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1 CN ON: PUB LTE: Police Chiefs RubbishMon, 23 Jun 2003
Source:Toronto Sun (CN ON) Author:Rogers, L. Area:Ontario Lines:51 Added:06/23/2003

THE ONTARIO Association of Police Chiefs warns us to prepare for a "long, hot, violent summer" due to legal pot smoking (June 18). What rubbish!

What evidence exists to show people smoking marijuana become violent? What evidence exists to show more people will smoke pot now that it's decriminalized? Will smoking pot somehow make the summer hotter?

Anyone irresponsible enough to drive under the influence of marijuana would likely drive under the influence of any controlled substance. Why the scare tactics? Do they not have enough criminals to chase right now? Do they not think there have always been impaired drivers on our roads? They're out there right now.

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2 Guatemala: Colombia Cocaine Flowing Through GuatemalaMon, 23 Jun 2003
Source:San Jose Mercury News (CA) Author:Miller, T. Christian Area:Guatemala Lines:109 Added:06/23/2003

Corruption Fueling Drug Trade, Authorities Say

ZACAPA, Guatemala - An exploding drug trade aided by extensive government corruption has turned Guatemala into the primary safe haven for Colombia's cocaine headed through Mexico to the United States, according to U.S. and Guatemalan authorities.

An estimated 200 metric tons of cocaine passed through Guatemala last year, more than two-thirds of U.S. consumption of the drug, according to State Department officials.

The increased flow -- nearly triple the amount estimated a decade ago -- has turned parts of Guatemala into lawless zones ruled by family-controlled transit cartels, a development all too clear in this dry and dusty frontier state.

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3US LA: U.S. Appeals Court Oks Rave RestrictionsSun, 22 Jun 2003
Source:Times, The (LA) Author:, Area:Louisiana Lines:Excerpt Added:06/23/2003

NEW ORLEANS - Federal prosecutors hailed a federal appeals court ruling Friday as a victory in their efforts to curb illegal drug use at high energy, all night dance parties known as raves.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that an agreement, worked out between the government and a rave club in New Orleans, can be enforced although it bans legal playthings like giant pacifiers, glow sticks and mentholated inhalers.

Prosecutors say the stuff is Ecstasy paraphernalia that promotes illegal drug use.

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4 US HI: LTE: Tobacco, Marijuana Precursors To Ice UseMon, 23 Jun 2003
Source:Honolulu Advertiser (HI) Author:Kellner, Jerome Area:Hawaii Lines:49 Added:06/23/2003

A well-known Maui substance-abuse professional I spoke to recently agreed with all of the following: Two drugs in Hawai'i are driving, integral forces in the crystal methamphetamine (ice) epidemic here -- tobacco and marijuana.

Island kids are exposed to tobacco smoking by smokers in extended island families, and by the one in five people in Hawai'i who smoke cigarettes. The overwhelming message to Hawai'i kids from the time they can talk is that it is perfectly OK to inhale smoke into your lungs, including smoke that is highly addictive and carcinogenic.

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5US HI: OPED: Don't Cast Stones At The Prison SystemMon, 23 Jun 2003
Source:Honolulu Advertiser (HI) Author:Rodriguez, Sgt. Jose M. Area:Hawaii Lines:Excerpt Added:06/23/2003

The Drug Programs In Prison Don't Work Unless The Individual Wants It To Work.

While I was an adult corrections officer III at Waiawa Correctional Facility, I was in KASHBOX and performing urinalysis. When all inmates are incarcerated, they must see the parole board, which determines their minimum sentence and which programs and classes they must complete before they are eligible for parole.

Ninety-five percent of the inmates in KASHBOX do not volunteer for the program but are basically forced into it because if they want to be paroled, they have to complete a level-three treatment program. If they don't complete the program, they can and will be denied parole.

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6 US TX: OPED: Are Narcotics Task Forces Worth The Investment WeMon, 23 Jun 2003
Source:Corpus Christi Caller-Times (TX) Author:Villarreal, Carlos Area:Texas Lines:71 Added:06/23/2003

Two area narcotics task forces may lose their money and be forced to stop operating. While some have been quick to warn of a flood of drugs through South Texas, perhaps the elimination of the narcotics task forces would be a positive development. It is unfortunate that some officers may be losing their livelihoods, but maybe that money could be better spent.

