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"Random testing appears to curb drug use among
students" (Julia Silverman , Sacramento
Bee, Dec. 30, 2002) --
Student-athletes
subject to random drug testing at an Oregon high school
were almost four times less likely to use drugs than
their counterparts at a similar school who were not
tested, a study shows. ID# 6214
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"More youths being treated for drug,
alcohol addictions" (Maggie
Fox , MSNBC Online, Dec. 28, 2002) --More
U.S. teens are being admitted to centers to be treated
for alcohol and drug abuse, a new government report
shows. But health officials said this could be good news
an indication that youths are getting treated
instead of being left to spiral into addiction. ID#
6211
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"Minneapolis school touts addiction recovery
program for young students" (Mary Jane
Smetanka , The Sacramento Bee, Dec. 26,
2002) -- In an Augsburg College residence hall in
Minneapolis, caffeine and nicotine are the drugs of
choice. They fuel conversation and long study sessions
and stoke the quiet times when people look inward.
Not that these 43 students haven't tried other drugs.
Heroin, cocaine, LSD, Ecstasy, crack - you name it, and
someone here has probably used it. And used it
hard. Now, as students in Augsburg's StepUP
program, these recovering addicts are living together on
campus, attending college full time and trying to
rebuild their lives. StepUP is the only such program in
the nation aimed at traditional-aged college students,
officials say. ID# 6210
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"U.S. Frets Canada May Ease
Marijuana Law" (Associated Press, The
New York Times, Dec. 13, 2002) --
Getting caught with an
ounce or less of marijuana in Canada should bring fines,
not prison time and a criminal record, a parliamentary
committee said Thursday. The committee was the second in
Parliament that has called for Canada to ease its
marijuana laws -- despite protests from the United
States. Canada's Supreme Court is also preparing to hear
a constitutional challenge to laws that make it illegal
to possess pot, and Justice Minister Martin Cauchon said
this week that legislation to decriminalize marijuana
could be introduced early in 2003. The report by a House
of Commons committee on drugs said too many young
Canadians get a criminal record for the relatively minor
offense of smoking pot. ID#
6193
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"Supervisors approve 30-resident
Narconon treatment center" (Brian E.
Clark, The San Diego Union Tribune, Dec. 12, 2002) --
The county Board of
Supervisors yesterday gave the go-ahead for a Narconon
drug and alcohol treatment center planned for the rural
Sunshine Summit area, unanimously rejecting a neighbor's
appeal. Backers of the program praised the supervisors'
decision. Narconon officials said they hope to open the
30-resident center at a former resort off state Route 79
early next year. Chet Kalinowska filed the appeal in
October after the county Planning Commission unanimously
approved the project. Kalinowska argued that the 30-acre
property did not have adequate water, and that security
plans for a program dealing with drug addicts were
inadequate. ID#
6192
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"New program targets club drug abuse" (Amanda
Vogt, The Chicago Tribune, Dec. 10, 2002) --
In response to an alarming
increase in the use of club drugs such as Ecstasy among
young suburbanites, one of the Chicago area's largest
substance-abuse treatment agencies is launching a new
education program, officials said. Haymarket Center West
in Schaumburg, an outpatient center that treats drug and
alcohol abuse, plans to launch its Club and Other Drug
Awareness program Jan. 7. The three-week program, which
has received a one-year, $100,000 grant from the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services, will have about 100 clients
from the courts in northwest Cook, Lake, DuPage and
McHenry Counties. ID#
6186
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"Clubs, cops seeking to stem rising violence at
nightspots" (Joe Hughes, The San Diego Union Tribune, Dec.
9, 2002) --
The San Diego Police
Department's vice unit has formed a team to investigate
all bar-related incidents. In the past, the incidents
were handled by patrol officers, then passed to
detectives at area stations. Reports on the incidents
did not quickly get to vice officials for follow-up.
The vice unit team four
detectives and a sergeant now responds immediately
to all major bar-linked incidents. Kanaski said the vice
unit will not hesitate to revoke a club's entertainment
license or to call in the fire marshal at crowded bars.
Club owners also are
reminded they are responsible for not only what goes on
inside the business, but also within a 100-foot radius
of their establishments. ID#
6181
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"More drugs stay in Mexico, experts
say" (Anna Cearly, The San Diego Union Tribune, Dec.
