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Source: http://www.newspage.com/TOPIC/d21/d1/d8/
Pubdate: April 08, 1997
* 200 POT GROWERS AGREE TO SUPPLY CANNABIS CLUB STATE, COUNTY
OFFICIALS PLEDGE TO PROSECUTE UNDER DRUG LAWS
In a new effort to test the legal limits of last year's
successful medical marijuana initiative, about 200 pot
growers in California have signed a deal to supply San
Francisco's Cannabis Cultivators Club with thousands of
pounds of high-quality dope. [SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE,
PAY PER VIEW, 573 words, $1.00]
NEW MARIJUANA LAWS REQUIRE POT-TRAINING
Propositions legalizing marijuana for treatment have pitted doctors
against doctors, the federal government against state officials
and 48 states against California and Arizona. [SAN JOSE MERCURY
NEWS, PAY PER VIEW, 948 words, $1.00]
UNDERCOVER OPERATION IN S.F. YIELDS DRUGS
A two-year undercover operation in San Francisco's Mission District
netted 63 arrests and the seizure of more than $7 million in
speed, cocaine, heroin and cash, authorities said Thursday.
[SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, PAY PER VIEW, 29 words, $1.00]
Austrian singer arrested for heroin, bag-snatching
Crooner Toni Wegas, who represented Austria in the 1992 Eurovision
Song Contest, was arrested over the weekend for bag-snatching
and heroin possession. [Reuters, PAY PER VIEW, 107 words,
$1.00]
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Subj: Heredity May Determine Whether Marijuana Feels Good
From: Richard Lake <rl...@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 15:28:35 -0400 (EDT)
File: v97.n011.a01
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n011.a01.html
Source: A9 Reuters Ltd. All rights reserved
Published: April 6, 1997 11.04 a.m. EST (1604 GMT)
Heredity May Determine Whether Marijuana Feels Good
WASHINGTON -- Heredity may determine whether people feel good or bad when
they use marijuana, and the same genetic influence might also apply to
alcohol and cocaine, U.S. scientists reported Friday.
"The finding that genetic factors contribute to how an individual feels
after using marijuana opens new avenues for prevention and treatment
research," said Dr. Alan Leshner, director of the U.S. National Institute
on Drug Abuse, which funded the marijuana study.
In the research, male identical twins were found more likely than
non-identical male twins to report similar responses to marijuana use.
Identical twins share all the same genes; fraternal twins share about half.
More than 600 pairs of twins who reported using marijuana more than five
times were asked if they experienced each of 23 possible reactions, ranging
from confused or paranoid to relaxed or mellow, after marijuana use.
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Subj: Calif. Medical Marijuana Bill Passes 1st Test, 4/3
From: Ralph Hodges, INTERNET:agi...@IMS-HOU.COM
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 09:02:47 -0400 (EDT)
File: v97.n011.a05
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n011.a05.html
Source: Los Angeles Times
Pubdate: Thursday, April 3, 1997
Contact: let...@latimes.com
State's Medical Marijuana Bill Passes 1st Test
By JENIFER WARREN, Times Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO--A bill aiming to make it easier for sick
people to buy marijuana for medical use passed its first test
in the state Legislature on Wednesday.
After a hearing featuring passionate testimony on the perils and
health benefits of marijuana, the Senate Health and Human Services
Committee sent the bill onward with a 5-2 vote.
The bill seeks to guarantee safe and affordable marijuana for the
bill as allowed under Proposition 215, passed by 56% of the voters
in November. It would create a 12-member task force to design a
distribution network making marijuana available to those in need.
Now, cancer patients and others seeking relief through
marijuana must grow their own or turn to back-alley dealers and
buyers' clubs that have sprouted in several cities.
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Subj: Kuwait airport heroin haul doubles in 1996, 4/7
From: GDa...@aol.com
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 09:06:04 -0400 (EDT)
File: v97.n011.a06
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n011.a06.html
Kuwait airport heroin haul doubles in 1996
KUWAIT, April 7 (April) - Kuwait airport authorities seized 60 kg (132 lb) of
heroin in 1996, double the amount detected the previous year, an official was
quoted on Monday as saying.
