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THIS JUST IN (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(1) DEA DATA LEAKS ARE ALLEGED (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
BOGOTA - The former director of Colombia's FBI, known as DAS, ordered
that information compromising agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration be leaked to drug traffickers, former DAS official
Rafael Garcia has told government investigators. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Garcia, once chief of DAS' computer systems, confirmed to El Nuevo
Herald in a telephone interview from prison that he has told Supreme
Court investigators that Jorge Noguera ordered him to deliver the
information to the traffickers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"I carried the information in hard disks or in USB memory, per
instructions from Noguera," said Garcia, who this month was sentenced
to 18 years in prison for corruption. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Garcia has made several allegations against Noguera, who resigned from
the DAS last year. Prosecutors are investigating Noguera, but he has
been out of the country. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
According to Garcia, he delivered the top-secret information to intermediaries for Rodrigo Tovar Pupo, an alleged trafficker and one of the top leaders of Colombia's illegal paramilitary groups. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Garcia said he specifically remembered delivering details of a vast
operation being prepared by the DEA, together with Colombian antidrug
agencies, to tap the telephones of drug traffickers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(2) SURGE IN VIOLENCE SHOCKS EVEN WEARY MEXICO (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Drug Killings Nearly Doubled in Past Year
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ZIHUATANEJO, Mexico -- Andres Sauzo collects newspapers, astoundingly
grisly newspapers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
There's the one with the close-up shot of a severed human head. There's the one with the wide-angle of a man hacked to death with a machete. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
But the worst in his bulky archive of drug-war gore rolled off the presses the day after someone found pieces of what used to be Sauzo's 24-year-old namesake. A hit man had decapitated Sauzo's son, then chopped off his arms and legs. The killer was so unconcerned about being brought to justice that he scrawled his own name and nickname -- "El Barby" -- on a note left with the mutilated corpse. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Still, Sauzo's mother, Cristina Gomez, didn't bother to go to the
police. "Why waste my time?" she said in an interview. "This is the way
it is in a town without laws."
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Gomez's reaction and the audacity of Sauzo's murder -- one of 11
decapitations in the state of Guerrero this year and one of 2,000
killings in a nationwide war between rival drug cartels -- are
symptomatic of the unraveling of the rule of law that has plagued
Mexico for years. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
But in the past year, the number of spectacularly gruesome killings and the intensity of civil unrest have spiked to such alarming levels that even Mexicans who were once hardened by years of violence are shocked. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(3) FOR SUB HOBBYISTS, SMUGGLERS' CRAFT IS MERELY SUBPAR (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
A Drug Bust Near Costa Rica Captivates Underworld of Garage Tinkerers | ||||||||||||||||||||||
This month, the Coast Guard detained four men who were allegedly trying to smuggle 3.5 tons of cocaine meant for the U.S. News accounts of the Nov. 16 bust, about 90 miles southwest of Costa Rica, described their unusual vessel as a 50-foot homemade fiberglass submarine. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
That caught the attention of a busy netherworld of hobbyists who build
submarines in their garages. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"The captured drug-sub appears to be amateurish in construction and not nearly as seaworthy as the subs we have seen, designed and built," said Jon Wallace, a software engineer for Hewlett-Packard in Weare, N.H. In 1996 he cofounded the Personal Submersibles Organization, which now counts about 13,000 visitors per month to its Web site, psubs.org. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"Semi-submersible at best," sniffed another critic in a posting on the
group's site. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
After reading reports and seeing photographs of the captured vessel,
hobbyists concluded that the gray drug craft was crudely constructed
and not a serious attempt at building a submarine. Some said it was
more a boat meant to blend into the water, skim just below the surface,
travel long distances and avoid radar detection. A giveaway was that it
was made of fiberglass -- which is generally not a good material for
building a submersible vessel, they say. It also had a squarish design
rather than the cylindrical shape required to withstand pressure and
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Law-enforcement agencies from Colombia to California are increasingly worried about drug-stuffed submarines slinking along beneath the seas. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(4) OPED: 50 SHOTS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Around 4 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 25, several New York City police
officers in plain clothes fired an estimated 50 shots at a car,
wounding two black men and killing a third, 23-year-old Sean Bell. Some
police bullets penetrated nearby homes. Although an undercover officer
had called for back-up, indicating that the three suspects had a gun,
no weapon was found in the aftermath. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Inescapably, comparisons were made between Mr. Bell (who was to have
been married later on Saturday) and Amadou Diallo, an unarmed African
immigrant killed in a volley of 41 bullets by four NYPD plainclothes
officers in February 1999. Mr. Diallo had committed no crime and was
attempting to enter his own hallway when one of the undercover officers
yelled, "Gun!" The four officers were acquitted in a trial held outside
the city, based upon their defense that they reasonably believed their
lives were in danger. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
In both cases, the NYPD accurately cited statistics indicating that it had a comparatively low shooting rate, and that shootings by police were not rising. And in both instances, New York's black leaders and black communities reacted with understandable outrage that unarmed black men were killed with such a volume of gunfire. Both sides seemed to be talking past one another, instead of to each other. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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WEEKLY NEWS IN REVIEW (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Domestic News- Policy
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COMMENT: (5-8) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
As we enter cold and flu season, average citizens may have more
trouble finding relief, thanks to the drug war, or more
specifically, the war on meth. Pseudoephedrine has been placed
behind pharmacy counters due to state and federal anti-meth laws, so
many companies have reformulated popular products with another
active ingredient that is still legal to sell over the counter.
