To: From: Reply-To: Subject: restore V1 #787 Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:06:08 -0800 restore Sat, 11 Mar 2006 Volume 1 : Number 787 In this issue: MI: Editorial: Medical Marijuana Prohibition Must End HI: Whitney Houston's Drug Case Dismissed In Court CA: On The Pot, Off The Hook - Kubby Cleared CA: Busted Indoor Marijuana Facilities May Be Part Of CA: Sheriff: Bust Sends Message To Growers Switzerland: Legalizing Marijuana DPFCA: Hawaii to Turn Confiscated Pot to Medical Use ALERT: #200 Lack Of Drug War Pardons Is Also A Scandal ALERT: #201 Rosenthal Still Fighting To Ignore Reality Of Drug War Future of state legislative monitoring depends on you. WI: 'Gardening Experiment' Brings Month In Jail Rockefeller Drug Law [fwd] KUB: Tahoe World: On the pot, off the hook: Kubby cleared Oh, My God why are people still wasting time Smoking Anything? Fwd: 1931 verse Da-do-run-run and he really means it NM GOP leadership supporting legalization warrants public support =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Un=20policier=20municipal=20de=20Villeneuve-Loube?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?t=20=E9crou=E9=20pour=20trafic=20de=20drogue=20=20?= DrugSense Weekly, March 9, 2001, #190 Regina, Saskatoon..116 Cities March for Marijuana Space Odyssey May 5th! Re: Oh, My God why are people still wasting time Smoking Anything? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 14:21:41 -0800 From: "D. Paul Stanford" To: restore@crrh.org Subject: MI: Editorial: Medical Marijuana Prohibition Must End Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20010310142127.053ea100@mail.olywa.net> Newshawk: M & M Family Pubdate: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 Source: Michigan Daily (MI) Copyright: 2001 The Michigan Daily Contact: daily.letters@umich.edu Address: 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1327 Website: http://www.michigandaily.com/ MEDICAL MARIJUANA PROHIBITION MUST END (U-WIRE) ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Among those who are tried on drug-related charges in Brooklyn's Supreme Court, Yitzchak Fried is not a regular. Nevertheless, the 52-year-old Orthodox rabbi was brought before Judge Plummer E. Lott on charges of selling seven ounces of marijuana to a police informant. The rabbi, who has had a history of trying to help heroin junkies quit, is seeking a mitigation of his sentence on grounds that he was selling marijuana for medical purposes. The case is yet another reminder of the need for reform of drug laws concerning marijuana. There are no compelling reasons not to legalize marijuana when other substances such as cigarettes and alcohol are legal. Marijuana has not been proven to be physically addictive, unlike nicotine, alcohol and even caffeine; nor has it been proven to have any long-term harmful effects. There has never been a recorded case of a fatal marijuana overdose. In fact, the effects of marijuana are often comparable to those of alcohol, but not as harmful as excessive, long-term alcohol consumption. Claims that marijuana is a "gateway drug" -- one that introduces users to harder drugs such as heroin and cocaine -- are not well-founded and are often based on easily misinterpreted statistics. In fact, keeping marijuana illegal is the only reason the plant could be considered a gateway drug, as users are introduced to drug dealers who may have access to harder drugs. Marijuana has also been found to have medicinal value. It is used as an anti-nauseant for cancer and AIDS patients and to relieve intraocular pressure in glaucoma patients, as well as to treat people suffering from multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, paraplegia and quadriplegia. But despite the fact that it helps alleviate these patients' suffering, most states outlaw medicinal use. It is extremely unfair to punish the sick for therapeutic use of a drug that should not be illegal in the first place. Legalizing marijuana would alleviate some of the risks involved with its unregulated use. Legalization would greatly decrease the likelihood that people will accidentally use marijuana laced with more harmful substances and make it less accessible to young children or teenagers. It is often easier for adolescents to get marijuana than it is for them to buy beer, because buying alcohol requires someone over 21 years of age, while marijuana, which is illegal and therefore unregulated, has no such barriers to teenage use. Marijuana use is a matter of personal choice; since it is less harmful than alcohol or cigarettes, the government should not interfere when adults choose to use it. Although it should be kept out of the hands of young people, this is also true of legal drugs. Legalizing marijuana would eliminate many of the problems associated with its use, such as its appeal and accessibility to minors and its unfairly severe legal penalties. As long as marijuana remains illegal, these problems will persist. Ending the prohibition of marijuana is the only solution. __________________________________________________________________________ Distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. --- MAP posted-by: Doc-Hawk ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 14:22:24 -0800 From: "D. Paul Stanford" To: restore@crrh.org Subject: HI: Whitney Houston's Drug Case Dismissed In Court Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20010310142153.053ec7e0@mail.olywa.net> Newshawk: WallyB Pubdate: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 Source: Honolulu Advertiser (HI) Copyright: 2001 The Honolulu Advertiser, a division of Gannett Co. Inc. Contact: letters@honoluluadvertiser.com Address: P.O. Box 3110 Honolulu, HI 96802 Fax: (808) 525-8037 Website: http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/ Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/states/HI SINGER'S DRUG CASE DISMISSED IN COURT KEALAKEKUA, Hawai'i -- The Big Island marijuana possession case against singer Whitney Houston is over. It would have ended earlier, but her two attorneys from Honolulu and New Jersey insisted on a hearing yesterday, even though Deputy Prosecutor Melvin Fujino filed a motion Monday to have the petty misdemeanor charge dropped. Just before yesterday's court session, the attorneys decided not to go through with the hearing after all. The dismissal was filed after Houston met the conditions of a plea deferral that she pay $4,000 in fees and donations and undergo a drug abuse assessment. The assessment done last month concluded the singer was not in need of treatment. Houston was charged after a small amount of marijuana was found in her handbag while she was waiting to catch a flight at the Kona airport Jan. 11, 2000. __________________________________________________________________________ Distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 14:22:53 -0800 From: "D. Paul Stanford" To: restore@crrh.org Subject: CA: On The Pot, Off The Hook - Kubby Cleared Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20010310142242.053ecec0@mail.olywa.net> Newshawk: Steve Kubby Pubdate: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 Source: Tahoe World (CA) Copyright: 2000 Tahoe World Contact: world@tahoe.com Address: P.O. Box 138, Tahoe City, CA 96145 Fax: (530) 583-7109 Website: http://www.tahoe.com/world/ Forum: http://www.tahoe.com/community/forum/ Author: Gus Thomson, World News Service Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/kubby.htm (Kubby, Steve) Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Cannabis - Medicinal) ON THE POT, OFF THE HOOK: KUBBY CLEARED AUBURN - Bringing some semblance of closure to one of the more contentious cases in Placer County legal history, a Superior Court judge at the request of the District Attorney's Office dismissed marijuana-possession-for-sale charges Friday against pot activist and former Libertarian Party gubernatorial candidate Steve Kubby. But Kubby, 54, will serve a 120-day jail sentence likely through electronic monitoring in his home on misdemeanor convictions for possession of a psilocybin stem and peyote buttons. Kubby brushed back tears as his wife, Michele, embraced him in relief after Judge John L. Cosgrove announced the District Attorney's Office decision not to pursue a second trial on charges stemming from a January 1999 raid at the couple's Olympic Valley home. The raid netted 265 marijuana plants from an indoor grow. Outside the North Auburn courtroom, supporters, many who had sat through the lengthy legal battle, greeted a smiling Steve Kubby. He pumped an arm in the air as he emerged into a hallway filled with print and television reporters. "For once, I am speechless," Kubby said, after praising the efforts Friday of defense attorney J. David Nick and expressing pleasure with the District Attorney's Office decision to also file a motion to dismiss similar pot-possession-for-sale charges against Rocklin dentist Michael Baldwin and his wife, Georgia. Prosecutor Chris Cattran said his office decided not to retry the case based mainly on the vagueness of Proposition 215 and the initial 11-1 juror deadlock. "The defense tries to make (pursuing charges against the Kubbys) out as vindictiveness," Cattran said. "But a crime occurred and we have an obligation to charge crimes and follow through." The Kubbys contended during a four-month trial that the pot found in their home was for their own medicinal use under Prop. 215, a law passed in 1996 by California voters that allows people to grow and possess marijuana if they have a doctor's recommendation. Steve Kubby was a key player in getting the proposition on the ballot and has been a high-profile supporter since its passage. Both Kubbys had doctor recommendations he for a rare form of adrenal cancer and she for irritable bowel syndrome. A mistrial was declared in January after 11 jurors favoring acquittal gave up on efforts to persuade a lone juror holding out for a conviction to come over to their side. The defense did lose out on two motions, one to delay sentencing until July when Proposition 36 comes into effect. The other was to rule out a search-and-seizure provision that eventually would be attached by Cosgrove to Kubby's three-year probationary term. Outside the courtroom, Kubby said he was not satisfied with the search-and-seizure condition. He added that he will be considering a lawsuit against the county based on his belief that his civil rights were violated. The Kubbys plan to move to British Columbia, Canada's Sechelt Peninsula after the 120-day sentence is completed. Nick said Kubby will apply for electronic monitoring and will be required to serve all but three of the 120 days. Kubby was jailed for three days after his arrest. "It s not safe for my husband here," Michele Kubby said. "Just walking into the courtroom has made him guilty, no matter what the outcome has been." The two have established a video production business, which already includes a talk show on marijuana issues. __________________________________________________________________________ Distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. --- MAP posted-by: Derek ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 15:04:25 -0800 From: "D. Paul Stanford" To: restore@crrh.org Subject: CA: Busted Indoor Marijuana Facilities May Be Part Of Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20010310150413.053ecac0@mail.olywa.net> Newshawk: Dale Gieringer Pubdate: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 Source: Times-Standard (CA) Copyright: 2001 The Times-Standard Contact: letters@times-standard.com Address: 930 Sixth St. Eureka, CA 95501 Fax: 707-441-0501 Feedback: http://www.times-standard.com/AngEuk_feedback.asp?PUID=5106&SPUID=5106 Website: http://www.times-standard.com/ Author: James Tressler, The Times-Standard Related: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n423/a04.html BUSTED INDOOR MARIJUANA FACILITIES MAY BE PART OF ORGANIZATION EUREKA -- Tuesday's drug raids in Humboldt and Mendocino counties made a major dent in an illegal pot growing organization, said Special Agent Joycelyn Barnes, a spokeswoman for the Justice Department on Friday. Tuesday's bust, in which more than 100 local, state and federal drug agents made a dawn raid on 11 different locations, was targeted at indoor operations. Federal crackdowns on outdoor growers in the past decade have forced many growers inside. This move actually increased their output because they can run year-round, Barnes said. Barnes said all of the different locations may be part of some kind of organization, but not a traditionally set up organization. There may be a person at the top financially who buys land and brokers it to other people, who in turn set up their own operations. As of Friday, drug agents had searched 18 locations in Humboldt and Mendocino County. Six of these were residences and the rest were facilities located in remote areas, Barnes said. More than 30,000 marijuana plants were seized, as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, automatic weapons, generators, three All-Terrain Vehicles, three Harley Davidson motorcycles and one fishing boat. Four people have been arrested, two of those from Humboldt County. Bria and Zachary Stone's Redway home was raided as well as a facility the couple owns in Salmon Creek. The couple was arrested on weapons and cultivation charges. About 1700 marijuana plants were found at the Salmon Creek residence. In a telephone interview from her San Francisco office, Barnes said the Justice Department's Drug Enforcement Administration is continuing to investigate and there may be more arrests. She said she couldn't speculate on how much of an effect the bust will have on marijuana-traffic in the state. California still leads the nation in the number of indoor and outdoor marijuana-growing operations, Barnes said. __________________________________________________________________________ Distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. --- MAP posted-by: Jo-D ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 15:15:58 -0800 From: "D. Paul Stanford" To: restore@crrh.org Subject: CA: Sheriff: Bust Sends Message To Growers Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20010310151522.053e9d90@mail.olywa.net> Newshawk: http://www.cannabisnews.com/ Pubdate: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 Source: Times-Standard (CA) Copyright: 2001 The Times-Standard Contact: letters@times-standard.com Address: 930 Sixth St. Eureka, CA 95501 Fax: 707-441-0501 Feedback: http://www.times-standard.com/AngEuk_feedback.asp?PUID=5106&SPUID=5106 Website: http://www.times-standard.com/ Author: James Tressler, The Times-Standard SHERIFF: BUST SENDS MESSAGE TO GROWERS EUREKA -- Humboldt County Sheriff Dennis Lewis said he hopes Tuesday's major drug bust will have a "profound impression" on indoor marijuana growers. Two days ago, local, state and federal drug agents raided 11 indoor marijuana-growing operations in southern Humboldt and northern Mendocino counties, a turning point in what has been a two-year investigation called Operation Emerald Triangle. Indoor operations have been on the rise the past few years, Lewis said, as a result of federal crackdowns on outdoor growing. Information released by the U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's office in San Francisco estimated that the raids yielded about more than 14,000 plants, $206,000 in cash, as well as several automatic weapons. Of the locations searched, five actually were residences and six were pot-growing facilities disguised to look like houses. "This organization is responsible for operating multi-stage marijuana production and distribution facilities in the Northern California area," said Joycelyn Barnes, a Justice Department spokeswoman, in a press release on Tuesday. The raids began at 6 a.m. following a briefing conducted by the Humboldt County Drug Task Force. More than 100 agents, including the FBI and the California National Guard, were involved. A total of 11 search warrants were served and more came later as agents searched the homes and found information on other operations, Lewis said. A Redway couple, Zachary and Bria Stone, were arrested on suspicion of weapons charges and were later released on bail. Zachary Stone, a convicted felon, could face a minimum of 10 years if convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Lewis said agents searched their home and found that the couple also owns an old building in Salmon Creek. Agents later found approximately 1,700 marijuana plants at this location. It is believed the couple were part of a larger