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THIS JUST IN (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
(1) 'GANJA GURU' REINDICTED ON POT-RELATED CHARGES (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Rosenthal Says Feds Are on a Mission to Shut Down Every Dispensary in
State | ||||||||||||||||||
Oakland "Guru of Ganja" Ed Rosenthal was reindicted by a federal grand jury Thursday on a host of marijuana-related charges, roughly six months after an appeals court tossed out his earlier convictions. | ||||||||||||||||||
The superseding indictment filed Thursday contains 25 counts against
Rosenthal, 61, and two of his original co-defendants, Kenneth Hayes and
Richard Watts. Rosenthal faces 14 counts including conspiracy, use of a
place to manufacture marijuana for distribution, manufacturing
marijuana for distribution, laundering money from marijuana sales, and
filing false tax returns. "I knew they had a grand jury but I didn't
know what was going to happen," Rosenthal said Thursday night. "What
they're trying to do with these indictments and with my continued
persecution is to close down all of the dispensaries in California, to
deprive people of their medicine." | ||||||||||||||||||
"It's not the way I planned to spend my time for the next year but I'm resigned to it," he said, describing himself as an "everyman" who won't be cowed. "Most people considering their circumstances for one reason or another are forced to give in under the weight of government pressure. I'm not only standing up for dispensaries but for all these people who've been harassed and hounded by the government." | ||||||||||||||||||
But he won't let it ruin his life, either. "We're still going out to
dinner tonight," he said wryly. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(2) U.S. PULLOUT LEAVES COCA CULTIVATION THRIVING, CRITICS SAY (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
SAN JOSE DEL FRAGUA, Colombia -- The United States is quietly cutting
back economic aid in a region where cocaine production is surging, a
strategy critics say hurts Washington's $4 billion effort to try to
wean Colombia off the illegal drug trade. | ||||||||||||||||||
In an internal memo obtained by the Associated Press, the U.S. Agency
for International Development blames unacceptable security risks for
its workers and a lack of private investment partners for its pullout
from Caqueta, a former rebel stronghold in impoverished southern
Colombia. | ||||||||||||||||||
Six years and more than $4 billion in American tax dollars after Plan
Colombia was launched in Caqueta, Colombia's army is still fighting
rebels here, and coca, the raw ingredient of cocaine, is still the
region's No. 1 cash crop. | ||||||||||||||||||
But the alternative development programs meant to provide farmers with
a profitable alternative to growing coca are vanishing in the state --
a symptom, critics say, of how Plan Colombia has failed to persuade
enough coca growers to switch to legal crops even as coca production
reaches volumes unseen in years. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(3) ACID AND ALCOHOL DON'T MIX (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Using LSD To Cure Alcoholism Is A Bad Idea. I've Got The Scars To Prove | ||||||||||||||||||
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It should be obvious: giving LSD to an alcoholic in the hope of curing
them is a very, very bad idea. But various newspapers this week appear
not to agree. For instance, we've got the Independent claiming "LSD
helps alcoholics put down the bottle" and Metro stating, "LSD can help
alcoholics quit drink". | ||||||||||||||||||
They're alluding to the just-released findings of Erika Dyck, a
professor of the history of medicine at the University of Alberta, who
recently revisited the subject (and subjects) of a four decades old
research study by British psychiatrist Humphrey Osmond, who
experimented with giving alcoholics a single dose of LSD in a bid to
cure their illness. | ||||||||||||||||||
Although Osmond's study was dismissed with skepticism, Dyck has now
presented her findings in an academic journal, Social History of
Medicine, claiming that "the LSD experience appeared to allow the
patients to go through a spiritual journey that ultimately empowered
them to heal themselves". | ||||||||||||||||||
On the eve of being twelve years sober, reading this dangerous drivel
makes me shake my head in disbelief. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(4) TRAVELS - SECTS AND DRUGS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
A Religion In Brazil Mixes Catholicism With Powerful Hallucinogens. | ||||||||||||||||||
Alex Bellos Joined The Congregation | ||||||||||||||||||
Ceu do Mapia is probably the smallest community in the world with its
own time zone - half an hour in front of Boca do Acre and half an hour
behind Pauini, the two nearest towns in this remote and underpopulated
corner of the western Brazilian Amazon. The village of roughly 500
people is unique for another reason, too - it is the nucleus of a
Catholic sect based on the regular consumption of the hallucinogenic
tea ayahuasca. | ||||||||||||||||||
As befits the village's status as a religious retreat, the main
building in Ceu do Mapia is a church. I visited to attend the Easter
ceremony and, as dusk fell on the eve of Good Friday, the church - a
construction in the shape of a six-pointed star - filled up with
worshippers. | ||||||||||||||||||
Everyone was in uniform, a religious garb that made no concessions to
the climate or the informality of jungle life. The men all wore blue
pressed trousers, a blue tie and a silver sheriff's star pinned to a
white, long-sleeved shirt. Each woman wore a long, blue skirt and a
white, short-sleeved shirt with a blue dicky bow. The flock looked like
the Plymouth Brethren on a jungle trek: hardly like followers of a
religion with indigenous roots. | ||||||||||||||||||
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WEEKLY NEWS IN REVIEW (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Domestic News- Policy | ||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (5-9) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Civil-liberties activist Pete Guither received some great press this
week. The Chicago Tribune covered his free speech challenges at the
Museum of Science and Industry as did the Illinois State University
paper, where he is an assistant to the Dean of the College of Fine
Arts. | ||||||||||||||||||
This week the Governor proudly proclaimed that Iowa is "at the
forefront of dealing with the meth issue." since farmers will now
receive an additive which renders their ammonia useless to meth
cooks. Buried in the last paragraphs, though, is the fact that only
10% of the state's meth is actually manufactured in-state and local
