" Mexico's deputy attorney general told the New York
Times. "Because the only leaders who can contain the violence are
the ones in jail."
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That's the thing about drug enforcement: Even when you win, you
lose. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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After controlling for other factors that might be influencing the
result, Miron came to clear a clear conclusion: "Higher enforcement
is associated with higher homicide."
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I'm sure Mexicans are starting to get Miron's point. And if
politicians in this country ignore the evidence of almost a century
of failure and greatly ratchet up law enforcement, so will
Canadians. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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HOT OFF THE 'NET (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
STEVE TUCK IS A FREE MAN
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SENATE AMENDS BAN ON STUDENT AID FOR MARIJUANA OFFENDERS
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The U.S. Senate voted 51 to 50 in favor of legislation that would lift
the ban on federal aid to students who have a prior, non-violent drug
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ELECTION DAY IN BOLIVIA 2005
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A View from the Chapare and Cochabamba
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By Jean Friedsky, Narcosphere
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The Bolivian people have made history. Never have they directly elected
their President with more than 50% of the vote; no candidate has even
reached 37%. But today, blowing away all polls and projections that
placed his support around 35%, Evo Morales Ayma has officially won the
Presidential election with over 50% of the popular vote and will head
the next government of Bolivia. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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THE GOOD DRUGS GUIDE RADIO SHOW
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Addiction Does Not Exist
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We started off making a show about crack and then ended up questioning
whether addiction even exists. How's that for a journey? Our guest is
Peter Cohen of the Dutch drugs research institute, CEDRO. Plus The New
Amsterdam, worming tablets that get you high, and comic relief from
the late, great Ricard Pryor. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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CULTURAL BAGGAGE RADIO SHOW
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INTERVIEW - ETHAN NADELMANN AND JODIE EVANS
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Drug Policy Alliance executive director Ethan Nadelmann talks with
CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans about the role psychedelics played in
her journey through healing and self-discovery after the death of her
daughter. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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USER PERCEPTIONS OF OCCASIONAL AND CONTROLLED HEROIN USE
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While it is recognised that heroin is a dangerous drug causing considerable damage to individuals and communities, there are some people who appear to be able to control their use of the drug. A study, by the Institute for Criminal Policy Research, King's College London, focused on a population of non-dependent and controlled dependent heroin users who saw their use as relatively problem-free. | ||||||||||||||||||||
http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/socialpolicy/0695.asp | ||||||||||||||||||||
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FAMILY RECEIVES MARIJUANA IN THE MAIL
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December 22 - A Wichita family gets a big surprise in the mail, but not
anything they'd want to put under the tree. It was a package filled
with 30 pounds of marijuana. | ||||||||||||||||||||
The two bricks of marijuana were delivered by Federal Express on
Thursday. The pot has a street value of about $12,000. The package had
a return address from California. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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A PROP. 36 CHRISTMAS STORY
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By Tammy Bardwell, AlterNet
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The only reason I'm at home this year instead of in jail -- or worse, dead -- is because California voters said 'treatment not jail.' | ||||||||||||||||||||
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WHAT YOU CAN DO THIS WEEK (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Job Opportunities At MPP
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Field Director - Committee to Regulate and Control Marijuana | ||||||||||||||||||||
The Committee to Regulate and Control Marijuana (CRCM), the Nevada campaign committee of the national Marijuana Policy Project, is hiring a Field Director. This position is based in Las Vegas. | ||||||||||||||||||||
The Field Director will play a crucial role in CRCM's campaign to
pass a ballot initiative that would tax and regulate marijuana in
Nevada -- something that has yet to be achieved in any state. This
is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and organized
person with great people skills to work with top campaign
professionals running a major statewide campaign. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Please see http://www.mpp.org/jobs/process.html to apply for the
Field Director position. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Membership Coordinator - Marijuana Policy Project
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The Marijuana Policy Project is hiring a Membership Coordinator to
work full-time in MPP's headquarters in Washington, D.C. This is an
excellent opportunity to play an integral role in building the
membership of and raising money for a fast-paced, well-respected
lobbying organization. | ||||||||||||||||||||
To apply, please see MPP's application guidelines at
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LETTER OF THE WEEK (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
LIES, THEY'RE ALL LIES
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By Bruce Symington
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I read the Opinion Editorial in the Dec. 5th issue of The Arbiter entitled, "Shoot This Idea Up." I have read many such items, and love reading them. They are usually a mix of half, quarter, and non truths-twisted around, and put together with a lot of straw man arguments. For those who do not know, a straw man argument is one where you compare two non-similar things, and claim they are the same. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Mr. Stoker makes this error when he compares something done by one to
oneself, such as smoke a joint, to something bad done to someone else,
such as rape or assault. However, few writers, are able to encompass as
many lies, damned lies and misinformation into one piece. It boggles
the mind, I know not where to begin. Of course, it is much easier for
gentle reader to look it up themselves. The information which puts
forth the truth countering everything Mr. Stoker says is found at
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/ and the distortions are summarized at
www.drugwardistortions.org/. This whole opinion piece is redolent with
the odor of livestock. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Bruce Symington
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FEATURE ARTICLE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Flashback Karma
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By Mary Jane Borden
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As fundraising specialist for DrugSense, part of my job involves
conceiving, creating, and executing money-raising campaigns for this
non-profit devoted to ending the drug war. Many of you recently
received a sample of one campaign: a direct mailing that celebrated
ten years of DrugSense. Our 10th anniversary occurred in November
2005, when, ten years earlier, Mark Greer founded this
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If you have ever assembled a direct mailing, you know what a rote,
mindless task it is. Envelope. Stamp. Label. Envelope. Stamp ... My
mind wandered, and I, too, waxed nostalgic. Only instead of flashing
back 10 years, I envisioned what life was like 100 years ago in my
hometown, Westerville, Ohio. 1905.