operation, the sheriff said. Lewis said this case will be sent to the Humboldt County District Attorney's office. The Stone couple could face state and federal charges, in particular tax evasion, conspiracy, cultivation of marijuana. Two other residences were searched in Humboldt County, including a house right behind the Stone residence as well as a home in Benbow. It is not known what, if anything, was seized in these two houses. Lewis said no arrest warrants have been issued at this time, but more people are being investigated. Capt. Kevin Broin at the Mendocino County Sheriff's Department said he agrees with Lewis that a strong message needed to be sent. Both counties have the same problem of being known as "marijuana capitals," and have a lot of spill-over traffic, Broin said. Moreover, sophisticated indoor operations have greatly increased the output of growers. Unlike outdoor operations, which yield one crop per year, Broin said indoor operations are designed to operate year round. He said he's convinced Proposition 215, which allows licensed people to grow a minimal amount of marijuana for medicinal purposes, "had nothing to do" with the facilities the agents searched. "These people are commercial growers looking to get rich," he said. __________________________________________________________________________ Distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. --- MAP posted-by: Jo-D ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 14:18:30 -0800 From: "D. Paul Stanford" To: restore@crrh.org Subject: Switzerland: Legalizing Marijuana Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20010310141817.053f7300@mail.olywa.net> Newshawk: Amanda Pubdate: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 Source: New York Times (NY) Copyright: 2001 The New York Times Company Section: World Briefing: Europe Contact: letters@nytimes.com Address: 229 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036 Fax: (212) 556-3622 Website: http://www.nytimes.com/ Forum: http://forums.nytimes.com/comment/ Author: Elizabeth Olson SWITZERLAND: LEGALIZING MARIJUANA The government has proposed legislation that would permit consumption of marijuana and hashish, acting on findings of a study that showed use of the substances is pervasive. Under the proposed law, the police could ignore cultivation and trading of small amounts of soft drugs and devote more resources to large-scale production and export. The legislation faces scrutiny by Parliament, where passage is far from certain. __________________________________________________________________________ Distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 15:14:15 -0800 From: Dale Gieringer (by way of "D. Paul Stanford" ) To: restore@crrh.org Subject: DPFCA: Hawaii to Turn Confiscated Pot to Medical Use Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20010310151337.053ea420@mail.olywa.net> Here is more good news - this time from the Big Island. The worst thing about it is the title, that again emphasizes the alleged similarity of cannabis to hard drugs by using "drug" to describe marijuana. This has been a new emphasis here in Hawaii since the over 1,600 word article on the Front Page of the FOCUS section Jan. 7, 2001 - "Wasted teens, wasted future" - did not lead to even one word of printed response in the Advertiser. Mike Markrich, the author, used the words "drug" and "drugs" 24 times in= this alarmist piece of propaganda designed to reinforce the war on drugs. He= used the word marijuana zero times (he also did not use any other word such as "cannabis" or "pot" =AD rather this herbal medicine is implicitly included= in the repeated use of the words "drug" and "drugs". Alcohol was the only= other drug specifically mentioned (ten times). This travesty of the English language is again evidenced by the following titles: "Singer=92s drug case dismissed in court" in yesterday's Advertiser= & "Whitney Houston=92s drug charge dismissed" in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin Wednesday, March 7, 2001. Honolulu Advertiser Saturday, March 10, 2001 Hawai'i County agrees to new rules on drug raids By Hugh Clark Advertiser Big Island Bureau HILO, Hawai=91i =97 The Hawai=91i County Council's acceptance yesterday of a $160,377 federal drug enforcement grant means police can resume helicopter raids on Big Island marijuana patches with some new restrictions in place. A compromise resolution drafted by Councilman Gary Safarik of Puna and Vice Chairman Curtis Tyler III of Kailua-Kona, with help from marijuana advocate Dwight Kondo, requires police helicopters to maintain an altitude of at= least 1,000 feet, requires officers rappelling from choppers to land at least 500 feet from homes, and bans herbicide spraying. The resolution also requires police to turn over the highest grade of the marijuana they confiscate to state health officials for use by those holding medical marijuana permits. Police Capt. James Day said he believes police can work under the new rules. The helicopter raids were grounded last summer when the council refused to accept a $265,000 federal grant after members were unable to be insured against a threatened impeachment action by pro-marijuana forces. Council members had to spend their personal funds in a 1999 impeachment action initiated by marijuana advocates since the county charter bans the= use of public monies in such legal cases. Julia Jacobson of Puna and Nancy Pisicchio of South Kona were the only two members on the nine-member council yesterday to vote against the grant acceptance. Council Chairman Jimmy Arakaki had to leave to catch a flight before a vote was taken. The two councilwomen praised the new restrictions as marked improvements in police procedures, but said they continue to oppose the raids on general principles. They think police should be shifting their attention to attacking the= crystal methamphetamine, or "ice," problem. The pro-marijuana lobby led by Kondo, Dennis Shields, Roger Christie, Jonathan Adler and others wanted to limit raids to target growers with seven or more plants. That proposal failed, despite an amendment offered by Jacobson. The new rules also will require the police department to write rules and regulations covering their raids and to submit written reports after each operation on the number of plants taken, the location, and any complaints= and how they were resolved. Most of those voting for the compromise described it as a balance between ridding the island of unwanted commercial marijuana operations and= respecting the rights of those who use it for medical or religious purposes. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 12:17:04 -0800 From: Mark Greer To: alerts@drugsense.org Subject: ALERT: #200 Lack Of Drug War Pardons Is Also A Scandal Message-ID: <4.3.1.2.20010306120704.04b583b0@mapinc.org> Lack Of Drug War Pardons Is Also A Scandal NOTE: This is The 200th Focus Alert DrugSense and MAP have distributed to thousands of letter writing volunteers in our ongoing attempt to educate the media and thereby the public on a wide range of drug policy topics. Please use this milestone as the catalyst to renew your commitment and make an extra attempt to become even more involved in our group letter writing efforts. It's not what others do it's what YOU do ------- PLEASE COPY AND DISTRIBUTE ------- DrugSense FOCUS Alert #200 Tuesday March 6, 2001 Outrage over former President Clinton's use of his pardon power has focused mostly on the role money played in influencing pardon decisions. While that may be troubling, it is even more outrageous to think about some of the drug war victims who really deserved presidential help. Columnist Cynthia Tucker does so this week in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Please write a letter to the paper to say that the real scandal of the pardon story is that those who have faced great injustice because of the drug war received little or no consideration. WRITE A LETTER TODAY *************************************************************************** PLEASE SEND US A COPY OF YOUR LETTER OR TELL US WHAT YOU DID ( Letter, Phone, fax etc.) Please post a copy your letter or report your action to the sent letter list (sentlte@mapinc.org) if you are subscribed, or by E-mailing a copy directly to MGreer@mapinc.org Your letter will then be forwarded to the list with so others can learn from your efforts and be motivated to follow suit This is VERY IMPORTANT as it is the only way we have of gauging our impact and effectiveness. ************************************************************************** CONTACT INFO: Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution (GA) Contact: insideajc@ajc.com *************************************************************************** ARTICLE US GA: Column: War On Drugs' Victims Still Jailed, While Rich Go Free URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n391/a02.html Newshawk: Sledhead Pubdate: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution (GA) Copyright: 2001 Cox Interactive Media. Contact: insideajc@ajc.com Address: 72 Marietta Street, NW, Atlanta, Ga. 30303 Website: http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/ Forum: http://www.accessatlanta.com/community/forums/ Author: Cynthia Tucker WAR ON DRUGS' VICTIMS STILL JAILED, WHILE RICH GO FREE Karen Garrison didn't have $400,000 to give first brother-in-law Hugh Rodham, so her twin sons didn't get clemency from former President Clinton. Perhaps if Clinton had just seen Garrison's heartbreaking letter, written in October 1998 to the judge in her sons' drug trial: "I'm writing this letter with facts, feelings of indescribable despair, and ( I am ) at your mercy. ( My sons ) were found guilty by a jury. . . . You may not remember, but next to childbirth, I will never forget that night. Now I'm asking that you consider ( the facts ) and my torn apart heart. Lamont and Lawrence are not guilty. . . ." But Garrison didn't have millions for Clinton's presidential library or connections to well-heeled lawyers with access to the White House. So her sons remain in prison under harsh laws meant for drug kingpins but which routinely bury penny-ante dealers, instead. If Clinton cared about a legacy, he had a perfect opportunity to leave one. Instead of granting clemency to just a few small-time drug offenders, as he did, he might have pardoned or commuted the sentences of thousands. He might have pointed out the folly of the so-called war on drugs. With many less-affluent Americans in prison rather than fancy drug rehab centers, Clinton could have redefined himself as a committed populist. With many African-Americans ensnared by the injustices of the system, he could have helped a black constituency that has been extremely loyal. He could have started with the Garrison twins. Lamont and Lawrence were 25 years old, a month away from college graduation, when they were arrested in 1998. Friends, relatives and teachers all testify to their honesty, hard work and respect for the law. They had no criminal records, not even as juveniles. They wanted to become lawyers. But they had left a car for repair with a Maryland body shop owned by Tito Abea, and they had argued with him over the work. When Abea was arrested on drug charges, prosecutors offered him leniency if he implicated others. His testimony convicted the Garrisons. There was no hard evidence. Police could not tie the twins to drugs or guns or even money. Indeed, they were head-over-heels in debt with school expenses. Now they are felons -- Lamont serving 19 1/2 years while Lawrence serves 15 1/2. While the case of the Garrisons is so heart-breaking because they are probably innocent, others -- guilty of the charges -- deserved clemency because of sentences too harsh for their crimes. Johnny Patillo, for instance. In 1992, he was 27 and desperate for cash. Months away from completing a San Diego college, he agreed to mail a package for $500. Although he admits he suspected the contents were illegal, he says he didn't know it contained 681 grams of crack cocaine. He is serving 10 years. Then there is Duane Edwards, a decorated veteran of the Persian Gulf War. He doesn't deny selling 126 grams of crack to an undercover officer in June 1995; Washington, D.C., police found another 61 grams in his car. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Edwards' appeal, although his lawyers pointed out the unfairness of a sentencing structure that treats powdered cocaine and crack cocaine differently. Those who traffic in crack -- usually poor blacks -- get long prison terms, while those who handle the same amounts of powdered cocaine -- usually middle-class whites -- get lighter penalties. Clinton owed a debt to felons like Edwards because he was too craven to oppose that sentencing structure during his tenure. He should have used his virtually limitless clemency authority not only to free Edwards but also to right countless other injustices of this foolish drug war. Such clemencies would have sparked controversy, but it would have been a controversy over ideas instead of ethics. And history might have judged Clinton a courageous president who stood up for the common man rather than a money-grubber who favored the rich. ****************************************************************************** SAMPLE LETTER Editor: Bravo for Cynthia Tucker's outstanding column, "WAR ON DRUGS' VICTIMS STILL JAILED, WHILE RICH GO FREE." Obviously, since a substantial "donation" was not attached to the letter pleading mercy from the Mother of twin boys sentenced to prison, President Clinton didn't have the time to consider her plea. Obviously, our color-blind "first black President" was not color-blind to the color green. We all know who received most of the Presidential pardons and why. Most of the pardons were because of money and lots of it "donated" directly or indirectly to the man who "didn't inhale", and who didn't have sexual relations with "that woman." Hopefully our new compassionate conservative President will take advantage of this opportunity to demonstrate his compassion by pardoning people that have made bad decisions. Not bad decisions that resulted in other people being physically harmed, robed or swindled, but rather bad decisions regarding the use or abuse of illegal substances. Hopefully our compassionate conservative President will break the long standing tradition of past Presidents and not wait until the very end of his term to pardon those deserving it. Hopefully the recipients of Presidents Bush's pardons will be ordinary citizens who made bad decisions regarding the use or sale of illegal substances. 