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FEATURE ARTICLE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Another Drugwar Christmas | ||||||||||||||||||
Tuesday, as Americans and Ralph Nader awaited the last alligator shoe
to drop from the roof of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington D.C. on
Vice-president Al Gore's presidential campaign, DEA (Drug Enforcement
Agency) commandos and trainees swooped down on suspected drug couriers
in southern Colombia and Chicago's Union Station. | ||||||||||||||||||
In Chicago, three people were shot and one killed. Hundreds were put at risk. In Colombia, there's no telling how many will be shot or killed. But hundreds or thousands are likely to die in Plan Colombia. | ||||||||||||||||||
The DEA mission and shootout justification? Making Chicago's train
station and the world safe from illicit drugs. | ||||||||||||||||||
Only "bad guys" were shot in Chicago, drugwar protagonists and
antagonists. However, Chicagoans, suited for work and holiday
shopping, who approve or tolerate American-sponsored antidrug raids on
peasants, farmers and entrepreneurs of Colombia deserve a little taste
of the daily terror inflicted by America's drugwar upon Chicago
minorities and the people of the world. | ||||||||||||||||||
Santa, all I want for Christmas is peace from drug-war for all. | ||||||||||||||||||
James E. Gierach | ||||||||||||||||||
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WEEKLY NEWS IN REVIEW (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Domestic News- Policy | ||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (1-3) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
As the nation remained focused on electoral indecision, one item
received less attention than it deserved: the current President's
offhand remarks about marijuana in Rolling Stone. | ||||||||||||||||||
Clinton's hypocrisy was noted by at least one editorial writer; a
Canadian journalist also detailed how administration support for drug
incarceration had not only hurt Al Gore, but is negatively impacting
American "democracy." | ||||||||||||||||||
But neither put the two together. | ||||||||||||||||||
We have much to look forward to: How openly can an ex-president be
induced to discuss drug policy in the months ahead? Or rather: given
existing circumstances; how can he avoid it? | ||||||||||||||||||
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(1) CLINTON INHALES, THEN LETS FLY ON DRUGS, GAYS, NIXON (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
President Clinton, who famously claimed not to have inhaled when he
tried marijuana, has told the rock magazine Rolling Stone that people
should not be jailed for using or selling small amounts of the drug.
In a wide-ranging interview, published today, he also berates himself
over the Lewinsky affair, … | ||||||||||||||||||
Rolling Stone's editor and publisher, Jann Wenner, asked the
President if he thought that "people should go to jail for using or
even selling small amounts of marijuana". | ||||||||||||||||||
Mr Clinton replied: "I think that most small amounts of marijuana
have been decriminalised in some places, and should be."
Going further, he said that mandatory sentences for drug use should
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(2) MR. CLINTON ON DOPE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Bill Clinton, the man whose
administration has for eight years aggressively prosecuted the drug war,
leaving tens of thousands of nonviolent offenders behind bars, says the
following: | ||||||||||||||||||
"I think that most small amounts of marijuana have been decriminalized in
some places, and should be. ... We really need a re-examination of our
entire policy on imprisonment. ... " | ||||||||||||||||||
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To call Mr. Clinton a hypocrite is to insult hypocrites everywhere.
