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THIS JUST IN (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
(1) BONGLOADS OF JUSTICE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
How Getting Caught Up in a Federal Drug Raid Turned Pasadena Comic
Tere Joyce into a Marijuana Missionary | ||||||||||||||||||
Tere Joyce finds humor in just about everything, but not this. | ||||||||||||||||||
During a stop on her way home from a radio interview last week, the
Pasadena comic and former star of the NBC reality show "Last Comic
Standing" found herself at the wrong end of a rifle, caught up in a
surprise Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) raid on a medical
marijuana dispensary in Woodland Hills. | ||||||||||||||||||
"But I'm a comedian!" one witness recalled Joyce shouting as agents rushed in, telling everyone to put their hands up over their heads. | ||||||||||||||||||
Joyce is not a medical marijuana user, but she does get high. | ||||||||||||||||||
And she isn't just any performer, she's one half of "The Dope Show,"
a pot culture variety show that started last year at the annex room
of the Ice House Comedy Club in Pasadena and has sparked controversy
in -- of all places -- hemp-friendly Portland, Ore. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(2) IN QUIET SUBURBS, NEIGHBORS ARE WATCHING AGAIN (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Pot Busts Have Residents Weighing Privacy Against a Need to Know. | ||||||||||||||||||
Crime and danger seemed so removed from one family-friendly hillside
community in Diamond Bar, the local Neighborhood Watch disbanded out
of lack of need. | ||||||||||||||||||
Or so its members thought. | ||||||||||||||||||
This week, the same neighbors who let crime-watching efforts lapse were jarred by Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies descending on a two-story, red-tiled-roof home where manicured pink roses lined the walkway and the quiet new neighbors had seldom been seen. | ||||||||||||||||||
As other homeowners looked on, deputies removed nearly 1,000 marijuana
plants from the gutted home, where the bathrooms had been converted
into storage space, interior walls had been removed and the
electricity powering the massive growing operation had been routed
directly from power lines, stealing kilowatts. | ||||||||||||||||||
The operation was one of a dozen uncovered in the last month in
normally quiet, upscale suburbs in or near the eastern San Gabriel
Valley. The discoveries, which have yielded 10 arrests and more than
12,000 plants, have shaken the communities, prompting residents to
question the long-held practice of respecting neighbors' privacy as
long as they do the same. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(3) AREA DEPORTEE PINS HOPES ON CANADA (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
BURTON - Robert Berishaj, who has lived in this country since he was
9, is being deported from the United States. | ||||||||||||||||||
Now, he's looking to Canada for help. | ||||||||||||||||||
Berishaj, 27, on Wednesday was ordered to leave the United States by
July 9 and give up his Social Security number, passport and working
papers. The rest of his family, including his two brothers and
parents, live in the U.S. legally, but a legal loophole and a 2003
misdemeanor marijuana conviction (later expunged from his record) have
resulted in Berishaj being booted from the U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||
Berishaj received the news Wednesday from an immigration officer in Detroit - but he hopes to petition to become a Canadian resident. | ||||||||||||||||||
"At least if I live there, my family could still see me," said
Berishaj, who helps take care of his parents, who have health
problems. He said if he's successful, he would live in Canada near the
Michigan border. | ||||||||||||||||||
He said he was worried immigration officials would detain him and
immediately fly him out of the U.S. to Montenegro in the former
Yugoslavia, where he doesn't know the language and does not have any
friends or family. | ||||||||||||||||||
"Thank God they didn't lock me up," Berishaj said after his hearing. | ||||||||||||||||||
"I think they didn't lock me up because I cooperated with them and
showed up wherever they asked me to show up." | ||||||||||||||||||
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His brother, Joe, said it's difficult knowing his brother is not
wanted by the U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||
"It makes you feel like there's no human rights in this country
anymore," Joe Berishaj said. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(4) FEWER STUDENTS SMOKING (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Alcohol, Pot Use Tops Cigarettes, Survey Shows | ||||||||||||||||||
More Franklin County students report regularly using marijuana than
smoking cigarettes for the first time in the nearly 20-year history of
a local drug-use survey. | ||||||||||||||||||
But it's not that marijuana use is up; it's actually down from a peak
in 1997, according to the Primary Prevention Awareness, Attitude & Use
Survey of about 78,000 public- and private-school students released
yesterday. | ||||||||||||||||||
Rather, tobacco use has plunged. | ||||||||||||||||||
"In high school, cigarette use has been about cut in half," said Paul Weener, chief executive officer of DiagnosticsPlus, the Pennsylvania company that conducted the survey for the local Education Council. | ||||||||||||||||||
In the survey for drug use in 2006, 19 percent of high-school seniors
reported smoking pot at least once a month, down from the peak of 26
percent in 1997. About 18 percent now report smoking cigarettes, down
from the peak of 37 percent 10 years ago. | ||||||||||||||||||
"People aren't really on the cigarettes," said Northland High School student Antonio Moore, 15. "They stay away from the cigarettes because of that nicotine addiction. I've got a lot of friends, they do marijuana and they say, 'I don't mess with cigarettes that much.' " | ||||||||||||||||||
The eight-page, multiple-choice survey was taken in November and
December in about 4,000 classrooms across Franklin County. Paul
Coleman, president of the Maryhaven drug- and alcohol-treatment
center, said tobacco-prevention programs in schools have reduced the
number of young tobacco smokers, but he said those new attitudes about
the health consequences of smoking haven't bridged over to marijuana.