There's one problem, though: phenylyphine, the other active
ingredient, just doesn't work as well as pseudoephedrine, according
to both lab tests and real world experience. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
At the same time states and feds have been up in arms over meth, and creating policies which help foreign importers of the drug, there are signs that other demonized drugs are becoming more popular too. For example, if recent statistics are to be believed, heroin use is increasing again in Indiana. And, in a somewhat related story, the FDA has released a new advisory warning about methadone. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finally this week, the state drug czar of Idaho and the governor
discuss drug testing every state employee. This demonstrates the
level of nitwit ideas that start getting tossed around when any
state creates the position of state-wide drug czar. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(5) MANY COLD MEDS AREN'T WHAT THEY USED TO BE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Drug makers have reformulated some brands to comply with meth laws,
but critics say the new mixes are worthless. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
WASHINGTON - Nose stuffed up? Grabbing a decongestant from the
drugstore or supermarket shelf may not provide the relief it did
just weeks ago. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Makers of dozens of nonprescription oral nasal decongestants sold
under familiar brand names such as Dimetapp, Sudafed, Tylenol,
Vicks, Benadryl and Triaminic recently changed an active ingredient
in some of their products to avoid a new federal mandate that the
meds be sold behind the counter. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Now a number of pharmaceutical experts and one influential member of
Congress are questioning whether replacing pseudoephedrine -- which
is subject to sales restrictions -- with the ingredient
phenylephrine has made many of the over-the-counter remedies largely
useless in clearing up nasal congestion. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"At the maximum 10 milligram dose, phenylephrine is no more effective than a placebo. It's like shooting blanks," said Leslie Hendeles, a research pharmacist at the University of Florida. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
John Colazzi, dean of Rutgers University's Ernest Mario School of
Pharmacy, said phenylephrine had not been widely used for years
because of its "limited effectiveness."The impression I have is that
phenylephrine isn't that good of a nasal decongestant, and not as
effective as pseudoephedrine," Colazzi said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Drugmakers began switching to phenylephrine as an active ingredient
for some of their nonprescription decongestants and allergy
medicines because of the Combat Methamphetamine Act, which was
signed into law in March by President Bush and went into effect on
Sept. 30.
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(6) HEROIN USAGE ON RISE IN INDIANA (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Number Of Cases In 06 Could Hit 700, Nearly Double Last Year's | ||||||||||||||||||||||
INDIANAPOLIS -- Authorities say heroin has become increasingly easier to find in Indianapolis and other parts of the state. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The Indiana State Police estimate they will investigate nearly 700
heroin cases this year -- twice as many as last year and triple the
number of cases in 2004. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"I'm seeing a lot, lot more heroin," said Jamie Guilfoy, with the
Indianapolis Police Department. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Guilfoy and other IPD narcotics investigators have confiscated more
than 2 pounds of heroin this year, more than 10 times what they
seized in 2005. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
A 2006 Indiana University survey found that 2.2 percent of high
school seniors in Indiana have tried intravenous drugs. Although
that's a small percentage of all seniors, the number marks a 25
percent jump from the previous year. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
If heroin continues to become more popular, police say, there could
be an increase in burglaries, thefts and robberies. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(7) ADVISORY ISSUED ON METHADONE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The drug could kill or seriously hurt new patients taking it for
pain, the FDA says. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Methadone, used for decades to treat heroin addicts, may lead to death or life-threatening complications among some patients newly taking the drug for pain, federal health officials said yesterday | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The Food and Drug Administration warned doctors about the risk of
accidental overdoses or dangerous interactions with other drugs if
patients get too much methadone too often. Some have died, stopped
breathing, or had irregular heartbeats, the agency said in a notice
on its Web site. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Doctors should closely monitor people receiving methadone for the
first time, even if they have taken other strong painkillers before,
regulators said. Methadone can stay in the body more then two days,
even though its painkilling effect wears off within eight hours,
leaving some patients wanting more relief before their next
scheduled dosage. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(8) TESTING THE STATE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Risch, Drug Czar Ponder Drug Tests For All State Employees | ||||||||||||||||||||||
In an effort to set a good example for private businesses last
month, Gov. Jim Risch said that he wants to make state government a
"drug-free workplace."