cooks have the option of using alternative methods which do not
require the ammonia. | ||||||||||||||||||
The University of Wyoming athletics department received kudos this week for bribing DARE students with free sports tickets while a sheriff used the DARE name to raise "private" funds. Unfortunately, neither article reports the lack of effectiveness of the program. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(5) WAR-ON-DRUGS EXHIBITION STARTS FREE-SPEECH BATTLE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Museum, Activist Clash Over Pamphlets | ||||||||||||||||||
Pete Guither's attempt to criticize the war on drugs has become a
war of its own. | ||||||||||||||||||
When an exhibition sponsored by the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration opened at the Museum of Science and Industry in
August, Guither showed up with a sack full of pamphlets denouncing
the government's anti-narcotics strategy. | ||||||||||||||||||
But soon after he began handing the pamphlets out, museum officials
confined him to what he said was an almost deserted stretch of
sidewalk. Then a lawyer for the Chicago Park District told him the
pamphlets were "commercial in nature" and that he needed a permit to
distribute them at all. | ||||||||||||||||||
The Park District says it's just a matter of keeping its facilities
running smoothly. But the American Civil Liberties Union of
Illinois, which has gotten involved in the dispute, calls it "a
classic case of free speech." | ||||||||||||||||||
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Guither, 52, whose day job is assistant dean at Illinois State University, said he has long been a civil-liberties activist. He turned his attention to the drug war with a blog that advocates legalizing marijuana and regulating other narcotics, an alternative to what he calls a futile and destructive policy of prohibition. | ||||||||||||||||||
When he learned earlier this year that a traveling exhibition
sponsored by the DEA would visit the Museum of Science and Industry,
Guither said he felt compelled to act. | ||||||||||||||||||
"I used to practically live in that museum," he said. "I didn't like
seeing it perverted into an infomercial for the DEA." | ||||||||||||||||||
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(6) MASH CHALLENGES CAMPUS TO CHANGE DRUG USE POLICIES (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Guither was recently featured in a Chicago Tribune article entitled
"War-on-drugs exhibition starts free-speech battle-Museum, activist
clash over pamphlets." | ||||||||||||||||||
According to the article, when an exhibition sponsored by the U.S.
Drug Enforcement Administration opened at the Museum of Science and
Industry in August, Guither showed up with a sack full of pamphlets
denouncing the government's anti-narcotics strategy. | ||||||||||||||||||
"I used to practically live in that museum," he said. 'I didn't like
seeing it perverted into an infomercial for the DEA." | ||||||||||||||||||
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(7) ADDITIVE RENDERS ANHYDROUS AMMONIA USELESS TO METH COOKS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
DES MOINES -- Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack has a message for people who want to manufacture the illegal drug methamphetamine: Don't bother. | ||||||||||||||||||
Vilsack and other public officials unveiled a new additive to the
fertilizer known as anhydrous ammonia that renders it useless to
meth makers who might steal it from farms and use it to cook the
illegal drug. | ||||||||||||||||||
"It is an important day for safer communities and safer children in our state," Vilsack said at a news conference held on the steps of the Capitol with a tank of anhydrous ammonia as a backdrop. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Close to 90 percent of the meth found in Iowa is brought in from out of state rather than manufactured here, said Marvin Van Haaftan, director of the Governor's Office of Drug Control Policy. | ||||||||||||||||||
But he said the restrictions on anhydrous ammonia and | ||||||||||||||||||
Instead of using anhydrous ammonia, meth makers could use red
phosphorous, although it is a more complicated process and less
common, Van Haaftan said. | ||||||||||||||||||
"Our cooks in Iowa love the anhydrous meth. It's quick and easy, and
it's potent," he added. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(8) UW HONORED FOR CONTRIBUTION TO D.A.R.E. PROGRAM (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
LARAMIE -- The University of Wyoming athletics department will be
honored today for its contributions to the Laramie Police
Department's D.A.R.E. program at the Rochelle Athletics Center.
Deputy Director of Athletics Barbara Burke will accept the award on
behalf of the athletics department. | ||||||||||||||||||
This fall, the athletics department entered into a partnership with
the Laramie Police Department to form the Albany County Drug-free
Youth Support Program, which provides sixth grade D.A.R.E. students
opportunities to attend 45 athletic events at Wyoming free of
charge. | ||||||||||||||||||
"I am very excited about this program and immeasurable support that the University of Wyoming Athletics Department has given the D.A.R.E. Program, and our youth who choose to remain drug-free and make wise decisions," D.A.R.E. officer Erica Rich said in a release. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(9) FERRELL- FUND WAS 'MY MONEY' (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
An account called the "William Ferrell DARE and Crime Prevention
Fund" was private money that he could use as he pleased, former
Scott County Sheriff Bill Ferrell said Thursday. | ||||||||||||||||||
Responding to a state audit that questioned how $18,200 from the fund was used from Jan. 1, 2004, to Feb. 18, 2005, Ferrell said Scott County had no claim on the money. Auditors have called for further investigation into the use of the fund and other issues. | ||||||||||||||||||
Prosecuting Attorney Paul Boyd said Thursday that "the case is under investigation" and declined to answer further questions. Presiding Commissioner Martin Priggel said he and fellow commissioners have urged Boyd to make a thorough review of issues raised in the audit. | ||||||||||||||||||
Funds from the DARE account paid for moving Ferrell's personal
belongings out of the sheriff's office, a retirement party and
donations to the St. Louis Shriners hospital and a $10,000 endowed
scholarship at Southeast Missouri State University in Ferrell's
name. Ferrell reimbursed the account for his retirement party before
distributing the remaining money in February 2005. | ||||||||||||||||||
"This is my money," Ferrell said. "This is not accountable fees.