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Send drug-related news to editor@mapinc.org See http://www.mapinc.org/hawk.htm for details === NOW YOU CAN DONATE TO DRUGSENSE ONLINE AND IT'S TAX DEDUCTIBLE DrugSense provides many services to at no charge BUT THEY ARE NOT FREE TO PRODUCE. We incur many costs in creating our many and varied services. If you are able to help by contributing to the DrugSense effort visit our convenient donation web site at http://www.drugsense.org/donate.htm ********************* Just DO It!! ********************************** Mark Greer Executive Director DrugSense MGreer@mapinc.org http://www.drugsense.org/ http://www.mapinc.org/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 09:16:44 -0800 From: Mark Greer To: alerts@drugsense.org Subject: ALERT: #201 Rosenthal Still Fighting To Ignore Reality Of Drug War Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20010310090517.0359cb20@mapinc.org> Rosenthal Still Fighting To Ignore Reality Of Drug War NOTE: Rosenthal is one of our favorite drug warrior targets. His supreme lack of logic combined with his know-it-all doctrinaire attitude make him easy pickings. If you will read the article below, you will likely be moved to write a letter responding to his inaccurate foolishness. ------- PLEASE COPY AND DISTRIBUTE ------- DrugSense FOCUS Alert #201 Saturday March 10, 2001 Columnist A.M. Rosenthal was fired by the New York Times last year, but that doesn't seem to have shattered any of his illusions about the drug war. The outspoken supporter of prohibition now writes for the New York Daily News, and this week he is shocked to learn that the message of drug policy reform has now made it to Hollywood (see his column below). While even many prohibitionists have found something to like in the film "Traffic," Rosenthal sees it as nothing more than an insult to his fellow drug warriors and part of a larger "conspiracy" against them (a conspiracy of common sense perhaps?) . As usual, Rosenthal disparages a few wealthy individuals who have supported drug policy reform with a few million dollars in recent years, while he neglects the fact that the illogical prohibitionist effort spends more than a billion dollars every _month_ on the utterly failed and monumentally expensive "war on drugs." Of course, Rosenthal and his ilk are right to be concerned that they have lost control of public discourse on this issue as that is most obviously the case as demonstrated by the sea change in the national attitude and the growing support for reform, not only in Hollywood, but in the print and broadcast media as well as in public opinion. Please write a letter to the Daily News to remind editors that Rosenthal's notion of a noble and righteous drug war may be sustainable in Rosenthal's closed mind, but in the real world, fewer citizens are buying it every day. WRITE A LETTER TODAY Just DO it! If not YOU who? If not NOW when? *************************************************************************** PLEASE SEND US A COPY OF YOUR LETTER OR TELL US WHAT YOU DID ( Letter, Phone, fax etc.) Please post a copy your letter or report your action to the sent letter list (sentlte@mapinc.org) if you are subscribed, or by E-mailing a copy directly to MGreer@mapinc.org Your letter will then be forwarded to the list with so others can learn from your efforts and be motivated to follow suit This is VERY IMPORTANT as it is the only way we have of gauging our impact and effectiveness. ************************************************************************** CONTACT INFO: Source: New York Daily News (NY) Contact: voicers@edit.nydailynews.com *************************************************************************** ARTICLE US NY: Column: Hollywood's Dangerous Drug Line URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01.n419.a08.html NewsHawk: Sledhead Pubdate: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 Source: New York Daily News (NY) Copyright: 2001 Daily News, L.P. Contact: voicers@edit.nydailynews.com Address: 450 W. 33rd St., New York, N.Y. 10001 Website: http://www.nydailynews.com/ Forum: http://www.nydailynews.com/manual/news/e_the_people/e_the_people.htm Author: A.M. Rosenthal HOLLYWOOD'S DANGEROUS DRUG LINE The President has appointed a new drug czar - a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court. Before the judge takes office, he goes to the Mexican-American border and to Mexico itself. He sees the brutality of Mexican police officers, themselves part of drug gangs. He sees American anti-drug agents risk their lives and often lose them. As he is preparing for his first press conference at the White House, he finds out that his daughter Caroline, a wholesome-looking teenager, is a junkie. She is so captured by narcotics that she prostitutes herself for them. At the press conference, he begins to read his prepared speech about the importance of the war on drugs to save the 68 million American children who have been targeted by the narcotics kings. He cannot go on. He puts down his speech, turns to leave the room and his career and says: "I can't do this. If there is a war on drugs, then our own families have become the enemy. How can you make war on your own family?" That's it - that's the message that the film "Traffic" delivers toward the end, where messages are put to be remembered. It is also a message peddled by Americans who have created a national network of organizations devoted to ending the war on drugs and making more narcotics more available to more Americans without legal penalty. They use nicey-nicey phrases like "drug reform" or "harm reduction" because they know the public would reject any honest move toward their real goal - outright legalization. Supporters of the drug war, like myself, did not think any such destructive movement would become accepted among people who consider themselves informed and intelligent, including journalists. Wrong. With propaganda funds from a few truly rich Americans, the legalizers have convinced more and more columnists and editorial writers. They have won state plebiscites that used tricky, concealing language to make more narcotics available for "medicinal" purposes. Particularly generous are financier George Soros, Ohio insurance executive Peter Lewis and the founder of the for-profit University of Phoenix, John Sperling. They and their organizations hack away at the very foundation of the struggle against drugs: the three-way combination of law enforcement, interdiction and therapy. The money these billionaires put into their hatred for the drug war, out of whatever cradle trauma, could make helping addicts impossible by destroying the law enforcement that is essential to effective therapy. I went back to anti-drug experts I have trusted and learned from for years. All of them have contributed more to therapy for addicts in a single week than the moneybags of the war against the drug war have in their combined lifetimes. I asked these experts if I'm missing something, if I'm behind the times, about the importance of the union of therapy, law enforcement and interdiction. Here's what they said: Dr. Mitchell Rosenthal, probably the most important therapist in the country, creator of Phoenix House, the national group of therapeutic communities where addicts often work a year or more ridding their minds and bodies of drugs: "Ninety percent of the people who need treatment do not seek it out themselves. They have to be coerced by a wife, an employer, a probation officer, a court, the police. Very few addicts wake up in the morning and say, 'I am destroying my life. I am out of control. I need help.'" Dr. Herbert Kleber of Columbia University, considered by both supporters and enemies of the anti-drug struggle as one of the country's top experts: "The opposition to interdiction does not include me. It is part of the essential three. It would be wrong to fight and fight against drugs and leave the sources of drugs untouched, even if they cannot be controlled fully." Is addiction a disease, or is it behavior? "It is a disease that erodes but does not erase the ability to make choices, as diabetes gives the patient the choice between eating chocolate bars and refusing them." Sue Rusche, director of National Families in Action, an organization that provides a university of knowledge on drugs and an army fighting them: "Addicts rarely enter treatment voluntarily. ... We must not repeat the mistake made when we deinstitutionalized mental health hospitals and produced a homeless population of untreated mentally ill people." Richard Brown, Queens district attorney: "The major reason for the drop in crime around the city, including murders, is the breakup of gangs and the putting away of the criminals who created open-air markets and public housing drug bazaars." Those are their messages for Hollywood directors and producers to think about - and President Bush, when he gets around to his delayed duty of appointing a strong drug czar, maybe. ****************************************************************************** SAMPLE LETTER To the editor: How typical of A.M. Rosenthal (column 'Hollywood's Dangerous Drug Line' March 9th). First he builds a case that a few rich Americans have somehow hoodwinked all those voters who pass initiatives against the excesses of the War on Drugs -- from cops stealing property for the gain of their departments without the owner being found guilty of a crime at least 80% of the time, called asset forfeiture -- to marijuana, a substance who's medicinal value was recognized in a detailed, government funded, study by the Institute of Medicine. Then he asks "if I'm missing something"? But who does he ask? Two doctors who make their living off the War or its victims, a DA who supports the Draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws, and the leader of a pro-War lobby. It appears that Mr. Rosenthal is still missing something. But don't expect him to ask anyone who really understands what is happening any time soon. It appears that Hollywood, with the film "Traffic," may have the message right. They could have scripted an ending more to Mr. Rosenthal's beliefs, then asked the government for a nice check for their efforts. Richard Lake Sylvania, Ohio IMPORTANT: Always include your address and telephone number Please note: If you choose to use this letter as a model please modify it at least somewhat so that the paper does not receive numerous copies of the same letter and so that the original author receives credit for his/her work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ADDITIONAL INFO to help you in your letter writing efforts 3 Tips for Letter Writers http://www.mapinc.org/3tips.htm Letter Writers Style Guide http://www.mapinc.org/style.htm **************************************************************************** TO SUBSCRIBE, DONATE, VOLUNTEER TO HELP, OR UPDATE YOUR EMAIL SEE http://www.drugsense.org/hurry.htm TO UNSUBSCRIBE SEE http://www.drugsense.org/unsub.htm *************************************************************************** Prepared by Richard Lake - http://www.mapinc.org and Stephen Young - http://www.maximizingharm.com Focus Alert Specialist === Please help us help reform. Send drug-related news to editor@mapinc.org See http://www.mapinc.org/hawk.htm for details === NOW YOU CAN DONATE TO DRUGSENSE ONLINE AND IT'S TAX DEDUCTIBLE DrugSense provides many services to at no charge BUT THEY ARE NOT FREE TO PRODUCE. We incur many costs in creating our many and varied services. If you are able to help by contributing to the DrugSense effort visit our convenient donation web site at http://www.drugsense.org/donate.htm ********************* Just DO It!! ********************************** Mark Greer Executive Director DrugSense MGreer@mapinc.org http://www.drugsense.org/ http://www.mapinc.org/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 17:32:20 -0500 From: Marijuana Policy Project To: Multiple recipients of MPP-updates - Sent by Subject: Future of state legislative monitoring depends on you. Message-ID: <3AA959E3.6DCAAAA3@MPP.ORG> March 9, 2001 Dear Friend, Approximately 300 marijuana-related bills have been introduced so far this year in the state legislatures, and at least 10 good bills and 15 bad bills are likely to be signed into law by June. I know this because two full-time staff members at the Marijuana Policy Project are monitoring all bills in all 50 states simultaneously. This year is the first time ever that marijuana legislation has been systematically monitored across the country. In the last few weeks, thousands of supporters have received e-mail alerts on pending legislation in their states. (To view activities in your state, type your state's name or two-letter state code after the main address of MPP's Web site -- www.mpp.org/[your_state_here].) All of this takes a great deal of time and money. In order to continue tracking and influencing marijuana legislation across the United States this year -- as well as to lay the groundwork for positive legislation for early next year -- MPP needs to raise a minimum of $1,000 from each state. Would you please visit http://www.mpp.org/MoneyForStates to make your most generous donation today? If you donate $100 or more, we will mail you MPP's new 85-page report on the medical marijuana laws in the 50 states, which also includes our model medical marijuana bill. See http://www.mpp.org/MoneyForStates/ul1.html * * * Unfortunately, only 20 people in the country have contributed financially so far this year to keep MPP's legislative monitoring service up and running. On the other hand, I am pleased to announce that visitors to MPP's state legislative Web sites have sent more than 13,000 letters to state legislators! Because of this nationwide, grassroots letter-writing effort, MPP's legislative efforts are progressing better than expected: * Before the close of this legislative season, at least 25 states will have debated medical marijuana legislation. And four states are reviewing legislation to remove criminal penalties for ALL uses of marijuana. * MPP has hired professional lobbyists in Maryland and Massachusetts. In Maryland, a conservative lobbying firm is shepherding MPP's medical marijuana bill through the legislature. Meanwhile, in Massachusetts, MPP has retained a team that includes a retired judge to push good medical and non-medical marijuana bills in Boston. * We continue to be deluged with requests to draft and edit bills that are being introduced or amended in legislatures across the country. Indeed, MPP's model medical marijuana bill was just introduced in Vermont. * We are doing media interviews daily as good bills wend their way through the legislative process. This includes Texas, where a retired prosecutor and sheriff has introduced a bill that would give marijuana-using patients a fighting chance in court, and New York, where the chairman of the health committee just introduced a bill to authorize non-profit organizations to grow and distribute marijuana to patients in need. If you and everyone else who reads this message contribute just $50 each, MPP will be able to continue with its legislative efforts in all 50 states through the remainder of the year. Would you please support our work by donating at http://www.mpp.org/MoneyForStates today? I want to thank you in advance for your generosity. Yours truly, Rob Kampia Executive Director Marijuana Policy Project Washington, D.C. P.S. Donate $100 or more at http://www.mpp.org/MoneyForStates and we will mail you MPP's new 85-page report on the medical marijuana laws in the 50 states, which also includes our medical marijuana bill that is being introduced in states across the nation. P.P.S. If you don't have access to the Web but would like to support our legislative monitoring service nevertheless, please send your non-tax-deductible donation to MPP's State Legislative Project, P.O. Box 77492, Washington, D.C. 20013. Thanks again! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 14:21:00 -0800 From: "D. Paul Stanford" To: restore@crrh.org Subject: WI: 'Gardening Experiment' Brings Month In Jail Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20010310142050.053eac10@mail.olywa.net> Newshawk: Drug Policy Forum of Wisconsin www.drugsense.org/dpfwi/ Pubdate: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI) Copyright: 2001 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Contact: jsedit@onwis.com Address: P.O. Box 661, Milwaukee, WI 53201 Fax: 414-224-8280 Website: http://www.jsonline.com/ Forum: http://www.jsonline.