Most people, young and old, don't view marijuana use as a "smoking
problem," he said. | ||||||||||||||||||
"I think young people are beginning to realize that tobacco use
profits them not at all, but certainly profits big business," Coleman
said. With buying marijuana, he said, "The pusher is a friend, or a
friend of a friend." | ||||||||||||||||||
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WEEKLY NEWS IN REVIEW (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Domestic News- Policy | ||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (5-10) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Increased regulation of ephedrine sales has resulted in the
importation of more potent meth. It seems the "supply will always
meet the demand" lesson has not reached the Midwest as a Missouri
legislator thinks tucking baking soda behind the counter will cut
down on the availability of crack. | ||||||||||||||||||
Just as federal legislation which withholds financial aid from
students with drug convictions has nearly been corrected, a
Wisconsin legislator has decided to try it at the state level.
Hopefully the Representative will read the Badger Herald editorial
which aptly describes how disingenuous this bill is. | ||||||||||||||||||
Possession of less than an ounce of cannabis will get you a slap on
the wrist in many states. Well, it seems you now have to get caught
with over 500 pounds before you see the inside of a Texas
courthouse! | ||||||||||||||||||
I know I am not the only one who tried just about any substance I could get my hands on while sprinting toward adulthood. I am sure I am also not the only one who has been appalled at the outright hypocritical invasion called "zero tolerance". An article out of Washington State is just another example of how these tactics have not changed the experimentation tendencies in the least. | ||||||||||||||||||
Closing this section on a positive note - It is safe to transport
soap in your vehicle through Los Angeles again! | ||||||||||||||||||
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(5) IMPORT OF METHAMPHETAMINE FROM MEXICO OFFSETS LOCAL PROGRESS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
RICHMOND -- Several of the nation's top law enforcement officials
said Thursday that an influx of methamphetamine from Mexico is
overshadowing their recent success in curtailing homegrown meth labs
and is fueling a crime wave caused by addicts who can stay awake for
days. | ||||||||||||||||||
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But state and federal authorities say they have made significant progress in cracking down on those labs, in large part by approving laws restricting the sale of the products used to make the drug. | ||||||||||||||||||
Now, however, they say, Mexican drug gangs have stepped in and are
mass-producing the drug and smuggling it over the border. It often
ends up in Atlanta, where it is then distributed to cities along the
East Coast, the attorneys general said. | ||||||||||||||||||
McDonnell estimates that 80 to 90 percent of the meth found in
Virginia now comes from Mexico. The drug labs that once dotted rural
Virginia are largely gone, he said. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(6) BAKING SODA COULD GO BEHIND THE COUNTER (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
A Missouri state legislator is seeking to regulate baking soda sales
in hopes of curbing crack cocaine production. | ||||||||||||||||||
In a bill introduced in late March, Rep. Talibdin El-Amin (D-St.
Louis) says he wants to put baking soda, or sodium bicarbonate,
behind the pharmaceutical counter. | ||||||||||||||||||
Sodium bicarbonate is a key ingredient used in producing crack
cocaine, which is often created by dissolving powdered cocaine in a
mixture of water and baking soda. | ||||||||||||||||||
Rep. El-Amin's bill would require customers to provide photo
identification when purchasing baking soda, and limit customers
under the age of 18 from purchasing over two ounces. The name,
address, and purchase amount of the buyer would be required to be
recorded by the seller. | ||||||||||||||||||
Critics of the bill claim that crack cocaine does not only rely on baking soda, but can be produced using any form weak base. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(7) Editorial: A DEAL GONE BAD (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
A bill currently under consideration in the state Legislature's
Colleges and Universities Committee would prevent convicted drug
dealers from receiving state financial aid. Assembly Bill 151,
introduced by Rep. Eugene Hahn, R-Cambria, would mirror a federal
law that places similar restrictions on federal financial aid
eligibility. With limited state education funds, Mr. Hahn claims the
bill is necessary to ensure law-abiding students are the ones
receiving financial aid. | ||||||||||||||||||
Despite Mr. Hahn's feigned concern for fiscal responsibility, we
have a hard time believing this would do anything substantive for
the state's finances. In 2005-06, the state distributed $90 million
in aid to students. In a study analyzing the effects of the more
severe federal financial aid restrictions, Students for Sensible
Drug Policy found that 1 in 400 applicants were denied aid. If
similar numbers held true for this bill, Mr. Hahn's proposal would
not even save the state half-a-million dollars - without even
considering implementation costs. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Indeed, the justification for this bill is critically flawed. If Mr.