Khaled al-Mousa, head of Airport Customs Administration, told the Arab
Times newspaper that heroin smuggling was now the biggest concern for
authorities at the Gulf Arab state's only international airport.
Drug smuggling was made a capital crime in Kuwait in 1995 but no related
executions have been reported.
Moslem conservative Kuwait, which bans alcoholic beverages, has a
population of some two million people, including about 1.2 million foreign
residents.
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Subj: WIRE:Peruvian drug runners hide in Amazon maze
From: GDa...@aol.com
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 09:07:07 -0400 (EDT)
File: v97.n011.a07
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n011.a07.html
Source: Reuter
Pubdate: 4/7/97
Peruvian drug runners hide in Amazon maze
By Jason Webb
LIMA (Reuter) - Hounded out of the sky by a U.S.-backed
interdiction program, Peruvian drug runners are taking cover in
an impenetrable maze of Amazon jungle rivers to smuggle their
goods into Colombia and Brazil.
``They are switching, the traffickers, to the rivers and
waterways, and that's our next major offensive in support of the
Peruvian effort,'' said an official at the U.S. Embassy in Lima,
who did not want to be named.
Peru is by far the world's largest producer of the raw
material of cocaine, coca leaf, growing about as much as the
other two major producers, Colombia and Bolivia, combined.
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Subj: Journey From Addict to Drug Czar, 3/31
From: Kiril H Dubrovsky <ki...@student.umass.edu>
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 09:11:57 -0400 (EDT)
File: v97.n011.a09
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n011.a09.html
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Published: March 31, 1997 UNITED STATES; Pg. 1
Contact: Christian Science Monitor Op-ed op...@rachel.csps.com
JOURNEY FROM ADDICT TO DRUG CZAR
by Faye Bowers, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Copyright (c) 1997, The Christian Science Publishing Society
Kattie Portis can spot different kinds of heroin - China
white and red. She knows how much the drug sells for on
Boston playgrounds. And she's had run-ins with the law.
Ms. Portis was hooked on heroin for five years in the
1960s. But - realizing how much her six kids needed her -
she entered a drug-treatment program, got her high-school
equivalency degree, and went on to earn bachelor's and
master's degrees. She has run her own drug-treatment center
for women for 20 years. But now Portis is vaulting into a
bigger role: She is Boston's first drug czar. Like many
American cities, Boston is jumping to action as teen drug
rates are surging and a cheaper, more-lethal heroin is
hitting the streets.
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Subj: ARTICLE: 3/31 THE WEEKLY STANDARD JUNKIE SCIENCE (fwd)
From: Kiril H Dubrovsky <ki...@student.umass.edu>
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 09:14:09 -0400 (EDT)
File: v97.n011.a10
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n011.a10.html
Source: The Weekly Standard
Published: March 31, 1997 EDITORIAL; Vol. 2, No. 28; Pg. 11
JUNKIE SCIENCE by David Tell, for the Editors
Copyright (c) 1997, The Weekly Standard
The Fourth Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic
Infections was held the last week of January in Washington.
An annual event, it is the probably the world's most
important scientific meeting of AIDS specialists. At one of
this year's sessions, Dr. Steffanie Strathdee, a Canadian
epidemiologist, presented preliminary data from a major
study of high-risk behavior underway in Vancouver. Since
May 1996, the Vancouver Injection Drug Use Study has
periodically blood-tested, interviewed, and counseled
roughly 900 intravenous cocaine and heroin users. After
only seven months, nearly 10 percent of initially
HIV-negative participants in the program had experienced
"seroconversion": They had become infected with the virus.
Overall, the Vancouver research subjects injected
themselves an average of 4.
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Subj: Lie of the Needle, 3/31
From: Kiril H Dubrovsky <ki...@student.umass.edu>
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 09:17:29 -0400 (EDT)
File: v97.n012.a01
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n012.a01.html
Source: The New Republic
Published: MARCH 31, 1997 Pg. 11
Contact: The New Republic edi...@tnr.com
LIE OF THE NEEDLE by Stephen Chapman
Copyright (c) 1997, The New Republic, Inc.
