> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:16:45 -0700
> From: owner-drugnews-digest@...
> (Drugnews-Digest)
> Subject: MAP: Drugnews-Digest V07 #492
>
> Drugnews-Digest Wednesday, April 18 2007
> Volume 07 : Number 492
>
> Read this digest online at:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n492/
>
> 001 Mexico: Drug War Claims More Victims As Police
> Find 17 Bodies
> Source: News Tribune, The (Tacoma, WA)
> 002 Canada: Medical Marijuana Markup Decried
> Source: Kingston Whig-Standard (CN ON)
> 003 Canada: Markup On Gov't Dope Is 1,500 Per Cent
> Source: Whitehorse Star (CN YK)
> 004 US IL: Rockford Pastor Supports Use Of Medical
> Marijuana
> Source: Rockford Register Star (IL)
> 005 Canada: Health Canada Marks Up Its Medical
> Marijuana 1,500%
> Source: Sault Star, The (CN ON)
> 006 Canada: Huge Markup On Legal Dope
> Source: Sun Times, The (Owen Sound, CN ON)
> 007 Canada: Markup On Marijuana
> Source: Peterborough Examiner, The (CN ON)
> 008 CN ON: Organized Crime Likely Put Cameras In
> East End Grow Ops
> Source: Hamilton Spectator (CN ON)
> 009 Mexico: 100 Police Officers Held In Mexico
> Source: Dallas Morning News (TX)
> 010 US AZ: Anti-Meth Drive Previews At Cocopah
> Source: East Valley Tribune (AZ)
> 011 US AZ: Ad Campaign Reveals Horrors Of 'Devil's
> Drug'
> Source: Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ)
> 012 CN BC: Lte: Pot Busts And Police Propaganda
> Source: Ladysmith Chronicle (CN BC)
> 013 US IL: Editorial: Legalize Medical Marijuana
> Source: Chicago Sun-Times (IL)
>
>
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>
> Subj: 001 Mexico: Drug War Claims More Victims As
> Police Find 17 Bodies
> From: Kirk
> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:42:54 -0700
> Size: 25 lines 827 bytes
> File: v07.n492.a01
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n492.a01.html
> Webpage:
>
http://www.thenewstribune.com/358/v-printerfriendly/story/40891.html
>
> Pubdate: Tue, 17 Apr 2007
> Source: News Tribune, The (Tacoma, WA)
> Webpage:
>
http://www.thenewstribune.com/358/v-printerfriendly/story/40891.html
> Copyright: 2007 Tacoma News Inc.
> Contact: letters@...
> Website: http://www.thenewstribune.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/442
>
> Mexico City
>
> DRUG WAR CLAIMS MORE VICTIMS AS POLICE FIND 17
> BODIES
>
> Police found 17 bodies stuffed in cars or dumped on
> streets in
> garbage bags across Mexico on Monday in the latest
> wave of violence
> apparently triggered by warring drug gangs.
>
> Federal investigators say the Sinaloa cartel is
> fighting a bloody
> turf war with the Gulf Cartel and their army of
> enforcers known as
> the Zetas over billion-dollar drug trafficking
> routes to the United States.
>
> According to a tally kept by Mexico City daily El
> Universal there
> have been more than 700 drug slayings since January.
> - ---
> MAP posted-by: Beth Wehrman
>
> [end]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 002 Canada: Medical Marijuana Markup Decried
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:43:48 -0700
> Size: 62 lines 2827 bytes
> File: v07.n492.a02
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n492.a02.html
>
> Pubdate: Mon, 16 Apr 2007
> Source: Kingston Whig-Standard (CN ON)
> Copyright: 2007 The Kingston Whig-Standard
> Contact: whiged@...
> Website: http://www.kingstonwhigstandard.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/224
> Author: Dean Beeby
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmjcn.htm (Cannabis
> - Medicinal - Canada)
>
> MEDICAL MARIJUANA MARKUP DECRIED
>
> 1,500-Per-Cent Profit On Legal Pot: Records
>
> OTTAWA - The federal government charges patients 15
> times more for
> certified medical marijuana than it pays to buy the
> weed in bulk from
> its official supplier, newly released documents
> show.
