> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:58:34 -0700
> From: owner-drugnews-digest@...
> (Drugnews-Digest)
> Subject: MAP: Drugnews-Digest V07 #493
>
> Drugnews-Digest Thursday, April 19 2007
> Volume 07 : Number 493
>
> Read this digest online at:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n493/
>
> 001 US FL: Crist Restored Civil Rights and Ended
> Effects of
> Source: Business Journal (FL)
> 002 Canada: Canadian, American Cops Say It's Time To
> End Drug
> Source: Brandon Sun (CN MB)
> 003 US TX: Drug Cases In Neglect
> Source: Dallas Morning News (TX)
> 004 CN NT: PUB LTE: Drug Prosecutions Are Not The
> Solution
> Source: Yellowknifer (CN NT)
> 005 US WI: A Sweet Anniversary
> Source: Shepherd Express (Milwaukee, WI)
> 006 CN ON: Groups Take On Growing Drug Problem
> Officials Gathered
> Source: Observer, The (CN ON)
> 007 Canada: Medical Marijuana Markup Exorbitant
> Source: Red Deer Advocate (CN AB)
> 008 UK: Labour's Ten-year Drugs War Has Achieved
> Nothing
> Source: Evening Standard (London, UK)
> 009 CN NS: Firefighters Learn Drug Dangers
> Source: Digby Courier, The (CN NS)
> 010 CN AB: Council Supports Poppy Plan
> Source: Lethbridge Herald (CN AB)
>
>
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>
> Subj: 001 US FL: Crist Restored Civil Rights and
> Ended Effects of
> From: Increase Your Media
> http://www.mapinc.org/resource
> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:14:48 -0700
> Size: 106 lines 4678 bytes
> File: v07.n493.a01
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n493.a01.html
>
> Pubdate: Sat, 14 Apr 2007
> Source: Business Journal (FL)
> Copyright: 2007 American City Business Journals Inc.
> Contact: jacksonville@...
> Website:
> http://jacksonville.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1262
> Author: Tonyaa Weathersbee, The Florida Times-Union
>
> CRIST RESTORED CIVIL RIGHTS AND ENDED EFFECTS OF JIM
> CROW LAW
>
> Perhaps Gov. Charlie Crist was thinking of Harry T.
> Moore when he
> forced Florida to shake off its Jim Crow past by
> automatically
> restoring civil rights to all but the most violent
> felons who have
> served their sentences.
>
> Moore, a teacher and field secretary for the Florida
> NAACP, and his
> wife Harriette were killed in their beds Christmas
> night in 1951.
>
> Their home in Mims near Titusville was bombed -
> apparently in
> retaliation for his relentlessness in registering
> black voters and
> fighting for an end to the all-white primary, as
> well as his push to
> stop lynchings and other horrors and indignities
> that held a ghastly
> grip on black people's lives.
>
> As attorney general, Crist's office logged numerous
> hours
> investigating the murders of Moore and his wife.
>
> [continues: 79 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 002 Canada: Canadian, American Cops Say It's
> Time To End Drug
> From: Increase Your Media
> http://www.mapinc.org/resource
> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:40:30 -0700
> Size: 135 lines 5726 bytes
> File: v07.n493.a02
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n493.a02.html
>
> Pubdate: Sat, 14 Apr 2007
> Source: Brandon Sun (CN MB)
> Copyright: 2007, Brandon Sun
> Contact: opinion@...
> Website: http://www.brandonsun.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2437
>
> CANADIAN, AMERICAN COPS SAY IT'S TIME TO END DRUG
> PROHIBITION, SAVE LIVES
>
> VANCOUVER (CP) - It's a familiar scene on TV
> newscasts: wads of cash,
> rows of guns and bags full of drugs displayed neatly
> on a table by
> police officers seemingly posing by their latest set
> of trophies.
>
> One more drug bust, another haul, and big-time
> traffickers facing the
> prospect of hefty jail time.
>
> But some former law enforcement officials in Canada
> and the United
> States who have spent years fighting the ongoing war
> on drugs say it's
> a losing battle.
>
> Their views about how prohibition has failed to make
> a
> dent in the drug supply while millions of dollars
> continue to be wasted on criminalizing recreational
> drug users are told in the National Film Board
> documentary Damage Done: The Drug War Odyssey.
>
> [continues: 108 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 003 US TX: Drug Cases In Neglect
> From: Increase Your Media
> http://www.mapinc.org/resource
> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:42:50 -0700
> Size: 62 lines 2491 bytes
> File: v07.n493.a03
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n493.a03.html
> Webpage:
>
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-drugc\
ases_15tex.ART.State.Edition1.42dccc3.html
>
> Pubdate: Sun, 15 Apr 2007
> Source: Dallas Morning News (TX)
> Webpage:
>
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-drugc\
ases_15tex.ART.State.Edition1.42dccc3.html
> Copyright: 2007 The Dallas Morning News
> Contact: letterstoeditor@...
> Website: http://www.dallasnews.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/117
>
> DRUG CASES IN NEGLECT
>
> HOUSTON -- A shortage of federal prosecutors and an
> emphasis on
> immigration violations has pulled resources away
> from prosecuting drug
> smugglers, according to memos released by the
> Justice Department.