The aids epidemic has unleashed a slew of efforts to stop
transmission of the virus--from distributing condoms to
teenagers to tightly screening blood transfusions. But, for
years, one of the most effective and inexpensive weapons
has languished on the shelf: needle exchange. Last
December, the Clinton administration recommended additional
money for aids research, but barely mentioned needle
exchange. The neglect comes at a price: though the virus
has abated among gay men, it has proliferated among
intravenous drug users, their sexual partners and their
children. According to the Centers for Disease Control,
this group now accounts for a full third of new HIV
infections--up from just 12 percent in 1981.
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Subj: Texas Vote On MMJ,3/30
From: Kiril H Dubrovsky <ki...@student.umass.edu>
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 09:22:35 -0400 (EDT)
File: v97.n012.a02
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n012.a02.html
Source: Dallas Morning News (TX)
Published: March 30, 1997 NEWS; AROUND TEXAS & SOUTHWEST; Pg. 17A
Contact: 74774...@compuserve.com
AROUND TEXAS & SOUTHWEST by From Wire Reports
Copyright (c) 1997, The Dallas Morning News
Chamber says vote noon medicinal marijuana
SAN MARCOS, Texas - The city's Chamber of Commerce has
come out against a referendum to help patients get
marijuana for prescribed treatment. The proposal on the
May 3 ballot in the central Texas city would not legalize
marijuana but would declare it city policy to "minimize the
impact of drug laws" on people using the drug to treat
serious medical conditions. Tom Brooks, the chamber's
board chairman, said Friday the measure "sends a confusing
message to our youth" about marijuana use. The initiative
was placed on the ballot after more than 10 percent of San
Marcos' registered voters signed petitions for it.
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Subj: Scolding genie chides again
From: aran...@islandnet.com (Alan Randell)
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 08:59:13 -0400 (EDT)
File: v97.n012.a03
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n012.a03.html
Source: The Arizona Daily Star
Pubdate: April 7, 1997
Contact: let...@azstarnet.com
The Scolding Genie chides again
Tom Teepen/SANCTIMONY
Sure, there's something to be said for virtue. But instead of
second-guessing one another, wouldn't we do better to get cracking on
our common life?
Run for your life.
That thump, thump, thump you hear behind you is a holier-than-y'all
moralism chasing us down with lumberjack boots.
The latest galloping moralist is, implausibly, Bill Clinton, rejiggered
during the last election as Dr. Stern, scourge of wayward citizens and
national hair shirt-in-chief.
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Subj: No Knock, 3/29 THE NEWS AND OBSERVER (RALEIGH, NC)
From: Kiril H Dubrovsky <ki...@student.umass.edu>
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 09:28:48 -0400 (EDT)
File: v97.n012.a04
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n012.a04.html
Source: The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Pubdate: March 29, 1997
Contact: bsic...@nando.net
'NO KNOCK' FORMULA GUARANTEES HIGH-OCTANE LEADFESTS by Barry Saunders, Staff
Writer
Copyright (c) 1997, The News and Observer
Whoever said dope will make you dopey was right.
Drugs can obviously make you forgetful and addle your
brain to the point that you disregard important stuff -
like people's rights and the U.S. Constitution.
And those are just the folks trying to stop drugs!
Sometime this summer, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide
whether police have the right to batter down someone's door
to make an arrest in a felony case without knocking first
or identifying themselves.
This dubious right is being sought not in cases
involving subversives trying to overthrow the government,
or child molesters, or even murderers.
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Subj: Government gets its Cut in Alcohol 3/30
From: Kiril H Dubrovsky <ki...@student.umass.edu>
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 09:26:12 -0400 (EDT)
File: v97.n012.a06
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n012.a06.html
Source: THE KANSAS CITY STAR
Published: March 30, 1997 OPINION; Pg. L3
FAX: KANSAS CITY STAR -- KANSAS CITY MO -- 1-816-234-4926;
GOVERNMENT GETS ITS CUT IN ALCOHOL, TOBACCO SALES by DICK FEAGLER,
Scripps Howard News Service Copyright (c) 1997, The Kansas City Star Co.
It's big news that one of the major tobacco companies
has admitted that cigarettes are addictive, may be lethal
and are marketed for minds as young as 14 years old.
Who didn't know this?
My late grandmother, born in the last century,
referred to cigarettes as "coffin nails. " But nobody
ever quoted her on the front page.