>
> Critics say it's unconscionable to charge that high
> a markup to some
> of the country's sickest citizens, who have little
> income and are
> often cut off from their medical marijuana supply
> when they can't pay
> their government dope bills.
>
> Records obtained under the Access to Information Act
> show that Health
> Canada pays $328.75 for each kilogram of bulk
> medical marijuana
> produced by Prairie Plant Systems Inc.
>
> [continues: 35 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 003 Canada: Markup On Gov't Dope Is 1,500 Per
> Cent
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:43:54 -0700
> Size: 21 lines 736 bytes
> File: v07.n492.a03
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n492.a03.html
>
> Pubdate: Tue, 17 Apr 2007
> Source: Whitehorse Star (CN YK)
> Copyright: 2007 Whitehorse Star
> Contact: letters@...
> Website: http://www.whitehorsestar.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1493
> Author: Canadian Press
>
> MARKUP ON GOV'T DOPE IS 1,500 PER CENT
>
> OTTAWA - The federal government charges patients 15
> times more for
> certified medical marijuana than it pays to buy the
> weed in bulk from
> its official supplier, newly released documents
> show.
>
> Critics say it's unconscionable to charge that high
> a markup to some
> of the country's sickest citizens, who have little
> income and are
> often cut off from their medical marijuana supply
> when they can't pay
> their government dope bills.
> - ---
> MAP posted-by: Beth Wehrman
>
> [end]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 004 US IL: Rockford Pastor Supports Use Of
> Medical Marijuana
> From: Kirk
> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:42:58 -0700
> Size: 41 lines 1691 bytes
> File: v07.n492.a04
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n492.a04.html
> Webpage:
>
http://www.rrstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070417/NEWS0107/104170051/100\
4/NEWS
>
> Pubdate: Tue, 17 Apr 2007
> Source: Rockford Register Star (IL)
> Webpage:
>
http://www.rrstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070417/NEWS0107/104170051/100\
4/NEWS
> Copyright: 2007 Rockford Register Star
> Contact:
>
http://www.rrstar.com/ezaccess/contactus/lettertotheeditor.shtml
> Website: http://www.rrstar.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/370
> Author: Aaron Chambers, Register Star Springfield
> Bureau
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Cannabis -
> Medicinal)
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/decrim.htm
> (Decrim/Legalization)
>
> ROCKFORD PASTOR SUPPORTS USE OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA
>
> SPRINGFIELD -- During his 30 years as a Presbyterian
> pastor, the Rev.
> Bob Hillenbrand said, he encountered a number of
> folks whose
> treatment could have been enhanced by medical
> marijuana.
>
> Hillenbrand, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church
> in Rockford,
> recently joined an effort to allow those with
> debilitating medical
> conditions to legally possess the drug in Illinois.
>
> "I think there's a lot of ignorance about this," he
> said Monday. "I'm
> certainly not an expert myself, but I have heard
> quite a number of
> doctors say -- and I happen to agree with them --
> that treatment like
> this might very well be in order."
>
> Legislation to legalize medical marijuana is pending
> before the
> Illinois Senate. Even if Illinois policymakers
> approve the measure,
> the federal government insists marijuana -- even for
> medical
> treatment -- is illegal.
>
> "I think that medical treatments need to be
> determined by scientific
> evidence and by the doctor/patient relationship, not
> by somebody's
> fear of prejudice outside that relationship,"
> Hillenbrand said.
>
> He said he made a few phone calls to help mobilize
> other clergy
> behind the legislation, but he declined to identify
> them.
> - ---
> MAP posted-by: Beth Wehrman
>
> [end]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 005 Canada: Health Canada Marks Up Its Medical
> Marijuana 1,500%
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:51:40 -0700
> Size: 67 lines 3038 bytes
> File: v07.n492.a05
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n492.a05.html
>
> Pubdate: Mon, 16 Apr 2007
> Source: Sault Star, The (CN ON)
> Copyright: 2007 The Sault Star
> Contact: ssmstar@...