6, 2002) --
Leading experts on drug
abuse from the United States and Mexico say that more
drugs are circulating in Mexico because tighter border
security is reducing shipments to the United States.
"That means we must strengthen our efforts to
prevent (drug abuse) in Mexico," said Luis Solis
Rojas, who oversees a national network of drug
rehabilitation centers in Mexico and was a keynote
speaker at a binational drug abuse conference Wednesday.
Prevention measures were the hot topic during the
conference, sponsored by the San Diego Tijuana Border
Initiative and held at the Autonomous University of Baja
California. ID#
6178
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"Trends in drug battle indicate some
success" (Gordon Smith, The San Diego Union Tribune,
Dec. 2, 2002) --
For a half-century,
California has been a drug battleground. Almost
certainly, it will continue to be one... When
the state's voters passed Proposition 36 two years ago,
they did it with the expectation it would save $1.5
billion in incarceration costs over five years. Experts
on all sides say it is too soon to assess the results of
the law which went into effect July 1, 2001 but
the number of people in state prisons on drug possession
charges has declined by 16.8 percent since then. The
overall population of female inmates also has declined
by 10 percent during the past year, a change state
prison officials attribute largely to Proposition 36. ID#
6166
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"Study says marijuana does not lead
to hard drugs" (Reuters, The San Diego Union Tribune,
Dec. 2, 2002) --
Countering a basic
principle of American anti-drug policies, an independent
U.S. study concluded Monday that marijuana use does not
lead teenagers to experiment with hard drugs like heroin
or cocaine. The study by the private, nonprofit RAND
Drug Policy Research Center rebutted the theory that
marijuana acts as a so-called gateway drug to more
harmful narcotics, a key argument against legalizing pot
in the United States. ID#
6165
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"Illegal pharmaceuticals
'everywhere'" (Matt Krasnowski, The San Diego Union Tribune, Dec.
2, 2002) --
Prescription drugs with no
prescription required are still a hot and
potentially dangerous commodity among immigrants in
Southern California. "It's
still everywhere," said Donald Ashton, with the Los
Angeles County Health Authority Law Enforcement Task
Force. "We've found it in meat markets, party
supply stores, swap meets, shoe stores and bridal gown
stores." More than three years after authorities
started to crack down on illegal pharmacies sparked
by the deaths of two Orange County children who received
injections by self-styled doctors the practice of
selling pharmaceuticals smuggled north from Mexico at
retail outlets in immigrant enclaves is thriving,
officials said. ID#
6164
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"THE
DRUG WAR A PROGRESS REPORT" (Steve
Schmidt, The San Diego Union Tribune,
Dec. 1, 2002) --
The $9.2 billion annual
sales figure an estimate derived from a
Union-Tribune analysis of government data is more
than the gross domestic products of 69 nations. And it is
a reminder of the challenges facing those waging what
has been called the war on drugs. "We're making
progress, but it takes a long time to get there,"
said Richard Gorman, a San Diego-based regional director
of the federal High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area
Program. California, the nation's most populous state,
often shoulders a disproportionate share of the war's
costs and impact. A recent FBI study found that one of
six Americans arrested on drug-abuse violations is from
California. ID#
6157
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"Rehab Center Looks for New Home" (Sandra
Murillo, The Los Angeles Times, Nov. 29, 2002) --
For 17 years, staffers at
the Rainbow Recovery Center have gone about the painful
task of repairing the lives of women ravaged by drugs,
alcohol and mental illness. By all accounts, it has been
a quiet, successful operation, located at Oxnard's
College Park. But in the fast-growing city, the
"Rainbow Ladies," as employees and patients of
the center are often called, are in the wrong place at
the wrong time. Last week, a divided City Council
adopted a $20-million renovation for the 75-acre park
that does not include the recovery center. ID#
6156
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"Slim hope for alcohol bill in
Pennsylvania legislature" (Rose
Ciotta, Yahoo News, Nov. 27, 2002) --
An effort to bring
Pennsylvania's drunken-driving law into line with 31
other states' tougher limits was struggling to stay
alive last night in Harrisburg as legislators tried to
wrap up their work for the year. The proposal to lower
the blood-alcohol limit for drivers from 0.10 to 0.08
percent - as most states and many other nations have
already done - was languishing in committee as the state
House plowed through other legislation. ID#