Yes, we need to find alternative methods of dealing with nonviolent
drug offenders. But Mr. Clinton has done nothing during his two terms
to push us in that direction -- quite the opposite. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(3) DRUG-WAR LAWS HURT GORE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Regardless of the outcome of U.S. Vice-President Al Gore's last-ditch
legal attempts to pull a victory out of Florida's electoral hat,
there's a delicious irony in the racist war on drugs that is fully
supported by the "New" Democratic Clinton-Gore regime: it came back to
haunt Gore like a bad dream. | ||||||||||||||||||
The drug war has succeeded in criminalizing vast swaths of the U.S. population - largely black and Latino. In Florida and a handful of other states, that means those victims can't vote, ever. .. | ||||||||||||||||||
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It all adds up to a gross deformation of democracy in a country that prides itself on showing the way for the rest of the world. And while the immediate victim is the lost presidency of Al Gore, the Democrats deserve their share of blame for what has to be seen as a bipartisan effort to relegate African Americans to second-class citizenship. | ||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (4-6) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Any one of a potpourri of drug policy items might have dominated a
normal news week: the LA prosecutors charging Robert Downey Jr. showed
how little the overwhelming victory of Proposition 36 impressed them,
McCzar received a rough time during a Utah visit, and Gary Johnson's
handling of some tough questions in another glossy magazine piece
demonstrated how much he has learned about both drug policy and
defending his views. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(4) FELONY CHARGES FILED IN DOWNEY JR. CASE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Actor Could Face Many Years In Prison | ||||||||||||||||||
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11 - Felony drug charges were formally filed Monday
against actor Robert Downey Jr. stemming from his arrest last month at
a hotel in the California desert resort town of Palm Springs. Riverside
County prosecutors charged Downey with felony possession of cocaine,
felony possession of the prescription depressant diazepam and a
misdemeanor count of being under the influence of a controlled
substance. | ||||||||||||||||||
Each felony count carries a maximum sentence of three years in prison,
and the misdemeanor is punishable by up to a year in jail. In addition,
Downey could face an extra year in prison as a result of having served
time on a previous felony drug conviction. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(5) MAYOR, DRUG CZAR DEBATE MERITS OF DARE PROGRAM (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
The nation's drug-policy director probably didn't like what he'd read
in the New York Times about Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson. But before
traveling to Utah this week, Gen. Barry McCaffrey arranged a meeting
with the mayor to discuss something the two men couldn't disagree on
more: Drug Abuse Resistance Education, or DARE. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(6) PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: GARY JOHNSON (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
A Candid Conversation With New Mexico's Fearless Governor About His
Crusade To Legalize Drugs, His Killer Workout Regimen And The Upside Of
Carrying A Concealed Weapon | ||||||||||||||||||
It is a raging-hot morning in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the dusty
air carries the smell of smoke. The eerie orange sky and the pungent
odor are reminders of the wildfire that is scorching tens of thousands
of acres of nearby forest. Governor Gary Johnson, who has declared a
state of emergency, hasn't had much sleep for weeks, and now the fire
is burning through the Santa Fe National Forest toward a watershed that
provides drinking water for the city of Las Vegas, New Mexico. Johnson
plans a helicopter fly over of the fire this afternoon. | ||||||||||||||||||
Johnson is used to dealing with hot issues. In fact, he gained national
prominence as the country's highest ranking elected official to propose
the legalization of drugs. | ||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (7-8) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
There is growing editorial recognition that not only is the drug war
failing, urgent change is needed. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(7) THE DRUG CZAR'S SHAKY LEGACY (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Gen. Barry McCaffrey is wrapping up his nearly five-year tenure as the
president's drug policy adviser with a bang. His parting shot this
summer was to mastermind and successfully lobby Congress for approval
of a $1.3 billion aid package to Colombia, most of it for weapons to
fight guerrillas involved in the drug trade. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Plan Colombia is emblematic of McCaffrey's guns-and-bullets approach to
illicit drugs, even though it's a tactic that has not made much headway
at home and is not likely to fare any better in Colombia. What the
U.S. needs instead are innovative strategies based on science and
medicine, rather than politics and military might. That's what the next
president ought to expect from McCaffrey's successor. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(8) OUR NATION'S DRUG LAWS - IT'S TIME TO REFORM THEM (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Nationally, Americans are going through a period of intense rethinking
of our federal and state drug laws. Are these laws too harsh? We think