Hahn is so concerned with the prospect of law-breaking students from
receiving aid, perhaps he'd like to amend the bill to cut funding
from students who illegally gamble online, download pirated music or
jaywalk. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Doling out punishments is a responsibility best left to the courts -
not the state Legislature. The Legislature already has enough
important university-related issues to be concerned with, like
stem-cell research, domestic partner benefits and overall UW System
financing. The last thing they need is a debate over a petty,
ill-conceived bill designed more to score self-righteous legislators
cheap political points than to improve public policy. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(8) DRUG CASES IN NEGLECT (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
HOUSTON -- A shortage of federal prosecutors and an emphasis on
immigration violations has pulled resources away from prosecuting
drug smugglers, according to memos released by the Justice
Department. | ||||||||||||||||||
Federal prosecutors in southern Arizona declined to prosecute some
marijuana smugglers carrying less than 500 pounds, according to the
memos, which were released as part of the investigation into the
firing of eight U.S. attorneys. | ||||||||||||||||||
Memos show federal officials warning that the thresholds were "simply going to be a fact of life" because U.S. attorneys' offices along the border were "absolutely stretched to the limit." | ||||||||||||||||||
The cases are then referred to state prosecutors, who often do not have the resources to take on those cases, a former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration official told the Houston Chronicle. | ||||||||||||||||||
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In El Paso, District Attorney Jaime Esparza said he doesn't mind
taking on the less serious federal cases, since it frees the feds to
tackle the bigger fish, but noted the financial burden doing that
can bring. | ||||||||||||||||||
His office sent the Justice Department a $757,500 bill for three
months' worth of drug cases, under a reimbursement program
instituted for border states. He received less than half of the
amount back: $333,661, Mr. Esparza said. | ||||||||||||||||||
His counterparts in Laredo, Edinburg and Del Rio have declined to
take federal cases all together. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(9) BAINBRIDGE IS HOME TO STUDENTS OF SUBSTANCE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Fifty-Three Percent Of The Island's High School Seniors Say They
Consumed Alcohol Last Fall -- And 27 Percent Say They've Been Drunk
Or High While In School | ||||||||||||||||||
Bainbridge Island -- Alcohol use among Bainbridge High School
seniors is 25 percent higher than the state average, a new study
suggests. | ||||||||||||||||||
Fifty-three percent of seniors drank sometime during the month
before they were surveyed last fall, compared with 42 percent across
the state, according to just-released results from the Healthy Youth
Survey. Higher drinking rates among seniors were reported in surveys
in 2002 and 2004 as well. | ||||||||||||||||||
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The survey suggests the attitude may not be much different among
seniors for marijuana use. | ||||||||||||||||||
Thirty-one percent have used it in the past month, compared with 22
percent statewide. Half of BHS seniors say they've smoked it at one
time or another. | ||||||||||||||||||
And, one in 10 BHS seniors have used cocaine, about the same for use
statewide. But less than 1 percent report having used | ||||||||||||||||||
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(10) DRUG TESTS EXONERATE PUNK ROCKER (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Don Bolles, arrested in Newport Beach on suspicion of possessing a date-rape drug, is freed after analysis shows it was only soap. | ||||||||||||||||||
It was soap, not dope. | ||||||||||||||||||
That's the verdict from additional testing of the peppermint-scented
liquid that got punk rocker Don Bolles arrested on drug charges this
month. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Meanwhile, the makers of Dr. Bronner's announced that other liquid
soaps, including Neutrogena and Tom's of Maine, also can mistakenly
register positive for GHB with the field test kit used by Newport
Beach police. | ||||||||||||||||||
Bronner's officials said they experimented with the ODV-brand
NarcoPouch 928 test kit and various soaps over the weekend and would
post a video of the results on their website next week. | ||||||||||||||||||
"Police departments nationwide should immediately stop using the ODV field test for GHB," Bronner's president David Bronner said. | ||||||||||||||||||
A spokesman for Armor Forensics, which manufactures the ODV test,
said he wasn't familiar with the kit and couldn't immediately
comment. | ||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (11-14) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Racial profiling reared its ugly head in North Carolina this week as
defense attorneys attempt to use it as a reason to suppress
evidence. During a hearing it was revealed that only one of 29 stops
that led to arrests was a Caucasian. | ||||||||||||||||||
A Detroit Free Press editorial writer began his column with a fairly
humorous line about how the state has proposed to cut prison costs.
He followed with some sobering incarceration facts and rarely seen
empathy for the inmates and their families. He then suggests that
non-violent inmates should be released and money should be spent on
treatment and community programs. | ||||||||||||||||||
In New York, a city court judge who allegedly twice got his son out
of trouble for traffic violations and possession charges is now
being investigated by a state watchdog commission. | ||||||||||||||||||
I've always been bewildered by officials reporting illicit drug use
statistics as if they actually believe they can correctly determine
the numbers. As long as the punishment for usage is far worse than
the effect of the substances - accurate statistics are just not
possible. A North Carolina report exemplifies this as an Asheville
Police Chief attempts to justify additional funds to "police" their
way out of substance abuse. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(11) LAWYERS RAP ICE TEAM TACTICS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
SHELBY -- Lawyers representing two Hispanic men question whether the
county's Interstate Crime Enforcement team targets minorities by
illegally pulling them over - all for financial gain. | ||||||||||||||||||
A hearing to suppress evidence seized in a traffic stop along I-85
began Wednesday morning with attorneys David Teddy and Todd Cerwin
questioning Sgt. Rodney Fitch about the traffic stop. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Teddy questioned whether race and/or financial motives play a factor
in the I.C.E team's stops. | ||||||||||||||||||
Teddy asked Fitch if the majority of the people arrested during
stops by the I.C.E. team were minorities including blacks, Hispanics
and Asians. Fitch responded: "It's a fair statement." Fitch said
there have been 29 stops that led to arrests and one of those was a
Caucasian. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(12) Column: LIGHTS OUT ON COMMON SENSE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Facing a budget crisis, politicians want to cut the state prison
budget. But how they want to do it is like cutting calories by
washing down a dozen chocolate donuts with a diet Vernors.