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimate.cgi Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/states/WI 'GARDENING EXPERIMENT' BRINGS MONTH IN JAIL Janesville - A Janesville woman who told police the marijuana growing in her house was a "gardening experiment" was sentenced Thursday to one month in jail. Catherine Jesuit, 44, was also placed on probation for three years after pleading no contest to a charge of manufacturing marijuana. Police searched Jesuit's home in August after they received a tip about drug use in the home. They found marijuana plants drying in the kitchen, packaged marijuana in a cabinet and a marijuana garden in Jesuit's closet, according to the criminal complaint. When officers found 16 marijuana plants, some as tall as 31/2 feet, Jesuit said, "it was an experiment. It was stupid and it was my fault. I am just a gardener," the complaint says. __________________________________________________________________________ Distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 17:50:42 -0500 From: Richard Lake To: compassionatemoms@egroups.com, drctalk@drcnet.org, restore@crrh.org, mayday@yahoogroups.com Subject: Rockefeller Drug Law [fwd] Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20010309174637.033141b0@mapinc.org> As a person that works day to day with the families of the victims of the Rockefeller Drug Laws, I remain cautiously optimistic as talks about reform of this 27 year experiment in medieval terror continue to be bandied about up in Albany. When and how deep these laws will be affected remains to be seen. For me and my organization and, more importantly, for those caught up in this irrational squeeze on human life and dignity, the deeper the change and sooner the passage of that change, the better. Since Gov. Pataki's State of The State address, the Kunstler Fund has been getting calls around the clock from family members wanting to know when their loved ones might be coming home. One of those is Nellie Rivera. She calls every day. She wants to know because she has cancer and would like to see her daughter, Maritza, one last time before passing on. She hasn't seen her kid since 1991 when Maritza was sent away for 15 years to life for possessing 4 ounces of cocaine. Mrs. Rivera has been taking care of Maritza's children since that day, including those typical days in which the kids have tried to take their own lives. New York taxpayers have spent close to a half million dollars to underwrite this horror show. They have at least another quarter million dollars to chip in before they get their name off of the list of credits. Evelyn Sanchez would like to know when her son might be coming home. He is doing a Hannibal Lecter-like 33 year to life sentence for a first time drug offense. A deeply religious woman Mrs. Sanchez, who also is battling cancer, had given up and was waiting until the afterlife to reunite with her onll child. It seems the chemotherapy treatment is too debilitating for her to make the long trek up to the dank and dark gates of Attica. Mrs. Sanchez seriously believes that her god will exact justice on those in the system that "kidnapped" her baby and planted him into the fire of the state's most infamous and brutal prison. Dorreen Pecora, most certainly would like to know when her daughter, a first time drug offender, is coming home. No, Mrs. Pecora doesn't have cancer. Her imprisoned daughter, Nadine, does. Mrs. Pecora takes care of her daughters three children. Those children also would like to know when they are going to see mommy again. They used to visit her once a month up at Bedford Hills but now that she has been transferred to the misnomered medium correctional facility on the frigid Canadian border at Albion, they haven't seen her in two years and may never see her again. Six months in a treatment center would have cured Nadine's addiction and most assuredly would have paved a better road for her children's ominous future. At, 75 , Eileen Flournoy is not so sure that she'll last long enough to see her daughter Veronica get out of prison and resume the role of raising her children. The elder Flournoy still wonders why Queens DA Richard Brown didn't offer Veronica drug treatment rather than eight years in a maximum security prison. "What did he think was going to happen to these two infants?" All things considered, the kids are fine but they do miss their mother. They also miss their house, which burned down to the ground and left the unfortunate trio in a homeless shelter for a couple of months. They packed up and moved to South Florida, thousands of miles from Veronica. You really don't want to know what kind of bad luck that has befallen the 75 year old grandmother way down south in the Sunshine State. Wheelchair bound Norma Arenas can't leave her apartment let alone visit her son and only living relative Miguel up at GreenHaven. The U.S. Airman , is midway through a 15 year to life sentence . At 75, Norma, lonely and depressed, prays and begs to god daily "to please bring me back my boy." Norma is consoled by another Cuban immigrant, Hilda Garcia. Hilda understands the pain too well. Her husband Eduardo spent 10 years in the medical wing of GreenHaven prison for his role in a minor drug offense. He had another five languishing years left on his term before the same god that her friend Norma prays to intervened and granted Mr. Garcia his own brand of clemency. When it comes to the Rockefeller Drug Laws the gut wrenching stories are endless and not anecdotal as some politicos in denial would like the public to believe. What is sad is that the people of the Empire State are not as mean and unforgiving as the drug laws are. That is why you see so many people from all walks of life who would like to see reform: from the Catholic Bishops of New York to New York's delagation of teamsters to the original sponsors of the 1973 legislation that created the laws. The only exception appears to be New York's sixty-two District Attorneys, of whom all but one is white. District Attorneys are have their jobs not because they neccessarily have wide public support in their counties but because no one else ever seeks the job; a job that mandates half their energy condemning mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and children to long prison sentences for minor drug infractions. Governor Pataki has nothing to lose and everything to gain by closing this ugly chapter in New York's criminal justice history. Nelson Rockefeller thought that he would be the man that would be president when he "pushed" these Draconian measures on the New York legislature. Not only did he not become president but the Rockefeller name has been forever sullied by being linked to these laws. Gov. Partake has a chance to reverse this god awful political ruse that has ripped apart so many families and do so without any negative political fallout. If he doesn't believe that to be true then I suggest he take a look at his Illinois counterpart, Gov. George Ryan. Since imposing a moratorium on his state's use of the death penalty last year his popularity appears to have risen and he has earned himself a permanent spot in American history books. Gov. Pataki has an opportunity to join him. It would be nice down the road in eighth grade for the children of Nadine Pecora, Maritza Santos and Veronica Flournoy to read about the maverick republican governor from Peekskill who saved their lives and the lives of thousands of other children. Randy Credico of the Kunstler Fund http://www.kunstler.org/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?140 (Rockefeller Drug Laws) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 21:47:33 -0800 From: Steve Kubby To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: KUB: Tahoe World: On the pot, off the hook: Kubby cleared Message-ID: ********************************************************* THE AMERICAN MEDICAL MARIJUANA ASSOCIATION 15 Monarch Bay Plaza, Box 375, Dana Point, Ca 92629 Web site: http://www.drugsense.org/amma/ E-mail: amma@drugsense.org Join our List: http://www.drugsense.org/amma/ ******************************************************** Pubdate: 8 Mar, 2000 Source: Tahoe World Copyright: 2001 Tahoe World Contact: world@tahoe.com Address: P.O. Box 138 Tahoe City, CA 96145 Website: http://www.tahoe.com/world Author: Gus Thomson, World News Service Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/kubby.htm (Kubby, Steve) Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Cannabis - Medicinal) ON THE POT, OFF THE HOOK: KUBBY CLEARED By Gus Thomson, World News Service AUBURN - Bringing some semblance of closure to one of the more contentious cases in Placer County legal history, a Superior Court judge at the request of the District Attorney's Office dismissed marijuana-possession-for-sale charges Friday against pot activist and former Libertarian Party gubernatorial candidate Steve Kubby. But Kubby, 54, will serve a 120-day jail sentence likely through electronic monitoring in his home on misdemeanor convictions for possession of a psilocybin stem and peyote buttons. Kubby brushed back tears as his wife, Michele, embraced him in relief after Judge John L. Cosgrove announced the District Attorney's Office decision not to pursue a second trial on charges stemming from a January 1999 raid at the couple's Olympic Valley home. The raid netted 265 marijuana plants from an indoor grow. Outside the North Auburn courtroom, supporters, many who had sat through the lengthy legal battle, greeted a smiling Steve Kubby. He pumped an arm in the air as he emerged into a hallway filled with print and television reporters. "For once, I am speechless," Kubby said, after praising the efforts Friday of defense attorney J. David Nick and expressing pleasure with the District Attorney's Office decision to also file a motion to dismiss similar pot-possession-for-sale charges against Rocklin dentist Michael Baldwin and his wife, Georgia. Prosecutor Chris Cattran said his office decided not to retry the case based mainly on the vagueness of Proposition 215 and the initial 11-1 juror deadlock. "The defense tries to make (pursuing charges against the Kubbys) out as vindictiveness," Cattran said. "But a crime occurred and we have an obligation to charge crimes and follow through." The Kubbys contended during a four-month trial that the pot found in their home was for their own medicinal use under Prop. 215, a law passed in 1996 by California voters that allows people to grow and possess marijuana if they have a doctor's recommendation. Steve Kubby was a key player in getting the proposition on the ballot and has been a high-profile supporter since its passage. Both Kubbys had doctor recommendations he for a rare form of adrenal cancer and she for irritable bowel syndrome. A mistrial was declared in January after 11 jurors favoring acquittal gave up on efforts to persuade a lone juror holding out for a conviction to come over to their side. The defense did lose out on two motions, one to delay sentencing until July when Proposition 36 comes into effect. The other was to rule out a search-and-seizure provision that eventually would be attached by Cosgrove to Kubby's three-year probationary term. Outside the courtroom, Kubby said he was not satisfied with the search-and-seizure condition. He added that he will be considering a lawsuit against the county based on his belief that his civil rights were violated. The Kubbys plan to move to British Columbia, Canada's Sechelt Peninsula after the 120-day sentence is completed. Nick said Kubby will apply for electronic monitoring and will be required to serve all but three of the 120 days. Kubby was jailed for three days after his arrest. "It s not safe for my husband here," Michele Kubby said. "Just walking into the courtroom has made him guilty, no matter what the outcome has been." The two have established a video production business, which already includes a talk show on marijuana issues. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 01:17:20 -0800 (PST) From: Thomas Paine To: restore@crrh.org Subject: Oh, My God why are people still wasting time Smoking Anything? Message-ID: <20010310091720.85932.qmail@web10406.mail.yahoo.com> I have so much hash oil on my vaporizor tubing that I do not even know what to do with. Forgive me for my Ghetto Vape 2000 being erased off my hard drive and the tapes cut up, but big brother has been after me or something. A vaporizor. No smoke. No carcinogens. 1/6 the tar. You can't imagine the high. It takes a while to get used to, but after you use it for a while, you can not even get high from smoke. Not for hours at a time like a vaporizor. I am still working on the footage. I lost my computer, and am putting footage back together. A stovetop, a steel pan. Warmed to medium. An oil lamp chimney from home base $3.00, and a tube duct taped to it. I have so much hash oil, I do not even know what to do. Pure THC. Safer than aspirin, water, etc. . . Lets heal this motherfucking planet already. Hemp will heal the scars we call clear cuts, and reverse the global warming process, provide fuel, food and paper. I guess we will be better off if we wait longer???? VAPE PEOPLE. If you are still talking about smoke you are doing nothing but wasting your time. You are not even getting high. Trust me. Barry McCafferty, "No smoked leaf will ever be a medicine!" So don't smoke it, and don't make sick people smoke it either. The only problem with the Vape is that it makes you cough harder, use less, and when you are out of weed, you have oodles of hash oil that fucks you up for hours because it soaks into your lungs. Why, is everyone still talking about smoke? Wasting your time. So, last century. Well, actually the egyptians, or some people near them, built huge vaporizor's about 3,000 years ago. Hey, we are catching up. No smoke. Ten times higher, last longer, and it is harder to argue that a Vapor is not a medicine. Veins of hash oil spilling out of you vape tubing, stuck to the Vape crystal. Hours of high, of one Vape. The stove, we all have one, preferrably not gas, and the new stoves with the composite glass top. Ohhhhh. No, pan needed. Canada, should test on a Vaporizor. Everyone should be using a vaporizor. When the cops had a video tape of me hitting the vape, they didn't even know what it was. They looked at the remaining carbon shell and could not say that it was Marijuana, even though it was an exact carbon skeleton. Fuck burning Carbon. It is like smoking grass. The kind that grows in your yard, no I mean the other kind, that has no THC. The medicine is in the oil. Which becomes a Vapor, below the temperature it takes to combust carbon. Get it together folks. P.S. I have been without computer for three months. Hopefully I am back for a while. I am in Phoenix, working on a Holistic center. I can't wait to get back to Oregon. Hopefully before May 5. Cause Portland Rocks. We are the most active city in the nation. Next to Seattle, Los Angeles, San Fancisco, etc. and all you other hard working people. CRRH Rocks. Being without is like being without food. I was starving. Now I am better. War is war. Here is your Atomic bomb. No smoke, just the Vapors. P.S. Did the Supreme Court Rule on States Rights Yet? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 21:57:50 -0000 From: "Diane R. Fornbacher" To: restore@crrh.org Subject: Fwd: 1931 verse Message-ID: Short, sweet and concise. Holding true today, we still want drugs anyway! -D. Fornbacher >From: Steve Wishnia >To: sbloom@hightimes.com >Subject: 1931 verse >Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 11:57:16 -0500 > >Hi everybody, >I was reading a book on Prohibition (of liquor, that is) and found this >poem. Some of you may know it already. >--Steve > > >Prohibition is an awful flop. >We like it. >It can't stop what it's meant to stop. >We like it. >It's left a trail of graft and slime. >It don't prohibit worth a dime. >It's filled our land with vice and crime. >Nevertheless, we're for it. >-Franklin P. Adams, New York World, 1931 > > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 01:21:31 -0900 From: Charles Rollins Jr To: cp3@egroups.com Cc: drctalk@drcnet.org, restore@crrh.org Subject: Da-do-run-run and he really means it Message-ID: <3AAA002B.E02996BD@mosquitonet.com> Has Leif gone through just about every stereotypical drug treatment possible? Hasn't he done the 12 steps, rehab, interventions, he's even done the "I am a washed up celebrity, I blew millions of dollars because of drugs" bit. I've seen a few interviews with him. The earlier interviews I felt he had a level of sincerity. I saw another interview and I just got a bad feeling he was parroting War On Drugs dogma. In his early interview he seemed more willing to accept responsibility. The later interview he seem more whiny http://entertainment.msn.com/news/eonline/031001_leif.asp Leif on the Lam! Memo to VH1: Time to update that Leif Garrett Behind the Music. Again. The 1970s-era teen idol, now a receding-hairlined 39-year-old, is a wanted man. A Los Angeles judge has issued a bench warrant for the Leifster's arrest, after he failed to show up in court for a hearing on a two-year-old drug charge. Garrett was due to put in face time at the Los Angeles County Superior Court Wednesday as part of his regular progress report hearings--a requirement stemming from a 1999 plea bargain deal. The ex-Tiger Beat pinup copped the plea after being busted for coke and heroin in an L.A. apartment building. He was ordered to complete a stint in rehab and submit to regular court appearances. In exchange, he would stay out of jail and have his record cleared. For a while, at least, it looked like Garrett was behaving himself. At his last court date in August, he received a favorable report from his probation officer and, in the words of the judge, was "doing well." Garrett has had a hard time breaking his drug habit. He previously did a make-good stint at a clinic following a 1997 bust on cocaine charges. (His Behind the Music installment came out between arrests. It was amended once following the 1999 bust.) The erstwhile popster had been trying to make good on a comeback, fronting a three-piece rock outfit called Godspeed and appearing in Z-grade flicks like Dominion and The Whispering. Hard to imagine that once upon a time--1979 to be exact--Garrett, then 17, scored a top 10 hit with "I Was Made for Dancing." His teenage Hollywood credits include TV's Family and the 1977 skateboard epic, Skateboard. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 12:20:01 -0800 From: "Reverend SAM" To: "NEWS ROOM EDITORS" Cc: "The Assembly of the Church of the Universe" Subject: Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_002A_01C0A95C.6E6A00A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NEWS UP-DATE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RE: Religious & Medicinal Marijuana Challenge http://www.iamm.com/cases/case-index.html Reverend Brother Walter A. Tucker and others vs. Her Majesty the Queen Federal Court of Canada (Trial Division) T-1805-98 Trafficking Marijuana to Heath Minister Allan Rock On Monday after court would be better. On Friday the Crown Prosecutor agreed to adjourn our application to quash to Monday, March 12th 2001 at 10 a.m. in the Superior Court of Justice, Hamilton, and is considering the decision in The Queen vs. Batchelor (see below) and its application is suspending the Ontario Court of Justice (Criminal-Division) Controlled Drugs and Substances Act Prosecution against us pending the final determination of our federal court action. No doubt the Crown agreed to consider suspension (in both our said application to quash and their prosecution) in light of the fact that the Federal Court dismissed their Motion to stay our Action for protection from prosecution and the fact that before proceeding with our pre-trial, Judge Cooper in the Ontario Court of Justice (Criminal-Division) at Hamilton adjourned the prosecution to Monday, March 12th 2001 to see what the Federal Court ruled on the Crown Motion to Stay. The out-come of a suspension pending the hearing of our Constitutional Challenge in the Federal Court would mean that all Church of the Universe Clergy and Members would be able to put their prosecution off as well pending the out-come of the Action which could be as early as late summer or mid-fall. Batchelor v. The Queen (1977), 38 C.C.C. (2d) 113, [1978] 2 S.C.R. 988. While this rule only requires that true copies of the record be in the return Rules 7 and 7.1, infra, make it clear that the return has the same effect as a return to a writ of certiorari and thus as it was held in this case in relation to the predecessor to this rule, the jurisdiction of the inferior court is suspended pending the determination of the motion to quash. Be well and prosper. In peace, bless you, bless us all. Reverend Brother Walter A. Tucker Reverend Brother Michael J. Baldasaro Church/University of the Universe http://www.iamm.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 12:05:05 +0800 From: gear2000@lightspeed.net To: "MayDayMMM-list" ; "Richard Lake" ; "Mark Greer" ; "Dale Gieringer" ; "NORMLFNDTN" ; "Marijuana Policy Project" ; "MarijuanaNews.com, Richard Cowan, Editor and Publisher" ; "Friends of Free Cannabis" ; "Compassionate Moms" ; restore@crrh.org Subject: NM GOP leadership supporting legalization warrants public support Message-ID: <3aaa88f1.44e9.0@lightspeed.net> NM GOP leadership supporting legalization warrants public support During the months approaching the last national election I subscribed to various political parties' emailing lists to keep up on their views. The post below from a national daily GOP e-news editor, Chuck Muth, National Chairman, Republican Liberty Caucus, asks for emails in support of pro-marijuana-legalization stance of the New Mexico Republican Party State Chairman who is apparently following the lead of NM Governor Johnson -- to the dismay of many Republicans and Democrats opposing legalization. Please forward the below to those you know in New Mexico who may want to email their support for the GOP leadership there favoring marijuana legalization as this situation in NM may be leverageable into greater national support. At minimum this situation warrants greater national awareness of this controversy in NM GOP leadership struggles -- especially given present GOP domination of the government process. From: To: Cc: Subject: One of Our Own Is Under Attack Date: Friday, March 09, 2001 4:17 PM ******************************** One Of Our Own Is Under Attack They say you gotta crack a few eggs if you want to make an omelet. If that's the case, New Mexico Republican Party State Chairman John Dendahl could feed an army. He is the consummate GOP party chief ... a man of principle and integrity who ain't afraid to rock the boat, shatter a sacred cow or two, and call a spade a spade. He's that rare Republican in recent years who charges TOWARD the sound of the cannons from the left ... rather than tuck tail, retreat and hide out with the REMF's (if you don't know, don't ask). In short, Dendahl plays hardball. New Mexico Democrats tremble at the sound of his approach. Now this week, Dendahl has come under a severe and blistering attack. But, no, it's not the Democrats who are shooting at him ... it's his own people, elected Republicans. Some surprise there, huh? Led by Sen. Pete Domenici, these towers of jello have decided to "frag" their party's champion. What did Dendahl do that has the moderate GOP establishment's panty-hose all up in a bunch? Why are they so anxious now to throw this highly effective leader under the bus? Marijuana. That's right. It's "reefer madness." Republican Gov. Gary Johnson has sent a series of drug reform proposals to the legislature which include, according to the Albuquerque Journal, measures to "decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana, reduce penalties for possessing some other drugs and legalize marijuana for medical purposes." Pretty tame and common sense proposals. Such initiatives have been passed overwhelmingly by voters in other states around the country in recent years. Then Republican Chairman Dendahl publicly announced he was supporting the Republican governor's proposals. This sent Domenici and other GOP establishment pooh-bahs into a hysterical tizzy. "I don't think he should be chairman anymore," Domenici told the Journal. "I have told him that in plain English. He should step down." (http://www.abqjournal.com/news/269611news03-08-01.htm) Other weak-kneed Republican elected officials ... cowered by the power of a U.S. Senator and squeamish over Dendahl's principled and aggressive leadership ... are piling on. Not surprisingly, the Democrats are also joining the chorus calling for the Chairman's head on a platter. And now, in an effort to really put the screws to the Chairman, Domenici is boycotting the party's annual Lincoln Day Dinner ... which is a major source of the party's annual operating funds ... and is pressuring other elected officials to stay away as well. This is the exact same tactic the Nevada GOP establishment under Republican Gov. Kenny Guinn used to bleed dry the Nevada Republican Party and force out its own aggressive, principled state chairman, John Mason, just a year ago. So the threat is real. Look, even if you don't agree with Gov. Johnson's position on the issue, Chairman Dendahl doesn't deserve this treatment. Dendahl has refused to step down and told the Journal he plans to run for re-election in May. But you can bet the long knives will be out, slicing and dicing the Chairman between now and then. Too many elected Republicans are nothing but a bunch of wusses who hate the idea of a strong, effective, principled party leader keeping an eye on them and making sure they vote, well, like Republicans. Folks, I know John Dendahl. And if Domenici and Company succeed in bringing him down it will be a terrible loss for all of us. So consider this a personal request to help a true conservative friend in need. Call, write, fax or e-mail Sen. Domenici's office with this simple message: "I Support GOP Chairman John Dendahl. Sen. Domenici Should, Too." That's it. That's all that needs to be said. Now, this may not be as easy as it sounds. See, I called Sen. Domenici's office and asked for the fax number. But the very polite young man who answered the phone said they no longer give out the senator's fax number to the general public. Can't have the great unwashed actually communicating with their elected officials now, can we? But your intrepid editor has many, many sources. So here's the fax number and a couple of other options for you: Sen. Pete Domenici 328 Hart Senate Office Bldg. Washington, DC 20510-3101 Phone: (202) 224-6621 FAX: (202) 224-4601 The senator's office won't give out a general e-mail address either, but you can send an e-mail by first going to his web site at: http://domenici.senate.gov/contactme/contactme.htm. You could also leave a message at Sen. Domenici's district office in Albuquerque by calling (505) 346-6791. Heck, have your friends call, too. We're talking about a 15 second long-distance call right? What's that? Ten cents max? And lastly, consider sending a letter to the editor at the Albuquerque Journal via e-mail to: opinion@abqjournal.com. But please, please, PLEASE. We disagree with the actions and positions Sen. Domenici has taken, but he is still a sitting United States Senator and is deserving of respect due that high office. So be polite and professional in your communications with his office. That's it. This is a call to arms. Time to fight for one who has fought for us. You have your marching orders ... now CHARGE! :) - Chuck Muth P.S. I'm sure the Chairman wouldn't mind a few words of encouragement from you, either. This is a very tough position to be in, when your own side is shooting at you. Why not drop him a line at: jdendahl@swcp.com. - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - Chuck Muth National Chairman Republican Liberty Caucus 3659 Scotwood Street Las Vegas, NV 89121 (702) 454-0350 FAX: (702) 454-7798 E-mail: charmuth@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 16:54:53 EST From: Echosduchanvre@aol.com To: Rueduchanvre@aol.com Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Un=20policier=20municipal=20de=20Villeneuve-Loube?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?t=20=E9crou=E9=20pour=20trafic=20de=20drogue=20=20?= Message-ID: Un policier municipal de Villeneuve-Loubet =E9crou=E9 pour trafic de drogue NICE, 10 mars (AFP) - Un brigadier-chef de la police municipale de=20 Villeneuve-Loubet (Alpes-Maritimes) a =E9t=E9 mis en examen pour complicit= =E9 de=20 trafic de drogue et =E9crou=E9 =E0 la prison de Grasse, a-t-on appris samedi= soir=20 aupr=E8s de la gendarmerie. Lionel Bricnet, 37 ans, est soup=E7onn=E9 d'avoir particip=E9 =E0 un trafic=20= de=20 cannabis et de coca=EFne en compagnie d'un agent de m=E9diation de la ville,= =20 Faouzy Guisani, 25 ans, qui op=E9rait dans les cit=E9s des communes de=20 Villeneuve-Loubet, Cagnes-sur-Mer et de La Colle-sur-Loup. Ce dernier a=20 =E9galement =E9t=E9 mis en examen et plac=E9 en d=E9tention. Six autres personnes, =E2g=E9es de 21 =E0 25 ans, dont une jeune fille, qui=20 appartenaient au m=EAme r=E9seau, ont aussi =E9t=E9 =E9crou=E9es =E0 la mais= on d'arr=EAt de=20 Grasse. Quinze kilos de r=E9sine de cannabis et un kilo de coca=EFne auraien= t =E9t=E9=20 revendus, pour la somme de 600.000 francs, en l'espace de quelques semaines=20 par ces "dealers", a-t-on ajout=E9 de m=EAme source. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 12:54:27 -0800 From: webmaster@drugsense.org (DrugSense) To: newsletter@drugsense.org Subject: DrugSense Weekly, March 9, 2001, #190 Message-ID: ********************************************************************** DRUGSENSE WEEKLY ********************************************************************** DrugSense Weekly, March 9, 2001 #190 Read This Publication On-line at: http://www.drugsense.org/current.htm ------------------ TABLE OF CONTENTS: This Just In- (1) OPED: Government's Policy On Drug Use Stinks (2) NH: Panel Hears Bill To Legalize Marijuana (3) Colombia Food Crops Suffer In Air Assault On Drugs (4) Swiss Clear The Way For Cannabis Legalisation * Weekly News in Review Drug Policy- (5) The Drug-War Conundrum (6) D.C. Downers (7) Time For Change, a Change of Plans (8) DARE We Hope? (9) Lockney Parent Wins Drug-Test Battle (10) Powerful Painkiller Pops up on The Streets (11) NN Police Say Raves Now an Area Problem (12) Students Vs. The Drug War Law Enforcement & Prisons- (13) Recalling Folks Clinton Didn't Pardon (14) Rockefeller Drug Laws Don't Need Changing (15) The War on Drug Laws (16) Drug Runners' Tunnels Test the Agents in a Border Town (17) DPS Search Rate Higher for Minorities Cannabis & Hemp- (18) Judge Drops Kubby Felony Charges (19) Editorial: Marijuana Claims (20) Poll Finds Fourth-Fifths Back Medical Marijuana in New Mexico (21) Kentucky Journal: Fighting Appalachia's Top Cash Crop, Marijuana International News- (22) US Findings Bely UN Report On Pak-Afghan Drugs (23) Calm Before Deadly Drug Storm (24) Losing A War: Heroin More Plentiful, Cheaper, Purer Than Ever (25) The Battle Against Ecstasy (26) Need For Speed (27) Drug War Partners 'Certified' By U.S. * Hot Off The 'Net The Impact of Mistaken Notions of Addiction CPAC: The Fight Against Drugs Maximizing Harm Online Fax the President * Feature Article The War On Drugs Takes Another Hit by Mike Gray * DrugSense Volunteer of the Month Myron Von Hollingsworth * Quote of the Week Henry Kissinger ************************************************************************ This Just In ---------------- (1) OPED: GOVERNMENT'S POLICY ON DRUG USE STINKS The deli at one end of my block in Manhattan sells Budweiser, Guinness and 23 other brands of beer. It also offers three varieties of cigars and 30 brands of cigarettes. Adults legally can buy these mind-altering items. A pharmacy fills the other corner. I recently asked its druggist how many psychoactive substances she sells. She handed me product information leaflets for 27 pharmaceuticals. Xanax helps people "feeling keyed up or on edge." Wellbutrin eases "feelings of guilt or worthlessness." Ritalin wrestles hyperactivity despite the difficulty, she says, that kids suffer getting off of it. This pharmacy even carries morphine, a potent opiate sedative. With a doctor's blessing, these items could be legally yours. [snip] Pubdate: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 Source: Deseret News (UT) Copyright: 2001 Deseret News Publishing Corp. Contact: letters@desnews.com Website: http://www.desnews.com/ Author: Deroy Murdock, Scripps Howard News Service URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n397/a09.html Cited: Lindesmith Center-Drug Policy Foundation http://www.drugpolicy.org/ Cited: Lester Grinspoon http://www.rxmarihuana.com/ Note: This is a great letter writing opportunity. == (2) NH: PANEL HEARS BILL TO LEGALIZE MARIJUANA CONCORD - Proponents of legislation to legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes are seeking to convince the House Health, Human Service and Elderly Affairs Committee that marijuana can be safely prescribed for alleviating pain or controlling painful side effects of other currently legal drugs such as interferon. Yesterday the committee heard House Bill 721, which allows doctors to prescribe marijuana for treatment. [snip] Pubdate: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 Source: Union Leader (NH) Copyright: 2001 The Union Leader Corp. Contact: TheUL@aol.com Website: http://www.theunionleader.com/ Author: Warren Hastings URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n398/a10.html === (3) COLOMBIA FOOD CROPS SUFFER IN AIR ASSAULT ON DRUGS Spraying Herbicides Has Devastated The Local Economy And Caused Resentment Luckily the village school was closed the day that crop-dusters, escorted by combat helicopters, doused the tin-roofed classrooms with herbicides. Their target was the swath of illegal coca plantations on the low hills around the village, but clouds of defoliant engulfed the school, the church, and the fields of plantain, cassava and maize. Miriam Rodriguez, a teacher at the school, said: "The effects have been catastrophic. They sprayed the coca, but they also killed all our food crops." The schoolchildren complained of rashes, headaches and vomiting after the weedkiller fell. Nearby are half-dead fruit trees, withered maize plants and row upon row of skeletal coca plants. George Bush met the Colombian president, Andres Pastrana, in Washington last week as the biggest offensive against drugs unleashed on Colombia rolled across the southern jungles and farmland. [snip] Pubdate: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 Source: Guardian Weekly, The (UK) Copyright: Guardian Publications 2001 Contact: weekly@guardian.co.uk Website: http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/GWeekly/front/ Author: Martin Hodgson in La Concordia URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01.n414.a05.html === (4) SWISS CLEAR THE WAY FOR CANNABIS LEGALISATION SWISS CLEAR THE WAY FOR CANNABIS LEGALISATION BERNE, March 9 (Reuters) - The Swiss government on Friday endorsed a