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He never really elaborated on the concept. But since then, Risch and
the state Drug Czar Jim Tibbs said they are considering expanding
drug testing to all state agencies and employees. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"If Idaho state government is concerned about the use of drugs,
particularly methamphetamine, we've got to walk the talk," Tibbs
said. "And this is how you do it."
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Getting there won't be easy, and Tibbs admitted that drug testing in
state government would be controversial and would require a massive
education process. Further, he said, he would want to have treatment
options available for employees who do test positive for illegal
drug use. He said that would be preferable to just firing the
employees and calling the police. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Last week, after a 92-year-old woman was shot to death by Atlanta police during an apparently botched drug raid, police insisted an informant bought drugs at the house, and that the raid was not a mistake. A few days later, the informant denied that he had bought any drugs at that house. Police then quickly and publicly identified the informant, making some observers wonder about his safety. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The belief that there is a faith-based law enforcement solution to
drug problems was shattered in a city where the faith-based police
officer has been arrested on corruption charges. Also last week,
Pennsylvania hunters are asked to be on the lookout for meth labs,
while the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a case which may have tested
the limits of drug-sniffing police dogs. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(9) INFORMANT IN SHOOTING SAYS HE NEVER BOUGHT DRUGS AT HOUSE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Says He Was Asked to Lie
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The confidential informant on whose word Atlanta police raided the house of an 88-year-old woman is now saying he never purchased drugs from her house and was told by police to lie and say he did. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chief Richard Pennington, in a press conference Monday evening, said
his department learned two days ago that the informant -- who has
been used reliably in the past by the narcotics unit -- denied
providing information to officers about a drug deal at 933 Neal
Street in northwest Atlanta. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"The informant said he had no knowledge of going into that house and
purchasing drugs," Pennington said. "We don't know if he's telling
the truth."
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The search warrant used by Atlanta police to raid the house says that a confidential informant had bought crack cocaine at the residence, using $50 in city funds, several hours before the raid. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
In the document, officers said that the informant told them the
house had surveillance cameras that the suspected drug dealer,
called "Sam," monitored. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pennington on Monday evening said the informant told the Internal
Affairs Unit hat he did not tell officers that the house had
surveillance equipment, and that he was asked to lie. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(10) ARREST OF 'SAINT' SHOCKS CAMDEN (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Good cop and bad cop? Thought to be a shining example, a born-again Camden officer is accused of allegedly helping the bad guys. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
On the day Cpl. Michael Hearne was appointed to lead the faith-based
efforts of the Camden Police Department, he drove to a seedy
supermarket to meet an old friend. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The friend had a proposition: Lend me a gun to rob drug dealers, and
I'll give you half the cash. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hearne agreed, according to state police. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
That was Monday, Nov. 6.
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The 42-year-old had just gotten a raise with his new job, organizing
church leaders to help fight crime in Camden. But he was still
broke. There was a six-figure tax lien against his Woodbury suburban
rancher. And he was moonlighting as a security guard.
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Investigators caught his entire conversation on tape. Later that
week, Hearne was arrested as he thought he was about to meet with
the friend to divvy up the loot. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
City leaders were thunderstruck at the news of the arrest. No one
believed that the born-again Christian and 18-year police veteran
might be living a double life. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"He was a saint and did the work of 50 persons," said Camden Mayor
Gwendolyn Faison. "I don't see how anyone could do so many good
things and be accused of this."
