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FEATURE ARTICLE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Household Survey Stats on Drug "Abuse" Found Misleading | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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New York Times author, David Stout et. al. said: | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"The study found a 21 percent drop from 1997 to 1999 among those 12 to
17 who said they had used an illegal drug in the month before they were
surveyed. ... Nine percent of those 12 to 17 reported using an illicit
drug in 1999 compared with 11.4 percent who admitted drug use in 1997."
See: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1292/a06.html | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The real figures [below] show 1999 to be not 9% but 10.9%, an increase
over 1998 - the actual reported change from '97 to '99 is so small it
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1997 11.4% | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1998 9.9% | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1999 10.9% | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"The use of marijuana in that age group showed a steeper decline than
overall drug use, declining by 26 percent. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
While 9.4 percent of the young people surveyed in 1997 said they had
used marijuana in the preceding month, only 7 percent of those surveyed
last year said they had. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Since marijuana remains the most popular illicit drug among youths, the
officials found its decline in popularity encouraging." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Aside from the fact that the real study number was 7.7% and not 7%, a
decrease in marijuana use while overall use stays fairly constant is
not good news -- it means there has been a shift from marijuana to
other more dangerous drugs. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Every place these appeared is a great opportunity for us. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Jerry Epstein | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 12-17 year old group. The public figures vs. their | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Top of Page are as follows: | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Any Illicit Drug Marijuana/Hash | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Public Table Public Table | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1997 11.4% 11.4% 9.4% 9.4% | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1998 9.9% 9.9% 8.3% 8.3% | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1999 9.0% 10.9% 7.0% 7.7% | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Table G-7 for 1999. John got 97 and 98 from last year's report. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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There was actually a 4.4% decrease, from 11.4% in 1997 to 10.9% in 1999 And no mention was made that 1999 increased from 1998's 9.9%. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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A Quick note about the data from the Household Survey. There are two
sets of national data reported in the summary report available on-line,
derived using different methods of data collection. One is the new CAI
(Computer Assisted Interviewing) method, the other is PAPI (Paper And
Pencil Interviewing). The stats reported in the news release which the
NY Times quoted are contained in the Trends Analysis in Section 4,
those numbers are simply different than the numbers presented in
Section 2. The Section 4 data were derived from a supplemental sample
surveyed using the traditional PAPI method to provide a basis for
analyzing trends, given the major changes in this year's survey. Thus,
the different figures for use rates and trends. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The authors do caution in the report that because of problems the data
in Section 4 isn't as solid as they wanted, so they weren't able to
make as much use of them as had been planned. They also caution against
comparing 1999 CAI data (section 2 of the report) with previous years
because of the change in methodology -- which doesn't stop the feds
from doing precisely that, of course. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Main point being, the data may be bad but what was reported was
contained in the survey. The feds were simply selective about which
numbers to use in the news release, and selected whichever bits made
their case. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
HHS has posted the Household Survey on the SAMHSA website. The
highlights can be found at: | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The 1999 National Household Survey full report can be accessed through
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http://www.samhsa.gov/OAS/NHSDA/1999/Table%20of%20Contents.htm | ||||||||||||||||||||||
A PDF version of the publication should be available soon. Also, fyi,
the 1999 Year End Emergency Dept. Data from DAWN is now available for
download from SAMHSA. The PDF is available at this url: | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Doug McVay | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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WEEKLY NEWS IN REVIEW (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Domestic News- Policy | ||||||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (1) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arianna Huffington signaled her post Shadow commitment to drug policy
issues by chiding her press colleagues for not querying the candidates
on Colombia. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(1) DO BUSH OR GORE HAVE A CLUE ON COLOMBIA? (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
There is something unsettling about the press coverage of the
presidential race. Last week, President Clinton signed a waiver of the
human-rights provisions imposed by Congress on the $1.3 billion
drug-war package to Colombia, and not a single reporter bothered to ask
the candidates -- one of whom, after all, will have to deal with the
consequences -- what they thought of it. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (2-4) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Although Clinton's Colombia visit provoked a flood of negative editorials, the Washington Post (surprisingly) registered approval. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
William Raspberry's widely printed invocation of drug policy
"economics;" (it's the supply side, stupid!) has 2 major flaws: no
historical record of "success" in the control of illegal markets and
an expectation cops and military lobbies would surrender their budgets
to social workers and therapists. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Tom Turnipseed was one writer drawing the right conclusions: Colombia
is a foreign policy fiasco trying to shore up domestic policy failure;
the entire text is well worth reading. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(2) THE COLOMBIA COMMITMENT (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
As he visits beleaguered Colombia today, President Clinton faces a new crescendo of opposition, both Colombian and American, to his plan for $1.3 billion in largely military aid to Colombia. And much of what the critics say is true. Though the declared U.S. enemies in Colombia--drug production and the Marxist guerrillas who profit from it--represent real problems, they are hardly the only factors destabilizing Colombian democracy. Government corruption, much of it drug-related, is rampant. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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The president and Congress are right to have made this commitment. Mr.