so, in this sense there is too much reliance on prison as a solution,
and too little use of treatment programs. | ||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (9-10) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Finally, two interesting- but unrelated- items: an opponent of gun
control accurately indicted drug prohibition and then suggested common
cause with his lobby (the sticking point may be how the two sides
define "prohibition" and "control"). | ||||||||||||||||||
Also, pesky charges about how ONDCP was billed for their controversial ad campaign continue to arise; even as McCzar prepares to depart. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(9) GUNS, DRUGS AND BOOZE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
What do guns, drugs, and alcohol have in common? They are all highly
portable, highly prized by many people and can be abused. Each has
been the object of societal sanctions. A grand, but foolish experiment
with alcohol prohibition was tried from 1920 to 1933. The dreadful
results are well documented. Drug prohibition has lasted much longer
and provides an excellent example of how a prohibition program works
in modern times. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Those who oppose the disastrous war on drugs and those who oppose the
growing war on guns are starting to reach out to each other. They are
setting aside ideological differences and exploring their common
interest. If these two groups can show the way, there are other groups
who might join a crusade for fewer laws and less government
interference in our daily lives. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(10) U.S. MAY BE OVERBILLED IN DRUG CAMPAIGN (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
WASHINGTON - A New York advertising firm in control of the Clinton administration's antidrug media campaign acknowledged ''possible errors'' in its bills to the government during a meeting Nov. 29 with Justice Department litigators, officials confirmed yesterday. | ||||||||||||||||||
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McCaffrey said in an interview with the Washington Post in September,
''I have no reason to suspect this isn't one of the finest firms in the
country. I love these people.'' And Alan Levitt, director of the
National Youth Anti-Drug Campaign, told Mica's committee in September,
''There is absolutely no overbilling.'' | ||||||||||||||||||
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Law Enforcement & Prisons | ||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (11-12) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Amnesty for non-violent drug offenders was the surprising suggestion
of a New York columnist who explained it would be evidence of Bush's
"compassion." | ||||||||||||||||||
By remarkable coincidence, a similar suggestion was made on the Left Coast- although for entirely different reasons. If the economy continues to weaken, amnesty is an idea that could spread rapidly. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(11) MEMO TO BUSH: THINK AMNESTY (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Obviously, George W. Bush will have to "reach out" (as the current post
election cliche has it) if he wants actually to govern the country. The
conventional Washington wisdom on how to do it -- by appointing this or
that Democrat to the cabinet -- is wrong. President Clinton tried the
same ploy by making Republican William Cohen his secretary of defense,
and look how well that dampened the partisan fires. | ||||||||||||||||||
No. Bush needs to do something that goes beyond the Beltway, something
bold that will show that he intends to be a compassionate conciliator.
Something like an amnesty for the small-time drug users and dealers now
clogging the federal prison system. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(12) SHORTER WASHINGTON DRUG SENTENCES PROPOSED (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Prison Officials Suggest The State, Which Is Facing A Budget Shortfall,
Can Save $26 Million Over Two Years | ||||||||||||||||||
OLYMPIA -- State prison officials, responding to a request by Gov. Gary
Locke to identify possible budget cuts, say shorter sentences for some
drug offenders could save taxpayers $26 million during the next two
years. | ||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (13-14) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
In the realm of ongoing sagas, the alleged victims of profiling in New
Jersey were allowed to reopen cases on that basis, while in Texas,
those carrying the torch in Tulia promised more activity; now and
after the election is finalized. | ||||||||||||||||||
A local newspaper ran a welcome column that was essentially a mea
culpa and a plea for locals to admit their bias. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(13) COURT LETS INMATES REOPEN DRUG CASES TO PLEAD RACIAL PROFILING (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Opening courtroom doors ever wider to victims of racial profiling, a
state appeals court yesterday ruled that prisoners serving time for
drug offenses may seek to reopen their cases if they had raised the
issue of racial profiling at trial. | ||||||||||||||||||
The unanimous ruling is the latest legal consequence of the state's
admission last year that state troopers have been engaging in racial
profiling on state highways for years. Experts said it could add untold
numbers of new cases to the state's growing list of legal troubles
arising | ||||||||||||||||||
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(14) TULIA DRUG BUST CRITICS VOW MORE PRESSURE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Supporters of 43 people arrested in Tulia after a 1999 drug sting will step up their offensive after the new year, including new legal challenges, increased national media scrutiny and possibly even a movie. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Blackburn said the presidential election in Florida has overshadowed