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(11) HUNTERS, BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR METH LABS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dumping near those "No Dumping" signs that dot the roadways through
rural Pennsylvania is a common sight, but some worry that the trash
might have a sinister source. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
In Michigan, for example, hunters have come across at least three
methamphetamine labs so far this hunting season, according to
reports from that state. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Materials used to make the drug are explosion hazards, state police said, making the manufacturing facilities highly dangerous and pushing their construction far away from population centers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
And, although no such lab has yet been found on a public hunting land owned by the Pennsylvania Game Commission, officials are asking hunters to be on the lookout for them as they join the million-man orange army marching into the Keystone State woods today. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(12) HIGH COURT WON'T DECIDE WHETHER DRUG-SNIFFING DOG VIOLATES (Top)PRIVACY | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned down a request to look at a
Florida appeals case that asks whether a police dog sniffing for
marijuana from outside a Hollywood residence constitutes a legal
search. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The issue came up when a Hollywood man was arrested in April 2002 on
drug charges, including possession of 64 marijuana plants, after a
police dog sniffed the front door of the man's house and alerted its
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Another small legal victory in California where the state Supreme
Court ruled state law protects patients with a doctor's
recommendation when transporting pot. The decision will affect
several cases by expanding the defense options and makes the law
clearer to all parties. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Our next two stories transport us to the Midwest where we chronicle
the before and after of the Michigan State House Government
Operations Committee hearing on House Bill 5470, which would allow
marijuana use under a doctor's supervision. Even though ordinances
permitting use of marijuana for medical purposes passed in Detroit,
Ferndale, Ann Arbor and Traverse City, lawmakers wimped out and took
no action. The bill will most likely die at the end of the year when
the legislative session ends and other means will be necessary to
try again. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"I learned a thing or two from ol' Charlie don't you know, You
better stay away from Copperhead Road" (Steve Earle 1988) Those
fighting words originated two decades ago in the Appalachia High
Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, and still ring true today, as the
next selection points out. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
A possible diplomatic crisis was averted when the daughter of a
former Kenyan MP was released from a Malaysian prison where she
faced possible execution after being arrested at the house of a
Saudi Arabian friend, in which four kilograms of marijuana were
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(13) JUSTICES RULE ON TRANSPORT OF MEDICINAL POT (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
State high court decision protects patients who carry marijuana for their own use. The action expands defense options, attorney says. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
SAN FRANCISCO -- People charged with transporting marijuana may avoid conviction if they can show that the drug was for their personal medical use, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
In a 6-1 decision, the state high court said California's medical
marijuana law protects patients who transport even relatively large
quantities of the drug if they can show that the amount was
consistent with their medical needs and recommended by a licensed
physician. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The court interpreted a 2004 law passed by the Legislature to
address uncertainties that followed voter passage of the
Compassionate Use Act of 1996. The attorney general's office said
the ruling would affect a handful of cases. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(14) HEARING SET ON MEDICAL POT USE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Proponents of medical marijuana in Michigan are gearing up for their cause's most significant initiative in the state in decades. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The Government Operations Committee of the Michigan State House on Tuesday will host a hearing in Lansing on House Bill 5470, which would allow marijuana use under a doctor's supervision. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Speakers will include Penny Bacchiochi, a Republican member of the
Connecticut state legislature, and Don Murphy, a former state
legislator from Maryland who now heads the Republicans for
Compassionate Access. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tuesday's hearing may have a lot to do with whether the issue ever
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The committee took no action, however, and the bill will die at the
end of the year when this legislative session ends. Rep. Leon
Drolet, the committee's chairman, said it will probably take a
petition drive to move the issue forward. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
In a separate action, a petition drive to allow recreational or medicinal use of marijuana on private property is moving forward. Organizers hope to have it on the November 2008 ballot. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Eleven states permit use of marijuana for medical purposes. Federal
laws prohibit marijuana possession, but state and local authorities
typically enforce state laws. In Michigan, Detroit, Ferndale, Ann
Arbor and Traverse City have enacted ordinances permitting use of
marijuana for medical purposes. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Scott Burns, deputy director of the White House Office on National Drug Policy, urged lawmakers not to approve the legislation. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
He said the Food and Drug Administration is responsible for
determining which drugs are safe and opposes legalizing medical
marijuana. Dangers from smoking marijuana outweigh any potential
benefits and legalizing it in some circumstances could hurt efforts
to reduce illegal drug use by young people, he said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(16) AFTER 20 YEARS, WAR ON MARIJUANA CHANGES (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Police destroyed more marijuana growing outdoors in Kentucky this
year than they had in more than a decade, according to numbers
compiled by state police. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
One factor in the increase was that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration brought in several helicopters and an airplane for six weeks during the summer, creating more opportunity for airborne spotters to find pot patches, said Lt. Ed Shemelya, head of the marijuana-eradication program for the Kentucky State Police. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"Anybody in this business will tell you the more eyes you get in the
