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FEATURE ARTICLE: (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS & GERALDO: A LOOK AT LAST WEEK | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Last week provided two separate, but related windows on the state of
drug policy reform. On Wednesday, 'The House Government Reform and
Oversight Committee Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and
Human Resources' (to use its proper name) under Chairman John Mica (R)
FL held one day of hearings on "drug legalization." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
NOTE: Full text URL of hearings in 'Hot off the Net' below | ||||||||||||||||||||||
They weren't conducted in a spirit of inquiry; far from it- they were
intended as an inquisition into the nature and composition of the
legalization heresy; Rep. Bob Barr (R) GA suggested that perhaps we
should be prosecuted under RICO and Rep. Mark Souder (R) IN pointedly
compared us to rapists and child molesters. Fortunately cooler heads
prevailed (at least temporarily), but it would not be amiss to conclude
that Barr and Souder accurately represent the feelings of the
subcommittee, and perhaps even those of its star witness, Barry R.
McCaffrey. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Although McCaffrey had to remind Barr of the First Amendment, a brief
perusal of his own 52-page statement makes clear not only his disdain
for "legalizers," but his willingness to misrepresent the basis for our
objection to policy as well as the most readily verifiable facts in the
historic record of prohibition as public policy. True to his penchant
for simultaneously endorsing two conflicting ideas in the same
document, McCzar staunchly proclaimed that the American people reject
"illegal drugs" and also that, "there is no such thing as a drug
legalization 'movement' in America," even while complaining of "a
carefully-camouflaged, well-funded, tightly-knit core....whose goal is
to legalize drug use in the United States." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
DPF, ACLU and the Cato Institute were invited to act as targets for
Congressional fury and ONDCP scorn. Perusal of their written
statements- each briefer and far more accurate than McCzar's-
underscores the depth of the intellectual abyss which separates the
reform movement from doctrinaire prohibition. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Immediate media coverage of the hearings was less intense than it would
normally have been if the gun debate hadn't conflicted; however, the
nuggets that McCaffrey, Barr, Souder left scattered in the record
should provide delayed fireworks in weeks to come. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Which brings us to the week's other blockbuster: Geraldo Rivera's NBC
special: "Drug Bust, America's Longest War." How fitting that Geraldo,
as a notorious iconoclast should be the one to break the news that our
drug war isn't working. However, If one thinks about it for just a
moment, the fact that a major network would air such pointed criticism
of the drug war on a Sunday evening during prime time emphasizes that
Congressional thinking on this issue is badly out of synch with a
population far larger than some "carefully-camouflaged, well-funded,
tightly-knit core of people seeking to legalize drugs." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
We've come a long way since February 1996, when Wm. F. Buckley Jr. caused a minor sensation by delivering essentially the same message in a New Republic editorial written to a few thousand subscribers. Truth is contagious, even when stridently opposed by our federal government. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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WEEKLY NEWS IN REVIEW (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Domestic News- Policy COMMENT: (1) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bad media weeks for the drug war are now the norm, but, as noted
above, the past one was worse than average; criticism of Congress and
ONDCP's lame reasons for opposing anti-alcohol ads still lingered-
witness this derisive Washington Post editorial: | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(1) BEER LOBBY AT WORK (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
If beer lobbyists have their way in Congress, an expensive taxpayer-funded campaign against youth drug use -- $1 billion over five years for a prime-time advertising blitz -- will go through Congress without a penny to combat the No. 1 drug choice among young people. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
In the eyes of the National Beer Wholesalers Association -- the group
responsible for killing legislation last year to toughen drunk-driving
standards -- alcohol doesn't count when it comes to warning kids about
illegal drug use. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (2-5) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Although last mid-week was dominated by Congressional debate over gun
