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1US: Charges Filed In Plot To Sell Drugs, Fund ArmsThu, 07 Nov 2002
Source:Dallas Morning News (TX)          Area:United States Lines:Excerpt Added:11/07/2002

U.S. Says Al-Qaeda, Colombian Group Were Intended Beneficiaries

WASHINGTON - U.S. officials announced charges Wednesday involving alleged plots to sell drugs to fund weapons for Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization and a Colombian paramilitary group.

The separate cases show the threat to national security from the "toxic combination of drugs and terrorism," said Attorney General John Ashcroft.

One set of charges involves a plot by four people, two of them from Houston, to trade $25 million in cocaine and cash for a huge cache of weapons to be sent to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, or AUC, as the 8,000-member paramilitary group is known by its initials in Spanish.

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2US AZ: Free Pot Failure Marks Reversal In TrendThu, 07 Nov 2002
Source:Arizona Republic (AZ)          Area:Arizona Lines:Excerpt Added:11/07/2002

Free Pot Failure Marks Reversal In Trend

Has Arizona's appetite for convention-bucking, drug-law reform finally ebbed?

State voters dramatically changed a six-year course Tuesday when they sided with traditional law-enforcement views on two drug-law reform propositions.

Voters trounced Proposition 203, which largely would have decriminalized the possession of marijuana.

There are, of course, plenty of apparent reasons for this measure's demise. It would have required the state Department of Public Safety to distribute the drug as a service to people with a note from their doctor. The spectacle of state police officers opening pot apothecaries no doubt appalled many voters.

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3 US NV: Nevada Voters Turn Down Legalized PotWed, 06 Nov 2002
Source:Messenger-Inquirer (KY) Author:Crary, David Area:Nevada Lines:98 Added:11/07/2002

Ohio Voters Defeat Drug-Reform Measure

In twin setbacks for the drug-reform movement, Nevada voters refused Tuesday to make their state the first to legalize possession of marijuana, and voters in Ohio rejected a treatment-instead-of-jail proposal.

In Florida, voters approved a sweeping ban on smoking in restaurants and virtually all other workplaces. "It's going to save lives," said Martin Larsen, chairman of the Smoke-Free for Health campaign.

Smokers also were targeted in Arizona, where voters approved an increase in cigarette taxes from 58 cents to $1.18 per pack.

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4 CN AB: PUB LTE: Parents Have The PowerThu, 07 Nov 2002
Source:Airdrie Echo (CN AB) Author:Allan, Kevin Area:Alberta Lines:45 Added:11/07/2002

Dear Editor:

I agree with the article in the Oct. 30 Echo which says that youths must be educated about street drugs.

However, with regard to Det. Steve Walton, a Calgary Police Service veteran, who comments: "At the forefront, it's a parental issue. We need to know who our children are running with." He is right, it is a parental issue, but much more so than Det. Walton understands by his second statement. The truth is addicts let themselves get addicted, although most of them don't know this themselves. That is the real tragedy. They use these substances because they hurt. Addiction to any and all substances is only a symptom.

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5 CN AB: PUB LTE: Drug Prohibition Is Not The AnswerThu, 07 Nov 2002
Source:Airdrie Echo (CN AB) Author:Randell, Alan Area:Alberta Lines:39 Added:11/07/2002

Re: Drug awareness a parental issue (Airdrie Echo, Oct. 30).

Will this torrent of prohibitionist (coverage) from our media never end?

Let's get a few things straight about drugs. Nearly all the harm done to users and non-users alike by illegal drugs is because the drugs are prohibited.

Thousands were poisoned by adulterated booze during prohibition.

Thousands more are dying today because of adulterated drugs, an aspect of government policy my wife and I became well acquainted with when our 19-year-old son, Peter, died shortly after ingesting some street heroin in 1993.