> Website: http://www.saultstar.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1071
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmjcn.htm (Cannabis
> - Medicinal - Canada)
>
> HEALTH CANADA MARKS UP ITS MEDICAL MARIJUANA 1,500%
>
> Third Of Registered Users Cut Off, In Hock To Ottawa
>
> OTTAWA - The federal government charges patients 15
> times more for
> certified medical marijuana than it pays to buy the
> weed in bulk from
> its official supplier, newly released documents
> show.
>
> Critics say it's unconscionable to charge that high
> a markup to some
> of the country's sickest citizens, who have little
> income and are
> often cut off from their medical marijuana supply
> when they can't pay
> their government dope bills.
>
> Records obtained under the Access to Information Act
> show that Health
> Canada pays $328.75 for each kilogram of bulk
> medical marijuana
> produced by Prairie Plant Systems Inc.
>
> The company currently has a $10.3-million contract
> with Health
> Canada, which expires at the end of September, to
> grow standardized
> medical marijuana in an abandoned mine shaft in Flin
> Flon, Man.
>
> [continues: 37 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 006 Canada: Huge Markup On Legal Dope
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:53:21 -0700
> Size: 50 lines 2192 bytes
> File: v07.n492.a06
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n492.a06.html
>
> Pubdate: Mon, 16 Apr 2007
> Source: Sun Times, The (Owen Sound, CN ON)
> Copyright: 2007 Osprey Media Group Inc.
> Contact: mdentandt@...
> Website: http://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1544
>
> HUGE MARKUP ON LEGAL DOPE
>
> Government Charging 1,500 Per Cent Markup
>
> OTTAWA - The federal government charges patients 15
> times more for
> certified medical marijuana than it pays to buy the
> weed in bulk from
> its official supplier, newly released documents
> show.
>
> Critics say it's unconscionable to charge that high
> a markup to some
> of the country's sickest citizens, who have little
> income and are
> often cut off from their medical marijuana supply
> when they can't pay
> their government dope bills.
>
> Records obtained under the Access to Information Act
> show that Health
> Canada pays $328.75 for each kilogram of bulk
> medical marijuana
> produced by Prairie Plant Systems Inc.
>
> The company currently has a $10.3-million contract
> with Health
> Canada, which expires at the end of September, to
> grow standardized
> medical marijuana in an abandoned mine shaft in Flin
> Flon, Man.
>
> [continues: 21 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 007 Canada: Markup On Marijuana
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:07:31 -0700
> Size: 33 lines 1406 bytes
> File: v07.n492.a07
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n492.a07.html
>
> Pubdate: Mon, 16 Apr 2007
> Source: Peterborough Examiner, The (CN ON)
> Copyright: 2007 Osprey Media Group Inc.
> Contact: news1@...
> Website: http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2616
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmjcn.htm (Cannabis
> - Medicinal - Canada)
>
> MARKUP ON MARIJUANA
>
> OTTAWA - The federal government charges patients 15
> times more for
> certified medical marijuana than it pays to buy the
> weed in bulk from
> its official supplier, newly released documents
> show.
>
> Critics say it's unconscionable to charge that high
> a markup to some
> of the country's sickest citizens, who have little
> income and are
> often cut off from their medical marijuana supply
> when they can't pay
> their government dope bills.
>
> Records obtained under the Access to Information Act
> show that Health
> Canada pays $328.75 for each kilogram of bulk
> medical marijuana
> produced by Prairie Plant Systems Inc.
>
> The company currently has a $10.3-million contract
> with Health
> Canada, which expires at the end of September, to
> grow standardized
> medical marijuana in an abandoned mine shaft in Flin
> Flon, Man.
> Health Canada sells the marijuana to a small group
> of authorized
> users for $150 - plus GST - for each 30-gram bag of
> ground-up
> flowering tops. That works out to $5,000 for each
> kilogram, or a
> markup of more than 1,500 per cent.
> - ---
> MAP posted-by: Beth Wehrman
>
> [end]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 008 CN ON: Organized Crime Likely Put Cameras
> In East End Grow Ops
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:29:41 -0700
> Size: 67 lines 3047 bytes
> File: v07.n492.a08
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n492.a08.html
>
> Pubdate: Tue, 17 Apr 2007
> Source: Hamilton Spectator (CN ON)
> Copyright: 2007 The Hamilton Spectator
> Contact: letters@...