control, the drug warriors held hearings on 'legalization-' not to
explore it as an option, but for GOP hawks to vilify "legalizers" and
for McCaffrey to reassure its sponsors that the drug war is still on
track. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Media coverage was thin because of the gun debate, but the savvy drug
policy writers who showed up weren't fooled. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(2) OPPOSING CAMPS SQUARE OFF AT CONGRESSIONAL HEARING ABOUT DRUG LEGALIZATION (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
WASHINGTON -- Congress seldom meets a hearing that it doesn't like, but
the one that Rep. John L. Mica, R-Fla., convened on Wednesday raised
quite a few hackles. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Its topic: "The Pros and Cons of Drug Legalization, Decriminalization
and Harm Reduction." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The hearing, the first on the subject since 1988, was motivated by
suspicions on Capitol Hill that legalization of drugs is the ultimate
goal of people who actively promote marijuana as a medicinal palliative
or advocate giving sterile syringes to heroin addicts to prevent them
from contracting AIDS. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The hearing illustrated Congress' reluctance to rethink the war against
drugs, on which the federal government spends nearly $18 billion a
year. And it presaged the sort of discourse about drugs bound to
surface in next year's election campaign. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(3) DRUG WAR'S STUPEFYING EFFECTS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
In 1993, Tonya Drake mailed a sealed overnight envelope given to her
by a ``friend from the neighborhood.'' | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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You might imagine the politicos at last Wednesday's congressional
hearing on ``The Pros and Cons of Drug Legalization, Decriminalization
and Harm Reduction'' might be concerned about Tonya and others like her
- or at least the tax burden they cause. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Nope. All anybody cared for was the growing momentum to legalize pot. They should have called the hearing ``Medical Marijuana Madness.'' | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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U.S. Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., took the ball and ran with it, saying advocacy groups should be prosecuted under racketeering (RICO) laws. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Echoes of the McCarthy hearings! It might have been scary, had the
speakers not sounded so silly. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(4) GOP STANDS FIRM AGAINST DRUG LEGALIZATION (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
WASHINGTON -- A free-wheeling debate on drug legalization broke out in
Congress this week, but only after Republican leaders made it clear
that a hard-line approach to drug issues -- including the medical use
of marijuana -- still prevails on Capitol Hill. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Republican attacks on Clinton administration drug policy dominated much
of the hearing, and it wasn't until later that other views were heard.
Representatives of the libertarian Cato Institute and the American
Civil Liberties Union critiqued the nation's drug policy as a failed
experiment that wasted billions of dollars and eroded states' rights
and civil liberties. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
``For years, drug-war bureaucrats have been tailoring their budget
requests to the latest news reports,'' said David Boaz, executive vice
president of the Cato Institute. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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But several subcommittee members questioned the legitimacy of the
debate itself. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
``We don't debate the pros and cons of rape or child abuse,'' said
Rep. Mark Souder, R-Ind. ``We don't bring rapists in here to explain
their views.'' | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(5) THE DRUG LEGALIZATION MOVEMENT IN AMERICA / BARRY R. MCCAFFREY (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chairman Mica, Congresswoman Mink, thank you for the opportunity to
testify before you today on the drug legalization movement in the
United States. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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I. THE FALLACIES AND REALITIES OF DRUG LEGALIZATION | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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There is, however, a carefully-camouflaged, well-funded, tightly-knit
core of people whose goal is to legalize drug use in the United States.
