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1 World Leaders On DopeTue, 05 Jun 2001
Source:Village Voice (NY) Author:Kick, Russ Area:New York Lines:322 Added:06/05/2001

Right Joins Left In Call For An End To The Drug War

The American drug war may yet grind on, but one by one, the troops are hiking out. Right-wingers like Jesse Ventura, Gary Johnson, Dan Quayle, William F. Buckley, and George Schultz have all voiced support for either ending the costly campaign of interdiction and imprisonment, or at least decriminalizing pot.

Through the years, in statements little-noted or splashed onto front pages, they've aligned themselves with leaders around the world, all standing in unlikely opposition to the frat-boy chief commander in the White House. President Bush shows no sign of yielding, instead choosing to harden his stance. In May, announcing the appointment of a drug czar who makes John Ashcroft look like a hippie, Bush thundered, "John Walters and I believe the only humane and compassionate response to drug use is a moral refusal to accept it. We emphatically disagree with those who favor drug legalization."

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2 US AR: PUB LTE: 'Pot' Nearly HarmlessMon, 04 Jun 2001
Source:Morning News of Northwest Arkansas (AR) Author:Greig, Rod Area:Arkansas Lines:48 Added:06/05/2001

I truly wish the critics applauding the Supreme Court decision on marijuana, and Dr. Copp's defense of its medical uses (Public Viewpoint, May 20), could talk to the people I've known whose lives have been saved by it. One was a woman in New Jersey whose chemotherapy treatments caused her to seriously contemplate suicide after the failure of the many drugs several doctors prescribed. A friend suggested that she try marijuana before giving up, and just one use a day gave her the relief she needed.

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3 US IN: Woman Dealing Drugs Learned Hard Lesson The Hard WaySun, 03 Jun 2001
Source:Evansville Courier & Press (IN) Author:Mathews, Garret Area:Indiana Lines:98 Added:06/05/2001

Sandy Stilwell is serving a 22-year sentence for dealing marijuana and cocaine. It's her second offense. She was given probation after a 1996 arrest.

Stilwell lived with her boyfriend - who she said is also a drug dealer - - in a fashionable home in Holland, Ind. Gun in purse, the mother of three said she made regular trips to East St. Louis, Ill., to buy drugs. Twice she said she flew to Phoenix carrying more than half a million dollars that went to suppliers in Mexico.

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4 US: Waters Sees Racism In War On DrugsSat, 02 Jun 2001
Source:Santa Fe New Mexican (NM) Author:Terrell, Steve Area:United States Lines:79 Added:06/05/2001

ALBUQUERQUE -- The national war on drugs has created an "apartheid" in the United States because black people and Hispanics are more likely to go to prison for drugs and more likely to get longer prison sentences than whites.

This was the message from U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., on Friday, speaking at the Lindesmith Center-Drug Policy Foundation's annual conference.

According to Waters, though black people constitute only 15 percent of drug users, they make up 33 percent of all federal drug convictions.

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5 US NV: Wire: Nevada Lawmakers Approve Bill To Legalize Medical Marijuana ...Mon, 04 Jun 2001
Source:Associated Press (Wire) Author:Mcdonough, Siobhan Area:Nevada Lines:64 Added:06/05/2001

State lawmakers voted Monday to legalize marijuana for medical purposes and relax penalties for possession of the drug.

The Assembly's vote puts the state on a potential collision course with the federal government. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last month that a federal law classifying the drug as illegal includes no exception for medical uses.

The state Senate has already approved the bill, and it is expected to receive Gov. Kenny Guinn's signature.

The bill would allow seriously ill Nevadans to have up to seven marijuana plants for personal use.

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6 US: Column: The Fine Line Between Interdiction And MurderThu, 31 May 2001
Source:Seattle Times (WA) Author:Cockburn, Alexander Area:United States Lines:116 Added:05/31/2001

Remember that family of Baptists that got shot up in the Amazon in March of this year? Having concluded a bout of evangelizing among the Indians along the Peruvian Amazon, this same family was halved in size after a bullet from a Peruvian fighter plane fatally pierced Veronica and Charity Bower (mother and 7-month infant), while wounding Cessna pilot Kevin Donaldson and sparing Jim Bower and his son Cory.

The Peruvian Air Force fighter pilot was ordered to fire by a high- ranking Peruvian officer on the ground. This officer was getting his info, or misinfo, relayed to him by the CIA, in the sub-contracted guise of a plane owned by Aviation Development Corporation, based at Maxwell AFB in Hunstville, Ala. The CIA-sponsored plane containing three Anglos and one Peruvian (not able to talk to each other very well owing to language barriers), was monitoring the Cessna containing the missionaries and relaying its observations of the missionaries' position to the Peruvian Air Force.

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7 Australia: OPED: Timely Injection Of BalanceThu, 31 May 2001
Source:Australian, The (Australia) Author:Hoare, Daniel Area:Australia Lines:224 Added:05/31/2001

The media's addiction to sensation might have derailed Sydney's safe heroin injecting-room trial, but so far the coverage has been low-key and fair, writes Daniel Hoare

ARE you chasing?" has long been the hushed catch-cry of drug dealers peddling their mind-altering products along the pavements of Sydney's Kings Cross. But recently the phrase took on a new meaning when the media descended on the area chasing something else. They were not in the market for heroin, but for a story on heroin.

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8 US NY: Column - Part 2 of 2: Dream Of A Worldwide TruceWed, 30 May 2001
Source:The Buffalo News, March 2, 1997 Author:Kick, Russ Area:New York Lines:123 Added:05/30/2001

On the eve of a United Nations special session on drugs, an international roster of luminaries signed a letter, penned by members of the Lindesmith Center, that lobbied for radical change. "We believe that the global war on drugs is now causing more harm than drug abuse itself," read the June 1998 declaration. "Persisting in our current policies will only result in more drug abuse, more empowerment of drug markets and criminals, and more disease and suffering." Among the signatories were Willie Brown, Joycelyn Elders, several former members of Congress, two former U.S. attorneys general, a former assistant secretary of state, three federal judges, the San Jose mayor, a former police commissioner of New York City, a former secretary general of the UN, 28 Spanish judges, past presidents of Bolivia, Guatemala, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua, and current legislators from Australia, Britain, Canada, European Parliament, Mexico, and Peru.

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