draft law that would legalise the consumption of marijuana and hashish and allow a limited number of "dope shops." The bill submitted to parliament seeks to bring Swiss law into line with the reality that one in four people aged 15-24 regularly gets high in the Alpine state, according to a poll commissioned last month by the Swiss government. "Decriminalising the consumption of cannabis and the acts leading up to this takes account of social reality and unburdens police and the courts," the government said in a statement. [snip] Pubdate: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 Source: Reuters Copyright: 2001 Reuters Limited URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01.n419.a09.html ************************************************************************ WEEKLY NEWS IN REVIEW ===================================================== Domestic News- Policy ---------------- COMMENT: (5-8) Confusion still reigns; Pundit Alan Ehrenhalt declared the drug war successful on the basis of two errors: first, assuming success equals reduced "use;" second, "Monitoring the Future" measures use accurately. McCzar also staunchly proclaims the drug war successful; those still curious about his current activities should read Michael Lynch's report in the current issue of Reason magazine. Heber Smith expressed the new conventional wisdom in the Galveston Daily News; sadly, it too, embraces an unproven idea: "prevention" and "treatment" within a prohibition setting will reduce "demand." As for "prevention:" the Philadelphia Inquirer, although scornful of DARE's failure, still implicitly prefers DARE with a new script to anything so radical as "legalization." === (5) THE DRUG-WAR CONUNDRUM A few minutes into the movie "Traffic," in a Washington, D.C., cocktail party scene, an amiable red-haired man offers some wisdom about the nation's drug problem: "You'll never solve this on the supply side." [snip] ...I look at the numbers and conclude the question is at least partially settled. Weld and Soderbergh would seem to be right. Attacking supply doesn't work. [snip] But if the failed war against supply suggests a quick verdict that the entire anti-drug effort is a fiasco, other facts point in a different direction. It's undeniable that there is less use of illegal substances in this country now than before the war on drugs began. [snip] Source: Governing (US) Issue: March, 2001 Copyright: 2001 Congressional Quarterly, Inc Contact: mailbox@governing.com (202) 862-0032 Website: http://www.governing.com/ Author: Alan Ehrenhalt URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n350/a10.html === (6) D.C. DOWNERS In Which Our Man In Washington Listens To The Drug Czar Babble And Learns Why We Can't Afford Tax Cuts Spent a morning last Tuesday at the Heritage Foundation, listening to the outgoing drug czar, Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey. Heritage billed the speech as, "Is Our Balanced Approach to the War on Drugs Working?" McCaffrey, who prefers assertions to questions, made the title declarative: "Our Balanced Strategy Against Drugs Is Working." [snip] Still, I was surprised to find just what an idiot McCaffrey is in person. Like drug dealers, McCaffrey targets America's youth. "The whole notion of prevention and education, aimed at getting American adolescents from the 6th grade through 12th grade, where they are reduced exposure to gateway drug taking behavior," he said in a moment of what passes for clarity. "That's the heart and soul of our national drug taking strategy." [snip] Pubdate: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 Source: Reason Magazine (US) Copyright: 2001 The Reason Foundation Contact: letters@reason.com Website: http://www.reason.com/ Author: Michael W. Lynch, Washington Editor, Reason Magazine URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n368/a08.html === (7) TIME FOR CHANGE, A CHANGE OF PLANS President Bush has an opportunity to set revolutionary drug policy. He has a chance to try something that might actually work. Bush is talking with Colombian President Andres Pastrana about a $1.3 billion aid package. As part of this deal, Bush will ask Pastrana what he is doing to curb the supply of cocaine that is coming into the United States.Pastrana might well ask what American leaders have done to curb the demand. The answer is nothing effective. [snip] What could take the profit out of this business? A sharp decrease in consumption. What will it take to do that? More credible efforts to convince individual Americans to stop a behavior that is destructive individually and socially. More money for the treatment of addicts. Less money wasted on locking up people whose only crime is their addiction. [snip] Pubdate: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 Source: Galveston County Daily News (TX) Copyright: 2001 Galveston Newspapers, Inc. Contact: heber.taylor@galvnews.com Website: http://www.galvnews.com/ Author: Heber Taylor URL http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n359/a11.html === (8) DARE WE HOPE? It's big. It's popular. It doesn't work. New money and research may improve it. Science may finally replace good intentions as the driving force behind drug and alcohol education in the nation's schools. It's about time. After years of suppressing criticism and resisting change, the omnipresent Drug Abuse Resistance Education program - known better simply as DARE - is rewriting its curriculum. [snip] For too long, DARE proceeded with little scrutiny, with false security built upon a catch phrase. With its new partners, it vows now to search for the right message and approach. It deserves a second chance, but one much more closely monitored than the first. Pubdate: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 Source: Inquirer (PA) Copyright: 2001 Philadelphia Newspapers Inc Contact: Inquirer.Letters@phillynews.com Website: http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/home/ URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n358/a01.html Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?135 (Drug Education) =============================================================== COMMENT: (9-11) There was also a potpourri of news items: In Texas, the lonely and valiant struggle Larry Tannahill waged on behalf of all the rest of us finally paid off, while various papers along the East Coast fretted about new local drug menaces- apparently little realizing or caring they are also providing free advertising the products. === (9) LOCKNEY PARENT WINS DRUG-TEST BATTLE LOCKNEY - U.S. District Judge Sam Cummings ruled Thursday in favor of a parent who sued the Lockney Independent School District claiming its mandatory drug-testing policy was unconstitutional. Larry Tannahill refused to allow his son to be tested when the school first began drug screening students and faculty in February 2000. With help from the American Civil Liberties Union, Tannahill sued the school district ... [snip] Pubdate: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 Source: Lubbock Avalanche-Journal (TX) Copyright: 2001 The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal Contact: ajnews@lubbockonline.com Website: http://www.lubbockonline.com/ Author: Linda Kane URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n372/a09.html Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/lockney.htm (The Lockney Policy) === (10) POWERFUL PAINKILLER POPS UP ON THE STREETS A South Jersey case has drawn local attention to the "immensely popular" OxyContin. A five-year-old pill prescribed for cancer patients and others with severe, chronic pain is appearing on the streets as a new narcotic of choice. When chewed, snorted or injected, OxyContin produces a rush like heroin - and an addiction that can be just as hard to break. ... an anecdotal map compiled by the National Drug Intelligence Center in Washington shows hundreds of incidents of overdose, armed robbery, prescription fraud and theft in recent months in Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maine, Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia. [snip] Pubdate: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 Source: Inquirer (PA) Copyright: 2001 Philadelphia Newspapers Inc Contact: Inquirer.Letters@phillynews.com Author: Marc Levy URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n361/a01.html Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?186 (Oxycontin) === (11) NN POLICE SAY RAVES NOW AN AREA PROBLEM Concern Grows Over Use Of Drugs, Ecstasy NEWPORT NEWS - The arrival of the rave scene was formally announced on the Peninsula last weekend when police raided a Newport News club and arrested 22 people - most for the possession and use of the drug ecstasy. While raves and their companion drugs have been popular in this country for most of the past decade, police say both the rave subculture and the drug ecstasy are relatively new here. Police officials said they hoped to inform parents and send an early message with last weekend's crackdown. [snip] Pubdate: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 Source: Daily Press (VA) Copyright: 2001 The Daily Press Contact: letters@dailypress.com. Website: http://www.dailypress.com/ Author: Troy Graham URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n351/a05.html Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/raves.htm (Raves) === COMMENT: (12) Phil Zabriskie's Rolling Stone article reports on how denial of college loans because of previous drug offenses is fueling opposition on college campuses. === (12) STUDENTS VS. THE DRUG WAR Now That Washington Has Turned Its Repressive Drug Policies Against Students, A Growing Campus Network Is Fighting Back When Shawn Heller and Brian Gralnick joined Students for Sensible Drug Policy in 1998, as sophomores at George Washington University, SSDP was just a handful of students from Rochester Institute of Technology. One of them, Kris Lotlikar, was working in Washington, D.C. at the Drug Reform Coordination Network. Heller met Lotlikar and started the second SSDP chapter, which soon included Gralnick. Their focus was decriminalizing marijuana for medical purposes - until Rep. Mark Souder (R-Ind,) decided to target college students with drug convictions who were seeking federal loans... No other group, including convicted murders, was similarly excluded. The Drug War had just hit college campuses. [snip] Pubdate: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 Source: Rolling Stone (US) Copyright: 2001 Straight Arrow Publishers Company, L.P. Contact: letters@rollingstone.com Website: http://www.rollingstone.com/ Author: Phil Zabriskie URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n331/a02.html Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/hea.htm (Higher Education Act) Cited: http://www.ssdp.org/ ===================================================== Law Enforcement & Prisons ----------------------------------------- COMMENT: (13) Clarence Page was low key in expressing contempt for a departing President who openly acknowledged the injustice of federal drug laws but reserved clemency for those who could afford it. === (13) RECALLING FOLKS CLINTON DIDN'T PARDON HERE'S a not-so-trivial trivia question for you: Under which president did the most Americans go to prison for serious crimes: Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton or the first George Bush? Here's a hint: He likes to give out lots of pardons. [snip] As Clinton was leaving office he said in a (Feb. 19, Outlook) op-ed piece that the nation should "immediately reduce the disparity between crack and powder-cocaine sentences" and re-examine its federal sentencing policies, "particularly mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent offenders." Sports commentator Frank Deford of National Public Radio says Aikens hoped to receive a commutation from Clinton. His hopes were not answered. [snip] Pubdate: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 Source: Houston Chronicle (TX) Copyright: 2001 Houston Chronicle Contact: viewpoints@chron.com Website: http://www.chron.com/ Author: Clarence Page URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n355/a03.html === COMMENT: (14-15) In New York, where Queens County DA Richard Brown has emerged as leader of the opposition to any softening of Draconian Rockefeller drug laws, his claims for the success of rehabilitation may strike some as far fetched. Brown, in turn, is experiencing some opposition himself. === (14) ROCKEFELLER DRUG LAWS DON'T NEED CHANGING There's increasing pressure in Albany this year to amend the so-called Rockefeller drug laws. Lost in the flood of headlines is the fact that the laws already have undergone significant changes and that further revisions, in the view of New York's most experienced prosecutors, may be a step in the wrong direction. [snip] In cases where drug offenders' crimes are genuinely tied to a substance abuse problem, prosecutors divert them into treatment under the successful Drug Treatment Alternative to Prison and Drug Court programs. [snip] Pubdate: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 Source: New York Daily News (NY) Copyright: 2001 Daily News, L.P. Contact: voicers@edit.nydailynews.com Website: http://www.nydailynews.com/ Author: Richard A. Brown Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?140 (Rockefeller Drug Laws) URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n396/a06.html === (15) THE WAR ON DRUG LAWS Protesters Angry That Queens DA Is Fighting Reform A small but vocal group braved some chilly weather yesterday to lambaste Queens District Attorney Richard Brown for his efforts to thwart reform of the state's harsh drug laws. A handful of convicted drug dealers, their family members and activists (including the 90-year-old actor Grampa Al Lewis, of "The Munsters" TV fame), taunted Brown outside the Queens Criminal Court building for opposing Gov. George Pataki's proposed easing of the Rockefeller drug laws. [snip] Pubdate: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 Source: Newsday (NY) Copyright: 2001 Newsday Inc. Contact: letters@newsday.com Website: http://www.newsday.com/homepage.htm Author: Karen Freifeld; Staff Writer URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n366/a05.html === COMMENT: (16-17) Finally, two items from the Southwest that could be listed under the heading, "the more things change, the more they stay the same." === (16) DRUG RUNNERS' TUNNELS TEST THE AGENTS IN A BORDER TOWN NOGALES, Ariz., Feb. 28 - The authorities in this border town today discovered a cache of illegal drugs inside yet another hand-dug tunnel connected to a sewer line that smugglers had used to get drugs out of Mexico and into the United States. About 350 pounds of marijuana was pulled out of a hole in the concrete floor of a commercial garage less than a mile from the Mexican border. .. But this was the second such tunnel found here in three days - and the seventh in the last six years... [snip] Pubdate: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 Source: New York Times (NY) Copyright: 2001 The New York Times Company Contact: letters@nytimes.com Website: http://www.nytimes.com/ Author: Michael Janofsky URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n366/a01.html === (17) DPS SEARCH RATE HIGHER FOR MINORITIES Profiling Of Drivers Denied AUSTIN - Black and Hispanic motorists who are stopped by state troopers are more than twice as likely to have their vehicles searched as white drivers, the first seven months of statistics compiled by the Texas Department of Public Safety show. State lawmakers who want to require police departments to keep such records said the figures show what they have suspected all along: that minorities are being unfairly targeted. [snip] But DPS officials said it is the actions of the drivers that lead to searches, not the ethnicity of the vehicles' occupants. [snip] University of Texas economics professor and statistician Dwight Steward analyzed the tickets and warning citations at the request of The News. He looked for other factors that could explain the racial disparity, such as time of day, particular officers, type of road, type of car, out-of-state status or whether multiple infractions were noted. "I looked at all of those factors and not any other factor could explain the differences we were seeing," he said. [snip] Pubdate: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 Source: Dallas Morning News (TX) Copyright: 2001 The Dallas Morning News Contact: letterstoeditor@dallasnews.com Website: http://www.dallasnews.com/ Author: Christy Hoppe URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n378/a11.html Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/racial.htm (Racial Issues) ======================================================= Cannabis & Hemp- ---------------------------- COMMENT: (18-21) A judge's decision to reduce Steve Kubby's mushroom conviction to a misdemeanor- although not nearly as crisp as an outright acquittal- was a major victory; especially when combined with the DA's decision to forego retrial of both the Kubbys and the Michael Baldwins. Further South, the Union-Tribune reported on new developments pertaining to medical use in a tone of unreserved hostility. The question in New Mexico: will four to one public support plus a strong governor be able to persuade a reluctant legislature to back medical use? Finally, in a pocketbook poll, recreational use has again made cannabis the leading cash crop in three contiguous states. === (18) JUDGE DROPS KUBBY FELONY CHARGES Bringing some semblance of closure to one of the more contentious cases in Placer County legal history, a Superior Court judge - at the request of the District Attorney's Office - dismissed marijuana-possession-for-sale charges Friday against pot activist and former Libertarian Party gubernatorial candidate Steve Kubby. [snip] "For once, I am speechless," Kubby said, after praising the efforts Friday of defense attorney J. David Nick and expressing pleasure with the District Attorney's Office decision to also file a motion to dismiss similar pot-possession-for-sale charges against Rocklin dentist Michael Baldwin and his wife, Georgia. [snip] Pubdate: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 Source: Auburn Journal (CA) Copyright: 2001 Auburn Journal Page: Front Page - Page 1 Contact: ajournal@foothill.net Website: http://www.auburnjournal.com/ Author: Gus Thomson, Journal Staff Writer URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n386/a02.html Cited: http://www.kubby.org/ === (19) EDITORIAL: MARIJUANA CLAIMS UCSD To Study Unproven Health Benefits The unsubstantiated claims that marijuana has medicinal value are Finally going to receive a scientific hearing - long after voters in California and other states rashly approved the use of pot for medical purposes. Researchers at UCSD are about to conduct studies to determine whether marijuana can relieve pain and other symptoms associated with AIDS and multiple sclerosis. It's about time for some scientific facts on this issue. No fewer than eight states have approved measures legalizing the use of marijuana to treat health ailments. Under federal law, however, marijuana remains a controlled substance, with a high potential for abuse. State and federal law enforcement officers have shut down several cannabis buyers clubs that are in violation of the law. California's medicinal marijuana initiative did not legalize the sale, but rather only the possession, of the drug. The U.S. Supreme Court is about to hear a case on the issue. [snip] Pubdate: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 Source: San Diego Union Tribune (CA) Copyright: 2001 Union-Tribune Publishing Co. Contact: letters@uniontrib.com Website: http://www.uniontrib.com/ URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n367/a01.html === (20) POLL FINDS FOURTH-FIFTHS BACK MEDICAL MARIJUANA IN NEW MEXICO Nearly four in five New Mexicans support Gov. Gary Johnson's proposal to legalize the medical use of marijuana, according to a poll released Saturday by a group backing drug law changes. The poll also found generally broad support across the political spectrum for Johnson's other proposals to revamp the state's drug laws, including the decriminalization of possession of small amounts of marijuana. [snip] Pubdate: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 Source: Associated Press Copyright: 2001 Associated Press Author: Barry Massey, Associated Press Writer URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n396/a10.html === (21) KENTUCKY JOURNAL: FIGHTING APPALACHIA'S TOP CASH CROP, MARIJUANA LEXINGTON, Ky. - Winter is easing in the rolling hills and hamlet hollows, and all the prespring indications are that marijuana will have another bumper year and remain this state's No. 1 cash crop, just as it continues prime in West Virginia and Tennessee. "Bigger than tobacco," noted Roy E. Sturgill, the director of the Appalachia High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, the only one of the nation's 31 federal antidrug regions focused on marijuana. [snip] Pubdate: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 Source: New York Times (NY) Copyright: 2001 The New York Times Company Contact: letters@nytimes.com Website: http://www.nytimes.com/ Author: Francis X. Clines URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n357/a07.html ====================================================== International News --------------------------- COMMENT: (22-27) Overseas illegal drug markets closely resemble their US counterparts in terms of both popular new products and ever increasing seizures. Does all this activity represent success-- or massive failure? Two weeks ago, the UN claimed their efforts had sharply reduced Afghan opium and heroin production; however this week a US report by way of India suggests just the opposite. A similar contradiction was to be found in reports from Australia; Sydney reporting a glut and Melbourne unusual scarcity. Elsewhere, heroin is not the only illegal market that has been growing; ecstasy's popularity is surging and there's an Asian methamphetamine boom in parallel with the one in rural America. Nevertheless, the annual 'certification' charade went off without a hitch last week. === (22) US FINDINGS BELY UN REPORT ON PAK-AFGHAN DRUGS NEW DELHI: Till the findings of the US State Department made public on Saturday, the world was lulled into believing that a severe drought and publicity campaign by the well-meaning United Nations Drug Control Programme (UNDCP), combined with a diktat by Taliban supremo Mullah Omar, had actually led to a sharp fall in the opium production in Afghanistan last September. In its annual International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, the State Department said Afghanistan continued to be the largest opium producer accounting for 72 per cent of the world's illicit opium supply despite severe drought conditions in most parts of that country. [snip] Pubdate: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 Source: Times of India, The (India) Copyright: Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. 2001 Contact: times@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in Website: http://www.timesofindia.com/ Author: Mahendra Ved URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n401/a05.html Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/areas/Afghanistan === (23) CALM BEFORE DEADLY DRUG STORM THE inevitable end to Victoria's heroin drought would see users dropping like flies, police and heroin addicts warned yesterday. [snip] Assistant Commissioner (Crime) George Davis said significant disruptions to supply and a sharp fall in the purity of the little heroin available was responsible for the recent drop in overdose deaths. [snip] He said there had been a significant reduction of heroin availability throughout Australia in recent months. Undercover police in Melbourne found it hard to buy an ounce of heroin last week for $5000. ``It was very hard to find, and when we had it analyzed it was only 8 per cent pure. Only three months ago heroin on the street was 60 to 70 per cent purity. [snip] Pubdate: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 Source: Herald Sun (Australia) Copyright: 2001 News Limited Contact: hseditor@hwt.newsltd.com.au Website: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ Author: Geoff Wilkinson http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n352/a05.html === (24) LOSING A WAR: HEROIN MORE PLENTIFUL, CHEAPER, PURER THAN EVER Sydney is the illegal drug capital of Australia, where heroin is now more freely available, almost 60 per cent pure, and cheaper than ever, says the Australian Bureau of Criminal Intelligence. [snip] Pubdate: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) Copyright: 2001 The Sydney Morning Herald Contact: letters@smh.fairfax.com.au Website: http://www.smh.com.au/ Author: Neil Mercer And Linda Doherty URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n401/a08.html === (25) THE BATTLE AGAINST ECSTASY In recent days the police raided a number of clubs throughout the country where, according to detectives, the drug ecstasy is sold and used. ... The damage caused, especially to young people, justifies the special attention given to the problem by the law enforcement authorities. The fight against the consumption of illegal drugs runs into difficulties throughout the world. [snip] Pubdate: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 Source: Ha'aretz (Israel) Copyright: 2001sHa'aretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. Contact: letters@haaretz.co.il Website: http://www3.haaretz.co.il/eng/ URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n382/a12.html Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mdma.htm (Ecstasy) === (26) NEED FOR SPEED Methamphetamine has become Asia's drug of choice. Our writer reports on the culture of speed - and recounts his own addiction [snip] This mad medicine is the same drug that's called shabu in Japan and Indonesia, batu in the Philippines and bingdu in China. Perhaps it's appropriate that speed is Asia's drug of choice, with an estimated 30 million users across the region. [snip] Pubdate: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 Source: Time Magazine (US) Copyright: 2001 Time Inc Contact: letters@time.com NY 10020 Website: http://www.time.com/time/ Author: Karl Taro Greenfeld, Bangkok URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n393/a02.html Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/meth.htm (Methamphetamine) === (27) DRUG WAR PARTNERS 'CERTIFIED' BY U.S. The White House delivered its annual report card to Congress on drug producing and trafficking nations yesterday, certifying that most nations, including Colombia and Mexico, are "fully cooperating" partners with the United States in the war on drugs. Of the 24 nations under review, only Afghanistan and Burma were "decertified," which makes them ineligible for some development aid and ineligible for support in multilateral lending institutions such as the World Bank. [snip] Pubdate: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 Source: Washington Times (DC) Copyright: 2001 News World Communications, Inc. Contact: letters@washtimes.com Website: http://www.washtimes.com/ Author: Tom Carter, The Washington Times http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n370/a10.html ************************************************************************ HOT OFF THE 'NET ------------------------------ What Addiction Is and Is Not The Impact of Mistaken Notions of Addiction by Stanton Peele Fellow, The Lindesmith Center New York City The addiction concept varies cross-culturally and historically in significant ways. The reification of the addiction concept by addiction "experts" is actually an important window for understanding the nature of addiction in our society. Both proponents of the concept who incorrectly misidentify it as a Platonic ideal and critics who dismiss it because of its irregular and unreliable nature and appearance miss the boat on addiction. How we think about addiction influences how individuals become addicted, since we learn to be addicted through the expectations we develop about specific involvements. http://www.peele.net/lib/mistakennotions.html Submitted by Peter Webster === The Fight Against Drugs (Wed. March 7 - Fri. March 9, 2001) The Fight Against Drugs was a two-night CPAC (Canadian Public Affairs Channel) special about Canada's drug trade. CPAC is devoting several hours of programming each day to the issue. CPAC also covered the Inter-Parliamentary Forum of the Americas meeting in Ottawa. The meeting brought together delegates from more than 40 countries to discuss their most pressing issues, including drugs. Watch in streaming video at: http://cpac.ca/english/livevideo/index.html You can see the schedule at: http://cpac.ca/english/index.html === Maximizing Harm For the past year and a half, I've been telling people my book, Maximizing Harm, will be ready in about one month. That long month has finally passed, and now the book is available for sale from online booksellers, including Amazon.com (here's a direct link to the book's Amazon page: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595147194/maximizingharm I have also updated the book's Web page. The updated page is located at http://www.maximizingharm.com The old web site will remain up for a few days, but eventually it will be removed and replaced by a message that directs people to the new site. Best, Steve Young === NEW! FAX PRESIDENT BUSH President Bush will name a new Drug Czar soon - you can help influence his choice. Go to StopTheWar.com and fax President Bush, telling him to appoint a Drug Czar who will enact drug policies based on public health and science, not fear and prejudice. Send a free fax today at: http://www.stopthewar.com/ We've also added to our site links to some of our campaign coverage. Sincerely, Ethan Nadelmann Executive Director Lindesmith Center-Drug Policy Foundation ************************************************************************ FEATURE ARTICLE ------------------------------ Top Story: Mike Gray, Author of Drug Crazy, Notes Medical Implications of Kubby Case. Special to MarijuanaNews.com THE WAR ON DRUGS TAKES ANOTHER HIT by Mike Gray hmgray@ix.netcom.com Mike Gray, Chairman of Common Sense for Drug Policy, is the author of Drug Crazy: How We Got Into This Mess and How We Can Get Out, http://www.drugsense.org/crazy.htm In the California Gold Rush town of Auburn the curtain has finally rung down on a remarkable criminal trial that has raised some disturbing questions about the government's long-running war on marijuana. Steve Kubby, Libertarian candidate for governor in 1998, was arrested in January of 1999 for growing too many marijuana plants. The key phrase here is "too many." Kubby is allowed to grow "some" marijuana because California Proposition 215 - which he campaigned for - permits medical use of the weed to qualified patients, and if anybody is qualified it would be Steve Kubby. Diagnosed back in the 1970s with a rare form of adrenal cancer, Kubby was treated by Dr. Vincent DeQuattro of U.S.C., a leading authority on the disease. DeQuattro did what he could -- surgery, chemo, radiation -- but it was a delaying action. The cancer -- malignant pheochromocytoma - is not fatal in itself but it causes the adrenal glands to overwork, dramatically boosting blood pressure. You can drop dead of a heart attack or a stroke at any moment. Nobody lives longer than five years. Dr. DeQuattro assumed Kubby had passed on long ago, then he opened the 1998 California voter's guide and there was his former patient running for governor. Amazed, the doctor tracked him down and asked him what miracle had granted him this reprieve. "Marijuana," said Kubby. It seems he had abandoned the traditional treatment and switched to cannabis, smoking some 10 grams a day for the last 15 years. Dr. DeQuattro's first reaction was to put Steve Kubby under a microscope. At the U.S.C. medical center he ran Kubby through an exhaustive two-week work-up. While the doctor is no fan of marijuana -- he had never recommended it -- the results convinced him that marijuana was somehow keeping Kubby alive. At issue in the Auburn trial was the 200+ plants the deputies found in Kubby's basement - far too many for personal use said prosecutor Chris Cattran. But Cattran couldn't come up with credible evidence of commercial activity, and several defense experts testified that at Kubby's rate of consumption, his indoor garden was about right. So the prosecutors began exploring another line of attack ­ the assumption that Mr. Kubby had somehow undergone a spontaneous remission and he was simply smoking reefer to get high. To counter this charge, Kubby's lawyer called Dr. DeQuattro to the stand. In the cramped little Auburn courtroom, DeQuattro told the jury that Kubby's tumors are clearly visible on the x-rays but, for reasons he can't explain, the disease is apparently stabilized. What's more, the side-effects of smoking marijuana day and night for 15 years appear to be zero. DeQuattro said his team tested