It is critical to understand that whatever they say to gain
respectability in social circles, or to gain credibility in the media
and academia, their common goal is to legalize drugs. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (6) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Whether McCaffrey had advance notice of Geraldo Rivera's NBC special
isn't clear; it was a fitting rebuttal of the czar's contention that
dissatisfaction with the nation's drug policy is due solely to a small
"well heeled" cabal. Rivera's report had little of his characteristic
flamboyance; if anything the tone was muted, but the message was
crystal clear: the drug war is failing badly and more of the same
won't fix it. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(6) RIVERA DECLARES DRUG WAR LOST (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
NEW YORK (AP) -- It's not hard to find NBC's $5 million man, Geraldo Rivera, on television. You just have to know where to look. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Try prime time this Sunday, when Rivera's documentary, "Drug Bust, The
Longest War," airs at 8 p.m. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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It's the third special report to emerge from Rivera's documentary unit,
and he reaches the pointed conclusion that the decades-long war on
drugs was in large part a waste of money. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"We have lost the war on drugs," he said. "It's like Vietnam. At some
point we've got to say we have lost and no one has had the courage to
do that." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (7) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
As if to underscore the policy failure Rivera claimed, an article in
the Village Voice exposed ONDCP's dirty little secret: heroin deaths
are setting records everywhere. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(7) SMACK ATTACK - HEROIN DEATHS RATTLE THE EAST VILLAGE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Body Politic by Sharon Lerner | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Rob MacDonald Died Of An Overdose On June 6. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
It all started on a Monday about a month ago. Three people, thought to
have bought their heroin in the East Village, overdosed in one day.
Richard Spadafora, a 42-year-old printer, died on Hudson Street.
Matthew Boyd, a 26-year-old who used to hang around in Tompkins Square
Park, was pronounced dead at Beth Israel. And Peter Brown, a white
dentist from New Jersey, was found dead in his car on East 9th Street.
The next day another man overdosed in his room in the Brooklyn YMCA.
Less than a week after that, a 23-year-old died on East 9th Street, at
the same spot where Boyd overdosed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Law Enforcement & Prisons | ||||||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (8) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Racial profiling is another long-running story; last week's New York Times Sunday Magazine published a detailed look at its nuances; it exists all right, but it's a lot more complex than simple racism. A major flaw in the article is that nowhere does the author acknowledge the overriding importance of "drug crime" in the equation. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(8) THE COLOR OF SUSPICION (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
From The Front Seat Of A Police Cruiser, Racial Profiling Is Not Racism. It's A Tool -- And Cops Have No Intention Of Giving It Up. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Sgt. Mike Lewis of the Maryland State Police is a bull-necked,
megaphone-voiced, highly caffeinated drug warrior who, on this shiny
May morning outside of Annapolis, is conceding defeat. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The drug war is over, the good guys have lost and he has been cast as a
racist. "This is the end, buddy," he says. "I can read the writing on
the wall." .... "They're going to let the N.A.A.C.P. tell us how to do
traffic stops," he says. "That's what's happening. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (9) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
An impasse over California's budget was avoided when Governor Gray Davis backed off plans to completely fund a huge new prison and agreed to provisions with the potential for reducing prison occupancy. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(9) DEAL STRUCK FOR SECOND DELANO PRISON (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
SACRAMENTO - A tentative agreement between Gov. Gray Davis and legislative
leaders to build a second prison in Delano cleared the way for easy Senate
approval of the state budget Tuesday and put added pressure on the Assembly
to act by the midnight constitutional deadline. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Davis wanted to set aside $335 million of the biggest state budget surplus in many years to build the prison with cash. Senate President pro tempore John Burton, Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa and other liberals opposed any more prison construction without reforms that would put fewer drug and alcohol offenders and non-violent parole violators behind bars. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cannabis & Hemp- | ||||||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (10) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
From an authoritative source in Australia comes welcome deflation of the persistent "new pot" myth: so powerful it finally justifies classification on schedule 1. This won't prevent the claim from being made, but it does provide something it counter it with. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(10) MYTH OF POTENT CANNABIS EXPOSED (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
A new report has debunked claims by campaigners against drug law reform
that the potency of cannabis in Australia has increased by as much 30
times in recent years. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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The new report, prepared by the National Drug and Alcohol Research
Centre, at the University of NSW, has been provided to the
Attorney-General, Mr Shaw, who called for new scientific data on
cannabis potency in the wake of the State Drug Summit. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (11-13) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The recent government announcement that Cannabis from the federal
"marijuana farm" in Mississippi would be made available for research
should not have caused anyone to think that ONDCP and NIDA are
changing their spots; a reform slanted article checked with many
reformers and then explained why. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The real attitude of the prohibition establishment toward therapeutic
use of Cannabis is reflected in two articles from states which already
have laws protecting patients and yet are permitting their harassment
by local law enforcement. Notice how the Oregon headline identifies a
patient with a physician's certificate as a "convict" (the conviction
resulted from a pot bust arrest the same day the statute went into
effect). | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(11) SMOKE SCREEN (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The Government Has Loosened Its Restrictions On The Study Of Marijuana.