>
> Federal prosecutors in southern Arizona declined to
> prosecute some
> marijuana smugglers carrying less than 500 pounds,
> according to the
> memos, which were released as part of the
> investigation into the
> firing of eight U.S. attorneys.
>
> Memos show federal officials warning that the
> thresholds were "simply
> going to be a fact of life" because U.S. attorneys'
> offices along the
> border were "absolutely stretched to the limit."
>
> The cases are then referred to state prosecutors,
> who often do not
> have the resources to take on those cases, a former
> U.S. Drug
> Enforcement Administration official told the Houston
> Chronicle.
>
> [continues: 33 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 004 CN NT: PUB LTE: Drug Prosecutions Are Not
> The Solution
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:53:46 -0700
> Size: 42 lines 1749 bytes
> File: v07.n493.a04
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n493.a04.html
>
> Pubdate: Wed, 18 Apr 2007
> Source: Yellowknifer (CN NT)
> Copyright: 2007 Yellowknifer
> Contact: editorial@...
> Website:
>
http://www.nnsl.com/members/newspapers/newsnorth/sideindexsetupYK.html
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/4270
> Author: Moe Brondum
>
> DRUG PROSECUTIONS ARE NOT THE SOLUTION
>
> It seems to me that the RCMP have sold Yellowknife
> city council a
> bottle of snake oil in the form of drug free zones
> (Drug-free Zone
> Launched, April 11). How will a drug free zone help?
> Does not drug
> prohibition already make Canada a drug free zone?
>
> By placing a drug free zone around a school, police
> are indicating
> that they are going to arrest and punish teenagers
> harder than the
> rest of the drug users in Yellowknife. In other
> words, Yellowknife has
> decided that teenagers can be the scapegoat for the
> sins of the
> parents. With more than 50 per cent of Canadians
> reporting that they
> have used marijuana in the previous year, teenagers
> can't be the
> principle problem.
>
> It seems to me that a community that cared to deal
> with this issue
> would seek new methods rather than relying on ideas
> that have failed
> to achieve a single beneficial outcome in almost a
> century. Holland
> effectively reduced teen drug use to nearly a third
> of that reported
> in Canada through harm reduction, tolerance, and
> compassion for those
> who need help.
>
> Recognizing that prohibition is the problem is the
> first step to
> recovery. It is not too late to return the snake oil
> and put the
> refund into affordable recreational opportunities
> and public health
> services for youths. Making the lives of youth
> better is the way to
> positive change, more youth in prison is the path to
> a bleak future.
>
> Moe Brondum,
>
> vice-president, Saskatchewan Marijuana Party
> - ---
> MAP posted-by: Derek
>
> [end]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 005 US WI: A Sweet Anniversary
> From: Is My Medicine Legal YET? www.immly.org
> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:06:12 -0700
> Size: 24 lines 961 bytes
> File: v07.n493.a05
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n493.a05.html
>
> Pubdate: Thu, 12 Apr 2007
> Source: Shepherd Express (Milwaukee, WI)
> Copyright: 2007 Alternative Publications Inc.
> Contact: editor@...
> Website: http://www.shepherd-express.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/414
>
> A SWEET ANNIVERSARY
>
> Last week marked the 30th anniversary of Madison's
> ordinance that
> legalized the possession of small amounts of pot or
> hash in a private
> residence. This rule conflicts with state and
> federal laws, but the
> Madison ordinance was influential in relaxing
> marijuana laws around
> the nation.
>
> Hopefully, Wisconsin will legalize medical marijuana
> sometime soon, as
> roughly 80% of Wisconsin residents would like to see
> happen. But Rep.
> Leah Vukmir (R-Wauwatosa), head of the Assembly
> Committee on Health
> and Health Care Reform, isn't so compassionate.
> "This is nothing more
> than a backdoor attempt to legalize marijuana, which
> is not going to
> happen on my watch," she told a Madison paper.
> - ---
> MAP posted-by: Derek
>
> [end]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 006 CN ON: Groups Take On Growing Drug Problem
> Officials Gathered
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:08:11 -0700
> Size: 51 lines 1956 bytes
> File: v07.n493.a06
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n493.a06.html
>
> Pubdate: Wed, 18 Apr 2007
> Source: Observer, The (CN ON)
> Copyright: 2007, OSPREY Media Group Inc.
> Contact: editorial@...
> Website: http://www.theobserver.ca
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1676
> Author: Neil Bowen
>
> GROUPS TAKE ON GROWING DRUG PROBLEM; OFFICIALS
> GATHERED
> TUESDAY
>
> Community professionals gathered at the University
> of Western Ontario
> Research Park Tuesday to tackle a growing local
> substance abuse problem.
>
> Statistics show drug and alcohol abuse is increasing
> in southwestern
> Ontario, which translates into increased spending on
> health care,
> policing and court services, said Dave Brown,
> executive director of
> the United Way, which organized the event in
> partnership with the
> research park.