Michigan's bloated prison system is bankrupting the state. To fix
it, the state must come up with better ideas than unplugging water
coolers to save electricity. | ||||||||||||||||||
Locking up a record 51,500 inmates costs nearly $2 billion a year.
That's about $5 million a day -- more than taxpayers spend on higher
education. Michigan imprisons 40% more people than other Great Lakes
states that have less crime, taking an extra $500 million a year out
of the state's general fund. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Even some employees are uneasy about changes that will increase institutional tension and in some cases endanger health and safety. | ||||||||||||||||||
But it's open season on inmates. Prisoners and their families have
no constituency or political juice. Term-limited legislators,
looking for any chance to appear tough on crime, have little to
lose. Any idea to cut costs without closing prisons, no matter how
whack, will get a hearing. | ||||||||||||||||||
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The only way to save serious money is to release people who don't belong behind bars, close prisons and, to protect public safety, reinvest part of the savings into community programs and supervision. Over the next decade, the state can do that by revising sentencing guidelines, strengthening re-entry programs, granting medical commutations, expanding drug courts and other community alternatives to incarceration, and paroling some of the 15,000 inmates who have served longer than their minimum sentence. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(13) ALBANY JUDGE SUBJECT OF STATE INVESTIGATION (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Thomas Keefe Allegedly Aided His Son Twice During Traffic Stops By
Albany Police | ||||||||||||||||||
ALBANY -- A City Court judge is being investigated by the state
Commission on Judicial Conduct over allegations he twice intervened
when police stopped his son, including once when the youth had
marijuana and drug paraphernalia, according to sources with
knowledge of the probe. | ||||||||||||||||||
Investigators with the watchdog panel that oversees judges are
looking into claims Albany City Court Judge Thomas Keefe persuaded
Albany police to allow him to take his son from two traffic stops
without formal charges. He also is alleged to have left with some
evidence. | ||||||||||||||||||
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The Times Union filed a request under the state Freedom of
Information Law in January for the incident reports that police
prepared after two traffic stops: one on Nov. 8, 2005, at 1:15 a.m.
at Lawnridge and New Scotland avenues, and another on March 30,
2006, at 11:08 a.m. at Kent and West Erie streets. | ||||||||||||||||||
Those reports were released by the Albany City Clerk in February,
but Keefe's son's name had been redacted with a thick, black line.
The youth was 16 during the 2005 incident. However, the name of a
passenger in the 2006 incident was left visible. That youth's age
was redacted. | ||||||||||||||||||
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What is not reflected on the report are observations by Joyce and a
back-up officer, Daniel Meehan. Sources with knowledge of the
investigation say the officers saw the younger Keefe put a small
wooden box in his pocket, which contained a small amount of
marijuana, and found a digital scale and some baggies under the
seat. | ||||||||||||||||||
The officers asked the youth if the judge was his father and
suggested he call home. Within minutes, the judge appeared at the
traffic stop, asked the officers to release his son to him and he
confiscated the drugs and paraphernalia, and they left. | ||||||||||||||||||
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If Keefe is found to have used his position to benefit his son, the
judicial conduct commission could opt for discipline ranging from
censure to removal from the bench. Keefe, who is 54, makes $108,800
annually. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(14) CITY POLICE CHIEF ASKS FOR $2.4M MORE TO COMBAT DRUGS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
ASHEVILLE -- Stepping up the fight against hard-drug dealing would cost an additional $2.4 million, says Police Chief Bill Hogan. Hogan presented the price tag as part of an increased drug suppression plan requested by the top elected city body. In addition to putting more money into high-crime areas, the city would have to look at shifting attention from neighborhoods with less crime, he said. | ||||||||||||||||||
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"I think we should get behind you not incrementally," he said.
"Let's create a surge and hold you accountable for doing the good
work." At Mumpower's suggestion, the council asked Hogan to continue
to give regular progress reports. | ||||||||||||||||||
Progress is often measured in the number of drug arrests, Hogan
said, and those have gone up since the formation of the police Drug
Suppression Unit with 36 percent more felony drug arrests and 44
percent more misdemeanor arrests. But the new effort, which includes
more police, more community outreach and more social programs,
should actually lead to fewer arrests, he said. "The hope is when
you create more police presence, you drive it down. Sometimes it is
displaced from one area to another, or it just can't be done as
frequently as it used to be," he said. | ||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (15-18) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
This week the DSW lands in your mailbox just in time to say happy
420! The first story gives us some background and perspective on
this cultural phenomenon, so sit back and celebrate a bit before we
get back to the real world. | ||||||||||||||||||
Yes, back in the real world the legal/political quagmire of cannabis
prohibition takes tortuous turns here and there, as tiny ripples in
the stagnant pool of drug policy are interpreted as hope and
progress. We can only hope that history bears witness to our
successful efforts to regulate the forbidden plant. Otherwise, more
disastrous threats like climate change, the great depression, peak
oil, water crisis, WW111 or other factors hanging in the balance