There are no tax dollars involved in this." | ||||||||||||||||||
Money in the account was raised at annual golf tournaments. These
were billed as "The Bill Ferrell Golf Tournament," the former
sheriff said. Ferrell kept the money in a bank account in his own
name. There was no formal not-for-profit or charitable organization
set up to take the donations, he said. | ||||||||||||||||||
"This is not set up to support public functions," he said. In fact,
Ferrell said, he had no DARE officer during most of his tenure in
office. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Law Enforcement & Prisons | ||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (10-13) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Most people never really understand the injustice of our drug war is
until it hits them close to home. A distraught uncle finds ink in
his local paper by comparing the slow timing of a meth lab bust
versus the overly zealous attack on his nephew. He also points out
the extreme special treatment a local councilman receives. If this
writer finds his way to our archives (or this newsletter) he will
also witness further special treatment of several NY police officers
by our own federal government. And thus, a new drug policy reformer
has been born! | ||||||||||||||||||
I close by juxtaposing one LE group giving out free drug tests to
parents while a chief of police resigns when asked to submit to a
drug test. I can't quite read between the lines of the vague report
about the later but wonder how many in the freebie group might
follow suit if they were required to do the same. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(10) OPED: LAW ENFORCEMENT IS AWRY (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
In the past two months since the tasing death of my nephew, Ryan Michael Wilson, the actions of the law-enforcement community in its efforts to deal with suspected drug offenses have boggled my mind. As citizens of Boulder County, you should be concerned as well. | ||||||||||||||||||
Your law enforcement officials seem to have no established,
consistent method of engaging drug suspects. I will outline three
notable incidents which have occurred within just the last 60 days.
Pay attention. Your loved one or someone you know might be the
subject of a future news event just like these. | ||||||||||||||||||
Aug. 4. After receiving an anonymous tip, two Boulder County Drug
Task Force officers immediately dispatch to a field to stake-out a
marijuana-growing operation consisting of 12 to 14 small pot plants.
They did not pull up and seize the plants. Instead of immediately
taking care of the problem and moving on to the next big caper, they
chose to lay in wait to confront Ryan. | ||||||||||||||||||
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But they did manage to have Officer John Harris from the Lafayette Police Department head Ryan off at the pass. After chasing him for half a mile and shooting him like a prairie dog along a fence line with a Taser, Ryan died. He flat-lined after the initial shock. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Sept. 6. The Boulder County Drug Task Force enters a home on Sir
Galahad Drive in Lafayette and discovers a meth production lab. How
did they discover it? For several days prior to the task force's
taking action, they were repeatedly contacted by neighbors of the
meth lab. One neighbor, in fact, had gathered more intel of
suspected buyers than the task force did in the days prior to their
arrival at the house. | ||||||||||||||||||
There were several tips made to the task force before they chose to
take action. There were explosive chemicals so noxious that task
force agents had to wear protective hazmat style suits. There was an
immediate risk of explosion and/or loss of life. Yet it took Cmdr.
Steve Prentup's crew several days to act on the tips they were
given. Perhaps the task force was too busy getting their stories
straight about their agents' actions during the Wilson death to
respond promptly to the meth lab? | ||||||||||||||||||
Sept 25. Boulder City Councilman Richard Polk is pulled over for following too close and for straddling traffic lanes while driving. The interior of his car had a strong smell of marijuana. | ||||||||||||||||||
What happens in Boulder to a councilman who tries to use his
position to wiggle out of an arrest, appears to be high and is
posing as a danger to others' well-being on the road? He's ticketed
for driving under the influence of drugs and for failing to provide
proof of insurance. | ||||||||||||||||||
Not only was he given a pass on spending the night in jail, casually
allowed to leave and take a taxi home, but Boulder Police were kind
enough to take and park Councilman Polk's car behind his Pearl
Street shop rather than have it towed and impounded! How considerate
of Boulder's finest. Did Mr. Polk have to pay extra for valet
service? | ||||||||||||||||||
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(11) EX-DETECTIVE TURNED DRUG DEALER GETS 6-YEAR PRISON SENTENCE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
A corrupt former detective who was arrested in 2003 after he and his
retired partner were caught on videotape stealing $169,000 from a
drug courier was sentenced yesterday to six years in federal prison.
He had faced nearly 22 years for stealing and reselling cocaine over
five years. | ||||||||||||||||||
The judge in the case, Carol B. Amon, of United States District
Court in Brooklyn, handed down the sentence after listening to
anguished remarks from the former detective, Julio C. Vasquez. Mr.
Vasquez resigned from the Police Department days after he and his
former partner, Thomas Rachko, were arrested on Nov. 27, 2003, on
charges they robbed the courier. Mr. Vasquez began cooperating with
federal authorities a short time later. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Ten current and former officers were implicated in the case after
Mr. Vasquez and Mr. Rachko were arrested, prompting a sweeping
corruption inquiry. But only two others have been charged
criminally. All four pleaded guilty. | ||||||||||||||||||
Mr. Rachko and a retired lieutenant, John Maguire, who the judge
suggested played more of a leadership role in the crimes, are to be
sentenced next week. Another former detective, Carlos Rodriguez, was
sentenced to two years on money-laundering charges. | ||||||||||||||||||
One other detective, Luis Nieves-Diaz, was fired as a result of the
investigation, and the Police Department is seeking to fire another,
Eric Wolfe, who has been accused of stealing drugs with Mr. Vasquez
and committing perjury. | ||||||||||||||||||
Mr. Franz said that his client would have considered a 10-year
prison term a victory "because he had utter disdain for his own
conduct." | ||||||||||||||||||
"We're relieved that Judge Amon delivered upon him a sentence that
will enable him to return to his wife and family before the glory
years of his life are behind him," he said. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(12) MOUNT ANGEL POLICE OFFER FREE DRUG TESTING FOR KIDS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
MOUNT ANGEL - Parents who suspect their kids may be using drugs now
have a free tool in their arsenal to discover the truth - a drug
test by the Mount Angel Police Department. | ||||||||||||||||||
The department recently received a grant from the Oregon Association
of Chiefs of Police to allow parents the chance to find out if their
suspicions are true, or for kids to prove their parents wrong.
