> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:14:40 -0700
> From: owner-drugnews-digest@...
> (Drugnews-Digest)
> Subject: MAP: Drugnews-Digest V07 #454
>
> Drugnews-Digest Tuesday, April 10 2007
> Volume 07 : Number 454
>
> Read this digest online at:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n454/
>
> 001 US IL: Drug Court Seeing Success
> Source: Courier News (Elgin, IL)
> 002 Brunei: Drug Bust In Kg Ayer
> Source: Borneo Bulletin (Brunei)
> 003 US MD: Inaugural Participant Graduates Drug
> Court
> Source: Frederick News Post (MD)
> 004 US OH: Rootstown Meth Labs Leave Lasting Effects
> Source: Record-Courier (OH)
> 005 UK: Warning To Drug Dealers
> Source: Hull Daily Mail (UK)
> 006 US TX: Editorial: Wave Of Killings Threatens To
> Swamp
> Source: Austin American-Statesman (TX)
> 007 US NM: Richardson Content to Start Slow in White
> House Race
> Source: Los Angeles Times (CA)
> 008 US WV: OPED: Legalizing Drugs Is Better Way to
> Fight Problem
> Source: Herald-Dispatch, The (Huntington, WV)
>
>
----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subj: 001 US IL: Drug Court Seeing Success
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 23:45:34 -0700
> Size: 152 lines 6709 bytes
> File: v07.n454.a01
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n454.a01.html
>
> Pubdate: Mon, 09 Apr 2007
> Source: Courier News (Elgin, IL)
> Copyright: 2007 The Courier News
> Contact: Courier.Viewpoint@...
> Website:
> http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/couriernews/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1200
> Author: David Gialanella, Staff Writer
>
> DRUG COURT SEEING SUCCESS
>
> ST. CHARLES TOWNSHIP -- There's no need to turn on
> Judge Judy or The
> People's Court to get a different kind of courtroom
> experience. Just
> head down to Kane County Drug Rehabilitation Court.
>
> Nearly a year after former drug court Judge James
> Doyle -- heralded
> as a hero by some but called a tyrannical bully by
> others -- left the
> program, drug court still is enjoying a lot of
> success under Judge
> Bill Weir.
>
> Sitting in on Weir's proceedings for a morning, it's
> not difficult
> for one to see why so many people call it a
> forward-thinking program.
>
> Weir has to be dynamic -- just like each person is
> unique, each case
> is unique, and must be dealt with differently. Some
> need "a pat on
> the back," Weir said, others "a tap somewhere
> else."
>
> [continues: 125 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 002 Brunei: Drug Bust In Kg Ayer
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 23:46:44 -0700
> Size: 62 lines 2571 bytes
> File: v07.n454.a02
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n454.a02.html
>
> Pubdate: Mon, 09 Apr 2007
> Source: Borneo Bulletin (Brunei)
> Copyright: 2007 Brunei Press Sdn Bhd.
> Contact: borneobulletin2@...
> Website: http://www.brunei-online.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3514
> Author: Lyna Mohamad
>
> DRUG BUST IN KG AYER
>
> Over 100 drug-related arrests have been made in the
> first three
> months of the year and there is no let-up as the
> Narcotics Control
> Bureau is on overdrive to rid the country of drug
> abusers and pushers.
>
> The number of arrests also reveals the dark side of
> the society, in
> which the unemployed youth seem prone to drug abuse
> activities.
>
> The latest NCB operation over the weekend was
> focused on the water
> village and surrounding areas in the capital. The
> target known as a
> "Black Area" was raided as officials came to know
> of many drug
> activities including abusers and traffickers.
>
> According to a press release, Operasi Sapu involved
> 66 personnel from
> the Enforcement and Intelligence Division, who held
> the operation
> from 8am to 7pm.
>
> [continues: 35 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 003 US MD: Inaugural Participant Graduates
> Drug Court
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 23:47:41 -0700
> Size: 87 lines 3289 bytes
> File: v07.n454.a03
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n454.a03.html
>
> Pubdate: Mon, 09 Apr 2007
> Source: Frederick News Post (MD)
> Copyright: 2007 Randall Family, LLC.
> Contact: letters@...
> Website: http://www.fredericknewspost.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/814
> Author: Katie Leckie
>
> INAUGURAL PARTICIPANT GRADUATES DRUG COURT
>
> FREDERICK -- Dwight Thompson's grown daughters cried
> in Frederick
> County Circuit Court as they realized their
> father's decades of
> cocaine use had come to an end.