6154
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"Law Offering Drug Treatment Is
Called a Qualified Success" (Daren
Briscoe, The Los Angeles Times, Nov. 27, 2002) --
A law intended to divert
nonviolent drug offenders into treatment programs
instead of prison is reaching fewer people overall and
more hard-core substance abusers than intended,
according to a report released Tuesday. Enacted in July
2001, Proposition 36 requires that people convicted of
possession, use or transportation of drugs for personal
use be offered drug treatment rather than jail. It does
not apply to those convicted of drug sales or to anyone
with a prior violent felony conviction. The measure was
intended to save taxpayer money. ID#
6153
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"U.S. officials to visit Mexico prison to get look
at drug program" (Enrique Garcνa Sanchez, The
San Diego Union Tribune, Nov. 21, 2002) --
About 100 female
legislators from the United Sates will visit the state
prison in Ensenada today to see firsthand the results of
a program for drug-addicted inmates. The state began the
program, called Segunda Oportunidad, or Second
Opportunity, seven years ago, based on the Church of
Scientology's prisoner rehabilitation program, called
Narconon. It is based on the philosophies of the late L.
Ron Hubbard. According to a recent study conducted by
Baja California's state university, recidivism among the
prisoners dropped from 75 percent to 9.5 percent between
1995 and 2001. In that period, of 1,682 inmates who were
released, only 196 returned to jail or prison for
committing a crime in the state. ID#
6144
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"Drugged drivers an equal threat" (Wisconsin
State Journal, Nov. 21, 2002) --
Wisconsin punishes driving
while drunk but not driving while drugged. The
Legislature should change that by making it illegal to
drive while on an illegal drug. To clarify, drugged
drivers are not currently getting off scot-free in
Wisconsin. They can still be prosecuted for driving
while impaired, if impairment can be proved, and
reckless or negligent driving, if their performance on
the road warrants arrest. But there is no specific
prohibition against driving with illegal drugs in your
system as there is against driving while legally drunk. ID#
6143
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"DEA unveils effort to break up U.S. and European
Ecstasy rings" (The Associated Press, The
San Diego Union Tribune, Nov. 21, 2002) --
Saying teenage use of
Ecstasy is reaching "epidemic" levels, U.S.
authorities are stepping up efforts to stamp out rings
making and selling club drugs at home, in Europe and on
the Internet. The Drug Enforcement Administration plans
to double the number of club-drug investigations in the
United States as part of its "Operation
X-Out." Currently, the DEA says about 5 percent of
its major investigations involve club drugs. The agency
also intends to focus new efforts on Internet
trafficking and in the Netherlands, where some 80
percent of the world's supply originates. ID#
6142
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"Treatment centers" (The San Diego
Union Tribune, Nov. 21, 2002) --
San Diego City Council
members' unanimous support for the new Rescue Mission
shows they understand that helping the hard-core
homeless cannot be merely a good intention. Opponents of
the new Rescue Mission said they weren't opposed to this
drug and alcohol treatment program; they were opposed
only to its location. That's the same refrain heard
every time a residential rehabilitation program is
proposed. The City Council saw the problem with that
thinking. Members realized that these vital human
service programs must be located somewhere. Addiction
treatment is not an abstract idea. It's a building in a
neighborhood where people go to start a new life. ID#
6141
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"Pot Raids Spur Calls to Quit Working With DEA" (Jonathan
D. Salant, The Los Angeles Times, Nov.
21, 2002) --
The City Council of
Sebastopol became the latest to approve a resolution
supporting California's medical marijuana law and asking
that the municipal police force avoid working with the
DEA.Sebastopol's vote Tuesday night is expected to be
followed in a few weeks by similar action in neighboring
Santa Rosa.Earlier this year, city leaders in Berkeley
and San Francisco approved anti-DEA resolutions.In San
Jose, Police Chief William Lansdowne in October pulled
his officers from a DEA task force, citing a "clear
conflict between federal and state law" and saying
methamphetamine was a far greater problem than
marijuana...Though
it won voter approval, Proposition 215 created a legal
quandary for police and the courts because the medical
pot measure conflicts with federal law declaring
marijuana illegal for any purpose. ID#
6136
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"Voters wise up to 'medical marijuana' " (The San Diego Union Tribune, Nov.