Clinton's trip, albeit brief, is an important demonstration that,
however daunting Colombia's problems may be, the United States will not
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(3) AMERICA -- THE DRUG-PRODUCING NATION (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
I won't be surprised, if by the time you read this, Andres Pastrana will have explained away much of what he told The New York Times on Tuesday. After all, the Colombian president was just hours away from welcoming the American president, who was on his way with $1.3 billion in Colombian aid - -- largely anti-drug aid -- in his pocket. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
But the gist of what Pastrana said seems beyond dispute: There's not
much use putting economic and military pressure on drug-producing
countries like his unless the drug-using countries like the United
States take care of their problem. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(4) FROM COLOMBIA TO COLUMBIA, THE 'WAR ON DRUGS' IS A CLASS WAR (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
From Colombia, South America, to Columbia, South Carolina, the "drug
war" is being exposed by human rights organizations as a failed war on
drugs, but a disastrously effective war on poor South Americans and
black citizens of the United States... | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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White, privileged politicians who never spent a day in jail for their
illegal substance abuse activities must end the dirty "war on drugs"
that oppresses poor and black people. Can they muster the courage and
empathy to advocate such sensible solutions? | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (5-7) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
McCzar and Co. sounded almost giddy about a Monitoring the Future
survey indicating less teen experimentation; even though young adults
are using more. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
What no one asked is how they can be so satisfied with their war while
two new drug menaces are being hyped by the press and, echoing
Huffington: why doesn't the media ask about- or even speculate on this
inconsistency? | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(5) USE OF ILLEGAL DRUGS IS DOWN AMONG YOUNG, SURVEY FINDS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 -- The use of illegal drugs by youths aged 12 to 17
dropped sharply from 1997 to 1999, the federal government said today.
And while drug use among people 18 to 25 went up, it was still far
below what it had been 20 years ago. The trend among those 12 to 17 is
the most important finding of the National Household Survey on Drug
Abuse, said Dr. Donna E. Shalala, the secretary of health and human
services, and Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, director of the White House
office on drug control policy. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Both officials said that nationwide educational and preventive efforts
were working, especially among the young. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(6) ECSTASY MADNESS! (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
There's no mistaking the warning signs. Reporting so gullible you
giggle. Inaccuracies so gross you groan out loud. Sourcing so
hysterical you ask if it's a put-on. You look away and tell yourself,
never mind, it's only a thousand-word story on Page B2 of the "Metro"
section that few will read. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
But you force yourself to look at the page again, and you think of your
professional duty. This is your mind. This is your morning newspaper.
This is the Washington Post on drugs. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(7) BATTLING METH CALLS FOR GROUP EFFORT (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Law enforcement officials meet to discuss Midwestern production of drug. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
COLLINSVILLE, Ill. --When U.S. Attorney Stephen Hill of Kansas City is
on the road, he carries two toothbrushes. The production of
methamphetamine is so prevalent in Midwestern motel rooms, he said, "If
I drop one in the sink, I don't use it again. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"I assume meth cooks had been there before," he said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (8) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
This article in the Economist nails domestic American drug policy
inconsistencies like few others. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(8) THE WAR ON DRUGS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
First, Inhale Deeply | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Washington, D.C. - America's anti-drugs crusade is not a campaign
issue. That's too bad | ||||||||||||||||||||||
IF YOU want to see money thrown at a problem to no good effect, you need look no further than America's "war on drugs". The federal government will spend roughly $18.5 billion on drug-control policies this year, and over $19 billion in 2001; state and local governments annually pitch in another $22 billion or so. By comparison, the entire Justice Department will have a budget of about $21 billion this year. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The war also carries social costs. Among the more than 2m people
imprisoned in America, for example, over 450,000 are incarcerated for
drug offences-more than are in jail in the European Union for crimes of
every kind. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Law Enforcement & Prisons | ||||||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (9-11) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Two weeks later, someone (Joyce Purnick) finally followed up on
Charles Rangel's remarks to the LA Shadow Convention; he's still
against legalization, but is apparently changing his mind about
punishment. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Texans are also thinking twice about their recent prison binge- and at
least some are concerned about its racism; so far the negative
publicity hasn't affected George W's campaign, but that could happen
any day. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(9) LISTENING TO A CHANGE IN THE SILENCE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Some issues get the silent treatment in politics. Others elicit
cliches. There are reasons, of course. Get past the self-censorship and
the platitudes and you're likely to find the most interesting near-
debates around. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Example One: drug policy. Federal statistics show that about two
million Americans are behind bars right now, a quarter of them for drug
offenses. The cost is more than $9 billion a year. Hispanics and
African-Americans make up most of those imprisoned. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