>
> Thompson's daughters and granddaughters were among
> dozens gathered
> Thursday to witness his graduation from Frederick
> County Drug
> Treatment Court.
>
> The three-phase program is targeted toward helping
> nonviolent adult
> repeat offenders who have tried to quit using drugs
> but failed.
>
> "We got our dad back," Tameka Thompson said, choking
> back sobs as she
> rose from her front-row seat.
>
> "He's been gone a long time. Now he's back in our
> lives, and he's
> back in the lives of our children," she said,
> thanking drug court for
> helping her father, 55, kick his 20-year habit.
>
> [continues: 58 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 004 US OH: Rootstown Meth Labs Leave Lasting
> Effects
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 23:49:06 -0700
> Size: 65 lines 2834 bytes
> File: v07.n454.a04
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n454.a04.html
>
> Pubdate: Mon, 09 Apr 2007
> Source: Record-Courier (OH)
> Copyright: 2007 Record Publishing Company
> Contact: editor@...
> Website: http://www.recordpub.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/809
> Author: Dave O'Brien, Record-Courier staff writer
>
> ROOTSTOWN METH LABS LEAVE LASTING EFFECTS
>
> ROOTSTOWN -- On the street it is called crank,
> chalk, ice, crystal
> and quartz. But methamphetamine, by any name, and
> the process by
> which it is manufactured subject the "cooks" who
> manufacture it and
> those who track down and clean up clandestine meth
> labs to hidden
> health dangers.
>
> The drug is popular because it is easy to
> manufacture -- recipes are
> readily available on the Internet -- and can be
> injected, ingested,
> snorted or smoked, according to William Franks,
> commissioner for the
> Stark County Combined General Health District and a
> faculty member
> at the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of
> Medicine.
>
> "You don't have to be a chemist or a chemical
> engineer," to make
> meth, he told an audience recently as part of a
> public health lecture
> series at NEOUCOM.
>
> [continues: 38 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 005 UK: Warning To Drug Dealers
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 23:50:28 -0700
> Size: 86 lines 3073 bytes
> File: v07.n454.a05
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n454.a05.html
>
> Pubdate: Mon, 09 Apr 2007
> Source: Hull Daily Mail (UK)
> Copyright: 2007 Northcliffe Newspapers Group Ltd
> Contact: letters@...
> Website: http://www.thisishull.co.uk/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1181
>
> WARNING TO DRUG DEALERS
>
> We know who you are and we are coming to get you.
>
> That's the prosecutors' warning to drug dealers, as
> they continue to
> compile evidence against the city's pushers of
> misery.
>
> The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) worked alongside
> Humberside Police
> during the recent Operation Midas raids.
>
> In one month, it resulted in 43 low-level drug
> dealers being arrested
> and sentenced to a total of 128 years in prison.
>
> Although raids were carried out over a five-day
> period, the
> investigation into each of the dealers goes back
> nine months to last
> summer, when undercover officers began gathering
> evidence and detailed
> files on class A drug dealers.
>
> And today senior prosecutors said files of detailed
> evidence were
> continually being complied on dealers across the
> city.
>
> [continues: 57 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 006 US TX: Editorial: Wave Of Killings
> Threatens To Swamp
> From: Increase Your Media
> http://www.mapinc.org/resource
> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:49:28 -0700
> Size: 70 lines 3307 bytes
> File: v07.n454.a06
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n454.a06.html
>
> Pubdate: Tue, 10 Apr 2007
> Source: Austin American-Statesman (TX)
> Copyright: 2007 Austin American-Statesman
> Contact: letters@...
> Website: http://www.statesman.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/32
>
> EDITORIAL: WAVE OF KILLINGS THREATENS TO SWAMP
> CALDERON
>
> The last thing Mexican President Felipe Calderon
> needs is an object
> lesson in the power and reach of the Mexican drug
> cartels. But he got
> one last week when a dozen people - including a
> television reporter
> and a police chief - were gunned down in a wave of
> execution-style
> killings, presumably the work of narcotics
> traffickers.
>
> Amado Ramirez, a Televisa correspondent, was shot in
> the back three
> times by an unknown gunman as he left a radio
> interview on Friday.
