DrugSense Weekly, Jan. 9, 2004 #332

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

* This Just In

(1) Medicinal-Pot Crusader Busted (2) Montel Williams Goes To Pot (3) Leman
Puts Marijuana Initiative On Ballot (4) Hearing New Voices On The Campaign
Trail

* Weekly News in Review

Drug Policy-

(5) Two Tied To Ogilvy Contract With U.S. Are Indicted (6) Goose Creek
Principal Leaving Post (7) Chief Justice Attacks a Law As Infringing on
Judges (8) Judge Eyes High School Drug Policy

Law Enforcement & Prisons-

(9) Chelmsford Police Await Results Of DARE Officer Probe (10) Early On,
Fake-Drug Questions (11) Wheeler Dealer (12) State Prisons Chief Seeks $94m
Budget Hike

Cannabis & Hemp-

(13) Cancer Changes Wisconsin Lawmaker's Mind On Drug (14) BC Raid Opens Up
Old Political Wounds (15) Residents, Drug Dealers Of Danish Hippie Enclave
Tear Down Hashish Stands (16) Dope's New Hope (17) UK Country Property: A
Builder's Guide To The High Life

International News-

(18) Bolivia's Drug Crisis Worsening (19) Fears As Heroin Drought Eases
(20) Two Vancouver Police Officers Sentenced To House Arrest (21) Veteran
Officers Face 40 Charges

* Hot Off The 'Net

Racial Bias In The Drug War

Rush To Judgement

DPA 2003 Biennial Conference Audio Online

CBS 60 Minutes - More Than They Deserve

Cultural Baggage Radio Show

Legalization Initiative To Be On November Ballot In Alaska

ABC Nightline - America In Black And White

Granite Staters for Medical Marijuana Report on Democratic Contenders

* Letter Of The Week

Obfuscation, Delay, Deceit / By Jay Bergstrom

* Feature Article

MAP Beyond The Numbers / By Bob Merkin

* Quote of the Week

Rush Limbaugh

HOT OFF THE 'NET

RACIAL BIAS IN THE DRUG WAR

Pacifica Radio and the Drug Truth Network present a 2 hour special on
racial bias in the drug war on Tuesday, Jan. 13th.

"Racial Bias in the Drug War" will air on KPFT, 90.1 FM in Houston,
Tx. and live, online at http://www.kpft.org/ Air time is 11 AM to 1 PM
EDT, 10 AM to Noon CDT and 8 AM to 10 AM PDT.

RUSH TO JUDGEMENT

The Drug Policy Alliance has released a Rush Limbaugh animation and
companion poll. Titled "Rush to Judgment," it is the first and only
nationwide referendum on Mr. Limbaugh's drug use.

Please view the animation at http://www.DrugPolicy.org/Rush/ and then vote
on whether Rush should be left alone or jailed. The national media - and
Rush himself - will be made aware of the poll results.

http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/01_08_03rush.cfm

DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE 2003 BIENNIAL CONFERENCE AUDIO ONLINE

Select audio recordings from the recent DPA biennial conference in New
Jersey are now available online.

http://drugpolicyalliance.org/events/dpa2003/agenda/

CBS 60 MINUTES - MORE THAN THEY DESERVE

The population in federal prisons has quadrupled from 43,000 inmates in
1987 to 173,000 today - at a cost to taxpayers of $4 billion a year.

How did that happen? In the wake of the cocaine epidemic of the 1980s,
Congress passed harsh sentencing guidelines and mandatory-minimum
sentencing laws - requiring federal judges in most cases to impose long
jail terms on anyone convicted of drug trafficking, no matter how small
their crime.

But now, objections to the drug laws are coming from an unexpected source -
federal judges themselves. Normally reluctant to speak out on political
matters, federal judges by the dozens have protested harsh drug laws.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/31/60minutes/main590900.shtml

CULTURAL BAGGAGE RADIO SHOW

Last: 01/06/04, Judge James P. Gray

Running for US senate seat in the state of California. Author of "Why Our
Drug Laws Have Failed, and What We Can Do About It - A Judicial Indictment
of the War on Drugs."

RealAudio: http://cultural-baggage.com/ramtorm/to010604.ram

MP3: http://www.cultural-baggage.com/Audio/FDBCB_010604.mp3

Next: 01/13/04, Todd McCormick

One of America's most well-known drug war hostages walked out of federal
prison in Southern California on December 10. Todd McCormick had served
nearly four years for his role in an early post-Proposition 215 medical
marijuana grow operation in Los Angeles.

Homepage: http://cultural-baggage.com/kpft.htm

LEGALIZATION INITIATIVE TO BE ON NOVEMBER BALLOT IN ALASKA

Analysis by Richard Cowan, Posted January 7, 2004

Yesterday, the very prohibitionist Alaskan Lt. Governor, Loren Leman, had
the unpleasant duty of certifying the 28,783 petition signatures required
to place an initiative on the November 2 ballot that will legalize cannabis
for adults in Alaska.

I think that this initiative has an excellent chance of passing, but the
prohibitionists will tell any lie to defeat it.

Continues: http://marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=725

Video: http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2407.html

Related: http://www.freehempinak.org/

ABC NIGHTLINE - AMERICA IN BLACK AND WHITE

Thursday, Jan. 08

The get tough approach isn't anything new in the war on drugs but it cost
one man his job. Correspondent Jim Wooten looks at the story of a
complicated drug bust in Goose Creek, South Carolina. Some think Principal
George McCrackin went too far in his drug-fighting tactics at Stratford
High School last fall - others think the incident was a racially charged.

Continues: http://abcnews.go.com/Sections/Nightline/

GRANITE STATERS FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA REPORT ON DEMOCRATIC CONTENDERS

MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE -- Granite Staters for Medical Marijuana (GSMM)
has issued its final report card on the presidential candidates' stands on
medical marijuana. For the first time in any presidential campaign, a
majority of contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination have said
they would end the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA's) raids on
medical marijuana patients and caregivers.

http://www.GraniteStaters.com/