21, 2002) --
Your editorial points out
that medicalizing marijuana is really an effort to
promote legalization for all. Without voter pressure,
San Diego City Council members may approve the misguided
guidelines that would allow outdoor marijuana gardens
and possession of up to 12 pounds of marijuana. Patients
and caregivers would be impossible to define and
regulate. The city doesn't need the liability, and the
neighborhoods don't need the cash crop of marijuana
worth $5,000 a pound on the street. ID#
6134
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"US plans breathalyzer-like drug test for drivers" (Laura
MacInnis, Reuters Health, Nov. 19, 2002) --
Roadside drug tests modeled
after breathalyzers are nearly ready for use in the
United States to help police identify drivers impaired
by illegal substances, officials said on Tuesday.
National Drug Control Policy Director John Walters said
the cheap, on-the-spot tests would hasten the arrest of
those driving under the influence of illegal drugs like
marijuana or cocaine, as well as alcohol. ID#
6129
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"Government plans crackdown on
drugged driving" (Jonathan
D. Salant, The San Diego Union Tribune, Nov. 19, 2002) --
Federal officials embarked
Tuesday on their most comprehensive effort to reduce the
thousands of deaths blamed on drivers under the
influence of illegal drugs. The campaign will include
public service announcements warning motorists of the
dangers and a program to train police officers to
identify drugged drivers. More than 17,000 people are
killed each year in alcohol-related accidents. Around
4,500 drivers who were killed in crashes in 2000
almost one in five had used drugs other than
alcohol, according to the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration. ID#
6128
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"Council to rule on troubled bar" (Karen
S. Kim, The Los Angeles Times, Nov. 19, 2002) --
The fate of a local tavern
will rest in the hands of the City Council today, as
members consider whether they should uphold the
revocation of a billiard room permit for Tony's Bar on
Brand Boulevard. The bar's permit was revoked based on
evidence provided by the Glendale Police Department that
the bar has become a haven for criminal activity. Police
reports show that the bar at 1300 S. Brand Boulevard has
caused much more than the occasional problem. Between
May 19, 2001, and May 11, Tony's Bar required police
assistance 32 times for illegal activities involving
violence, drug use, fighting, public intoxication,
selling alcohol to minors and driving under the
influence. ID#
6126
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"Voters have their say on drugs" (The
Chicago Tribune, Nov. 16, 2002) --
After several years of
riding high, so to speak, the movement to relax drug
laws in the nation lost some of its momentum in the
November election. In general, voters opposed the
recreational use of marijuana, but had mixed views on
the medicinal use of the drug and on whether offenders
should be directed to treatment rather than punishment.
By a 61 percent to 39 percent vote, Nevada residents
defeated a proposal to legalize possession of up to
three ounces of marijuana. In Arizona, the vote was
57-43 against a proposal to allow the medicinal use of
marijuana. ID#
6124
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"Technology for detecting illegal drugs in drivers
improving but laws still lagging" (Siobhan
McDonough, The San Diego Union Tribune, Nov.
15, 2002) --
State laws haven't kept up
with advances in technology making it easier for police
to determine if a driver is on drugs, according to a
study released Thursday. People who drive under the
influence of illegal drugs are rarely detected,
prosecuted or referred to treatment programs, according
to the report by The Walsh Group and the American Bar
Association's Standing Committee on Substance Abuse. The
study was funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The report urges state legislatures to pass laws aimed
at drugged drivers. ID#
6118
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"Study: Drug Screens See Improvement" (Siobhan
McDonough, Yahoo News, Nov. 14, 2002) --
State laws haven't kept up
with advances in technology making it easier for police
to determine if a driver is on drugs, according to a
study released Thursday. People who drive under the
influence of illegal drugs are rarely detected,
prosecuted or referred to treatment programs, according
to the report by The Walsh Group and the American Bar
Association's Standing Committee on Substance Abuse. The
study was funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The report urges state legislatures to pass laws aimed
at drugged drivers. ID#
6114
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"Educators believe voluntary drug-testing lets
students snub drugs" (The Associated Press, The San Diego Union
Tribune, Nov. 10, 2002) -- Three
high schools in Orange County have started a voluntary,
but random drug-testing program to help students reject
drug use. "It's the purest moral effort to help
kids say no," said San Clemente High School
principal Charles Hinman. While most high schools
conduct drug tests as a condition of participating in
extracurricular activities, testing at San Clemente,
Laguna Beach and Trabuco Hills high schools is
different. ID#
6109
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"Voters Say No" ( The San Diego
Union Tribune, Nov. 10, 2002) -- The
Election Day defeat of several drug-decriminalization
measures around the country suggests that the San Diego
City Council is behind the curve on the medical
marijuana issue. Voters in Nevada rejected a measure
that would have legalized the sale and use of marijuana.