> Website: http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/181
> Author: Daniel Nolan
>
> ORGANIZED CRIME LIKELY PUT CAMERAS IN EAST END GROW
> OPS
>
> Hamilton police were likely being watched on
> computer monitors when
> they shut down the largest grow operation in the
> city's history last month.
>
> Apart from the $12 million in marijuana spread among
> 49 apartments in
> three east end apartment buildings, plus thousands
> of dollars of grow
> op equipment, police say they found TV cameras in
> six units. Police
> say it's the first time they have found this in
> tackling the
> burgeoning grow op industry.
>
> "We've gone through grow ops where they've been
> booby trapped and
> they've had issues and alarms there that would have
> triggered someone
> was there, but this is the first time we've actually
> seen video
> cameras that were on site and directed to another
> source to let
> someone know someone was in their grow op," Deputy
> Chief Ken
> Leendertse told reporters yesterday after he made a
> brief
> presentation on the bust to the police services
> board.
>
> [continues: 39 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 009 Mexico: 100 Police Officers Held In Mexico
> From: Increase Your Media
> http://www.mapinc.org/resource
> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:29:39 -0700
> Size: 63 lines 2587 bytes
> File: v07.n492.a09
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n492.a09.html
> Webpage:
>
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/stories/041707dnintmexico\
.299cd8f.html
>
> Pubdate: Tue, 17 Apr 2007
> Source: Dallas Morning News (TX)
> Webpage:
>
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/stories/041707dnintmexico\
.299cd8f.html
> Copyright: 2007 The Dallas Morning News
> Contact: letterstoeditor@...
> Website: http://www.dallasnews.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/117
> Author: Laurence Iliff, The Dallas Morning News
>
> 100 POLICE OFFICERS HELD IN MEXICO
>
> Military, AG Target Drug Corruption In Border State
>
> MEXICO CITY -- Mexican soldiers detained more than
> 100 police
> officers Monday in the Texas border state of Nuevo
> Leon, and
> authorities said the officers would be held in
> custody and
> investigated for allegedly helping drug traffickers.
>
> The joint operation between the army and state
> attorney general's
> office targeted allegedly corrupt police in a dozen
> towns, and also
> in the state security ministry and the state police,
> authorities said
> in a statement.
>
> The officers were identified as a result of recent
> information
> obtained in the town of Marin, and more arrests in
> additional towns
> could be in the offing as a result of the ongoing
> investigation, the
> statement said.
>
> [continues: 33 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 010 US AZ: Anti-Meth Drive Previews At Cocopah
> From: Beth
> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:39:34 -0700
> Size: 61 lines 2381 bytes
> File: v07.n492.a10
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n492.a10.html
>
> Pubdate: Wed, 18 Apr 2007
> Source: East Valley Tribune (AZ)
> Copyright: 2007 East Valley Tribune.
> Contact: forum@...
> Website: http://www.eastvalleytribune.com
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2708
> Author: Amanda Keim
>
> ANTI-METH DRIVE PREVIEWS AT COCOPAH
>
> The girl was going to try meth -- just once. Then
> steal -- just once.
> Then sleep with someone for the drug -- just once.
>
> But it was the last scene of the advertisement, one
> of four
> television ads that will air across the state
> starting today, that
> really caught 14-year-old Kayla Newnam's attention.
> The girl's
> younger sister decided to try the drug, too.
>
> "I'd never want my brother to end up like that. That
> would be
> horrible. And I'd never want to end up like that,"
> Kayla said. "The
> scare tactic is working."
>
> Kayla was one of 30 eighthgraders at Scottsdale's
> Cocopah Middle
> School who previewed the Arizona Meth Project
> campaign Tuesday.
>
> Based on the Montana Meth Project, the campaign
> features television
> and print ads with gritty images of teens picking at
> their scabbed
> skin, stealing to support their habit and being
> hospitalized.
