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Editorial:
A
Week
in
the
Drug
War
8/3/01
David Borden, Executive Director, [email protected]
This week's drug policy news should fill
anyone with outrage:
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Doctors being persecuted by lawless law enforcement
officers; pain patients left without relief.
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Federal agents violating treaty obligations
to chop down a Lakota Sioux's harmless hemp field.
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US drug warriors driving Colombia's government
into spraying its lands with dangerous pesticides over the objections of
citizens and officialdom, even pressuring the nation's courts into complicity
and compliance.
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Legislators in Oregon taking "emergency" action
to secure the right of federal and state prosecutors -- and no other members
of the bar -- to lie and encourage law enforcers to lie as part of investigations.
The week also saw New York's governor disguise
a harmful bill under the rubric of lip service to sentencing reform, and
saw the new DEA chief make some encouraging statements about policy reforms
-- as well as some predictably tired ones about fighting the same old lose-either-way
fight. More lip service too, or a signal of real change? It
remains to be seen.
What is clear is that next week, and the
week after, and the week after that will see further outrages, as well
as some glimmers of hope in the daunting but necessary struggle to end
our government's vast, self-destructive campaign of suppression, repression
and oppression. Expect good news and bad news, all the time, until
it is over, until the drug war is ended.
-- END --
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Issue #197, 8/3/01
Editorial: A Week in the Drug War | Pain Wars I: Utah Pain Doctor Gets Conviction Overturned, Still Facing Legal Hurdles and Career Ruin | Pain Wars II: More Docs in the Dock | Feds Raid Lakota Hemp Fields Again, Oglala Challenge US Right to Enforce Controlled Substances Act on Reservation | Plan Colombia: Bogotá Court Bars Fumigation of Coca, but to No Avail, Colombian Governors and Legislators Call for Alternatives in Washington | Plan Pataki: New York Governor Session Offers New Rockefeller Reform Bill in Bid to Salvage Session, Reformers Still Not Impressed | Feds Regain Right to Use Narcs in Oregon Following Reversal of Little-Known Ethics Law, Constitutional Questions Remain | Reverse Racial Profiling? New Orleans White Woman Says So on Appeal | Alert: Anti-Ecstasy Bill Introduced in Senate | Nixon in China or Wolf in McCaffrey's Clothing? Asa Hutchinson Confirmed as DEA Chief, Calls for Compassion, Repeal of HEA Drug Provision | Web Links: Peru Shootdown, Colombia, Charles Garrett, Medical Marijuana | The Reformer's Calendar
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