Arizona voters defeated a measure that would have
reduced penalties for marijuana possession. Ohio voters
refused to alter their state constitution to require
judges to send drug offenders to treatment instead of
jail. And voters in South Dakota turned down a measure
that would have allowed drug offenders to argue to
juries that drug laws are unfair and to urge acquittal
on that basis. ID#
6106
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"City Cracks Down on Nightclubs and May Revise Its
Policies" (Jennifer Steinhauer, The New York
Times, Nov. 10, 2002) -- The
Bloomberg administration is quietly accelerating a
crackdown on New York City's night life industry, using
existing city regulations to restrain clubs, bars and
restaurants that flout laws, and formulating new
policies for how the industry is monitored. The city is
also considering changing its 76-year-old cabaret laws,
which ban dancing in any place without a license. An
increased focus on night life is part of the
administration's broad attempts to remain vigilant about
so-called quality-of-life issues and crime prevention,
policy cornerstones of the preceding administration. A
month ago, the city announced that it would vigorously
enforce its noise code, a new effort aimed in part at
bars and clubs with noisy patrons who spill into the
city's streets. ID#
6105
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"Excuse for Teens to Forgo Drugs" (Claire
Luna, The Los Angeles
Times, Nov. 10, 2002) -- As
a golf cart ferried him from physics class to the
office, Matt Nejad thought his frequent tardies finally
had caught up with him. Instead, the lanky San Clemente
High School senior found himself urinating into a
plastic cup. Five minutes later, he was back in class,
having snagged a fleeting reprieve from his studies and
confirmation for his parents that he's drug-free. San
Clemente High's unusual voluntary random-testing program
is part of a new -- and much-debated -- approach to
fighting teen drug use. Most schools conduct drug tests
as a condition of participating in extracurricular
activities or in exchange for rewards. ID#
6103
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"Groups plot Strategy to Ease Marijuana Laws" (David
Reyes, The Los Angeles
Times, Nov. 10, 2002) -- Advocates
for liberalizing the nation's drug laws met in Anaheim
on Saturday and discussed marijuana arrests, an appeals
court ruling allowing California doctors to recommend
marijuana to sick patients and the defeat of marijuana
legalization in Nevada. The three-day meeting was aimed
at regrouping and discussing new ideas, said Bruce
Mirken, a spokesman for the Washington, D.C.-based
Marijuana Policy Project, which sponsored the
conference. ID#
6102
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"Drug-reform measures fail in Arizona, Nevada, Ohio" (Associated
Press, The San Diego Tribune,
Nov. 5, 2002) -- In a sharp rebuff of the
drug-reform movement, Nevada voters refused yesterday to
make their state the first to legalize possession of
marijuana, and reform measures also failed in Ohio and
Arizona. Federal and state law enforcement officials
teamed up to oppose the Nevada measure, which would have
legalized possession of up to 3 ounces of pot. The
Arizona proposal would have downgraded small-scale
marijuana possession to the equivalent of a traffic
violation, while the Ohio measure would have forced
judges to order treatment instead of jail for many drug
offenders. ID#
6093
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"Dealing With the District's Drug Users" (The
Washington Post,
Nov. 2, 2002) -- The District holds the dubious
distinction of having both the highest incarceration
rate in the nation and longer prison sentences than any
state. Initiative 62, the Treatment Instead of Jail for
Certain Non-Violent Drug Offenders Initiative of 2002
[Metro, Oct. 21], would start to address these alarming
facts. Initiative 62 provides drug treatment instead of
imprisonment for people charged with low-level,
nonviolent drug offenses, and it diverts them from
prison into substance abuse treatment, vocational
training and family counseling.
