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From: editor@mapinc.org (Drugnews-Digest)
To: drugnews-digest@mapinc.org
Subject: MAP: Drugnews-Digest V97 #230
Organization: Media Awareness Project URL:http://www.mapinc.org/
Drugnews-Digest Saturday, September 20 1997 Volume 97 : Number 230
OPED: NEEDLE EXCHANGE PREVENTS HIV
Source: The Times, Trenton, New Jersey, page A21
WIRE: CIA, other spy agencies systematically tapped phones of overseas DEA
Source: Associated Press
Gardai question second man over financial deal
Source: Irish Times
LTE: Medical marijuana
Source: Seattle Times
OPED: A Lost Chance to Debate A Cruel Drug Policy
Source: International Herald Tribune
LTE: A preferable way to shoot
Source: Oakland Tribune
OPED: Brad Owen: Charged with criticizing I-685
Source: Tacoma News Tribune
Hoover fellow decries recent police brutality, war on drugs
Source: The Stanford Daily
French minister wants cannabis legalized
Source: Ottawa Citizen
Police busy seizing bumper marijuana crop
Source: Ottawa Citizen
WIRE: Petition against Manila's antidrug campaign dismissed
Source: Kyodo News Service
WIRE: Colombia Leader Given Special Visa
Source: The Associated Press
WIRE: White House pager traffic intercepted, hackers say
Source: Reuter
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Subj: OPED: NEEDLE EXCHANGE PREVENTS HIV
From: kevzeese@mailffx.laser.net (Kevin Zeese)
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 18:48:28 -0400
File: v97.n230.a01
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n230.a01.html
Pubdate: 17 Sep 1997
Source: The Times, Trenton, New Jersey, page A21
Contact: Trenton Times, George Amick, Editorials Editor, P.O. Box 847,
Trenton, NJ 08605
e-mail: news@njtimes.com
FAX: 1-609-394-2819
NEEDLE EXCHANGE PREVENTS HIV
Dawn Day and Kendra Wright
- -----------
Dawn Day, Ph.D. is the director of the Dogwood Center in Princeton, New
Jersey. Dr. Day is a sociologist and activist scholar who writes on issues
of social justice and AIDS. Kendra Wright of Falls Church, Virginia, is the
manager of the Families, Women and Children project of Common Sense for
Drug Policy.
- ----------
Today we are joining with several thousand other women and men who have
traveled to Washington, DC, from across the nation to carry an important
message to Congress and the Clinton Administration. Heed the scientific
findings, we will urge. Follow the advice of our public health experts, we
will plead. Fund clean needle programs and slow the spread of HIV/AIDS, we
will cry.
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Subj: WIRE: CIA, other spy agencies systematically tapped phones of overseas DEA offices
From: kevzeese@mailffx.laser.net (Kevin Zeese)
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 18:48:25 -0400
File: v97.n230.a02
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n230.a02.html
Pubdate: Fri, 19 Sep 1997
Source: Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The CIA and other spy agencies have systematically
tapped the phones of overseas Drug Enforcement Administration offices,
according to a class action lawsuit agents filed Thursday in Washington.
The lawsuit, which also names the National Security Agency and the State
Department, seeks a court order barring those agencies from any further
wiretapping.
"These agencies have a pattern and practice of eavesdropping on DEA agents'
and employees' conversations while they are serving the government
overseas," said attorney Brian Leighton of Clovis, Calif.
But legal experts say it could be a difficult lawsuit to win, especially
since an employer - in this case the government - generally has a right to
listen to employee conversation on office phones.
It also doesn't help that national security was involved and that courts
have held that U.S. citizens don't have constitutional rights overseas.
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Subj: Gardai question second man over financial deal
From: Zosimos <mjc1947@cyberclub.iol.ie>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 18:48:38 -0400
File: v97.n230.a03
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n230.a03.html
Pubdate: Fri, 19 Sep 1997
Source: Irish Times
Contact: email: lettersed@irish-times.ie
mail: Letters to Editor, The Irish Times, 11-15 D'Olier
St, Dublin 2, Ireland
Fax: ++ 353 1 6793910
Gardai question second man over financial deal
By John Maher, Drugs and Crime Correspondent
A financial transaction involving a food exporting firm is being
investigated by detectives who arrested and questioned a prominent former
politician earlier this week. The transaction is believed to involve a
substantial sum of money which gardai suspect may have been the proceeds of
drug-trafficking.
The former politician was released late on Wednesday night after being
questioned for 36 hours at Pearse Street Garda station in Dublin about
suspected money-laundering offences. A file on his case is to be sent to
the Director of Public Prosecutions.
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Subj: LTE: Medical marijuana
From: "Robert Lunday" <robert@hemp.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 20:09:23 -0400
File: v97.n230.a04
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n230.a04.html
Source: Seattle Times
Contact: opinion@seatimes.com
Pubdate: 18 Sep 1997
Medical marijuana
Local research on effects of medicinal use in final stages
I commend The Times for your editorial, "Medical pot gets boos from federal
experts" (Aug. 13), which calls on the research community to "respond
quickly" to the recommendation made by a panel of medical experts of the
National Institutes of Health: that further scientific research be
conducted to evaluate the therapeutic effectiveness of marijuana.