Is This A Step Toward Legalization -- Or Just A Ploy? | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"There's a misconception that the government is turning around on
medical marijuana, as if these new guidelines are some sort of major
step in the right direction. But in reality, they are a small step,"
says Chuck Thomas, the communications director of the Washington,
DC-based Marijuana Policy Project. "And they could be a trap which
could ultimately make things worse." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(12) MEDICAL POT USERS PLEAD FOR HELP (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Supervisors face Prop. 215 dilemma Jun. 16, 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The agony of California's battle over marijuana as medicine spilled
into the Sonoma County supervisors' chambers Tuesday as several users,
including some terribly ill people from San Francisco, begged the board
to stop the raids on medicinal pot gardens. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(13) CONVICT'S MEDICAL POT IS OUT (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Judge Says She's Trying To Abuse Law | ||||||||||||||||||||||
A Jackson County judge denied a Grants Pass woman's request to use marijuana medically while she is on probation for growing the drug. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pamela Jill Stafsholt, 41, was ordered on Monday by Judge Dan Harris to
quit using marijuana even though she has been approved for the
state-issued card allowing people with illnesses to grow and use small
amounts of the drug. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"I think it sends a message that the courts are not going to allow (the
Oregon Medical Marijuana Act) to be used and twisted to satisfy
someone's desire to smoke marijuana," said Jackson County Deputy
District Attorney Allan Smith. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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International News | ||||||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (14-18) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Week after week, a sifting of international news items just reinforces what a colossal mistake our domestic drug policy really is- and not just for Americans. Here are five more examples how the criminal market created by American policy is killing people all over the world. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(14) FOR MANY, ESCAPING MEXICO IS A MATTER OF LIFE OR DEATH (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
When Mexico's President Ernesto Zedillo acknowledged recently the extent of poverty in his proud nation, it seemed like a first step toward solving a problem many Americans also want addressed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Take a closer look at Mexico and you'll see the secrets Mexico's
president isn't discussing. Those not-so-well-kept secrets are
contained in a growing number of human rights reports which show the
country's record for torture and extrajudicial killings grew worse in
the past decade. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Inter-American Press Association lists Colombia and Mexico as the
two nations where the most journalists have been killed or attacked in
this hemisphere during the past decade. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(15) SECRETIVE COLOMBIAN COURTS SURVIVE PROTESTS OVER RIGHTS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
BOGOTA -- For a decade, terrorism and drug trafficking cases in
Colombia have routinely been sent to special tribunals that allow
judges, prosecutors and witnesses to remain anonymous. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Now, despite complaints by the United Nations and human rights groups
that such practices violate international law and should be abolished,
the Colombian Government is moving to extend the life and scope of
these so-called "faceless courts." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(16) RUSSIA'S YOUNG GRAPPLE WITH DRUG EPIDEMIC (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
MOSCOW -- She was just a kid when the whole drug thing hit. She's
still just a kid, actually, barely 20, but Olya has the depth of vast
experience now in her soft brown eyes. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"It all happened immediately, at one time," she recalls. "There was
nothing and then everything came at once. Heroin chic. Tarantino. The
music, everything. Sick, pale girls were in fashion." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Look," says Kamenchenko, "in the Soviet Union, your life was
programmed. School, army, marriage -- planned, planned, planned. ...