"Are you still on those coffin nails? " she would
ask me when, with great savoir faire, I lit a Salem with
a sharp flick of the worn-out spring of my Ronson.
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Subj: 2 Elected Officials Advocating 3/30
From: Kiril H Dubrovsky <ki...@student.umass.edu>
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 09:46:15 -0400 (EDT)
File: v97.n012.a07
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n012.a07.html
Source: The Buffalo News
Published: March 30, 1997 VIEWPOINTS, Pg. 3H
FAX: BUFFALO NEWS -- BUFFALO NY -- 1-716-856-5150;
2 ELECTED OFFICIALS, SWIMMING UPSTREAM by George Borrelli
Copyright (c) 1997, The Buffalo News
Buffalo Mayor Masiello and U.S. District Judge John T.
Curtin: Men on a mission.
They're carrying the torch on two unrelated hot-button
issues, which have triggered lively debate in the Greater
Buffalo area.
They're old recurring problems that almost always evoke
passionate and divergent responses. But they're legitimate
topics of discussion and both Masiello and Curtin deserve a
fair hearing on the causes they have chosen to promote.
Masiello's mission is the most easily defined and easy
to understand -- aid for his financially beleaguered city.
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Subj: Wire: U.S. Bill on Cigarette Ingredients Introduced
From: Anonymous
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 18:01:42 -0400 (EDT)
File: v97.n013.a05
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n013.a05.html
WASHINGTON (Reuter) - A bill to require tobacco companies to
list the ingredients and carcinogens in cigarettes was
introduced in the House and Senate Tuesday by anti-smoking
advocates.
``This legislation will force the tobacco companies to tell
the truth to the American people. Unless Congress forces the
tobacco industry's hand, it will never tell its customers what
it puts in its products,'' Sen. Frank Lautenberg, a New Jersey
Democrat, said at a news conference.
Lautenberg and other co-sponsors said the bill would also
require stronger and larger warning labels on cigarette packs
such as ``Cigarettes kill''. They said cigarettes contain 43
different substances that can cause cancer.
``It is time to fully warn children about what tobacco will
do to them. It is time to give adults the information they need
but still don't have to enable them to exercise the type of
informed consent that the public is afforded for other consumer
products,'' Rep. Marty Meehan, a Massachusetts Democrat, said.
Current law does not require tobacco companies to list their
ingredients.
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Subj: IHT + NYT editorial
From: Peter Webster <vig...@monaco.mc>
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 09:32:15 -0400 (EDT)
File: v97.n014.a02
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n014.a02.html
Source: New York Times
Pubdate: April 8,1997
let...@nytimes.com
feed...@nytimes.com
IHT contact: i...@iht.com
DRUGS KEEP COMING
Despite a $20-billion interdiction effort over a decade, supplies
of cocaine and heroin continue to flood in at a level more than
adequate to meet the demand of American drug users. That is the
dismal judgment of the General Accounting Office in a recently
released report. The GAO, a research agency for Congress, blames the
nation's lagging effort to control the flow of drugs on a lack of long-
term strategic planning. The Clinton administration's latest budget
request makes a start on addressing these shortcomings. Congress
should follow and even enhance the new effort.
The GAO report notes that in 1995 only about 230 of the
780 metric tons of cocaine produced around the world were seized in
America or abroad.
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Subj: Columbian Heroin Traffic On the Rise, 3/31 THE RECORD
From: edi...@mapinc.org
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 09:53:09 -0400 (EDT)
File: v97.n014.a06
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n014.a06.html
Source: The Record
Published: March 31, 1997 NEWS; Pg. A11
Contact: (Hackensack, NJ)news...@bergen-record.com
COLOMBIAN HEROIN TRAFFIC ON THE RISE by CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, The Associated
Press
Standing waist-high in red, pink, and violet poppy
flowers, a peasant delicately slits a plant bulb with a
razor. Milky-white opium gum, the key ingredient in heroin,
oozes from the gash. "This work is innocent because I'm
just making a few pesos," says Chucho, who sells the opium
in San Jose de las Hermosas, a ramshackle village an hour's
walk down the valley.
It is the first stage in the making of high-purity
Colombian heroin that in the last few years has grabbed a
big chunk of the U.S. East Coast market for the drug. Some
Colombian heroin is also reaching Europe.
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