> Also dead in the lastest wave of execution-style
> killings is Chief
> Ernesto Gutierrez Moreno. Gutierrez was killed in
> Chilpancingo, the
> state capital of Guerrero, which includes Acapulco.
> The chief was
> killed while eating dinner in a Chilpancingo
> restaurant with his wife
> and son.
>
> Intenational journalist groups are calling on
> Calderon to launch a
> federal investigation into the death of Ramirez. The
> same should hold
> true in all homicides believed to be drug-related.
>
> [continues: 42 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 007 US NM: Richardson Content to Start Slow in
> White House Race
> From: Please Write a LTE
> www.mapinc.org/resource/#guides
> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:44:05 -0700
> Size: 194 lines 9955 bytes
> File: v07.n454.a07
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n454.a07.html
>
> Pubdate: Tue, 10 Apr 2007
> Source: Los Angeles Times (CA)
> Page: Front Page
> Copyright: 2007 Los Angeles Times
> Contact: letters@...
> Website:
> http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/248
> Author: Nicholas Riccardi, Times Staff Writer
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Marijuana -
> Medicinal)
> Bookmark:
> http://www.mapinc.org/people/Bill+Richardson
>
> RICHARDSON CONTENT TO START SLOW IN WHITE HOUSE RACE
>
> New Mexico's Democratic Governor Barely Registers in
> Early Polls.
> Supporters Say He's Got What It Takes for the Long
> Haul.
>
> SANTA FE, N.M. -- On the afternoon of the 58th day
> of New Mexico's
> 60-day legislative session, Gov. Bill Richardson
> reclined on the
> green leather couch in his office, rubbed his eyes
> and growled to the
> cluster of staffers surrounding him: "What can I
> sign?"
>
> His aides, bleary-eyed from lack of sleep, explained
> that the
> Legislature's printing office had lost three
> employees, keeping newly
> passed bills from promptly reaching his desk.
>
> "Send them some of our people," Richardson said.
>
> [continues: 167 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 008 US WV: OPED: Legalizing Drugs Is Better
> Way to Fight Problem
> From: Kirk
> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:11:52 -0700
> Size: 85 lines 4128 bytes
> File: v07.n454.a08
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n454.a08.html
> Webpage:
>
http://www.herald-dispatch.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070410/NEWS01/704100\
319/1001/NEWS10
>
> Pubdate: Tue, 10 Apr 2007
> Source: Herald-Dispatch, The (Huntington, WV)
> Webpage:
>
http://www.herald-dispatch.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070410/NEWS01/704100\
319/1001/NEWS10
> Copyright: 2007 The Herald-Dispatch
> Contact: letters@...
> Website: http://www.hdonline.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1454
> Author: Howard J. Wooldridge
> Note: Howard J. Wooldridge is a retired police
> officer and an
> education specialist for Law Enforcement Against
> Prohibition, based
> in Washington, D.C.
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/decrim.htm
> (Decrim/Legalization)
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/heroin.htm (Heroin)
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?199 (Mandatory
> Minimum Sentencing)
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/rehab.htm
> (Treatment)
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?203 (Terrorism)
> Bookmark:
> http://www.mapinc.org/people/Howard+Wooldridge
> (Howard Wooldridge)
>
> LEGALIZING DRUGS IS BETTER WAY TO FIGHT PROBLEM
>
> The War on Drugs. How is that working for us in
> America? Is it
> reducing crime? Is it reducing our rates of death
> and disease? Is it
> effective in keeping drugs and drug dealers away
> from our children?
> These are important questions because our current
> prohibition
> strategy will cost us, the taxpayers, some $70
> billion this year.
>
> [continues: 57 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> End of Drugnews-Digest V07 #454
> *******************************
>
> The full text of each article in this digest may be
> viewed by clicking the
> URL provided with each.
>
> To request a copy by email, send a message to
> majordomo@...
> containing the command: get drugnews-digest [file
> name]
>
> Distributed without profit to those who have
> expressed a prior interest in
> receiving the included information for research and
> educational purposes.
>
> Produced by: DrugSense through the Media Awareness
> Project, Inc.
> Senior Editor: Richard Lake (rlake@...)
> http://www.mapinc.org/lists/
> http://www.drugsense.org/



________________________________________________________________________________\
____
Looking for earth-friendly autos?
Browse Top Cars by "Green Rating" at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center.
http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/