Officer Les Defoor from the Mount Angel Police Department said the
Parent Aid Program has helped reduce drug-related incidents in many
of the communities it has been established in. | ||||||||||||||||||
"Parents were calling and inquiring about drug testing," said
Officer Les Defoor, who arranged to bring the program to Mount
Angel. | ||||||||||||||||||
While the test is free, Defoor said both the parent and child must
be willing to sign a release. If one refuses, the test will not be
given. | ||||||||||||||||||
Defoor said the urine test will tell parents if a child has used
numerous illegal drugs such as meth, marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine or
speed. | ||||||||||||||||||
If the test is positive, the results are given to the parent and all
information is destroyed. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(13) COTTER POLICE CHIEF QUITS AFTER BEING ASKED TO TAKE DRUG TEST (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
COTTER -- Cotter Police Chief Joe Robison resigned Tuesday, Mayor Mo
Mosley said. | ||||||||||||||||||
"It was more than he was willing to contend with," Mosley said. | ||||||||||||||||||
Mosley asked Robison to take a drug test; and after Robison
consulted with his attorney, he declined to take the drug test and
resigned, Mosley said. | ||||||||||||||||||
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He previously was chief of the Battlefield, Mo., police department,
until he was suspended without pay last year as police investigated
missing evidence. | ||||||||||||||||||
Robison was suspended without pay as authorities investigated
another police officer for allegedly stealing a switchblade seized
during an earlier traffic stop, according to a story published last
year in The Springfield News-Leader. | ||||||||||||||||||
Although Robison was not charged with any wrongdoing, the city
council refused to reinstate him to his position. | ||||||||||||||||||
Robison was hired at Cotter to replace Ron Weaver, who stepped down from police chief to assistant police chief in February. | ||||||||||||||||||
In April, Mosley fired Weaver, citing declining performance of the
department. | ||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (14-18) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
While Californians suffered more setbacks when yet another
dispensary was raided in Palm Springs, activists elsewhere were
pleasantly surprised to see years of effort bloom to fruition when a
"lowest enforcement priority" initiative makes the ballot next month
in small town Arkansas. | ||||||||||||||||||
Over in Wisconsin, the long established Annual Great Midwest
Marijuana Harvest Festival drew out hundreds of upright citizens,
aging hippies, medical patients and others who rallied for the
cause. Speaking of aging hippies, an oped about Colorado's Amendment
44 brings the counterculture issue into sharp focus - it's a good
read. | ||||||||||||||||||
Medical researchers should look into an incredible claim from a man
in Canada who has helped many people cure cancer, arthritis and many
other debilitating conditions with his homemade cannabis oil that he
gives away. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(14) FEDS RAID MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARY (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
A medical marijuana-laced "tip" left for an employee at Palm
Springs' Spa Resort Casino in September ended with a | ||||||||||||||||||
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As of Wednesday afternoon, no arrests had been made, but the
investigation was continuing, said Sgt. Mitch Spike of the Palm
Springs Police Department, which also took part in the search.
Efforts to contact representatives of Palm Springs Caregivers on
Wednesday were unsuccessful. | ||||||||||||||||||
The raid further clouded the air for medical marijuana users and dispensaries in the Coachella Valley. Riverside County District Attorney Grover Trask last month issued an opinion stating that dispensaries are illegal under both federal and state law. | ||||||||||||||||||
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"We're not going to go after the suffering cancer patient; we aren't
that insensitive," Wyatt said. "We're concerned about these
dispensaries that disguise themselves as they're selling marijuana
illegally." | ||||||||||||||||||
Jitters about the raid and county policy temporarily closed down
Palm Springs' other dispensary, the Collective Apothecary of Palm
Springs and CannaHelp in Palm Desert. | ||||||||||||||||||
CannaHelp reopened Wednesday afternoon, and owner Stacy Hochanadel said the dispensary was seeing many Palm Springs patients. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(15) ARKANSAS HAMLET PUTS POT'S PRIORITY TO A VOTE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. -- Here in the heart of the Bible Belt, where
local laws often restrict the sale of liquor, grass-roots campaigns
to decriminalize marijuana have gone nowhere. But to the surprise of
pot enthusiasts across the state, residents in the small tourist
town of Eureka Springs will vote next month on whether to make
misdemeanor marijuana arrests the city's lowest law enforcement
priority. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Volunteers have been circulating petitions for years, but "it's been
like talking to a brick wall," said Glen Schwarz, NORML's Little
Rock director. "The jails in Arkansas are full of pot smokers caught
by people who think they've arrested Al Capone.... Maybe this will
crack open the door." | ||||||||||||||||||
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"A lot of people here don't see anything wrong with marijuana, but
it's against the law to possess it in Arkansas. Until they change
the state law, we're going to uphold it," said Sgt. Shelley Summers
of the Eureka Springs Police Department. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Tucked into a remote hollow in the northwest Arkansas hills, Eureka Springs has been called the most eccentric town in the state, the largest open-air asylum in the country, a place where misfits fit. | ||||||||||||||||||
The town's population of 2,278 is a mix of conservative Christians
and aging hippies who, as they tell it, wandered into the area