>
> Recovering drug user Jay Fewkes, 27, of the
> Kitchener area, was among
> the 50 people who attended and made suggestions for
> an action plan.
> The group included police officers, members of the
> Crown attorneys'
> office and treatment agency workers.
>
> An action plan will be presented to the same group
> in the coming
> months.
>
> [continues: 22 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 007 Canada: Medical Marijuana Markup
> Exorbitant
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:09:21 -0700
> Size: 48 lines 2107 bytes
> File: v07.n493.a07
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n493.a07.html
>
> Pubdate: Mon, 16 Apr 2007
> Source: Red Deer Advocate (CN AB)
> Copyright: 2007 Red Deer Advocate
> Contact: editorial@...
> Website: http://www.reddeeradvocate.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2492
> Author: Dean Beeby
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmjcn.htm (Cannabis
> - Medicinal - Canada)
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?232 (Chronic
> Pain)
>
> MEDICAL MARIJUANA MARKUP EXORBITANT
>
> 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: 18 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 008 UK: Labour's Ten-year Drugs War Has
> Achieved Nothing
> From: Kirk
> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:13:28 -0700
> Size: 101 lines 4447 bytes
> File: v07.n493.a08
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n493.a08.html
>
> Pubdate: Thu, 19 Apr 2007
> Source: Evening Standard (London, UK)
> Copyright: 2007 Associated Newspapers Ltd.
> Contact: letters@...
> Website: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/914
>
> LABOUR'S TEN-YEAR DRUGS WAR HAS ACHIEVED NOTHING
> BUT LOWER STREET PRICES, SAYS EXPERTS
>
> A decade of Labour's war on drugs has done nothing
> to curb the
> misery and crime caused by abuse, a research group
> declared yesterday.
>
> Propaganda campaigns, law enforcement and
> imprisonment for drug
> dealers have had no effect on levels of drug use, it
> said.
>
> Police activity against drug markets and seizures of
> smuggled drugs
> have resulted only in lower street prices.
>
> The scathing criticism came in a report by the UK
> Drug Policy
> Commission, an independently funded group which
> intends to press the
> Government to try harder to tackle huge levels of
> damage caused by
> drug users.
>
> It said that one in four people in their late 20s
> have tried a hard
> drug such as heroin or cocaine at least once; that
> nearly half of all
> young people have used cannabis; and that the drug
> addiction rate in
> Britain is more than twice the levels of France,
> Germany, Sweden or
> Holland.
>
> [continues: 70 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 009 CN NS: Firefighters Learn Drug Dangers
> From: http://www.medpot.net/
> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:54:34 -0700
> Size: 132 lines 5217 bytes
> File: v07.n493.a09
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n493.a09.html
>
> Pubdate: Tue, 17 Apr 2007
> Source: Digby Courier, The (CN NS)
> Copyright: 2007 Media Transcontinental
> Contact: info@...
> Website:
>
http://www.novanewsnow.com/rubrique-720-Digby-County.html
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/4444
> Author: Jonathan Riley
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis -
> Canada)
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/meth.htm
> (Methamphetamine)
>
> FIREFIGHTERS LEARN DRUG DANGERS
>
> Digby area firefighters learned a lot about growing
> marijauna and
> cooking methamphetamines last week.
>
> Three officers from special RCMP drug units spoke at
> the Digby Fire
> Hall on Tuesday, March 27 about the dangers of grow
> ops and meth labs.
>
> "If you take anything out of this lecture," said
> Constable Paul
> Robinson, "it should be just how dangerous these
> labs are. These are
> life threatening. If you open a door and see what
> you think is a lab,
> just turn around and walk out."
>
> For example Robinson explained that phosphine gas,
> one of the
> products of the chemical reactions, is lethal at
> concentrations of
> only three parts per million.
>
> [continues: 105 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 010 CN AB: Council Supports Poppy Plan
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:54:36 -0700
> Size: 73 lines 3472 bytes
> File: v07.n493.a10
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n493.a10.html
>
> Pubdate: Wed, 18 Apr 2007
> Source: Lethbridge Herald (CN AB)
> Copyright: 2007 The Lethbridge Herald
> Contact: letters@...
> Website: http://www.lethbridgeherald.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/239
> Author: Delon Shurtz
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/heroin.htm (Heroin)
>
> COUNCIL SUPPORTS POPPY PLAN
>
> City Businessman Wants To Grow Poppies To Reduce
> Reliance On Imports
> Of Medicinal Drugs
>
> A Lethbridge businessman hoping to bring poppy
> farming to Canada has
> received enthusiastic support from the city. "I have
> a lot of
> enthusiasm for this project," Mayor Bob Tarleck said
> earlier this
> week when Glen Metzler asked council for its
> support.
>
> Tarleck said the new crop would decrease the amount
> of medicinal
> drugs Canada must import and increase jobs locally.
> And while he is
> concerned poppies could "get in the hands of bike
> gangs and organized
> crime," he said security issues would be addressed
> by government authorities.
>
> Metzler, of Metzler Trading Company, assured council
> the poppies he
> wants farmers to grow in Canada and southern Alberta
> are not easily
> converted into heroin by the average person.
>
> [continues: 45 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
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