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One hundred years ago, alcohol was not seen in the glowing light of
Madison Avenue like it is today. Accounts of excessive drunkenness
led to the formation of groups like the Anti-Saloon League in 1893,
oddly, just about 100 years before Mark Greer conceived of
DrugSense. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Westerville's roots were firmly planted in such religious institutions as the Evangelical United Brethren, which later merged with the United Methodist Church. In 1908, the village established an aggressive Board of Trade to attract new industries. Selling this "high moral standing", the fish it caught was the Anti-Saloon League, which moved its headquarters there in 1909, according to a history of Westerville by Dr. Harold Hancock published in 1974. | ||||||||||||||||||||
By 1910, the League was printing 40 tons of anti-alcohol material
each month from a plant located behind its main building on
Westerville's north/south corridor, State Street. It was the
Partnership for a Drugfree America Anti-drug Media Campaign of its
time. As a result, the Westerville post office at the beginning of
the last century was larger than that of nearby Columbus. In 1919,
the monthly payroll of the League's publishing arm alone amounted to
$20,000 per month - the rough equivalent of DrugSense' s monthly
budget for the last decade ... 100 years later. [If you think that
drug policy should be funded at 21st Century levels, please donate!
http://www.DrugSense.org/donate.]
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This mail campaign culminated in the passage of the 18th Amendment
in 1919 banning the sale of alcohol. The evolving social climate of
the 1920s, however, changed the course of prohibition as reflected
in these words spoken in 1932 by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., one of
the Leagues' largest financiers: "Many of our best citizens... have
openly and unabashed(sic) disregarded the Eighteenth Amendment; that
as an inevitable result respect for all law has been greatly
lessened; that crime has increased to a unprecedented degree..."
With changed thinking, Rockefeller stopped his funding. The
Anti-Saloon League, as well as alcohol prohibition, became "noble
experiments" of the past. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Remnants of the League's former wealth and influence are subtly
evident in this village, turned large suburb of Columbus, Ohio's
largest and fastest growing city. Wandering Westerville's back
streets, I have often passed the graves of the Leagues' leaders in a
nearby cemetery and wondered what they would think of prohibition as
practiced today. | ||||||||||||||||||||
I'm then reminded of the Interfaith Drug Policy Initiative (IDPI).
It has secured endorsements for reforming drug policy from some of
the most prestigious religious institutions in America, including
the United Methodist Church, from which alcohol prohibition
originally sprang. Those who promoted prohibition 100 years ago
under a religious pretext may well be on board with reform today.
Please see: http://www.idpi.us/resources/res_denominations.htm. I
think League leaders were smiling as I assembled the DrugSense
direct mail campaign. [Please note that DrugSense counts IDPI among
its hostees. Support them and 120 other organizations by donating:
http://www.DrugSense.org/donate.]
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Thinking about the importance of prohibition to Westerville - how it
all seemed to start here - I found an ironic symbolism in the fact that
a direct mail campaign to the end to this destructive policy was sent
from the City 's now much smaller post office - 100 years later. As
they say, what goes around comes around. It must have been a flashback
karma sort of thing ... | ||||||||||||||||||||
Happy Holidays!
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P.S. Please do your part to end drug prohibition and endorse
compassionate and common sense drug policies. Donate to DrugSense
today at http://www.DrugSense.org/donate. If tax considerations are
important to you, please note that only 10 days remain in 2005. As a
501(c)(3) non-profit, donations to DrugSense are tax deductible to
the extent provided by law. | ||||||||||||||||||||
P.S.S. Westerville ended alcohol prohibition within its borders in
2004 by passing a citizen-led initiative, which garnered over 70% of
the vote. | ||||||||||||||||||||
http://www.wpl.lib.oh.us/AntiSaloon/history/printing_and_pledges.html and http://www.wpl.lib.oh.us/AntiSaloon/history/education_vs_enforcement.html | ||||||||||||||||||||
Mary Jane Borden is a writer, artist, and activist in drug policy from
Westerville, Ohio. She serves as Business Manager/Fundraising
Specialist for DrugSense. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
"Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his
disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he
disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of
comfort."
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