will bring legalization by default as we face scenarios that make
resources devoted to cannabis prohibition non-existent. Is that
really what we want, though? | ||||||||||||||||||
The harsh reality is the U.S. feds plan to never, ever okay cannabis
in smoked, whole plant form. It will be heralded into the realm of
pharmacopoeia to separate medical users from those deviant pot
smokers, while turning free, independent medicine into a profitable
and controlled product. Who is the real winner here? (Hint: follow
the money). | ||||||||||||||||||
The workplace and legal medical cannabis use is something companies
are beginning to debate. The prognosis is not great considering
employers are not required in any state to make accommodations for
it's use. A big thanks and kudos to Newbridge Securities - if all of
the corporate world could follow this shining example of
reasonableness. | ||||||||||||||||||
The Canadian federal government is trying to downplay and quickly extinguish the news about the 1500% price markup of the pot they are selling for $150 an ounce. It sounds like nothing to complain about to some pot consumers around the world, but taxpayer money produced the poor quality schwag, and those living in the Canadian cannabis friendly bubble know for slightly more, they can score some very good quality cannabis at a compassion club or from a neighbor. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(15) 420 REASONS TO CELEBRATE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
What's the deal with the stoner magic number? | ||||||||||||||||||
Four-twenty. Though pot-smokers' relationship with the first 419
integers in the numerical system is decidedly indifferent, the
number 420 elicits salivation, giddiness, and a rustling of Zig-Zags
upon its very utterance. Now, why is that? | ||||||||||||||||||
As April 20, the widely recognized pot-smoking holiday approaches, it's time to look at this mysterious number and try to figure out its hazy significance. If you ask four stoners what 420 means, odds are you'll get four different answers. So what's the truth? | ||||||||||||||||||
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(16) OPED: REJECTED IN COURT, MEDICAL POT ADVOCATES TURN TO DEA (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
A federal appeals court's rejection of Angel Raich's plea for
permission to ease her suffering without fear of prosecution has
medical marijuana advocates looking for reform in a surprising venue
- -- the Drug Enforcement Administration. | ||||||||||||||||||
Raich's loss severely diminishes prospects of reform through
litigation. But a February "opinion and recommended ruling" by a DEA
administrative law judge holds out the possibility that prescription
marijuana will be developed and approved by the Federal Drug
Administration, ending the long federal-state standoff over medical
pot. | ||||||||||||||||||
Mary Ellen Bittner, a Department of Justice appointee who hears
regulatory cases for the DEA, tentatively ruled it "would be in the
public interest" to let Lyle E. Craker, a medicinal plant specialist
at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, grow pot for use by
DEA-registered scientists in prescription drug research and clinical
trials authorized by the FDA. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(17) EMPLOYERS GRAPPLE WITH MEDICAL MARIJUANA USE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Ethical, Liability Issues Rise As More States Make It Legal | ||||||||||||||||||
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A few companies, such as Newbridge Securities, have embraced the
notion of employees using medical marijuana at work. | ||||||||||||||||||
Meanwhile, there are questions about whether medical marijuana laws would offer any protection to employers if a worker who used marijuana to treat pain ended up injuring others or making a mistake on the job. It's unclear whether such an incident has occurred. | ||||||||||||||||||
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None of the states with medical marijuana laws requires employers to make accommodations for the use of the drug in the workplace, says Bruce Mirken, spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Rosenfeld's employer, Newbridge Securities, is resolute in its
support of his on-the-job use of medical marijuana. Company
officials say they aren't concerned about legal liability issues
because they say Rosenfeld's use of the drug doesn't have an impact
on his ability to work. He also discloses to every client that he
uses the drug. | ||||||||||||||||||
"He's a quality stockbroker, and he does a great job," says Phillip
Semenick, executive vice president and branch manager. "But there is
a stigma to it. Some people are going to look at it and say, 'Here's
a guy smoking pot at work? How can he do that?' " | ||||||||||||||||||
Rosenfeld's marijuana use also has led to moments that Semenick and Rosenfeld have found comical. Marijuana "has a distinct smell," Semenick says. "The mailman or someone coming into the building will stop and notice." He adds that the company is not concerned about how the smell of marijuana in its office might affect its image. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(18) GOV'T MARIJUANA MARKED UP 1,500 PER CENT (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Records obtained under the Access to Information Act show that
Health Canada pays $328.75 for each kilogram of bulk medical
marijuana produced by Prairie Plant Systems Inc. | ||||||||||||||||||
The company currently has a $10.3-million contract with Health Canada, which expires at the end of September, to grow standardized medical marijuana in an abandoned mine shaft in Flin Flon, Man. | ||||||||||||||||||
Health Canada, in turn, sells the marijuana to a small group of
authorized users for $150 - plus GST - for each 30-gram bag of
ground-up flowering tops, with a strength of up to 14 per cent THC,
the main active ingredient. That works out to $5,000 for each
kilogram, or a markup of more than 1,500 per cent. | ||||||||||||||||||
"It's impossible for a person on disability," said Ron Lawrence, 38,
a burn victim in Windsor, Ont., who needs medical marijuana to