Besides, no government has the right to punish anyone for ingesting anything -- however harmful.

by Alan Randell, Victoria, B.C., Resident

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6 CN AB: PUB LTE: 'Credible' Education Programs NeededThu, 07 Nov 2002
Source:Airdrie Echo (CN AB) Author:Sharpe, Robert Area:Alberta Lines:50 Added:11/07/2002

Dear Editor:

An Oct. 30 article in the Airdrie Echo contained excellent advice on preventing adolescent drug use. The importance of parental involvement in reducing drug use cannot be overstated.

School-based extracurricular activities have also been shown to reduce drug use. They keep children busy during the hours they're most prone to getting into trouble. In order for drug education to be effective it has to be credible. The most popular recreational drug and the one most closely associated with violent behaviour is often overlooked by parents. That drug is alcohol and it takes far more lives each year than all illegal drugs combined. Alcohol may be legal, but it's still the number one drug problem. For decades drug education has been dominated by sensationalist programs such as Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE). While Canadian schools are just beginning to implement DARE, schools in the U.S. are dropping it. Every independent, methodologically sound evaluation of DARE has found the program to be either ineffective or counterproductive.

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7 US: U.S. Arrests Four In Drugs-For-Arms PlotWed, 06 Nov 2002
Source:State, The (SC) Author:Finley, Ben Area:United States Lines:83 Added:11/07/2002

WASHINGTON - Attorney General John Ashcroft Wednesday announced the arrests of four members of a right-wing paramilitary group on charges of participating in a $25 million drugs-for-arms deal.

According to Ashcroft, agents for the Autodefensias Unidas de Colombia (AUC) sought to buy thousands of machine guns and grenades with cocaine and American dollars from an undercover FBI agent posing as an arms dealer. The State Department has listed the AUC as a foreign terrorist organization since September 2001.

It was the second arms-for-drugs plot that U.S. investigators say they've uncovered recently. In Hong Kong, three men are fighting extradition to the United States in connection with an alleged scheme to use profits from illicit drug sales to finance the purchase of Stinger surface-to-air missiles for the al-Qaida terror group.

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8 US MI: Drug War Causes More CrimeThu, 07 Nov 2002
Source:Western Herald (MI EDU) Author:Bolen, Sarah Area:Michigan Lines:67 Added:11/07/2002

Drug war increases crime. This is the hypothesis of Bruce Benson, professor of economics at Florida State University, who spoke to students about the drug war Wednesday in Knauss Hall. Benson provided data which pointed to the emphasis on the war on drugs program during Reagan's administration in the 1980s as the leading cause in a substantial increase in non-drug related crime. His lecture was founded on the economic principles of scarcity and competition for allocation of resources and focused on the '80s -- the time when he said the drug war was born.

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9 US CO: Women's Jail Space Tight In CountySun, 03 Nov 2002
Source:Daily Camera (CO) Author:George, Justin Area:Colorado Lines:196 Added:11/07/2002

Unprecedented Number of Inmates Causing Stress

An unprecedented number of women overcrowding the Boulder County Jail since summer has forced the Sheriff's Office to come up with creative temporary housing solutions.

But the unequal arrangements are causing envy, animosity and stress among inmates, some inmates said.

Since July, the jail has been consistently holding 20 more women than usual, increasing the percentage of women in the 400-inmate building from 9 percent to 12 percent of total jail population. The increase has forced county judges to release some inmates early and the sheriff to move many work-release prisoners to halfway houses.

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10US WI: Police Arrest 3, Ticket 445 At RaveMon, 04 Nov 2002
Source:Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI) Author:Smith, Allison L. Area:Wisconsin Lines:Excerpt Added:11/07/2002

U.S. Customs Tip Leads Racine Officers to Hall

Racine - Acting on a tip from U.S. Customs agents, Racine police infiltrated and then busted a rave party early Sunday, arresting three people, ticketing 445 others and confiscating various drugs, including more than 100 Ecstasy pills.

"To my knowledge, this is the biggest rave ever in Racine," Detective Lt. Robert Purdy said Sunday night. "There have been a few previous raves, but nothing nearly to the extent of this one."

Police said they received the U.S. Customs tip before the start of the rave, which was held Saturday night in the basement of Tradewinds, a tavern and banquet hall at 1518 Washington Ave.

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