sky, the more dope you'll find," Shemelya said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Police cut and burned 557,276 plants this year, up nearly 50,000
from the 2005 total and the most since 1995. Arrests also were up:
475 in 2006 compared to 452 in 2005. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
It's been 20 years since the state police and Kentucky National
Guard carried out their first coordinated effort to destroy
cultivated marijuana in 1986. The story since has been what Shemelya
calls a "cat and mouse game" in which each side has gotten more
sophisticated and changed tactics. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(17) DONDE DAUGHTER RELEASED (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Two Kenyan students who had been held in Malaysia on drug
trafficking allegations have been released. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Former Gem Member of Parliament Mr Joe Donde told journalists that
his daughter, Deborah Donde, and her friend, Emily Gathoni, were
released after tests for marijuana turned negative. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The two had been arrested at the house of a Saudi Arabian friend, in
which four kilogrammes of marijuana were found. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
On Monday, Foreign Affairs minister Raphael Tuju said the two
students had tested positive for marijuana and were facing the death
penalty if found guilty. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Drug traffickers in Malaysia face either death or life imprisonment when convicted. So far, Malaysia has executed 100 culprits, a third of them foreigners since 1981 when the anti-drugs laws were enacted. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The release of the two comes barely hours after Tuju announced that
yet another Kenyan, Olivia Munoko had been jailed for life in China
after she admitted being in possession of 1.8 killogrammes of
heroine. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Munoko was a fourth year Bachelor of Arts student at the University
of Nairobi. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (18-21) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
How do you win your drug wars when the troopers keep taking bribes?
That's another dilemma faced by prohibitionists trying to make
Afghanistan drug-free. "The majority of police chiefs are involved,"
said one source for a World Bank/U.N. report released this week.
Asserted UNODC director Antonio Maria Costa: "History teaches us
that it will take a generation to render Afghanistan opium-free."
Costa did not reveal precisely which areas have actually ever become
"opium-free."
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Vancouver MLA (Member of the Legislative Assembly), Lorne
Mayencourt, this week proposed that drug users be moved to special
work camps "where they can farm and produce their own goods"
(similar to chain-gangs found in the deep south in the U.S.). The
proposal, which was cooly received by "councillors and mayors" in a
presentation last week, was said to have garnered "positive feedback
from the Attorney-General and Solicitor-General." The MLA described
his idea for concentration of "addicts" into work-camps as a new
"fifth pillar of hope" to the so-called "Four Pillars" approach of
prevention, harm reduction, treatment and law enforcement. Under the
work-camp-for-addicts scheme proposed by Mayencourt, those swept
into such camps might end up there for "years" for "treatment" at
the camp. "This scares me a little," said Coquitlam Mayor Maxine
Wilson. "This is a form of institutionalization."
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The Bangkok Post last week lent tepid support to growing calls for
an investigation into the more than 2,500 summary executions of drug
suspects during the reign of the former Thaksin government in
Thailand. The "Thai people want to know how many of those killed in
the war on drugs were really drug dealers and how many were just
scapegoats." But this begs the question. If government knew they
were "dealers", then why not legally convict them in a court of law?
Yet if convictions could not be obtained, then how could police be
certain enough to summarily execute people? Many "believe they were
cases of extra-judicial killings carried out by law enforcement
officers," admitted the Post. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
We finish up this week with an article from the U.K. Herald newspaper about Jack Cole of an organization called Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. Cole was in Europe last week, and caught the attention of police in Scotland. Prohibition (a.k.a. "the war on drugs"), says Cole, has been an expensive failure. "[M]any of the people I was instrumental in getting arrested were simply users," admits Cole. "In 36 years we have made more than 37 million arrests for non-violent drug offences, yet today, drugs are cheaper, more potent and far easier to get than they were in 1970 at the beginning of this war, when I went under cover." He and other member of LEAP know how to stop the violence associated with illegal drugs. "When prohibition ended in the U.S. in 1933, Al Capone and all his smuggling buddies were out of business... If we legalise drugs, we will have the same benefits, plus many more." Cole was invited to Scotland by the chairman of Strathclyde Police Federation, Inspector Jim Duffy. Earlier this year, members of The Federation called for the legalization of all Class A drugs (like heroin and cocaine). "At the moment we have no control over drugs, whereas if they are legalised, we would have 75% or 80% control," noted Inspector Duffy. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(18) U.N.: AFGHAN POLICE AIDING OPIUM TRADE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
KABUL, Afghanistan --- Afghanistan's criminal underworld has compromised key government officials who protect drug traffickers, allowing a flourishing opium trade that will not be stamped out for a generation, an ominous U.N. report released Tuesday said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The fight against opium production has so far achieved only limited success, mostly because of corruption, the joint report from the World Bank and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The findings show a "probability of high-level (government) involvement" in drugs, said Doris Buddenberg, the UNODC's Afghanistan representative and co-editor of the report. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"The majority of police chiefs are involved," one senior police officer told the report's authors on condition of anonymity. "If you are not, you will be threatened to be killed and replaced." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Without naming officials, the report said it was possible that powerful interests in the Interior Ministry are appointing district police chiefs "to both protect and promote criminal interests." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The result is a "complex pyramid of protection and patronage,
effectively providing state protection to criminal trafficking
activities."