control severe pain. "The sickest people are the ones that need it
the most . . . they're the ones who don't work." | ||||||||||||||||||
Adds Scott McCluskey, 48, in Westbank, B.C., who suffers spinal-cord pain that is eased by marijuana: "They're selling it for criminal street prices . . . I don't think anybody, especially seriously ill people . . . should have to pay this type of money for medicine." | ||||||||||||||||||
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International News | ||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (19-22) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Mexican President Felipe Calderon, in office since December of last
year, got "tough" on drugs. He sent in the army, they slashed and
burned and arrested with great gusto. The result? Three articles
from Mexico this week paint the entirely predictable picture:
prohibition isn't working any better than before, and turf battles
for market share are as violent as ever. With 17 people killed last
Monday alone in Mexico, some estimate as many as 700 people have
been killed this year so far in battles between cartels. Officials
also announced last week the arrest of Juan Oscar "Las Barbas" Garza
Azuara, an accused leader of the Gulf cartel. Previous arrests of
cartel heads haven't dented the flow of drugs to U.S. consumers, but
has led to violence, as traffickers vie for markets. | ||||||||||||||||||
And in the northern Mexican border state of Nuevo Leon, Mexican
soldiers loyal to president Calderon "detained" over 100 police
officers, in a move ostensibly aimed at corruption there. The
arrests of police this week in Nuevo Leon followed similar moves
against police in Tijuana in recent months. Calderon's "get tough"
policies, while pleasing to prohibitionists back in Washington DC,
appear to be backfiring spectacularly. | ||||||||||||||||||
Failed drug policies were much in the U.K. press this week as a
government-commissioned drugs policy report released this week said
the U.K.s "get tough" approach has flopped there, too. Despite more
than doubling the number of people arrested for drugs from 1994 to
2005, as well as increasing the length of drug-related jail terms,
the price of heroin (for example) actually plummeted over the same
time. "There is little international or UK evidence to suggest that
drug education and prevention have had any significant impact on
drug use," concluded the report. The U.K. Home Office response? "We
are proud of our record," chirped minister Vernon Coaker, "and
intend to build on our success." | ||||||||||||||||||
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(19) DRUG WAR CLAIMS MORE VICTIMS AS POLICE FIND 17 BODIES (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Police found 17 bodies stuffed in cars or dumped on streets in
garbage bags across Mexico on Monday in the latest wave of violence
apparently triggered by warring drug gangs. | ||||||||||||||||||
Federal investigators say the Sinaloa cartel is fighting a bloody
turf war with the Gulf Cartel and their army of enforcers known as
the Zetas over billion-dollar drug trafficking routes to the United
States. | ||||||||||||||||||
According to a tally kept by Mexico City daily El Universal there
have been more than 700 drug slayings since January. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(20) KEY LEADER IN MEXICO DRUG CARTEL ARRESTED (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
MEXICO CITY - A man described as a key leader of the violent Gulf
Cartel has been arrested as part of a widening crackdown on drug
trafficking in northeast Mexico, federal authorities announced
Tuesday. | ||||||||||||||||||
The announcement of the bust in the state of Tamaulipas, which
borders the United States, came the day after Mexican soldiers
detained more than 100 local police officers in the neighboring
state of Nuevo Leon for questioning about suspected ties to drug
traffickers. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Authorities said Garza's arrest and the detentions of the officers
were unrelated except that both were part of "Operation Nuevo Leon-
Tamaulipas," an effort to crack down on drug dealers in the U.S.-
Mexico border region. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(21) 100 POLICE OFFICERS HELD IN MEXICO (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Military, AG Target Drug Corruption In Border State | ||||||||||||||||||
MEXICO CITY -- Mexican soldiers detained more than 100 police
officers Monday in the Texas border state of Nuevo Leon, and
authorities said the officers would be held in custody and
investigated for allegedly helping drug traffickers. | ||||||||||||||||||
The joint operation between the army and state attorney general's
office targeted allegedly corrupt police in a dozen towns, and also
in the state security ministry and the state police, authorities
said in a statement. | ||||||||||||||||||
[snip] | ||||||||||||||||||
So far this year, 32 people have been killed in Nuevo Leon as a
result of a turf war between the Gulf cartel, based along the
Mexico-Texas border, and the Sinaloa cartel, based in the northern
state of Sinaloa. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Since taking office Dec. 1, President Felipe Calderon has used the
military on three other occasions to help civilian authorities
detain police officers. | ||||||||||||||||||
[snip] | ||||||||||||||||||
Monday was a bloody day even in cartel-ravaged Mexico, with 21 drug-
related killings reported, including the discovery of five bodies
inside a truck in the resort city of Cancun. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(22) DRUGS POLICY FAILING, SAYS REPORT (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Longer jail sentences for drug offences have failed to rid Britain's streets of illegal narcotics, according to a report released today. | ||||||||||||||||||
The report also found that government-backed education and
prevention programmes designed to steer youngsters away from drugs
appear to have had "very little impact" on experimentation with
illicit substances. | ||||||||||||||||||
The document, commissioned for today's launch of the independent UK
Drug Policy Commission, found tougher sentencing policies have led
to the number of people jailed for drug-related offences rising by