You would learn none of this from our candidates. They didn't talk about it at the national conventions. Might as well not exist, that drug war of ours, with its federal price tag of nearly $20 billion. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(10) EDITORIAL: LOCKDOWN QUANDARY (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
At the same time a Justice Department report shows that violent crimes
have dropped 10 percent in the last year across America, Texans learn
that their prison system may soon have to give early release to
convicted felons. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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If Texas were still a republic, it would have an incarceration rate
greater than any other nation on earth. One in every 20 adults in Texas
was incarcerated during the past decade while Texas doubled the size of
its prison system and grew twice as fast as prison systems in other
states. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(11) THE COLOR OF TEXAS JUSTICE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Fifteen-year-old Johnny wields a Saturday night special and holds up a convenience store to finance his drug habit. He's arrested for robbery. What happens next in this scenario may well be determined by skin color. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
If Johnny is black and has a prior criminal history, he is nearly twice as likely to be certified to stand trial as an adult as a white youth who commits a similar felony. Johnny also is more likely to do time, according to figures compiled by the Texas Criminal Justice Council. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (12) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
LA's police woes returned to the front page when a federal judged ruled the department could be sued under RICO- an ironic twist, indeed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(12) RACKETEERING LAW AIMED AT LAPD (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
LOS ANGELES -- A federal judge has ruled that the government's
anti-racketeering statute, created to deal with drug bosses and
organized crime figures, can be used in lawsuits against the troubled
Los Angeles Police Department. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Besides allowing one of the largest police departments in the United
States to be dealt with like a criminal enterprise, the decision Monday
by Judge William J. Rea of federal District Court drastically increases
the city's potential liability in its worst police scandal in decades.
The law permits a longer statute of limitations and could triple the
damages the city could otherwise face. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (13-14) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
In an interesting juxtaposition: a San Diego sociologist's essay on using the military for law enforcement appeared on the same day a Texas news article pointed out that the death of Esequiel Hernandez hadn't ended the practice- despite what we may have thought. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(13) THE MILITARIZATION OF POLICE FORCES (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
From their inception in the 1840s, urban police departments have been
organized along a military model. Widespread public drunkenness, high
crime rates, race and ethnic riots and labor strife that often turned
violent resulted in law enforcement agencies that "patrolled" city
streets on a continual basis. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
There is nothing inherently wrong with structuring police departments
along military lines; agencies so designed exist in many democratic
countries committed to the "rule of law." However, a problem arises
when an organization with a militaristic orientation entrusted with
significant power comes to believe that it is literally engaged in
combat. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(14) LAREDO PATROL WELCOMES MILITARY (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
BUT SOME RESIDENTS SAY IT'S TOO MUCH | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Soldiers On The Border | ||||||||||||||||||||||
LAREDO -- The camouflaged Army helicopters lifted off with a dust-
churning roar from the abandoned airstrip and gently swung toward the
west. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The only light came from the iridescent glow of the cockpit controls.
The OH-58D Kiowa Warriors quickly picked up speed and split up -- half
moving out of the area for training and the rest racing toward the
border to conduct surveillance missions. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cannabis & Hemp- | ||||||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (15-18) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
California returned to its familiar place as the center of medical use issues; a three million dollar state grant for research on the question was announced even as explanations for the recent Supreme Court decision were being offered- both locally and in New York. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
In Auburn, dismissal of a defense motion brought actual start of the Kubby trial another millimeter closer; perhaps this week.... | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(15) A MEDICAL MARIJUANA RESEARCH CENTER (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Physicians at the San Francisco and San Diego campuses of the
University of California announced yesterday that they will set up a
scientific research center to study the medical uses and effects of
marijuana. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The new Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research, which is to be
established in San Diego, will start off with $3 million in state money
for its first year, the doctors said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(16) MEDICAL MARIJUANA (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
If you read a variety of newspapers yesterday, you found different
versions of what the U.S. Supreme Court decided in relation to
marijuana use for medical purposes in California. Some accounts went so
far as to state that Prop. 215 was all but dead. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
That would be greatly exaggerated. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Here's what happened.... | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(17) COURT MAY HAVE DOUSED A FIRE, BUT IT STILL SMOKES (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The Supreme Court's overruling of a California decision on medical
marijuana, says TIME.com's Jessica Reaves, underscores the need for
reassessment of national laws governing drug use | ||||||||||||||||||||||
They've been trying for four years now, but Californians just can't
seem to shake those stodgy federal drug laws. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(18) JUDGE RULES KUBBYS MUST FACE DRUG TRIAL (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
A judge in Placer County Superior Court ruled Thursday that
investigators had a right to peer through Steven and Michele Kubbys'