ID# 6087
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"Yes on Proposition 49: Prevent Juvenile Crime" (Leroy
Baca, The Los Angeles Times,
Nov. 3, 2002) -- For too long, the needs of
California's children have been ignored as special
interests have derailed repeated attempts to provide
proven after-school programs for California's children.
Public safety professionals witness the consequences of
the lack of after-school programs. Juvenile crime --
homicide, rape, robbery and assault -- surges between
the hours of 3 and 6 p.m. This is when children are most
likely to abuse alcohol, tobacco or drugs or have sex.
In most instances, kids are also the victims of juvenile
crime.
ID# 6086
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"Editorial: Prescribe pot?" (The
Sacramento Bee, Nov. 1, 2002) --
The legal haze surrounding
medicinal marijuana became a little clearer thanks to a
recent ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
By this court's logic (which sometimes is not all that
logical), it is OK for a physician to
"prescribe" pot (which really means to suggest
that a patient use it) or to speak in favor of its use.
This ruling doesn't clear up other conflicts between
state and federal laws, such as whether that same
patient can grow, purchase or somehow obtain the
marijuana and then possess it. But at least for now, the
doctor-patient relationship remains above the legal
fray.
ID# 6084
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"Stepping Stone to use UCSD research in thwarting
crystal use among MSMs" (Travis Bone, The
Gay and Lesbian Times, Oct. 24, 2002) --
Stepping Stone is using
information from a recently released study, conducted by
researchers at UCSD, on crystal methamphetamine use
among gay and bisexual men. Working to help those in the
GLBT community overcome drug and alcohol addiction,
Stepping Stone hopes the study results will help shape
their upcoming educational advertising campaign. The
study, known as The Edge Research Project, specifically
looks at HIV positive men who have sex with men and
unsafe sex practices often associated with crystal meth
use in order to learn how to better educate gay and
bisexual men on its dangers.
ID# 6083
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"Federal Raids shutting down cannabis clubs around
state" (Marisa Taylor, The San Diego Union Tribune, Oct.
30, 2002) -- It
is now a familiar scene from San Francisco to San Diego,
from the Central Valley to the inner cities federal
agents raiding marijuana gardens and shutting down
organizations that dispense the drug. One after another,
under the threat of arrest or imprisonment, cannabis
club operators across the state have closed their doors
or stopped providing their wares to sick or dying
patients. Barely a handful of dispensaries remain, and
they are afraid.
ID# 6078
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"Court: Don't tread on doctors who recommend
medical marijuana" (David Kravets, The
North County Times, Oct. 30, 2002) -- A
federal appeals court ruled for the first time Tuesday
that the government cannot revoke the prescription drug
licenses of doctors who recommend marijuana to sick
patients. The court also ruled that the Justice
Department may not investigate doctors merely for
recommending marijuana, since this would interfere with
the free-speech rights of doctors and patients.
ID# 6077
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"Dole links license to drug test" (Mark
Johnson, Yahoo News, Oct. 30, 2002) --
Elizabeth Dole wants to
require all teenagers to pass a drug test before getting
a driver's license. Dole, the Republican U.S. Senate
candidate and a former transportation secretary, has
promised to push for a federal law pressuring states to
enforce such a measure. "Wouldn't that help them
understand how important it is to be drug free?"
Dole asked at a recent campaign stop in Washington, N.C.
"It's not cool (to abuse drugs). It kills."
ID# 6080
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"Police dogs search schools for drugs" (The
Chicago Tribune, Oct. 25, 2002) --
No drugs were found
Wednesday night during the first search of District 303
high schools under a new discipline policy that allows
administrators to work with police and drug-sniffing
dogs. Dogs indicated there may have been drugs in 19
lockers at St. Charles North and St. Charles East High
Schools, but none were found when the lockers were
opened, district spokesman Tom Hernandez said.