>
> [continues: 31 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 011 US AZ: Ad Campaign Reveals Horrors Of
> 'Devil's Drug'
> From: Beth
> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:46:07 -0700
> Size: 124 lines 5449 bytes
> File: v07.n492.a11
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n492.a11.html
> Webpage:
>
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0418meth0418.html
>
> Pubdate: Wed, 18 Apr 2007
> Source: Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ)
> Webpage:
>
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0418meth0418.html
> Copyright: 2007 The Arizona Republic
> Contact: opinions@...
> Website: http://www.arizonarepublic.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/24
> Author: Lindsey Collom
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/meth.htm
> (Methamphetamine)
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/youth.htm (Youth)
>
> AD CAMPAIGN REVEALS HORRORS OF 'DEVIL'S DRUG'
>
> 10 Arizona Counties Banding Together To Combat Meth
> Use
>
> A blond girl getting ready for a night out recoils
> in terror as she
> sees an image of herself as a bruised, bleeding
> addict huddled on the
> shower floor.
>
> An agitated boy runs through a laundry facility,
> attacking people and
> demanding money, when he encounters his former self
> and screams,
> "This wasn't supposed to happen!"
>
> These are just some of the graphic images that are
> part of an ad
> campaign hitting the airwaves, billboards and
> newspapers today to
> show the real-life horrors of methamphetamine use.
>
> [continues: 97 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 012 CN BC: Lte: Pot Busts And Police
> Propaganda
> From: http://medpot.net/
> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:01:11 -0700
> Size: 64 lines 2480 bytes
> File: v07.n492.a12
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n492.a12.html
>
> Pubdate: Tue, 17 Apr 2007
> Source: Ladysmith Chronicle (CN BC)
> Copyright: 2007 BC Newspaper Group & New Media
> Contact: editor@...
> Website: http://www.ladysmithchronicle.com
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1279
> Author: Laura Bohun
>
> POT BUSTS AND POLICE PROPAGANDA
>
> Editor:
>
> Re: 'Saltair pot bust nets 60 plants' (The
> Chronicle, April 10).
>
> Ladysmith RCMP Cpl. Rob Graves stated the net street
> value of 60
> plants seized in the arrest was approximately
> $70,000.
>
> Such a claim leads me to two obvious conclusions.
>
> 1) Corporal Graves and his "Green Team" task force
> from the Nanaimo
> RCMP have been smoking the proceeds of [drug busts]
> to derive such a
> net worth from 60 plants, as they seem to believe
> one plant has a
> street value of more than $1,000 dollars.
>
> 2) The RCMP [intentionally] exaggerate the value of
> seized marijuana
> crops by more than 90 per cent when it is seized as
> undried plants and
> have been doing so for years.
>
> [continues: 35 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 013 US IL: Editorial: Legalize Medical
> Marijuana
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:14:54 -0700
> Size: 56 lines 2748 bytes
> File: v07.n492.a13
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n492.a13.html
>
> Pubdate: Wed, 18 Apr 2007
> Source: Chicago Sun-Times (IL)
> Copyright: 2007 The Sun-Times Co.
> Contact: letters@...
> Website: http://www.suntimes.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/81
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Cannabis -
> Medicinal)
>
> LEGALIZE MEDICAL MARIJUANA
>
> We've all seen the images and heard the testimony of
> ailing Americans
> who gain relief from their chronic pain or
> discomfort by smoking
> marijuana -- who, in fact, have no other remedy at
> their disposal.
> People can't help chuckling over pictures of
> grandmoms and granddads
> smoking a "j" -- Cheech and Chong they're not. But
> of course there's
> nothing funny about these sufferers' need for
> medical marijuana -- for
> marijuana that has been prescribed for them by a
> doctor -- or the
> federal government's unmerciful threat to prosecute
> users even in
> states where it is not against the law.
>
> Since a 2006 Supreme Court ruling against people who
> use prescription
> pot, numerous states have passed bills protecting
> them from
> prosecution. In states that do allow it -- with New
> Mexico's recent
> passing of what Gov. Bill Richardson called "a
> humane piece of
> legislation," there are now 12 -- the federal
> government generally
> does not look to arrest anyone on an individual
> basis.
>
> [continues: 28 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> End of Drugnews-Digest V07 #492
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