What your readers may be interested in knowing is that Sen. Bob McCaslin
(R-Spokane) and I introduced SB 6744 during the 1996 legislative session
which resulted in a $60,000 appropriation directed to the state's Board of
Pharmacy for administrating clinical research under the
controlled-substance therapeutic program, in statute since 1979.
In fact, the research, to determine the effects of medicinal
tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) with patients under a physician's care, is in
the final stages of design and planning. It will be conducted at the
University of Washington under the supervision of Dr. Allan Ellsworth. Dr.
Ellsworth and the Board of Pharmacy are working to get approval from the
Federal Drug Administration for the use of marijuana plants in the study.
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Subj: OPED: A Lost Chance to Debate A Cruel Drug Policy
From: Peter Webster <vignes@monaco.mc>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 20:09:25 -0400
File: v97.n230.a05
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n230.a05.html
Pubdate: Fri, 19 Sep 1997
Source: International Herald Tribune
Contact: iht@iht.com
A Lost Chance to Debate A Cruel Drug Policy
By Richard Cohen
WASHINGTON--- In the Helms-Weld heavyweight fight, almost everyone won.
Jesse Helms won because he got his way. William Weld, the former
Massachusetts governor, won because he got national exposure for his likely
presidential run, and President Bill Clinton won because he split the
Republican Party and managed, once again, to take a nonposition
position---this time in favor of both Mr. Weld and Mr. Helms. So who lost?
We did.
We the people of the United States lost, and not only because Mr. Helms, a
man with a brick for a brain, was able to cow the entire Senate. We lost
because the issues that so vexed Mr. Helms and caused him to deny Mr. Weld
a hearing---the medicinal use of marijuana and needle exchange programs for
intravenous drug users---were not even debated. Mr. Weld favors them both,
and this, we are told, is why Mr. Helms hates him so.
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Subj: LTE: A preferable way to shoot
From: Jerry Sutliff (gsutliff@dnai.com)
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 20:09:28 -0400
File: v97.n230.a06
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n230.a06.html
Pubdate: Fri, 19 Sep 1997
Source: Oakland Tribune
Contact: tribedit@mail.well.com
A preferable way to shoot
Regarding Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's statement that she does not want
junkies to use uncomfortable dull needles and instead wants tax-payers to
supply a new clean, sharp needle, so they will be able to have a more
pleasurable drug experience:
Perhaps she wants to use a city park or building for this experience.
I say, "Congresswoman, 1ook at yourself in the mirror, what do you see?"
This whole idea is so ridiculous and nothing but garbage. I cannot believe
people could entertain this idea. Let us get rid of this despicable idea.
Again, I say, "shoot the dealers," and perhaps others should be included.
J. McKenns
Alameda, California
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Subj: OPED: Brad Owen: Charged with criticizing I-685
From: WWonders@aol.com
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 20:09:33 -0400
File: v97.n230.a07
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n230.a07.html
Pubdate: Fri, 19 Sep 1997
Source: Tacoma News Tribune
Contact: leted@p.tribnet.com
Brad Owen: Charged with criticizing I-685
Oh, the gall of Brad Owen. Washington's lieutenant governor - who was
elected on an anti-drug platform - has dared oppose an initiative he
believes would condone drug abuse.
Who does he think he is, anyway - a state leader?
Pardon the sarcasm. But the complaints about Owen's outspoken criticism of
Initiative 685 are rooted in one of the most perverse notions ever to
infect public life in this state: the idea that elected officials have no
business supporting or fighting nonpartisan ballot measures.
The Public Disclosure Commission, which is presently investigating Owen's
supposed offense, helped invent this insidious taboo. Four years ago, the
PDC fined Judith Billings - then the superintendent of public instruction -
because she had the temerity to use office equipment and staff assistance
to write an article critical of initiatives 601 and 602.
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Subj: Hoover fellow decries recent police brutality, war on drugs
From: Jane Marcus <jmarcus@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 20:09:30 -0400
File: v97.n230.a08
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n230.a08.html
Pubdate: Fri, 19 Sep 1997
Source: The Stanford Daily
Contact: letters@daily.stanford.edu
Hoover fellow decries recent police brutality, war on drugs
By Alex Scherbakovsky
Contributing writer, Stanford Daily
The recent alleged New York City police torturing of a handcuffed Haitian
immigrant in a police station bathroom was not an aberration, according to
a research fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Rather, former San Jose Police Chief Joseph McNamara argues that the
incident exemplifies the warlike mentality prevalent in modern American
police departments.
This summer, McNamara discussed his views on the New York incident on the
Today Show and BBC Radio and in Time magazine, among other publications.
An outspoken critic of current approaches to law enforcement and of the war
on drugs, the Hoover fellow contributes regularly to newspapers, magazines
and television shows.