windows on private land. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
He refused to dismiss drug charges against the pair. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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A dispute erupted Wednesday over a recent California Supreme Court
decision that, if applied to the Kubby case by Judge John L. Cosgrove,
could have resulted in dismissal. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (19-20) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Domestic editorial response to the Colombian aid package was merely negative; the opinions of our English speaking friends were lacerating: | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(19) UK: CLINTON'S BILLIONS KEEP A DRUGS WAR ALIVE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
A classic test for 20th-century historians is to enumerate the causes
of the Second World War. The answers come easy. Germany was ruined by
war reparations; democracies were blind; everyone misread Hitler. How
simple it seems, and how stupid were our grandfathers. How much wiser
we are today. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Really? A good test of a 21st-century historian is to predict the next
morass. I cannot read of Bill Clinton's visit to Colombia this week
without seeing the Dark Ages reborn. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(20) COLUMN: THIS WEEK'S KOSOVO (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"This is not Vietnam, nor is it Yankee imperialism." (President Bill Clinton, in Colombia yesterday to hand over $1.3-billion in military aid to, ho ho, combat the drug trade harming America's cities.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Well, when was the last time you believed a Clinton denial? Actually,
denials are great from public figures. Most of the time, their denials
are the closest we get to what's truly on their minds. The telltale
sign is usually that no one asked... | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rejection by the non-English speaking world was equally firm; even
from nations directly in the shadow of Yankee power. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
In Colombia itself, an escalation in fighting was accompanied by loss
of an American-supplied aircraft. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(21) BRAZIL SUMMIT FEARS OVER COLOMBIA AID DEAL (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Brazil summit, attended by all South American presidents, rejected
plans for a multinational military force that would intervene in
Colombia. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(22) PLANE CRASH KILLS SEVEN AMID CLASH IN COLOMBIA (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
PEREIRA, Colombia -- A U.S.-made Colombian warplane crashed Saturday
amid heavy fighting between leftist rebels and government forces,
killing seven airmen, the military said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
In addition, at least eight government soldiers and 12 rebels died in
the ground combat at a communications complex on Mount Montezuma, 155
miles west of the capital, Bogota. The clash was the bloodiest since
President Clinton visited Colombia on Wednesday | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (23) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
In a final non-Colombian (but all too typical) item from Mexico, two more generals were arrested on charges of drug related corruption. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(23) 2 SENIOR MEXICAN GENERALS ARRESTED ON DRUG CHARGES (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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MEXICO CITY--Two senior army generals were jailed Thursday on drug trafficking charges, in one of the biggest public scandals to hit Mexico's secretive military in decades, officials announced. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"This is an important breakthrough. It establishes a precedent," said
Roderic A. Camp, a political scientist at Claremont College near Los
Angeles and an expert on Mexico's military. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
At the urging of the U.S., Mexico's military has taken an increasingly
prominent role in the fight against drugs in recent years, as shipments
of U.S.-bound cocaine have soared. But critics have warned that the
military could face the same corruption that has crippled this
country's police forces. The arrests appeared to underscore that
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The Defense Ministry announced Thursday night that retired Division
Gen. Francisco Quiroz Hermosillo and Brig. Gen. Mario Arturo Acosta
Chaparro have been jailed on drug charges. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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HOT OFF THE 'NET (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Canadian Drug War Series | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Too late for this weeks cut-off, but if part one is any indication, the
Dan Gardner series from the Ottawa Citizen should be outstanding. It
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"OTTAWA -- New RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli will not support
the legalization of drugs, saying narcotics are a social problem the
entire country has to tackle. `Police only play one role,' Zaccardelli
said Thursday in response to a series of stories that are also running
in The Vancouver Sun about the failure of the United States' war on
drugs to stem the tide of drugs and related crime and violence."
-- Vancouver Sun, September 8, 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Marijuana Crusaders Lynn and Mike Harichy Busted In Night Raid | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Medical marijuana crusader Lynn Harichy and her husband, Mike, face new narcotics charges after London police raided their Teeple Terrace home. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
For a rather ironic contrast to the Harichy bust see the article below
celebrating a recent ruling from the Ontario Court of Appeal just 30
days ago! | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lynn's old London Cannabis Compassion Centre | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Letters by Lynn | ||||||||||||||||||||||
News clippings about Lynn | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Journey for Justice" Activists to March Again | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Traveling at 5-15 miles per hour, the "Journey for Justice" will travel
for 7 days meeting the people of Texas and putting forth ways that
every person can help end this war. The Journey for Justice website at
http://www.journeyforjustice.org/ gives you in depth details about this
journey and what you can do each day to help. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
- Voltaire (1694-1778) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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