nearly all news stories, but as soon as the race is decided, the Tulia
case will be back in the forefront. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(15) TULIA CASE HIGHLIGHTS RACIAL DISPARITY IN PRISON (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
African-Americans comprise about 12 percent of the population in our country. Black men comprise nearly 50 percent of the 2 million people currently serving time in our federal and state prisons. | ||||||||||||||||||
Why are so many black men in prison? As Americans, should we be asking
ourselves if our law-enforcement system is racist? | ||||||||||||||||||
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Cannabis & Hemp- | ||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (16-19) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
The closely watched trial of Steve and Michele Kubby may be over by
the time you read this; the LA Times Eric Bailey wrote a fairly even
handed summation of the issues. | ||||||||||||||||||
Around the nation, interest in the fact that the Supreme Court will
rule on medical necessity is beginning to develop- and it's still too
early to factor in the political implications of their role in
selection of a president. | ||||||||||||||||||
An intriguing stop gap ruling from a Canadian judge allows a pioneer
medical advocate to grow his own cannabis- but not to distribute to
other patients. | ||||||||||||||||||
From overseas came a suggestion that the medical dilemma may
ultimately be resolved by patenting a commercially viable cannabinoid
delivery system. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(16) KEY MEDICAL MARIJUANA TRIAL NEARS END (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
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AUBURN, Calif.Between the red brick walls of a cramped courtroom here,
a long-running show trial of sorts over the medical use of pot is near
its climax. | ||||||||||||||||||
The defendant is a 1998 Libertarian Party gubernatorial candidate and
early backer of Proposition 215, the landmark 1996 medical marijuana
measure. The case features big-name defense attorneys, accusations of a
political witch hunt and countercharges of Rambo-style defense tactics.
Buffeted by legal back and forth, the worn-out jury showed up on
Halloween dressed in costumes. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Kubby faces a decade in prison if convicted on all charges, a term he says would be a death sentence. The rare form of cancer he has harbored for a quarter-century typically kills within five years. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(17) LET SUFFERERS INHALE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
The Supreme Court can inject some needed compassion into a contentious case from California involving the medical use of marijuana. | ||||||||||||||||||
Californians voted in 1996 to legalize marijuana for medical use.
Voters in eight other states have adopted similar policies allowing
seriously ill patients, with a doctors recommendation, to possess and
use the drug to relieve pain and nausea. The Oakland Buyers
Cooperative, which the city of Oakland started, provides marijuana for
medical purposes. So do dozens of similar cooperatives. | ||||||||||||||||||
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The Supreme Court will decide whether medical necessity Justifies
distributing marijuana in violation of federal law. The answer should
be yes. Until doctors have better ways to alleviate severe suffering,
they should be able to prescribe marijuana and people should be able to
buy it. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(18) JUDGE SAYS POT LAW IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Charge Against MS Sufferer Thrown Out Of Court | ||||||||||||||||||
CALGARY (CP) - A law that prohibits the cultivation of marijuana is
unconstitutional because it doesn't allow for medical use of the drug,
an Alberta judge ruled yesterday. | ||||||||||||||||||
Justice Darlene Acton threw out a charge of cultivating marijuana
against Grant Krieger, who grows and ingests pot to alleviate the
symptoms of his multiple sclerosis. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Acton did not dismiss trafficking charges against Krieger. He will be
arraigned on those next month. | ||||||||||||||||||
Krieger says he doesn't profit from selling marijuana to sick and dying people. His customers, members of his Universal Compassion Club, are required to have letters from their doctors outlining their illnesses. | ||||||||||||||||||
He has been to court more than 30 times in his battle to legally grow, smoke, eat, and supply marijuana for medicinal purposes. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(19) SCIENTISTS DEVELOP CANNABIS SPRAY (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Scientists have developed cannabis in a spray form which could become available on the NHS. The breakthrough could pave the way for cannabis being used, under medical supervision, in aerosols and injections. | ||||||||||||||||||
Professor Roger Pertwee, Britains leading researcher into the medical
benefits of cannabis, believes this approach would be more acceptable
to doctors. | ||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (20) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Despite several reports from Afghanistan promising that UN efforts to reduce opium production are proving successful, details reported by a Boston Globe correspondent cast considerable doubt on that conclusion. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(20) TRAFFICKING FLOURISHES ON AFGHAN DRUG ROUTE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
