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Web
Scan:
Uniform
Crime
Report,
World
Prison
Population
List,
Transnational
Institute,
Imani
Woods,
CDC,
WorldNet
Daily
6/28/02
The FBI's new preliminary
2001 Uniform Crime Report figures have been released, and are available
online at:
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/01prelim.pdf
The 3rd edition of the World
Prison Population List, compiled by the United Kingdom Home Office's Research,
Development and Statistics Directorate is available online at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs/r166.pdf
The Netherlands-based Transnational
Institute has released two reports on the international drug control framework
and the obstacles it presents to reform:
Breaking the Impasse:
Polarisation & Paralysis in UN Drug Control, by TNI fellow Martin Jelsma
http://www.tni.org/reports/drugs/debate5.htm#1
Habits of a Hegemon: The
United States and the Future of the Global Drug Prohibition Regime, by
Prof. David Bewley-Taylor
http://www.tni.org/reports/drugs/debate5.htm#9
TNI has further related information
available online at:
http://www.tni.org/drugs/ungass/unpolicy.htm
Harm reductionist Imani Woods
has launched two web sites devoted to harm reduction and drug policy education
in the African American community:
http://www.harmreductioninblack.org
and http://www.africanamericaneducation.org
DrugWar.com interviews SSDP
national director Shawn Heller:
http://www.drugwar.com/pshellerinterview.shtm
The Centers for Disease Control's
2001 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance report is available online at:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5104a1.htm
or http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/ss/ss5104.pdf
WorldNet Daily critiques
the government's drugs-terrorism link and points out it's prohibition,
not drugs:
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28034
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Issue #243, 6/28/02
Editorial: The Specter of Coming Violence | DRCNet Interview: Roger Goodman, Voluntary Committee of Lawyers | DRCNet Book Review: Drug War Heresies | Supreme Court Allows Drug Testing All Students in Extracurriculars | Slim Supreme Court Majority Upholds But Also Criticizes Mandatory Minimum Sentencing | New York Rockefeller Law Reform Dies This Year as Pataki, Democrats Deadlock | Vermont Governor Quietly Signs Compromise Medical Marijuana Bill | Newsbrief: Unitarians Approve Anti-Drug War Platform | Newsbrief: Fatal Drug Overdoses on the Rise in Florida | Newsbrief: New York Pharmacies Fail to Distribute Sterile Syringes | Newsbrief: Arizona Supreme Court Rules Police Knock and Talk Violates Privacy Rights | Newsbrief: Kansas Sentencing Commission Wants to Focus on Prevention | Newsbrief: Illinois Juvenile Drug Courts Given a Green Light | Newsbrief: Medical Marijuana Distributor Angers Judge in California | Newsbrief: UN Reports Drug Use on the Rise Worldwide | Newsbrief: Scottish Police to Ignore Marijuana Use | Web Scan: Uniform Crime Report, World Prison Population List, Transnational Institute, Imani Woods, CDC, WorldNet Daily | The Reformer's Calendar
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