[WC.TC] Fwd: Drug War Chronicle, Issue #537 (short version)

[Jacob Cabrera]

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> Date: May 23, 2008 5:13:03 PM PDT
> To: "Jacob Cabrera" <c at jacobslife.org>
> Subject: Drug War Chronicle, Issue #537 (short version)
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> a publication of Stop the Drug War (DRCNet)	
> Issue #537 - 5/23/08
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> TABLE OF CONTENTS
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> long march through the statehouses 																			
> FEATURE: NEW MEXICO'S MEDICAL MARIJUANA LAW IS WORKING, BUT THERE  
> IS A HANG-UP OVER PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION
> Nearly a year after it went into effect, New Mexico's medical  
> marijuana program is registering and providing ID cards to  
> patients, but its innovative provisions for state-licensed, -owned,  
> or -operated marijuana production and distribution are stalled in  
> the regulatory process.
> FEATURE: MEDICAL MARIJUANA AT THE STATEHOUSE -- STALLED IN ST.  
> PAUL, PROGRESS IN PROVIDENCE, COMING OUT IN COLUMBUS
> No one ever said it was going to be easy to get medical marijuana  
> bill through state legislatures, and recent events in Minnesota and  
> Rhode Island reinforce the notion that it's a lengthy, arduous  
> process. But it isn't going to happen at all if you don't try, and  
> that's what one Ohio legislator is doing.
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> LAW ENFORCEMENT: THIS WEEK'S CORRUPT COPS STORIES
> On opposite sides of the country, crooked cops are headed for long  
> prison sentences, and another Atlanta narc is going to the big  
> house. Meanwhile, a Customs and Border Protection agent in San  
> Diego and a jail guard in the Florida panhandle get busted.
> LAW ENFORCEMENT: MISSOURI RESIDENTS SUE OVER FAKE DEA AGENT BUSTS
> The DEA agent helped police in a Missouri do some COPS-style raids  
> earlier this year. There was only one problem: He wasn't a DEA  
> agent. Now the people busted are suing.
> PAIN MEDICINE: KANSAS DOCTOR FIGHTS BACK, ATTACKS FEDERAL  
> PROSECUTION AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT AS UNCONSTITUTIONAL
> Attorneys for Dr. Stephen Schneider, a Kansas physician indicted by  
> the feds as a "pill mill" operator, have now filed a motion seeking  
> dismissal of the indictment and challenging the constitutionality  
> of the Controlled Substances Act.
> DRUG TREATMENT: MASSACHUSETTS SENATE PONDERS "SECURE TREATMENT  
> CENTERS"
> Faced with high rates of opiate addiction and a rising overdose  
> toll, the Massachusetts Senate is considering funding a pair of  
> "secure treatment centers" for arrested drug users.
> LATIN AMERICA: CHILEAN SENATOR CHALLENGES INCLUSION OF MARIJUANA ON  
> "DANGEROUS DRUGS" LIST
> The Chilean government recently reclassified marijuana as a  
> "dangerous drug" like heroin or methamphetamine, but one senator is  
> crying foul.
> EUROPE: COLOMBIAN VICE-PRESIDENT WANTS DEBATE ON COCAINE LEGALIZATION
> Colombia's vice-president went to London to attend events related  
> to a new British campaign against cocaine consumption, but while he  
> was there, he suggested maybe legalization should be part of the  
> discussion.
> EUROPE: NEW HEAD OF BRITISH GOVERNMENT DRUG ADVISORY COUNCIL FAVORS  
> DOWNGRADING ECSTASY
> The British Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, the government  
> body charged with setting drug policy, has a new chairman this  
> week, and he has said he wants to downgrade Ecstasy to a less  
> serious drug classification.
> EUROPE: CALABRIAN MOB GROWS RICH AND POWERFUL ON COCAINE PROFITS
> Move over, Sicilian Mafia. The Calabrian mob, grown rich and  
> powerful off trafficking in black market cocaine, are the new tough  
> guys in Europe.
> WEEKLY: THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
> Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of  
> years past.
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> WEEKLY: BLOGGING @ THE SPEAKEASY
> "Rachel Hoffman's Family Issues an Urgent Call for Change," "If You  
> Write Bad Pro-Drug War Editorials, We Will Find Them and Embarrass  
> You," "The Obama Campaign Responds to My Criticism of His Position  
> on Marijuana Decriminalization," "Informant Identified in Fatal  
> Maple Tree/Marijuana Mix-up," "Virginia Senator Jim Webb Speaks Out  
> Against Marijuana Laws," "New British Drug Czar Supports Reducing  
> Penalties for Ecstasy," "Drug Czars Say the Darndest Things," "Dick  
> Morris Tells John McCain to Propose Harsher Cocaine Laws," "'You  
> Don't Want This!'"
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