ON THE PYANDZH RIVER, Tajikistan - As soon as he spied his quarry,
Lieutenant Alexander Zinchenko took off his boots, rolled up his pants,
and plunged into the icy shallow rapids … | ||||||||||||||||||
The men on the low island in the distance had clearly crossed over from
the Afghan side. | ||||||||||||||||||
Were they perhaps drug couriers probing the border for weak spots in
advance of a big shipment along the ancient Great Silk Road, a route
that has become a narcotics superhighway that supplies 72 percent of
the world's heroin? | ||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (21-22) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
From Colombia, a progress report on the readiness of the Colombian
Army to begin "anti-drug" operations against FARC guerrillas and a
description of the relatively small area where the first decisive
engagements will take place. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(21) 2ND U.S.-TAUGHT ANTI-DRUG UNIT TAKES FIELD (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
LARANDIA ARMY BASE, Colombia -- A cannon blast marked the start of the
ceremony at this sprawling military base deep in the jungles of southern
Colombia. | ||||||||||||||||||
As 14 helicopters buzzed overhead, soldiers in camouflage face paint
and black berets marched through a cloud of yellow, blue and red smoke
-- the colors of the Colombian flag. A Catholic priest in a white
cassock then trudged across the field toward the formation, uttered a
prayer and sprinkled holy water. | ||||||||||||||||||
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When a third battalion completes training in April, Colombia will have a 3,000-troop anti-narcotics brigade to use in Colombia's coca heartland, the southern jungle provinces of Putumayo and Caqueta. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(22) GROUND ZERO IN THE COLOMBIAN DRUG WAR (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
The U.S.-backed Plan Colombia will soon touch down in a region battered
by civil war and reliant on the cocaine trade. | ||||||||||||||||||
Dec. 5, 2000 - BOGATA, Colombia -- An hour after Mayor Carlos Rosas
publicly described the "terror" that plagued his town of Orito in the
southern coca-producing province of Putumayo, he was dead. Gunmen shot
the mayor at point-blank range in front of his home in broad daylight
and sped away. They were never identified or caught. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Putumayo was selected as the primary site of Plan Colombia because an
estimated 216 square miles are planted with high-yield coca
plantations, and over half of the entire Colombian coca production is
harvested in this province. About 300,000 people are employed in jobs
related to cocaine production. | ||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (23) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
An El Paso Times OP-Ed reminds Vicente Fox was that most Americans-
fairly or unfairly- blame Mexico for the border's flourishing drug
trade. Sounding tough without disrupting present markets will be a
tall order. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(23) FOX SHOULD ADDRESS DRUG CASES DURING VISIT (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Mexican President Vicente Fox plans to visit Juarez soon as part of his
vision to emphasize the importance of the border. | ||||||||||||||||||
It will be his first visit to Juarez as president since before the July 7
election that catapulted Mexico's first opposition party candidate to the
highest office. | ||||||||||||||||||
If Fox cares about border cities like Juarez, Tijuana and Matamoros, then
he will immediately do what he can to have arrested or hand over to U.S.
authorities the drug cartel leaders who have terrorized these communities
for the past seven years. | ||||||||||||||||||
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HOT OFF THE 'NET (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
MAP Web Page Gets a Face Lift | ||||||||||||||||||
If you haven't recently visited the Media Awareness Project home page
have a look http://www.mapinc.org | ||||||||||||||||||
We have completely revamped and updated the page with a wide array if
issue specific shortcuts to news articles on the drug wars hottest
topics and much more. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Qualities we would like to see in our next "Drug Czar", sadly lacking
in outgoing Director Barry McCaffrey. | ||||||||||||||||||
This ad is also available in printer-ready Portable Document Format at: | ||||||||||||||||||
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Granted, campaign documents are worth slightly less than the paper on which they're printed, but for whatever it's worth the Bush campaign's
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The 2000 Monitoring The Future Survey has just been released. The NCADI website features links to the news releases, video of the press conference, etc., which you can reach via the following link: | ||||||||||||||||||
A hardcopy version of the full report has not yet been issued. | ||||||||||||||||||
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The news release from the MTF folks at the University of Michigan can
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Submitted by Doug McVay | ||||||||||||||||||
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THIS JUST IN (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Thom Marshall Article | ||||||||||||||||||
There's no doubt the Houston Chronicles's Thom Marshall has become a
powerful and intelligent advocate of sane drug policy; his latest-
which was published a bit too late for this issue - is well worth
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