around 1973 and never left. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Because the town is a hodgepodge of people and opinions, no one really knows how the vote will turn out. There are plenty like Doug Green, 47, who shrugged and said: "Pot isn't a big deal here. It just isn't. I don't think that law will change anything or make people smoke more. It's what goes on here all the time anyway." | ||||||||||||||||||
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(16) MARIJUANA FEST IGNITES FIGHT FOR LEGALIZATION (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
The skies were clear but a haze hung over hundreds of marijuana
activists as they paraded up State Street to the Capitol for the
36th Annual Great Midwest Marijuana Harvest Festival. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Marijuana proponents have been fighting to legalize cannabis for
decades since its criminalization in 1937, and local activist and
Harvest Festival organizer Ben Masel believes they are slowly making
headway. | ||||||||||||||||||
"We've gotten a lot better, at least at the political level, at
stopping new bad legislation," Masel said. "A lot of progress is
happening on hemp agriculture." | ||||||||||||||||||
[snip] | ||||||||||||||||||
Storck, Miller and other activists will be traveling throughout the
state before the Nov. 7 election in an attempt to get candidates'
positions on record regarding the legalization of cannabis for
medicinal purposes. | ||||||||||||||||||
Storck cited a 2002 poll conducted by his activist group "Is my medicine legal yet?" (IMMLY) that reported over 80 percent of Wisconsin residents support legalized medical marijuana. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Cassius, a Gary, Indiana native, says he never used drugs before
joining the military but now smokes pot on a daily basis to "mellow
out" since he came home to a life of unemployment and | ||||||||||||||||||
"A lot of rich guys, Caucasians, like to pull out their scotch with
two ice cubes," he said. "War gives you a gift, because when you
come back, you look at things differently." | ||||||||||||||||||
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(17) HIPPIE-HATING AND -BAITING | ||||||||||||||||||
Possession of an ounce of marijuana by adults will be legal if
Colorado's Amendment 44 wins. On one side are legalization activists
fresh from a victory in Denver; on the other is the federal Drug
Enforcement Agency, mobilizing Coloradoans to resist. The voters
stand between in what may be the most important issue on this fall's
ballot. | ||||||||||||||||||
Amendment 44 is about more than marijuana: It's about civil rights
and America's future. | ||||||||||||||||||
"Yeah, the '60s are over with," the man growls, "but they forgot to
tell them that up in Boulder." Or, apparently, in a good portion of
Colorado. Today, hippies aren't supposed to exist; yet, look around,
and there they are, the majority of whom had yet to be born when the
'60s ended. I'd estimate that nationally, hippies comprise about 10
percent of the population; in Colorado, that figure is probably
higher. | ||||||||||||||||||
[snip] | ||||||||||||||||||
So, it's not just hippies getting hurt; it's all of America. To the extent a society has an official pariah group, it tends to become ugly and repressive -- could Hitler have come to power, for instance, without widespread and institutionalized anti-Semitism? | ||||||||||||||||||
For 40 years, America has treated hippie-Americans as illegitimate,
second-class citizens. The results have been catastrophic: The Bill
of Rights, particularly the Fourth Amendment, has been shredded.
Often, our elections have been driven by hippie-hating, and they've
been tainted by hippie-baiting (Newt Gingrich, for example, returned
the GOP to Congressional power in 1996 largely by branding the
Clintons "counterculture McGoverniks"). Neoconservatives blame
hippies for everything from urban decay to abortion to our loss in
Vietnam; when a minority is scapegoated, a nation turns from the
true source of its problems and thus from solving them. | ||||||||||||||||||
[snip] | ||||||||||||||||||
Coloradoans will hear manipulative appeals about "protecting our
children from drugs," but it's alcohol that's killing our kids;
pot-is-dangerous arguments are pretexts for repression. No, not all
hippies are pot smokers, and not all pot smokers are | ||||||||||||||||||
Only the most bigoted still doubt the African-American Civil Rights
Movement made America a better place; ultimately, civil rights
movements help societies. As part of a movement to secure the civil
rights of hippie-Americans, Amendment 44 is something Colorado and
this nation needs. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(18) MAN SAYS HEMP OIL CURED HIS CANCER (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
[snip] | ||||||||||||||||||
"The attention to this story is going across Canada and that means
people will find out about this hemp oil and what it can do to save
lives," Mr. Dwyer said Sunday. | ||||||||||||||||||
He was referring to an essential oil a local man produces from the
buds and leaves of the hemp plant. | ||||||||||||||||||
Mr. Dwyer, a past president of the Maccan legion, and other
executive members got into a spot of trouble with the Nova
Scotia/Nunavut Command of the Royal Canadian Legion because of the
oil. | ||||||||||||||||||
"I did research for over a year and a half, I spoke to at least 30
people with diseases like cancer and diabetes wounds who were cured
by this oil, and I felt we had a duty to make sure people knew of
this," he said. | ||||||||||||||||||
When notice of a meeting went out to the general public, doctors,
the RCMP and the legion's command in Halifax, the legion was told
the building couldn 't be used for the meeting. | ||||||||||||||||||
"It cured my sister's cancer and my wife's arthritis - she was
taking medicine and was still in horrible pain for 13 years - this
oil is amazing," said Mr. Dwyer, 51. | ||||||||||||||||||
"My father, who is 82 years old, was given 48 hours to live because
of his cancer and that was in June - I took him off all his
medicines and gave him this oil and he's cured." | ||||||||||||||||||
The provincial command suspended the legion's charter and ousted its executive members last Wednesday when they continued to ignore orders forbidding meetings on the hemp oil at the legion. | ||||||||||||||||||