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The spokesman for the counter-narcotics ministry said there is no
evidence that high-ranking officials are involved in Afghanistan's
drug trade. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 210-page report, titled "Afghanistan's Drug Industry," is the first comprehensive assessment of the country's drug production, from poppy-growing farmers to international drug traffickers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"History teaches us that it will take a generation to render
Afghanistan opium-free," said Antonio Maria Costa, executive
director of UNODC. "Those driving the drug industry must be brought
to justice and officials who support it sacked."
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The $3.1 billion export value of last year's crop accounted for
around one-third of total economic activity in the country, and
about 13 percent of Afghans are involved in the trade. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(19) SEND ADDICTS TO COUNTRY, MLA URGES (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
District Board Cool To Mayencourt Plan To Set Up Rehab Programs On
B.C. Farms
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VANCOUVER -- Vancouver MLA Lorne Mayencourt's proposal to add a
fifth pillar to the four-pillar approach of dealing with addicts
from the Downtown Eastside -- moving them to a rural area where they
can farm and produce their own goods -- failed to catch fire at a
Greater Vancouver Regional District board meeting. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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But during his presentation to councillors and mayors of the region,
the Liberal MLA was questioned about his party's commitment to
helping the mentally ill, homeless and addicts. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
He said he has not yet taken his proposal to his government, but has
received positive feedback from the Attorney-General and
Solicitor-General. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Mr. Mayencourt said the four-pillars approach -- prevention, harm
reduction, treatment and enforcement -- needs a fifth pillar of
hope. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Under his proposal, addicts would live for months, even years, in a
rural area as part of their treatment. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Moving the disenfranchised to a rural site could create other
issues, Coquitlam Mayor Maxine Wilson said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"This scares me a little," she said. "This is a form of
institutionalization."
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Segregating the mentally ill, homeless and addicts doesn't deal with
how to integrate them into society, Ms. Wilson said.
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(20) IMPORTANT TO KNOW TRUTH ABOUT DRUG WAR (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
New investigations are set to begin into the death of more than
2,500 people in the war on drugs launched by the Thaksin government.
They are to determine how many of those killed were really drug
dealers. Former senator Kraisak Choonhavan has also called on the
Justice Ministry to look into suspected human rights violations in
the restive South. He met the permanent secretary for justice and
asked him to order the Department of Special Investigation to look
into these cases. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The Thaksin government launched the war on drugs in 2003 in response
to the growing addiction to methamphetamines among young Thais. The
Royal Thai Police Office instructed provincial officials to take
drastic action against drug dealers. As it was a war, performance
was judged by the number of drug dealers killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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We support any attempts by the interim Surayud government to look into these cases, which have tarnished the image of the country. Thai people want to know how many of those killed in the war on drugs were really drug dealers and how many were just scapegoats. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The investigation will contribute to the Surayud government's reform
of the justice system. Police have claimed that many of the deaths
were caused by drug dealers killing each other. But many believe
they were cases of extra-judicial killings carried out by law
enforcement officers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
It is important to unearth the truth so that corrective action can
be taken. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(21) HOW DO WE WIN THE WAR ON DRUGS? (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Jack Cole looks like a middle-aged tourist - and last week he was
visiting art galleries in Florence. Yesterday, however, he was on
some of Glasgow's meaner streets with a Strathclyde police officer
and a camera crew. When he takes off his jacket, his T-shirt reveals
in eye-catchingly large letters the slogan: "Cops say legalise
drugs. Ask me why."
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Now he is a spokesman for an organisation that campaigns for the
legalisation of drugs. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
His argument is that what politicians like to call the "war on
drugs" has been an expensive failure over the past 30 years. He
spent his final two years posing as a fugitive drug dealer wanted
for murder, while tracking members of a terrorist organisation that
robbed banks; planted bombs in corporate headquarters, courts,
police stations and aircraft; and ultimately murdered a police
officer. "These people would have killed me if they knew who I was,"
he says. "But many of the people I was instrumental in getting
arrested were simply users. "In 36 years we have made more than 37
million arrests for non-violent drug offences, yet today, drugs are
cheaper, more potent and far easier to get than they were in 1970 at
the beginning of this war, when I went under cover. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"When prohibition ended in the U.S. in 1933, Al Capone and all his
smuggling buddies were out of business. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
They were no longer killing each other to control the
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They were no longer killing cops. They were no longer killing children caught in crossfire - all the problems we have today. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
If we legalise drugs, we will have the same benefits, plus many
more. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control says 50% of all new cases
of hepatitis can be traced directly to sharing needles for drug use.