111% between 1994 and 2005 and the average length of sentences
increasing by 29%. | ||||||||||||||||||
Taken together, this means the courts handed out nearly three times
as much prison time in 2004 as in 1994. | ||||||||||||||||||
But despite this judicial crackdown and a "substantial" increase in
drug seizures, street prices for heroin have plummeted from UKP70 a
gram in 2000 to UKP54 in 2005, indicating a probable increase in
availability. | ||||||||||||||||||
[snip] | ||||||||||||||||||
The report's authors, Professor Peter Reuter, of Maryland University
in the USA, and Alex Stevens, of the University of Kent, suggested
that imposing longer jail terms may not be the answer. | ||||||||||||||||||
"Imprisoning drug offenders for relatively substantial periods does
not appear to represent a cost-effective response," the report
states. | ||||||||||||||||||
Enforcement action has a "disproportionate" impact on certain ethnic
communities, notably black people, who are arrested and imprisoned
for drug offences at higher rates than white people, said the
report. | ||||||||||||||||||
And it warned: "There is little international or UK evidence to
suggest that drug education and prevention have had any significant
impact on drug use. | ||||||||||||||||||
[snip] | ||||||||||||||||||
The report's authors called for further government effort to be
focused on the development of treatment and harm reduction
programmes, which have been shown to have an impact on the levels of
crime, ill- health and death linked to drugs. | ||||||||||||||||||
[snip] | ||||||||||||||||||
Home Office minister Vernon Coaker said the government would
continue tackling drug misuse through enforcement, education, early
intervention and treatment. | ||||||||||||||||||
He said: "We are spending unparalleled sums on our drugs strategy,
which has been vindicated by record numbers of people in drug
treatment and significant falls in drugs misuse and drug related
crime. | ||||||||||||||||||
"We are proud of our record and intend to build on our success." | ||||||||||||||||||
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HOT OFF THE 'NET (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES, APRIL NEWS | ||||||||||||||||||
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WAS TIMOTHY LEARY RIGHT? | ||||||||||||||||||
By John Cloud | ||||||||||||||||||
Are psychedelics good for you? It's such a hippie relic of a
question that it's almost embarrassing to ask. But a quiet
psychedelic renaissance is beginning at the highest levels of
American science, including the National Institute of Mental Health
(NIMH) and Harvard, which is conducting what is thought to be its
first research into therapeutic uses of psychedelics (in this case,
Ecstasy) since the university fired Timothy Leary in 1963. But
should we be prying open the doors of perception again? | ||||||||||||||||||
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1612717,00.html | ||||||||||||||||||
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DRUG WARRIOR INTERROGATES DRUG POLICY EXPERT WITH UNSURPRISING | ||||||||||||||||||
It is a depressing example from the hardcore of evangelical drug
warriors (who still, tragically, cast a long shadow over the
international political discourse on drug policy) of the total lack
of engagement in any form of meaningful debate with expert opinion
that dares to differ from their own. As such the only value from the
session is the intelligent comments elicited from [Dr. Alex] Wodak
and the schadenfreude of witnessing a rude and uninformed politician
make a total fool of herself on the public record. | ||||||||||||||||||
You can read the complete exchange in this PDF transcript. (The
Wodak section is pages 88-110). Note: this transcript is an
uncorrected proof . | ||||||||||||||||||
http://transform-drugs.blogspot.com/2007/04/drug-warrior-interrogates-drug-policy.html | ||||||||||||||||||
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ARE WE WINNING THE WAR ON DRUGS? | ||||||||||||||||||
Houston Community College's Pandora's Box Hosts A Distinguished
Panel of Experts: Stan Furce, Dir. High Intensity Drug Trafficking
Area - Houston, Marcia Baker, Dir. Houston's Phoenix House, Dr. Joel
Hochman, Dir. National Foundation for Treatment of Pain & Dean
Becker, creator Drug Truth Network, member Law Enforcement Against
Prohibition. Tues, April 10, Cyber Lounge, Westgate campus of
Houston Community College. | ||||||||||||||||||
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MAKING THE CASE FOR LEGALIZING MARIJUANA | ||||||||||||||||||
All Things Considered, April 6, 2007 - As founder and executive
director of the Drug Policy Alliance, Ethan Nadelmann is pursuing
alternatives to the war on drugs. He is keenly aware of the many
objections to legalizing street drugs. But is marijuana a special
case? Nadelmann offers his views on the subject in a conversation
with Robert Siegel. | ||||||||||||||||||
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MEASURING PROHIBITIONS | ||||||||||||||||||
By Radley Balko | ||||||||||||||||||
Over at The Corner, Jonah Goldberg responds to my column on lowering
the drinking age by making a drug war comparison. He's right. If the
drinking age were lowered to 18, more 18-21 year-olds would likely
drink (on the other hand, 80% of underage drinking would be
eliminated!). | ||||||||||||||||||
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WHAT YOU CAN DO THIS WEEK (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
HEALTH CANADA EXPLOITING MEDICAL MARIJUANA PATIENTS! | ||||||||||||||||||
DrugSense FOCUS Alert #346 - Friday, 20 April 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||
Last Monday newspapers across Canada broke a startling and dismaying
analysis of how Health Canada is severely exploiting almost 2000
citizens who are legally permitted to possess and use medical
marijuana. | ||||||||||||||||||
Records obtained under the Access to Information Act reveal that the
federal government charges patients 15 times more for certified
medical marijuana than it pays to buy the cannabis in bulk from its
official supplier, Prairie Plant Systems. | ||||||||||||||||||
Please consider sending a Letter to the Editor to Canadian newspapers.