[snip] | ||||||||||||||||||
The man who makes the oil and gives it away for free said Sunday he
believes the cure for cancer and many other illnesses lies in the
thick, yellow grease he extracts from the plant. | ||||||||||||||||||
"This whole community recognizes the good done by this oil and they're really up in arms over this whole thing," Rick Simpson said. | ||||||||||||||||||
He said he first discovered the healing components of the oil when
he was diagnosed with skin cancer four years ago. | ||||||||||||||||||
[snip] | ||||||||||||||||||
"That's why I'm so grateful the media is involved - we can get the
message out." | ||||||||||||||||||
Mr. Simpson was charged last year after the RCMP raided his property
and seized more than 1,200 marijuana plants. | ||||||||||||||||||
He pleaded not guilty to one count each of possession of less than
30 grams of marijuana, possession of less than three kilograms of
cannabis resin for the purpose of trafficking, and growing
marijuana. The case is still before the courts. | ||||||||||||||||||
Mr. Simpson also ran as an Independent in the January federal
election. | ||||||||||||||||||
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International News | ||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (19-22) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
When politicians need votes, they "get tough" on "drugs" by creating
new drug-related offenses, or by piling on new punishments (jail)
for existing drug crimes. But what happens when the tables are
turned, and politicians are unexpectedly drug tested? In Italy last
week, politicians banned a TV program when it was revealed the show
had secretly tested the politicians for drugs. "[A]lmost one third
had taken drugs in the previous 36 hours, 12 of them testing
positive for cannabis and four for cocaine." The government's
censoring of the show created a firestorm of protest. "Absurd laws
have been passed which punish kids for smoking a joint, and then we
find that among the highest political offices people are taking too
much cocaine," noted Green party leader and Environment Minister
Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio. | ||||||||||||||||||
Authoritarians like to make a big show of getting "tough" on "crime"
and right-wing Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is no
exception. "Getting tough" in this case, means finding an excuse to
expand jails and lock up more people, never mind that actual crime
rates have been falling for years in Canada. New laws criminalising
more people are to be passed, an influx of new "criminals" (read:
drug users) is expected to fill jails even more. Already scavengers
are queuing up for the spoils. "It's going to have a major effect on
our system. We will need more room in our prisons, we will need more
prosecutors," chirped Newfoundland's Conservative justice minister,
Tom Marshall. One challenge facing conservative jailers is how to
sell the expansion as going after "violent" criminals, while in
reality packing prisons with non-violent drug (cannabis) offenders,
as is done in the U.S. to the south. | ||||||||||||||||||
In Australia, police issued a warning about benzylpiperaznie (BZP) a
so-called "party drug" that is legal in New Zealand, but banned in
Australia. BZP, claimed police, has been "linked" to "one death,"
and possession of the drug could bring a term of up to two years in
an Aussie jail. BZP, sometimes taken as a substitute for MDMA, can
cause "increased heart rate, nausea, headache, fatigue, insomnia,
seizures, confusion and memory loss." | ||||||||||||||||||
Meanwhile in the U.K., politicians there are in a huff over the
existence of nitrous oxide (a.k.a., laughing gas), because, "it
emerged youths in Mendlesham are using the gas to 'get high'." While
nitrous has been available as a whipped-cream propellant for years,
the U.K. Evening Star newspaper finds this "alarmingly" serious
situation is no laughing matter, for "the substance is widely
available on the internet." In addition to the dangers of
asphyxiation, huffing laughing gas "directly from the canister can
cause frostbite of the nose, lips and vocal chords," (not to mention
pulmonary necrosis.) For an ideal gas law, "I think authorities
should look at regulating this," stated Upper Gipping councillor
Jeremy Clover. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(19) TV SHOW BLOCKED AFTER EXPOSING POLITICIANS' DRUG USE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
ROME - Italy's privacy authority has suspended transmission of a
satirical TV programme which found widespread drug use among
politicians, but the decision only fanned the storm created by the
show's report. | ||||||||||||||||||
The programme, Le Iene, announced it had secretly tested 50 lower
house deputies for illegal substances and found almost one third had
taken drugs in the previous 36 hours, 12 of them testing positive
for cannabis and four for cocaine. | ||||||||||||||||||
[snip] | ||||||||||||||||||
Several of the 50 deputies tested appealed for the programme to be
aired, and right-wing member of the European Parliament, Alessandra
Mussolini, the granddaughter of wartime dictator Benito Mussolini,
said the decision showed Italy was governed by an illiberal
"regime". | ||||||||||||||||||
"The censoring of a journalistic inquiry is a grave episode which I
will take to the European Parliament, it's an absolute disgrace,"
she said. | ||||||||||||||||||
[snip] | ||||||||||||||||||
Liberal pressure groups said the Iene had unveiled the hypocrisy
behind Italy's stringent drugs laws, a position backed by
Environment Minister Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio, leader of the Green
party. | ||||||||||||||||||
"Absurd laws have been passed which punish kids for smoking a joint,
and then we find that among the highest political offices people are
taking too much cocaine," he said. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(20) PROVINCES WANT HELP TO FINANCE TORY CRIME PLAN (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
[snip] | ||||||||||||||||||
"Obviously, all ministers are going to be interested in the impacts of the federal criminal justice reforms and how that will affect the provincial justice systems," said Newfoundland's Conservative justice minister, Tom Marshall, who will chair the meeting. | ||||||||||||||||||