If drugs were legal, people would not have to share needles. "Under
alcohol prohibition, we had bathtub gin and people would go blind or
die from drinking it. If you prohibit something, there is no way to
control or regulate how it is produced. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cole has brought his message to Scotland at the invitation of
Inspector Jim Duffy, chairman of Strathclyde Police Federation.
Earlier this year, some of his 7700 members caused controversy when
they called for all Class A drugs, such as heroin and cocaine, to be
legalised. Duffy points out that legalisation is not the policy of
Strathclyde Police nor of the Scottish Police Federation, but says
increasing numbers of his members are frustrated that the present
drugs policies are not working and want serious consideration of
alternatives. "My members are complaining that as soon as they take
one drug dealer off the street, he is replaced by another, even
before they get him to the police station. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"At the moment we have no control over drugs, whereas if they are
legalised, we would have 75% or 80% control. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Says Cole: "When I give a talk in England or Scotland it is not to
tell you how to run your lives, but to warn you not to follow the
U.S. down the path to destruction and disaster. "We have spent more
than a trillion dollars on this war in 36 years and every year we
continue, we dump another $69bn down that same avenue. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
We have a saying that you can get over addiction, but you can never get over a conviction because it is on your record for ever." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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HOT OFF THE 'NET (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
AN INTERVIEW WITH MIKE GRAY
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Mike Gray, Chair of the drug reform advocacy group Common Sense for
Drug Policy (at http://www.csdp.org/) talks about marijuana policy,
reform initiatives and makes the case for considering drugs a medical
rather than a legal issue. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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WATCH HB 5470 MICHIGAN MEDICAL MARIJUANA TESTIMONY
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ONE RING TO RUIN THEM ALL
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Anti-crime zones hurt innocents instead of protecting them. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
By Jacob Sullum
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MAPS INTERVIEW ON NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO
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MAPS researchers John Halpern and Michael Mitthoefer were featured on a
New York Public Radio show on November 27th, 2006 about Therapeutic or
Psychedelic Psychotherapy. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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WORLD BANK-UN REPORT OFFERS GRIM ASSESSMENT OF AFGHANISTAN OPIUM BATTLE
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Drug War Chronicle, Issue #463, 12/1/06
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The effort to wipe out opium production has achieved limited success at best, hurt the poorest Afghans, and riddled the government with corruption from top to bottom, according to a comprehensive report released Tuesday by the United Nations and the World Bank. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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NEGLECTED INFORMATION ON POT
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By Paul Dougan
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Roughly 10 percent of America is now "countercultural," that strange
euphemism for the hippie culture which started in the mid-'60s. That
is, we now have a people culturally distinct in all the ways that
ethnic groups are distinct. If some of these people aren't
comfortable calling themselves "hippie," it's because they've been
told hippies died with the '60s; therefore, they often don't quite
know how to express their cultural identity, referring to themselves
as "kind of an ex-hippie" or something. Also, for the last 40 years,
young people have been joining this counterculture, and hippie
parents usually produce hippie kids-ever seen tie-dyed baby clothes?
Look around you at those who are overtly hippie; you'll soon realize
most hadn't been born when the '60s ended. Further, journalists now
report vast areas of America are heavily hippie-Vermont and parts of
California and Colorado, among many others. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
So, in today's counterculture, we have something huge, something
ethnic-like. What does America do with new-kid-on-the-block
ethnicities? Historically, it's discriminated against them,
scapegoated them and demagogically exploited prejudice against and
fear of them to win elections. Recent election analysis notes, for
instance, that the GOP first won both houses of Congress in 1994.
What they've forgotten is how that happened: hippie-baiting.