The task forces have supposedly made 450 arrests in the past three years, but I would bet most of these individuals were low-level, non-violent offenders. The non-violent offender population in Texas jails and prisons is greater than the entire prison population in England and France. Much of this is because of the devastating war on drugs that has resulted in the arrests and incarceration of many offenders for petty crimes like possession of small amounts of a controlled substance. These offenders are often people of color and often juveniles or women. By locking up these folks, we are taking them away from their families and using resources that could be better spent on education and treatment programs.

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7 US WI: PUB LTE: Bible Says 'All Green Plants Are Good'Mon, 23 Jun 2003
Source:Reporter, The (Fond du Lac, WI)          Area:Wisconsin Lines:48 Added:06/23/2003

Jim Horning, like others in the prison industry, has a severe separation from the truth and did not state all the facts. Why isn't it accurate to blame corrections officers (letter, "Don't blame COs for incarcerations," on June 4) for overuse of the prison system since you are responsible for passing and perpetuating the legislation regarding cannabis (marijuana), when you take into account your unions work to enable laws that in fact do just that?

Why does Horning think animosity is misplaced toward him and our judicial system, when he supports the prohibition of cannabis? Why doesn't Horning feel responsible for the ever-increasing inmate population, when he belongs to a union that does support that crime.

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8 US CA: State Urges Congress To Recognize Pot LawMon, 23 Jun 2003
Source:San Francisco Examiner (CA) Author:Dineen, J.K. Area:California Lines:62 Added:06/23/2003

When a federal judge allowed Ed Rosenthal to walk free earlier this month, the convicted marijuana guru promised to take his case to state capitols and city halls across the country.

It appears he hasn't made it very far.

Friday, he stood on the 14th floor of the state administration building, across the street from the very courthouse where he almost lost his freedom, celebrating Assemblyman Mark Leno's passage of a resolution urging Congress to recognize California medicinal marijuana laws.

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9US CO: Review: Schlosser Exposing U.S. Black MarketsMon, 23 Jun 2003
Source:Denver Post (CO) Author:Foley, Dylan Area:Colorado Lines:Excerpt Added:06/23/2003

In 2000, Eric Schlosser's book "Fast Food Nation," an expose of the unhealthy practices and filthy working conditions in the fast food business and the meatpacking world, was published to great acclaim. Schlosser documented the fat-saturated foods that Americans eat and the dangerous, low-wage conditions that workers in those industries toil under.

Now Schlosser has turned his formidable investigative journalism skills to examine three American black markets - pornography, marijuana and illegal labor. The new book, "Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market," is an articulate, often gripping expose of these three areas.

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10 US CA: PUB LTE: Time To Leave CountryMon, 23 Jun 2003
Source:Tahoe Daily Tribune (South Lake Tahoe, CA) Author:Barber, Clifton G. Area:California Lines:31 Added:06/23/2003

Tribune

After reading Bruce Symington's response to the narrow-minded Calvina Fay I have to agree with him. America is nothing more than a police state where the only freedom you have is to obey the government.

Mr. Symington might have to make room for me in Canada because I have had it with Bush and his sick drug war.

I wonder how long it will be before speech and the Internet will be illegal in America.

Clifton G. Barber

San Antonio

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11 CN ON: PUB LTE: Open And Peaceful SocietyMon, 23 Jun 2003
Source:Ottawa Sun (CN ON) Author:Andy, Area:Ontario Lines:25 Added:06/23/2003

My husband and I would like to commend you on gay marriages and decriminalizing marijuana. What a wonderful open and peaceful society Canada is. We here in the States are losing personal rights as fast as the evil Richard Ashcroft can erase them. Stay free and enjoy!

Andy and Di Mooney

Wasilla, Alaska

(Thanks, we think)

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12 US: 'They Do It Because They Make Money'Thu, 01 May 2003
Source:Sojourners Magazine (US DC)          Area:United States Lines:74 Added:05/01/2003

A conservative Republican asks: What would happen if there were no profit in drugs?

Dan Burton is a Republican member of Congress from Indiana. Tom Carr is director of the Baltimore-Washington High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. This exchange is an edited excerpt from the House Government Reform Committee hearing on "America's Heroin Crisis, Colombian Heroin, and How We Can Improve Plan Colombia," on December 12, 2002.

Rep. Dan Burton: I have been in probably 100 or 150 hearings like this at various times in my political career and the story is always the same. Every time I have a hearing, I hear that people who get hooked on heroin and cocaine become addicted and they very rarely get off of it. And the scourge expands and expands and expands. And we have very fine law enforcement officers like you go out and fight the fight. But there is no end to it. Over 70 percent of all crime is drug-related.

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