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Lynn Zimmer Dies at 59
Professor Lynn Zimmer, a sociologist at Queens College in New York, was widely regarded among both drug policy scholars and activists as the most original thinker on drug issues in the United States. She died at her home this past Sunday. Please visit the Drug Policy Alliance's blog at http://blog.drugpolicy.org/2006/07/in-memoriam-lynn-zimmer-1947-2006.html to post your respects and memories.
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Presbyterian Church Joins Other Major Denominations in Support of Medical Marijuana
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, USA (PCUSA) voted recently to support access to medical marijuana for people who have a doctor's recommendation.
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Two More Mexican Beheadings
Authorities found two more human heads in Acapulco, accompanied with threatening messages linked to a turf war in the drug trade.
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Coming in the Chronicle this week
We've got a bad bill in California, a bad arrest in Wisconsin, needle exchange news on a couple of fronts, a bevy of corrupt cops, and our favorite Australian MP goes to a rave and likes it.
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Australian MP Says Raves Safer Than Hotel Bars, Urges Pill Testing Programs
The ecstasy-friendly MP Sandra Kanck is at it again.
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Canadian Senator and Former Mayor Roasts UN Anti-Drug Chief in E-Mail over "World Drug Report"
We didn't get the permission back in time to include this in issue #441 of Drug War Chronicle, but Sen. Campbell wrote back and said it's okay.
In an e-mail sent to Vancouver drug reformer and harm reductionist Mark Haden, Vancouver's former mayor, Larry Campbell, now a Senator, wrote the following e-mail, titled " UNODC World Drug Report 2006 full of scientific insults," with permission to distribute it:
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DRCNet friend and future Speakeasy blogger Cliff Thornton is first African American to run for governor of Connecticut
Check out the <a href="http://www.norwichbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060626/NEWS01/606260303/1002">Norwich Bulletin</a> for Cliff's latest press coverage.
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Weekly: The Reformer's Calendar
Showing up at an event can be the best way to get involved! Check out this week's listings for events from today through next year, across the US and around the world!
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Weekly: This Week in History
Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past.
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Web Scan: Len Bias, UN Coca Survey, Oaksterdam News
Len Bias, UN Coca Survey, Oaksterdam News
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Medical Marijuana: National Multiple Sclerosis Society to Fund Study
In what could be the first sign of a course reversal by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, which has scoffed at medical marijuana in the past, the group announced this week it will fund a study.
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Latin America: Venezuela-Funded Coca Factory Opens in Bolivia
Bolivian President Evo Morales traveled to the town of Irupana in Bolivia's Yungas coca-growing region Saturday to preside over the opening of a factory where coca leaves will be made into legal products.
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Africa: Nigerian Narcs in Losing Battle with Marijuana Farmers
Nigeria's booming marijuana trade is more than the nation's drug enforcement agency can handle, their commander for a region that's a hotspot for the trade told a major newspaper last week.