------------------------------
Subj: French minister wants cannabis legalized
From: chris.clay@hempnation.com
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 20:33:27 -0400
File: v97.n230.a09
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n230.a09.html
Pubdate: Fri, 19 Sep 1997
Source: Ottawa Citizen
Contact: letters@thecitizen.southam.ca
French minister wants cannabis legalized
By Susannah Herbert, The Daily Telegraph
PARIS -- French Environment Minister Dominque Voynet expressed support
yesterday for the legalization of cannabis, a drug she admitted having smoked.
"Speaking as a doctor and as a politician, I am still in favour of
legalization," Ms. Voynet said. "The occasional consumption of cannabis
has no impact on health and social bonds.
"I am more worried by the number of French people who need sleeping pills
than by the number of people who admit smoking a joint," she told the
magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Ms. Voynet, 38, the leader of France's Green party, which favours
controlled legalization of drugs, was asked by the magazine if she had ever
smoked cannabis. "Yes," she said. "Do you still smoke it?" she was then
asked. Her distinctly unmisterial answer -- "Merde!" -- has amused the
Greens, who take it to mean yes.
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Subj: Police busy seizing bumper marijuana crop
From: chris.clay@hempnation.com
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 20:33:30 -0400
File: v97.n230.a10
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n230.a10.html
Pubdate: Fri, 19 Sep 1997
Source: Ottawa Citizen
Contact: letters@thecitizen.southam.ca
Police busy seizing bumper marijuana crop
OTTAWA -- Police on both sides of the Ottawa River are waging a continuing
battle against this year's bumper crop of marijuana.
In Boileau, Que., in the Petite Nation region, about 30 kilometres
northeast of Montebello, the Surete du Quebec's organized crime squad
swooped down on a "mini-farm" yesterday afternoon.
Surete officers seized between 600 and 800 plants with a street value
estimated as high as $400,000, in the raid at 508 Chemin Boileau. The
operation began around 1:30 p.m., said Const. Mathias Tellier, spokesman
for the Surete in Montreal.
Hundreds of growing plants were taken from the field, and police seized an
additional 150 plants that had recently been harvested and were found in a
truck at the scene, Const. Tellier said.
------------------------------
Subj: WIRE: Petition against Manila's antidrug campaign dismissed
From: JPrue@aol.com
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 20:33:32 -0400
File: v97.n230.a11
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n230.a11.html
Pubdate: Sat, 20 Sep 1997
Source: Kyodo News Service
MANILA, Sept. 20 (Kyodo) - A Philippine court has dismissed a petition
against a novel antidrug campaign pursued by Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim that
identifies the homes of suspected drug pushers, court officials said
Saturday.
Judge Librado Correa of Pasig City Regional Trial Court Branch 164 on
Friday dismissed a petition filed by the Commission on Human Rights (CHR)
and the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) questioning the legality of
the mayor's campaign, the officials said.
In dismissing the petition of the CHR and the IBP, Correa said the
petitioners ''failed to establish their legal standing'' to question Lim's
effort to weed out drug pushers in Manila.
Correa pointed out that the petitioners were not the ones directly affected
by the campaign, and said that ''logically'' they had ''no reason to
complain.''
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Subj: WIRE: Colombia Leader Given Special Visa
From: JPrue@aol.com
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 20:33:35 -0400
File: v97.n230.a12
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n230.a12.html
Pubdate: Sat, 20 Sep 1997
Source: The Associated Press
BOGOTA, (AP) - President Ernesto Samper, barred from entering the United
States for alleged links to drug traffickers, has received a special visa
to attend the United Nations General Assembly next week.
Samper will leave for New York on Wednesday, the presidential palace said
in a statement Friday night. The U.S. Embassy in Bogota could not be
reached for comment.
The United States revoked Samper's visa last year after evidence emerged
that his 1994 election campaign took money from the Cali drug cartel.
Samper was cleared by a loyalist congress in June 1996 despite testimony
against him from campaign leaders.
The United States routinely extends special visas for U.N. visits to heads
of state who otherwise are barred entry, such as Cuban President Fidel
Castro.
Samper visited the U.N. under a special visa in September 1996, when he
appeared before the General Assembly to propose a global strategy to fight
narcotics.
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Subj: WIRE: White House pager traffic intercepted, hackers say
From: JPrue@aol.com
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 20:33:37 -0400
File: v97.n230.a13
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n230.a13.html
Pubdate: 19 Sep 1997
Source: Reuter
By Kourosh Karimkhany
PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept 19 (Reuter) - A purported transcript of dozens of
intercepted pager messages sent to President Bill Clinton's Secret Service
detail was posted on the Internet on Friday by a computer hacker.
The messages included minute-by-minute updates about the president's
whereabouts as well instructions to agents to call the White House
switchboard, love notes, basketball scores and notification that Chelsea
Clinton was on hold for her father.
According to time stamps, the messages were intercepted on April 27, a day
on which the president was visiting Philadelphia for an awards ceremony.
The White House said it knew its pager messages had been monitored but
declined to say whether the transcript was genuine.
Pamela Finkel, a New York-based computer consultant, published the messages
on her Web site (http:/www.inch.com/esoteric/pam-suggestion/formal.html) on
Friday to show how easy it was to intercept private communications, she said.
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