"It's going to have a major effect on our system. We will need more room in our prisons, we will need more prosecutors and we will need more legal-aid lawyers, so it's going to have a financial effect." | ||||||||||||||||||
Tougher law-and-order measures are a central element of the Harper
government's agenda. | ||||||||||||||||||
Last spring, Mr. Toews and Mr. Day introduced legislation that, if
passed, will put more people in jail and keep them there longer. One
proposal is to impose minimum mandatory jail terms for a variety of
gun-related crimes. Another proposal calls for severely restricting
conditional sentences such as house arrest. | ||||||||||||||||||
[snip] | ||||||||||||||||||
The two-day gathering is Mr. Toews's and Mr. Day's first with their
provincial counterparts. A top item is prospective changes to laws
governing dangerous offenders. | ||||||||||||||||||
The Conservatives are expected to table a bill this fall that will
make it easier for prosecutors to seek dangerous-offender status, a
designation that jails an offender indefinitely. | ||||||||||||||||||
The government's plan would make it a presumption that certain sex
offenders and violent offenders would be declared dangerous
offenders after committing three serious crimes, unless they can
present a compelling case to the contrary. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(21) POLICE WARNING ON INTERNET PARTY DRUGS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
POTENTIALLY fatal drugs that are legal in New Zealand but banned in
Australia are being ordered over the internet and sent here through
the post. | ||||||||||||||||||
Police today warned that possession of the synthetic | ||||||||||||||||||
[snip] | ||||||||||||||||||
"While these companies have not broken any laws in New Zealand, NSW
residents receiving packages of tablets containing BZP face
prosecution and possible jail time," he said. | ||||||||||||||||||
The drugs could produce increased heart rate, nausea, headache,
fatigue, insomnia, seizures, confusion and memory loss. | ||||||||||||||||||
There had been at least one death linked to BZP, Det-Supt Laidlaw
said. | ||||||||||||||||||
[snip] | ||||||||||||||||||
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(22) CALL FOR GAS LAW REFORM (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
A SUFFOLK councillor has today called for tighter regulation of
nitrous oxide after it emerged youths in Mendlesham are using the
gas to "get high". | ||||||||||||||||||
As reported in later editions of The Evening Star yesterday, youths
in Mendlesham have taken to using potentially lethal nitrous oxide
to get a euphoric buzz. | ||||||||||||||||||
New and used cartridges of the substance, commonly known as laughing
gas, have been found in the village and the parish council has sent
out letters to residents to flag up the issue. | ||||||||||||||||||
Alarmingly, The Evening Star has discovered the substance is widely
available on the internet. | ||||||||||||||||||
Jeremy Clover, county councillor for Upper Gipping, said he was concerned by news of the alarming trend and has called for tighter regulation of the substance, which is not illegal to possess. | ||||||||||||||||||
"I think authorities should look at regulating this," Mr Clover
said. | ||||||||||||||||||
[snip] | ||||||||||||||||||
- Inhaling nitrous oxide directly from the canister can cause
frostbite of the nose, lips and vocal chords. | ||||||||||||||||||
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HOT OFF THE 'NET (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
HOUSE OF DEATH INFORMANT FINGERS MEXICAN, U.S. GOVERNMENTS | ||||||||||||||||||
By Bill Conroy, | ||||||||||||||||||
Posted on Thu Oct 12th, 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||
The House of Death informant Guillermo Ramirez Peyro on Aug. 11, 2005,
provided testimony, under oath, as part of his deportation removal
proceedings before a U.S. Immigration court in Bloomington, Minn.
Narco News just obtained a copy of the transcript of that testimony,
which can only be described as startling in parts and puzzling on other
fronts. | ||||||||||||||||||
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NEARLY ONE IN EIGHT US DRUG PRISONERS ARE BEHIND BARS FOR POT | ||||||||||||||||||
Taxpayers Spending Over $1 Billion Annually To Incarcerate Pot Offenders | ||||||||||||||||||
October 12, 2006 - Washington, DC, USA | ||||||||||||||||||
Washington, DC: Nearly one in eight drug prisoners in America are
behind bars for marijuana-related offenses, according to data released
this week by the US Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics
(BJS). | ||||||||||||||||||
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DUTCH CONSERVATIVES CRACK DOWN ON COFFEE SHOPS | ||||||||||||||||||
By Dara Colwell, AlterNet. Posted October 12, 2006. | ||||||||||||||||||
Is the Dutch government wrecking Amsterdam's reputation as Europe's
most liberal, "anything goes" destination? | ||||||||||||||||||
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PAIN PATIENTS, PAIN CONTRACTS, AND THE WAR ON DRUGS | ||||||||||||||||||
from Drug War Chronicle, Issue #457, 10/13/06 | ||||||||||||||||||
Pain contracts. Pain management contracts. Medication contracts. Opioid
contracts. Pain agreements. They go by different names, but they all
mean the same thing: A signed agreement between doctor and patient that
lays out the conditions under which the patient will be prescribed
opioid pain medications for the relief of chronic pain. | ||||||||||||||||||
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MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES NEWS UPDATE | ||||||||||||||||||
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MARIJUANA BALLOT INITIATIVE CAMPAIGN VIDEO | ||||||||||||||||||
A reality TV production company is filming a feature-length documentary
on MPP's campaign to tax and regulate marijuana in Nevada - and
releasing short weekly "webisodes" along the way. Watch the first one
here: | ||||||||||||||||||
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MARIJUANA CAMPAIGN REFUTES THE DRUG CZAR | ||||||||||||||||||
DENVER -- Federal drug czar John P. Walters barnstormed through
Colorado and Nevada this week to criticize two ballot initiatives