Remember Newt Gingrich's angry cries of "counterculture McGoverniks"
directed at the Clintons? At the time, writers for both the
Washington Post and New York Times opined this was the key to the
neo-conservative victory. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Now, the reason pot is currently illegal in America is because of
who uses it. Historically, if the powers that be wanted to persecute
a cultural group, they went after their drugs; thus, our first
anti-drug laws, those against opium, were a pretext for persecution
of Chinese-Americans. Early marijuana prohibition targeted
Mexican-Americans. Today, pot prohibition is largely a way of
punishing the counterculture, of illegalizing post-sixties hippies,
of relegating them to a second-class citizenship. This sort of
institutionalized persecution is also an effective way of pushing
the whole society towards an ugly, repressive right. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Movements to legalize marijuana, such as the push for 44 here in
Colorado, are then nascent civil rights movements. They're largely
hippie-Americans pushing back, asserting their rights--and by doing
so, helping all of America. Let's not underestimate their
importance. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Paul Dougan, Broomfield
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FEATURE ARTICLE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Paramilitary Drug Raids And The Brixtonification of America | ||||||||||||||||||||||
By Stephen Young
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"When they kick at your front door
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- The Clash, "The Guns of Brixton"
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I'm not sure who was pictured in the minds of punk rock icons The Clash
when they wrote the words to song above, probably almost any young
resident of Brixton. It seems unlikely it was a 92-year-old woman,
certainly terrified, yet ready to defend herself as burly men in combat
gear burst into her house. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Yet that was the scene that unfolded in Atlanta a little more than a
week ago. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
As you've likely heard by now, Kathryn Johnston was apparently minding her own business when she was shot to death by police, but not before hitting some police with shots of her own. At first, the police department was typically non-committal on the atrocity, but as details leaked out (see Radley Balko's website www.theagitator.com for ongoing superb commentary on all of the horrible particulars, as well as his paper "Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America" for an analysis on the growth and tragedies of no-knock raids), and public outrage grew, several investigations have been announced. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Some investigations are better than no investigations, but we've been
down this road before: Innocents left maimed or dead, the press
actually asking some good questions for a few months before starting
to practice the same old press release journalism when federal
agencies hand out paramilitary equipment to local police departments
and issue grants for aggressive anti-drug policing. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Balko documented many such botched raids over the years, but he
acknowledges he couldn't track them all down, as many simply don't
get any public attention. After editing this newsletter for more than
five years, I see that sometimes when mistaken raids occur, they are
ignored by the press for months or even years, and then only get
noticed if and when a lawsuit is filed against police. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Balko wisely suggests serious limits (and new accountability) for the
ways in which no-knock raids are used in any circumstance, not only
in drug cases. People, like Kathryn Johnston, who have no reason to
think the police will be kicking in her door, naturally act to defend
themselves against thugs who aren't affiliated with the police. It's
a recipe for more tragedy. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
In the Clash song, the subject seems to know that if someone's
busting down the door, it must be the police. Today in Atlanta and
elsewhere, one can't be so certain. Several criminals have been known
to commit their crimes while posing as police on a raid; yet police
insist citizens must not react with force if police are entering the
house, announced or otherwise, or police will indeed retaliate with
deadly force. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
This policy, like the larger drug war, is as bad for police for
police on the street (excluding the adrenaline junkies) as it is for
the public. Officers in the Johnston case may put on a brave public
face, and if it turns out like other similar cases, they will likely
encounter no serious legal consequences. But however the case is
resolved, the officers will have to live with the physical and
psychic wounds that were inflicted that night too. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
This will all happen again, maybe not with an 92-year-old woman, but with another citizen who clearly posed no threat to his or her fellow citizens. The police will at first say they were right, then the ugly details will leak out, and if there are any surviving relative, there will be a monetary settlement without any admission of wrongdoing. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
But, it could get better. When the Clash wrote about Brixton in the late 1970s, the area was a hotbed of poverty and riots, a place where ugly confrontations with police and citizens were to be expected. Since then, things seem to have gotten better. I walked through the neighborhood a few times while I visited London in the late 1980s, and it didn't seem too much different from other neighborhoods in the city. A 2004 report printed in the Guardian suggests that crime had dropped significantly and consistently in Brixton in the previous 10 years. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Coincidentally or not, Brixton was the site of a temporary relaxed
cannabis policy early in the decade, one that paved the way to
reduced cannabis penalties nationwide. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Watching all this drug war news it's hard not to be cynical. When
other older innocents, like Acceylne Williams and Alberta Spruill,
were killed, I hoped maybe that would stir enough outrage to restrict
the drug war. It wasn't. And maybe the death of Kathryn Johnston
isn't enough either. But, sometimes, people realize it's time to
change. They realize if it can happen to a 92-year-old on the basis
of no evidence, it can happen to anyone. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Nobody, whether they have a gun or not, wants the horrible last
decision faced by Johnston. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Stephen Young is an editor with DrugSense Weekly. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would
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