"Now, there are a lot more possibilities. There are a lot of people
who are using these possibilities to make a lot of quick money. They
can make it on drugs...." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(17) AUSTRALIA: OVERDOSES DOUBLE ON CITY STREET (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
HEROIN overdoses have nearly doubled in Brisbane during the past year,
according to Queensland Ambulance Service figures. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
During 1998, Queensland ambulances responded to 233 heroin overdoses in the Brisbane area, compared with 101 in the previous 12 months. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(18) UK: HEROIN USERS TOLD TO TAKE SLEEPING PILLS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Four out of five inmates arriving at Liverpool prison are heroin users,
but resources for treating them are "woefully inadequate", Sir David
Ramsbotham, the Chief Inspector of Prisons, says in a report published
today. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The finding further illustrates the scale of the heroin problem gripping Britain, and Sir David calls on the Prison Service to address the issue urgently by providing increased funding and specialist staff. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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HOT OFF THE 'NET (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(19) 'PDFA' WEB PAGE WWW.PDFA.NET - DON'T MISS THIS ONE! | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hearty Congratulations to our newest staffer Jo-D Harrison Dunbar for her excellent effort on our new 'PDFA' web site at http://www.PDFA.net | ||||||||||||||||||||||
It appears the 'Partnership' failed to lock up this URL so we thought a bit of truth on a page using those initials would be in order. Given their multi billion dollar ad campaign in conjunction with the ONDCP it's nice to know that the more they advertise the more likely it is that people will visit this site. Thanks also to Steve Kubby for his contribution in the 'American Freedom Quiz' and to the rest of the DrugSense staff and volunteers for their creative ideas and input. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(20) HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE HEARINGS FULL TEXT ON-LINE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(How Many Lies Can You Identify?) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The transcript from June 16, 1999 is on-line in text format at: | ||||||||||||||||||||||
There is also an HTML version at: | ||||||||||||||||||||||
http://www.drugsense.org/fdch.htm (380 Kb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(21) GERALDO RIVERA, DRUG BUST: THE LONGEST WAR, VIDEO ON-LINE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
D. Paul Stanford writes: | ||||||||||||||||||||||
CRRH is happy to announce that we have two recent, new video documentaries concerning the failed "War on Drugs" on-line for free viewing on demand, using the Real Player. These videos automatically optimize for your bandwidth connection at 28K, 56K and 112K. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"Drug Bust: The Longest War," Geraldo Rivera Reports, NBC News; 6/20/99. The documentary focuses on the drug war as it stands at the end of the 20th century, a 30+ year failure. Geraldo visits drug treatment centers, customs border guards, Mexican journalists, an incarcerated smuggler, mothers in prisons for decades for minor cocaine offenses, drug czar Gen. Barry McCaffrey, and Criminal Justice Policy Foundation director, Eric Sterling. Geraldo concludes the war is a failure. 45 minutes. http://www.crrh.org/hemptv/docs_nbc699.html | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"The 20th Century, with Mike Wallace" from The History Channel. "Drugs, the Enemy Within"; May 1999. Mike Wallace uses his archive of interviews with notable people, and the archives of CBS News, to examine the history of the Drug War, the counter-culture, and the events that still effect us today, such as the Vietnam War and Woodstock. 45 minutes. http://www.crrh.org/hemptv/docs_20cent.html | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(22) PRISONER OF (DRUG) WAR BRACELETS AVAILABLE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The November Coalition and Think for Yourself have teamed up to offer
'Prisoner of the Drug War' ID bracelets. Now YOU can 'adopt' a prisoner
and wear the bracelet until s/he is released. See: | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(23) MPP AUTHORED STUDY "DRUG POLICY ANALYSIS BULLETIN" ONLINE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The new MPP-authored study -- published in the Federation of American
Scientists' "Drug Policy Analysis Bulletin" -- is the last article on
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(24) KUBBY FILES PAGE UPDATED - 'Inside Edition' Episode to Air Nationwide (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The excellent web site on the riveting case covering the arrest and
subsequent unprecedented news coverage generated about California
Gubernatorial candidate Steve and Michelle Kubby has been updated. This
story has generated over 100 news articles. The story will also be
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"If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny." --Thomas Jefferson | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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