that would legalize marijuana as polls showed the proposals inching
too close for comfort. | ||||||||||||||||||
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WHAT YOU CAN DO THIS WEEK (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
STUDENTS FOR SENSIBLE DRUG POLICY HIRING A LEGISLATIVE DIRECTOR | ||||||||||||||||||
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CLINICAL MDMA RESEARCH PROGRAM IN SAN FRANCISCO SEEKS NURSE | ||||||||||||||||||
The Addiction Pharmacology Research Lab (APRL), part of California
Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, is seeking to hire a
licensed vocational nurse (LVN). APRL's NIH-funded research (1)
investigates the pharmacology of MDMA and other psychoactives, and
(2) seeks to develop innovative treatments for addiction,
principally to methamphetamine. | ||||||||||||||||||
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LETTER OF THE WEEK (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Drug Tests In Schools Is Not American Way | ||||||||||||||||||
By Charley Jensen | ||||||||||||||||||
* School drug testing sounds like witch hunt, Sept. 24 Times
editorial, and Drug tests benefit kids, parents, Sept. 29 letter to
the editor from Calvina Fay.* | ||||||||||||||||||
Are the citizens of Hernando County aware of Fay's economic interest
in selling drug detection kits to the county? | ||||||||||||||||||
Calvina Fay is the executive director of Drug Free America
Foundation and operated a company that sold test kits to businesses
and agencies. Anything she says has to be weighed against the
potential economic conflict of interest she represents. | ||||||||||||||||||
Further confusion stems from the vision of our state and nation that
she and superintendent Wendy Tellone seem to endorse, where innocent
teens would be subject to invasive testing that tells them the "Land
of the free and home of the brave" is only so much jingoistic
propaganda shovelled at them in civics classes. Tellone seems to
desire "The land of the guilty until proven innocent" motif for our
students and our state. | ||||||||||||||||||
I think students would benefit far more from increased education and
counseling to help them to understand the dangers of certain drugs
and the ways to cope with the peer pressure that they are subject
to. As to the availability of federal funds just needing a program
to be spent on, remember that with federal largesse comes strings,
long, entangling strings attached to chains that an independent
school board ought to be very leery of. | ||||||||||||||||||
Finally, it is true that more than half of all graduating seniors
have experimented to some degree with some form of illegal
substances, usually marijuana, and we cannot as a society afford to
make them all into criminals with records and forced vacations in
gray-bar hotels, where they become marked for life and unable to
become fully functioning members of society. | ||||||||||||||||||
What Fay and Tellone propose is foolish, counterproductive and, most
important, contrary to what I like to think of as "The American
Way". | ||||||||||||||||||
Charlie Jensen | ||||||||||||||||||
Lecanto | ||||||||||||||||||
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FEATURE ARTICLE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Staff Member Profile: About Richard Lake | ||||||||||||||||||
by Richard Lake | ||||||||||||||||||
Born and raised in Chisholm, Minnesota on the Mesabi Iron Range, I
attribute my activist leanings to the radical elements there, best
illustrated by the movie 'North Country.' Born in 1940, I am now 66.
At age four, I played with a boy named Bob Zimmerman, but I knew him
best during his last years in high school. Today, he is better known
as Bob Dylan. | ||||||||||||||||||
Graduating with high honors from Bemidji State, I completed a year
of grad work at Northern Michigan U. There, I helped start two
opposing 'underground' student newspapers to scare the | ||||||||||||||||||
My first involvement with drug policy was in 1972 as a county
coordinator for the California Marijuana Initiative (CMI) while
living in Vallejo, California. My Vallejo crew worked intensively on
signature gathering for this last 'people power' initiative to make
the California ballot without paid gatherers. | ||||||||||||||||||
The largest single difference between 1972 and today is, without
question, the internet. Back then, we nearly went broke just making
statewide phone calls. | ||||||||||||||||||
Jump ahead to 30 December 1996, a day which will live in infamy for
me. I was stunned by the response of our government to the passage
of Prop. 215. There, on all the TV news shows, was our drug czar
blasting the initiative as Cheech and Chong medicine - and telling
flat out lies about my friend from '72, Dr. Tod Mikuriya. This led
to my seeking ways to do something from my computer which would have
some impact outside of the 'net. Through Usenet groups, I found MAP,
an email list then of folks working to get LTEs published from our
side. | ||||||||||||||||||
By the Spring of 1997, I was a volunteer editor at MAP, and when the
tasks grew enough so that more than one editor was needed, I became
Senior Editor. Today my greatest joy in life is working with the MAP
volunteers. The editors are just like family to me. My pet peeve is
folks who seem to think that the U.S. press is not free - that it is
simply a propaganda tool of the government or special interests.
Every day I see proof on the editorial pages of newspapers which is
very much to the contrary. | ||||||||||||||||||
I am a retired Army Warrant Officer, with tours at the Presidio of
San Francisco, Ft. Polk, Korea, Fort Knox, Germany, and Pittsburgh.
For seven years, I also worked as a Department of the Army civilian
for the ROTC battalion at the University of Toledo. | ||||||||||||||||||
I live with my wife, Anita, in a top floor apartment in a large old
brick house with a view of Lake Michigan in Escanaba, Michigan,
which is in the Upper Peninsula, or what folks call Yooperland, and
often wish was a part of Canada. Al Capone once stayed in what is
now my bedroom. | ||||||||||||||||||
Richard Lake, MAP's Sr. Editor, leads the team of hundreds
volunteers, newshawks and editors, who make the MAP news clipping
service work. | ||||||||||||||||||
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