Kubby for cognitive function before and after smoking and found his mind, memory and motor skills unimpaired. But the discovery that really jolted them was the lungs. Here they had a subject who admittedly smoked a couple hundred joints a month for 15 years -- a perfect opportunity to measure the damage from chronic high level consumption ­ but they couldn't find any. "His respiratory functions are the same as for someone who never smoked at all." After deliberating for several days the jury hung 11-to-1 in favor of acquittal. Last week prosecutor Cattran threw in the towel. There will not be a retrial. Despite marijuana's dramatic impact on Kubby, Dr. DeQuattro is not ready to recommend it to his other patients until he finds out how it works. Unfortunately, that information is hard to come by. Washington has financed plenty of marijuana research -- always looking for negative effects. Every other line of inquiry was squelched. The first extensive studies of marijuana's effectiveness will not get underway until later this year -- decades late. Now, thanks to anecdotal evidence like that unfolding up in Auburn, we are beginning to learn that marijuana may be something more than just a palliative. There is growing evidence here and abroad that this ubiquitous plant may in fact be a powerful healing agent with extensive and unknown applications. If it turns out to be a miracle drug instead of the devil weed, then the politicians who managed to thwart this research for the last thirty years will have some explaining to do. Submitted by Richard Cowan www.marijuananews.com ************************************************************************** DRUGSENSE VOLUNTEER OF THE MONTH ------------------------------------------------------------------ Myron Von Hollingsworth Myron has been very successful at having his letters published. His persuasive ideas appear in papers from Ireland, Canada and all across the United States. Myron uses The MAP Media Email Directory, http://www.mapinc.org/resource/email.htm, to send each of his letters to several papers. You may read Myron's published letters at: http://www.mapinc.org/writers/Myron+Hollingsworth We asked a few questions of Myron. The interview can be read at: http://drugsense.org/dswvol.htm ************************************************************************ QUOTE OF THE WEEK ------------------------------------ "Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation." -- Henry Kissinger *********************************************************************** DS Weekly is one of the many free educational services DrugSense offers our members. Watch this feature to learn more about what DrugSense can do for you. TO SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, OR UPDATE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS: Please utilize the following URLs http://www.drugsense.org/hurry.htm http://www.drugsense.org/unsub.htm News/COMMENTS-Editor: Tom O'Connell (tjeffoc@drugsense.org) Senior-Editor: Mark Greer (mgreer@drugsense.org) We wish to thank all our contributors, editors, NewsHawks and letter writing activists. NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. REMINDER: Please help us help reform. Become a NewsHawk See http://www.mapinc.org/hawk.htm for info on contributing clippings. === MAKE A TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATION TO DRUGSENSE ONLINE http://www.drugsense.org/donate.htm -OR- Mail in your contribution. Make checks payable to MAP Inc. send your contribution to: The Media Awareness Project (MAP) Inc. D/B/a DrugSense PO Box 651 Porterville, CA 93258 (800) 266 5759 MGreer@mapinc.org http://www.mapinc.org/ http://www.drugsense.org/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 15:18:13 -0800 From: Dana Beal (by way of "D. Paul Stanford" ) To: restore@crrh.org Subject: Regina, Saskatoon..116 Cities March for Marijuana Space Odyssey May 5th! Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20010310151610.053e29c0@mail.olywa.net> GATEWAYS? Thirty years ago Columbia University's Denise Kandel began tracking= =20 a number of New York high-school students, compiling stats of drug use. In studies=20 released since 1975, Mrs. Kandel has maintained legal-drug use ( alcohol, nicotine ) leads to=20 illicit-drug use ( marijuana, cocaine, etc. ). The science community and sociologists ( and the National Institute on=20 Drug Abuse ), for the most part, have accepted her conclusions. What's more, for years those wishing to=20 ban tobacco and alcohol consumption have trotted out the so-called gateway theory. Bulletin: The World Health Organization recently released a new=20 study comparing drug use of 95,000 European 10th-graders and 14,000 American 10th-graders. The=20 findings include the following: 37 percent of European teens had smoked a cigarette within the past= =20 month; 26 percent of the American teen-agers had. 61 percent of the Europeans used alchohol within the past month; 40= =20 percent of the Americans did. 17 percent of the Europeans and 41 percent of the Americans had=20 tried marijuana. And, 6 percent and 23 percent of European and American 10th-graders,=20 respectively, had experimented with other illicit drugs. So, the conventional wisdom of researchers and pols is that alcohol= =20 and tobacco serve as a gateway to pot, which in turn serves as a gateway to "harder" drugs such as=20 speed, acid, and blow. Yet if alcohol and tobacco use among European teen-agers is more prevalent than that=20 among American youth, then why are U.S. teens 21/2 times more likely to smoke marijuana and nearly= =20 four times more likely than their Euro counterparts to snort coke or shoot heroin? Does the gateway=20 theorists' contention hold water? ________________________________ PUFF, THE MAGIC BARD The South Africans won't give up. Having speculated that William Shakespeare smoked cannabis while writing his plays, they have now analyzed several 17th-century clay pipes found on the site of his home in England and detected what the Associated Press story describes as "signs suggestive of marijuana." (Other signs suggestive of marijuana are inappropriate laughter and a voracious appetite. Hey there, Falstaff.) Although we take such findings with an enormous grain of salt -- nothing stronger, mind -- the thought that cannabis was involved does illuminate the more inexplicable sections of Shakespeare's plays. Why did Hamlet spend so much time talking to that skull? Why did Macbeth keep repeating himself? ("Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow and --" "Will! Your quill has wandered off the writing paper!") What happened to the Fool in King Lear? One moment he was with the king in the storm, and the next he'd disappeared and nobody ever mentioned him again. Granted, that's been the fate of more than a few lousy standup comics, but still. We won't even get into A Midsummer Night's Dream, with four lovers wandering around in a fog and forgetting who was in love with whom. And what was at the root of their dislocation? A strange plant that made them feel funny. Uh huh. The Pretoria researchers also report finding "evidence of cocaine" on two of the 24 pipe fragments they looked at. No surprise here. We always knew Shakespeare was a crack dramatist. - --- Pubdate: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 Source: Contra Costa Times (CA) MARIJUANA ACTIVIST'S CONVICTIONS SLASHED Felony Counts Against Cancer Patient Steve Kubby Are Cut To Misdemeanors; Other Convictions Dismissed. Applause erupted in a Placer County courtroom Friday when a judge reduced to misdemeanors the felony drug convictions of medical marijuana activist Steve Kubby and dismissed all the remaining marijuana counts against him. Kubby, 54, who now lives in Lake County but plans to move to British Columbia as soon as he fulfills the conditions of his probation, was fined $2,700 and ordered to serve 120 days of alternative sentencing. "The jail would not be an appropriate place for Mr. Kubby," said Judge John L. Cosgrove, acknowledging Kubby's claim that he needs marijuana to keep a rare form of cancer from taking his life. URL:=20 http://www.mapinc.org/drug= news/v01.n381.a02.html=20 ********!!!MAY 5, 2001 SPACE ODYSSEY: 113 MARIJUANA MARCHES!!!******** IMPORTANT: IF YOU WANT YOUR MARCH LISTED ON 1,000,000 PALM CARDS, GIVE US=20 YR CONTACT PHONE NUMBER & GET YRSELF THE INSIDE TRACK! .....EMAIL IT TODAY! 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Detroit: "jude joseph" =20 http://www.geocities.com/legaliz= emichigan/=20 or Adrienne C. e-mail: phone: (517)872-8005. Duesseldorf: Marlon Werkhausen =20 www.gesellschaftsprobleme.de phone: 049-172-7591795. Dunedin: Duncan Eddy Otago University NORML phone:= =20 025 719 139 Durban: or +27 31 2016 359 PHONE AND FAX.= =20 Post net Suite 136, Private Bag X 04, DALBRIDGE, 4014, SOUTH AFRICA Edinburgh: "Linda Hendry" Eugene: Kris Millegan 541-935-6276 or 800-556-2012 Fairbanks, Alaska: Frank Turney 907-452-3777 or Chuck Rollins Jr.=20 Frankenthal: helmut holtzheimer Garberville : "Paul Encimer" Box 162, Piercy CA 95587 Halifax: Danielle D'Aoust, e-mail: 3923 Kencrest= =20 Ave. app. 307, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3K3L4 Tel: 902-454-9317;=20 Also Jimmy Dorey Hamburg: Martina Katzsch Hilo: Roger Christie (808) 961-0488=20 http://www.thc-min= istry.org=20 Ho Chi Minh City: "Bartlett Ridge" =20 http://www.BartlettRidge.com=20 Homer, Alaska - contact Julie Cesarini, P.O. Box 812, Homer AK 99603, 907=20 235-6040. Houston: Dean Farrell (281)752-9198.=20 http://www= .cultural-baggage.com=20 Hull: Carl Wagner phone: +44 01482 494789 5=20 Victoria Square, Ella Street, Hull HU5 3AL, England Huntsville: Bill Gallagher (256) 536 9967 3210=20 Clopton St, Huntsville, AL 35805 Indianapolis: Neal (317)882-1904 Ithaca: Adam Hirsch 522 Stewart Ave. (Apt # 2), Ithaca,= =20 NY 14850 Jefferson City: Al Minta (417)866-3999 address: 1653 N. Patterson (Apt A),= =20 Springfield, MO 65803 Jerusalem: Joseph (011-972) 050-494-447 Johannesburg: Gordon Maene work: ( 011)805=20 6763 cell phone: 082 552 6393 Juneau, Alaska - contact Brad Parfitt at latebrad@hotmail.com Kansas City: Global Peace Cafeneh globalpeas, 1518 s.= =20 18th st., KC KS 66101 or (816)931-6169. Kelowna, B.C.: Teresa Taylor, CCC =20 http://taylor1.virtualave.net=20 (250) 442-2741 or (250) 442-5166 Fax (250) 442-5167 Kent:=20 http://mjmarch.webhop.org/=20 (330)672-4263 Krakow: Marek Warmuz (+48)501-468-018 "quepassa" Ladysmith: Terry & Wendy, (250)-245-3595, Lansing: Kathy Kennedy 517-628-3915 or e-mail: =20 http://www.cures-not-wars.micronp= cweb.com=20 Lethbridge, Alberta: Shannon Gasparetto =20 (403)328-8901 Lima, Peru: 889-2728 "Jedi Master" Liverpool: Will Graham tel (inc. international code):= =20 0044 151 727 1458 London: International Cannabis Coalition (UK), PO Box 2243, London, W1A=20 1YF, UK. Chris: 020 7637 7467. Fax: 0870 0548646. E Mail:=20 may2001@schmoo.co.uk=20 http://www.schmoo.co.uk/may2001.htm=20 Los Angeles: Sister Somayah 323-232-0935 Macon Ga: 912 755 9660 Madison: Ben Masel 608-257-5456 Miami: temporary contact Steve Jacobsen 561-706-1670 {chefjake01@aol.com} Milwaukee: Dominic Salmaan 1525 E, Royall Pl # 14, Milwaukee, WI 53202 ph:= =20 414-289-9501 or 339-9377 Minneapolis Grassroots Party, temp. 952-884-5009, or Chris Wright=20 612-522-5374. March @ High Noon from Loring=20 Park to Washburn Fair-Oaks Park. Missoula: Angela Goodhope (406) 549-8389 Mobile: (334) 649- 0193 Montpelier: Rama Schneider <2001@ramabahama.net> (802) 433-5441 address:=20 1614 Gilbert Road, Williamstown, VT 05679=20 http://www.ramabahama.= net=20 Montreal: Marc-Boris St-Maurice (514)528.1768 Nashville: "Howie & Marivuana Leinoff" (615)ACT-HIGH. New Orleans: "Ashley The Fearless" 818-754-0069. New York City: Dana 212-677-7180 Nimbin: "rebelart" contact ph: 61-266890413=20 http://www.nimbinaustralia.com/mardigrass2001=20 Nuernberg: Emanuel Kotzian ("Green Party") phone:=20 0049-911-535433 Oberlin: Jesse Kanson-Benanav =20 (440)775-6607 c/o Stitch by Stitch and Curiosities, 31 South Main Street,=20 Oberlin, OH 44074 Olympia: "miriam white" pager/voice mail=20 360-415-2011 Omaha: Paul Tripp 1-(402)-330-8736 Orlando: Rudi703@aol.com (407)415-2091 Oslo: < mmm2001@normal.no>=20 http://www.normal.no/mmm2001.html=20 Paducah: Paula (270)362-9849 Cher Ford-McCullough =20 65 Cabin Lane, Gilbertsvile, Ky. 42044 or Brian McCullough=20 (270) 362-8186 Palm Springs: Lanny Swerdlow pager:760-836-8166;= =20 ph: 760-799-2055 Paris: FARId GHEHIOUECHE Home phone : 01 42 51 50 85;= =20 Mobile: 06 14 81 56 79 or "Dalila AKROUR" Philadelphia: emily petry 215/563 3030. Portland: (503)777-9088 MMM 2001 Committee c/o Pdx= =20 NORML, P.O. Box 11694, Portland, OR, 97211. Assemble at Pioneer Square,=20 10am - March at High Noon; Rally at 2pm, music & speakers til 5pm (close up= =20 and out by 7pm) Prague: Michail Polack Tel: +420-603-872631,=20 +420-2-33355668, +420-602-178012=20 http://www.legalizace.cz PEI (Prince Edward Island): Deanne Kimball =20 (902)628-9012 Providence: Ann McCormick 401-724-8628 Raleigh-Durham: Bryan T. Moore 919-835-9889 Redding: "Byron Stephens" Regina: Daniel Johnson =20 http://normlsask.cjb.n= et/=20 Richmond: "Roy B. Scherer" (804) 355-7612, or= =20 campus libs at San Diego: San Diego A.C.T. (Association for Cannabis Therapeutics) c/o=20 T.Villodas,901"F"street#413,San Diego, Ca.92101 email: Ed zepplin=20 San Francisco:=20 http://www.drugpeace.org/mmm=20 Age ph: (510)444-3207 San Marcos: Bryan Anderson: 512.396.3223 Email: earthfirstswt@hotmail.com Santa Cruz: DdC or Jason Brodsky=20 St. Louis: Rev Jeff also The Cannabis Commandos or St.= =20 Louis Area NORML , PO Box 220243, St. Louis, MO 63122, Phone: 314-995-1392= =20 Email: www.mo-norml.org St. Petersburg: Kevin Aplin FL CAN (321)-255-9790. Jodi James - Coalition=20 Advocating Medical Marijuana 321-253-3673. Brian Palmer - Golden Boy=20 Productions 407-493-2346. Saskatoon: Daniel Johnson =20 http://normlsask.cjb.n= et/=20 Seattle to Olympia Journey for Justice: Jess "Fat Freddy" Williams=20 (253) 573-9862 Tampa: (813)779-2551. Michael Palmieri or=20 ; (FORML ). P.O. Box 2061, Zephyrhills, Florida=20 33539.=20 http://www.geocities.com/forml_2000=20 ; or ph: (727)347-6245 Tel Aviv: Boaz Wachtel -- wachtel@shani.net Tel:972-54-573679 Toronto: "Terry Parker Jr." 416-533-7756 Traverse City: Melody Karr (231)885-2993 Tucson: "mary mackenzie (formerly crow)" 3400 east= =20 speedway, #118 tucson, arizona 85716 (520)323-2947 Vancouver: David Malmo-Levine, (604)874-0790 Washington, D.C.: John=20 Pylka, www.fourthofjuly.org Phone: 202-887-5770 Wellington Ben Knight ph 04 801-6636 Winnepeg: Chris Buors, 204-663-3485, mail to 430 Winterton ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R2K 1K4 Woodstock: Ed zepplin Woodstock Association for Medical= =20 Marijuana. Postal: T. Villodas 6 orchird lane, Woodstock, N.Y.12498. Yarmuth: (902)742-6213 "Ryan Taylor" Zagreb: "Sergio Stifanic" GALOVICEVA 10, 10000=20 ZAGREB Phone: ++385 1 2330667 ******************** How many of your friends want info on the World Cannabis Protest next May=20 5th? The 2001 Space Odyssey: Parades, Rallies & Teach-ins in 900 cities!=20 Act now and they can put on their own marijuana march in the city or=20 location where they live. All we need to list them is a name, email address= =20 and/or phone number. Send us their email addresses, & we'll get them up to speed. Dana/cnw REMEMBER TO TELL EVERYONE: BUSH STOLE THE ELECTION!=20 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 20:56:20 EST From: LawBerger@aol.com To: strider_zulunation@yahoo.com, restore@crrh.org Subject: Re: Oh, My God why are people still wasting time Smoking Anything? Message-ID: <73.bb56eb8.27dc3544@aol.com> --part1_73.bb56eb8.27dc3544_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 3/10/01 3:50:54 PM Pacific Standard Time, strider_zulunation@yahoo.com writes: > P.S. Did the Supreme Court Rule on States Rights Yet>> > > > not yet. briefing is complete, oral argument set for March 28, decision > expected this summer. > > Lee Berger > ------------------------------ End of restore V1 #787 ********************** * ------ CRRH is working to regulate and tax the sale of cannabis to adults like alcohol, allow doctors to recommend cannabis through pharmacies and restore the unregulated production of industrial hemp. ------ To subscribe, unsubscribe or switch to immediate or digest mode, please send your instructions to . ------ *Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of Hemp* mail: CRRH ; P.O. Box 86741 ; Portland, OR 97286 USA email: crrh@crrh.org phone: (503) 235-4606 fax: (503) 235-0120 web: http://www.crrh.org/