If you are a Canadian citizen, please give special attention to the
newspapers closest to your hometown. | ||||||||||||||||||
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NATIONAL DAY OF EDUCATION | ||||||||||||||||||
Students at 50 universities around the country -- including many NORML and SSDP chapters -- will be using the traditional marijuana holiday to flood their campuses with flyers including information about marijuana and the fact that it is SAFER than alcohol. | ||||||||||||||||||
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LETTER OF THE WEEK (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
THE POOR SUFFER THE MOST | ||||||||||||||||||
By Michael Berry | ||||||||||||||||||
Reading Tonyaa Weathersbee's columns during my winter stays in your
area, I have become a fan of hers. | ||||||||||||||||||
I don't always agree with her, but I admire her for following her
instincts and reporting it as she sees it, even though it may be
counter to prevailing opinion. | ||||||||||||||||||
Her Feb. 5 column ("More effort is needed to lift up poor
communities") is no exception. Indeed, it was especially courageous,
considering how close to blasphemy any questioning of the "war on
drugs" has become. | ||||||||||||||||||
Before retiring, I had a long career as a pharmacist. I watched with
dismay while the anti-drug juggernaut grew. And knowing, as I do,
how much of the effort is stimulated by distortion and exaggeration
has made the cost in resources and destroyed lives seem even more
repugnant. | ||||||||||||||||||
I'm almost brought to tears when I consider that the money spent on
this "war" is enough to provide rehabilitation for all who need it,
with enough left over to fund nationwide health care. | ||||||||||||||||||
I think that Weathersbee's premise that the poor suffer from this
"jihad" disproportionately is correct. I think that it took only 13
years to correct the error and repeal alcohol prohibition (even
though it required, literally, an act of Congress, as well as
three/fourths of the states' legislatures) because the disastrous
effects permeated all levels of society. | ||||||||||||||||||
Today's drug prohibition, however, because it damages mostly the
poor and powerless, has been allowed to fester. | ||||||||||||||||||
MICHAEL BERRY | ||||||||||||||||||
North Kingstown, R.I. | ||||||||||||||||||
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FEATURE ARTICLE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Your Tax Dollars At Work | ||||||||||||||||||
PDF version: http://www.drugsense.org/flyers/taxatwork.pdf | ||||||||||||||||||
By Mary Jane Borden | ||||||||||||||||||
"Your tax dollars at work." Remember those road signs that mark road
construction projects in an attempt to show taxpayers that they are
getting their money's worth? | ||||||||||||||||||
As you are calculating your tax return and perhaps writing checks to
the taxman, the state treasury, or your local municipality, we
thought we'd pull a few numbers together from our 180,000 article
collection about drug policy, and ask this simple question: are you
getting your money's worth? | ||||||||||||||||||
While reading this list, please keep three important points
important points in mind: | ||||||||||||||||||
- Drug prohibition costs far more than harm reduction alternatives.
The per-person price of treatment is about one third of | ||||||||||||||||||
- Listing these costs ignores the revenue that might be generated by taxing what are now illegal drugs, especially marijuana. Not only would governmental bodies not incur the prohibition-related expenditures of arresting non-violent marijuana users, they would also benefit from the revenue boost that results from sales and other taxes. http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n1632/a11.html | ||||||||||||||||||
- Our large collection of newspaper, magazine, and Web articles on
all aspects of drug policy make this list possible. As you are
writing your tax checks, why not also make one out to DrugSense or
visit http://www.DrugSense.org/donate to make a donation online. If
we keep condemning the enormous costs associated with the drug war,
eventually public officials will "get it" and demand sensible,
compassionate, AND cost-effective solutions. | ||||||||||||||||||
Now, here's our dubious list of drug war expenditures from the last
two tax years. Your tax dollars at work: | ||||||||||||||||||
- Executing the War on Drugs. According to White House Office of
National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), the official cost of the drug
war in the United States is $148.62 BILLION per year. | ||||||||||||||||||
- Eradicating Colombian Cocaine. Designed to eradicate Colombia's
coca crop before it is processed into cocaine, the $4.7 BILLION Plan
Colombia has made the U.S. Embassy in Bogota the second largest US
diplomatic mission in the world. It employs 2,000 people, fields 20
aircraft to carry out daily spray missions, and utilizes 71 US
helicopters to protect the army and police units as they clear the
target areas of coca farmers, guerilla forces, and traffickers.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n1295/a05.html | ||||||||||||||||||
- Eradicating Afghanistan Opium. The U.S. government spends about $3
BILLION per year attempting to eradicate the poppy crop in
Afghanistan even though the Kennedy School of Government concluded
that annual purchases of wheat from these same fields at triple the
world price would cost less. | ||||||||||||||||||
- Imprisoning Cannabis Users. Currently, one in eight inmates
incarcerated for drug crimes is behind bars for marijuana, at a cost
to taxpayers of more than $1 BILLION per year. | ||||||||||||||||||
- Building Prisons. Texas Department of Criminal Justice has
proposed the construction of three new prisons to house a total of
5,000 prisoners, incurring $440 MILLION in building costs, plus an
additional $72 MILLION a year to operate them the facilities.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n1621/a06.html | ||||||||||||||||||
- Influencing the Media. The $25 MILLION "Above the Influence" anti-
drug media campaign represents the latest rendition of the $120
MILLION in advertising spent annually by the Office of National Drug
Control Policy. http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n921/a07.html and
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n1722/a05.html | ||||||||||||||||||
- Incarcerating Women. The number of incarcerated women has grown an
astounding 592 percent since 1997 to over 85,000 prisoners in 2001,
with more convicted for drug-related crimes than for any other
offense. The cost of incarcerating one woman equals about $30,000 a
year, with an additional $30,000 incurred to place her children in
foster care. All told, this sums to about $5.1 BILLION per year.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n1731/a06.html | ||||||||||||||||||
If you think that your tax dollars could be better spent, then
perhaps its time to change drug policy. Please start by making sure
that numbers like these make their way to public officials. We've
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Remember, it's not what others do; it's what we all do together that
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