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NEW
JERSEY
Alert:
Whitman
Joins
Ecstasy
Panic,
Calls
for
New
Penalties
6/16/00
On Wednesday, June 14, New
Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman was quoted in the Bergen Record
calling for increased penalties for offenses involving the drug ecstasy.
The article can be found online at http://www.bergen.com/news/drugow200006143.htm
on the paper's web site.
Letters to the editor can
be submitted via e-mail to [email protected].
Lengthy sentences have been tried for every other drug, and have never
worked before. Why would they work now? Any graduate of Economics
101 knows that supply will fill demand, so targeting dealers for prison
time, short or long, won't make any difference. Intensifying the
criminalization approach will only hamper the efforts of outreach organizations
to educate ecstasy users on how to avoid the health risks that ecstasy
use can present.
If you live in New Jersey,
please point your browser to http://www.drcnet.org/states/newjersey/
to write your legislators and make your voice heard!
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Issue #141, 6/16/00
On Campus: Drug and Alcohol Arrests Increase, Hampshire College Students Establish Fund to Assist Drug Offenders Losing Aid, Campaign Spreads | USA Today Editorial Supports HEA Campaign, Other Press, What You Can Do | Goodbye to Peter McWilliams | Colombia Answers: Civil Society Asks US Congress to Reject "Plan Colombia" | Alert: Colombia Vote in US Senate MONDAY | Two Strains of Cannabis Politics: Hemp and Marijuana in Kentucky | Holland to Hooligans: Mellow Out, Dudes -- Dutch Authorities Use Cannabis to Tranquilize Potential Soccer Rowdies | Washington State Democratic Party Adopts Sweeping Drug Reform Planks | Follow That Story, Part I: McCarthyism in Syracuse | Follow That Story, Part II: Faint Glimmers of Hope in Texas | Hawaii: Nation's First Medical Marijuana Legislation Signed Into Law, Visiting Governors Suffer Symptoms of Contact High | Kansas City Star Strikes Again: Asset Forfeiture Series Exposes Police End-Runs Around State Laws | NEW JERSEY Alert: Whitman Joins Ecstasy Panic, Calls for New Penalties | Ecstasy Panic: Salon.com Coverage and Other Info | Alert: Help Save Freedom of Speech from the Drug War | Alert: Minnesota Medical Marijuana | Media Scan | Hepatitis Outreach Resources | Event Calendar
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