ID# 6068
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"Drug czar defends campaign to stop marijuana
legalization" (Gregory Meyer, The Chicago
Tribune, Oct. 23, 2002) --
On his first visit to
Chicago as the nation's latest drug czar, John Walters
sounded an alarm Tuesday about marijuana use by millions
of Americans. His visit comes as states including
Arizona and Nevada consider ballot initiatives that
would loosen laws restricting marijuana use and after
others have passed laws allowing the medicinal use of
the psychoactive drug. "Baby Boomer parents think
it's the soft drug. We've been told it is the drug there
is all this hysteria about, that this is all reefer
madness," he said in an interview with the
Tribune's editorial board. "There's a kind of
reefer madness-madness going on here."
ID# 6060
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"Panel OKs drug rehab center; foes may appeal" (Brian
Clark, The San Diego Union Tribune, Oct. 19, 2002) --
The county Planning
Commission yesterday approved a residential drug
treatment and rehabilitation center in Warner Springs.
The Narconon center would be housed in a former motel
and two houses off state Route 79. It would serve up to
30 people ages 18 to 25, and they would be treated by a
staff of 15, three who would live at the center.
Patients would pay $22,000 to participate in a voluntary
six-month program.
ID# 6058
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"Community anti-drug program didn't work: study" (Reuters
Health, Oct. 21, 2002) --
A program designed to build
a community anti-drug coalition did nothing to lower
rates of substance abuse among adolescents or adults,
according to a new report. Researchers at the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation evaluated the organization's
national program, Fighting Back. The program gave
roughly $3 million over 5 years to community anti-drug
coalitions under the assumption that bringing a
community together is an effective way to reduce the
demand for drugs.
ID# 6053
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"Welfare recipients in Michigan to be tested fro
drug use" (Associated Press, The San
Diego Union Tribune, Oct. 19, 2002) --
A federal appeals court
yesterday cleared the way for Michigan to test welfare
recipients for drug use. U.S. District Court Judge
Victoria Roberts halted a pilot drug-testing program in
1999 after a group of welfare recipients and the
American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan argued that
the testing is unconstitutional. A three-judge panel of
the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday reversed
Roberts' decision, saying the testing program is based
on a legitimate need to ensure that public money is not
used for illegal purposes.
ID# 6054
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"Board of supervisors says no to medical marijuana" (Travis
Bone, The Gay and Lesbian Times , Oct. 10, 2002) --
The county
of San Diego has finally decided to take a stand on
Medical Marijuana. Since the passage of Proposition 215
in 1996, which gave patients and caregivers the right to
use marijuana as medicine for the treatment of pain
associated with diseases ranging from AIDS and cancer to
glaucoma, the county, which runs public health programs
all over San Diego, has maintained a hands off approach
to the conflict between state and federal law. Under
federal law, marijuana is still considered a U.S.
Schedule I illegal substance.
ID# 6049
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"S.D. city panel OKs Medical pot rules" (Ray
Huard, The San Diego Union Tribune, Oct. 17, 2002) --
Medical marijuana
guidelines that would allow sick people to keep up to 3
pounds of the drug and grow up to 72 plants for their
own use was approved by a San Diego City Council
committee yesterday. "I believe this is right. I
believe it's right for suffering people to have some
relief," said Councilman George Stevens. The
guidelines, adopted in a 4-1 vote by the Public Safety
and Neighborhood Services Committee, also would allow
caregivers who grow marijuana for up to six patients to
keep as much as 12 pounds of marijuana and grow as many
as 90 plants.
ID# 6048
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"2 New Poway laws would address drug, alcohol abuse" (Brian
Clark, The San Diego Union Tribune, Oct. 17, 2002) --
The City Council has given
preliminary approval to ordinances aimed at reducing
drug use, drinking and drunken driving by young people.
Both measures were approved by the council on 4-0 votes
Tuesday night, with Betty Rexford absent. Advocates say
Poway would be the first city in the county to enact
laws requiring restaurant and bar employees to take
classes from the state Alcoholic Beverage Control
Department. Servers would be taught, among other things,
that they are required to cut off inebriated patrons.
ID# 6047
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"Task Force issues its cannabis proposals" (Ray
Huard, The San Diego Union Tribune, Oct. 15, 2002) --
Sick people who use
marijuana under a doctor's advice could keep up to 3
pounds of the drug without fear of arrest from San Diego
police under guidelines proposed by a citizens task
force. The city's Medical Cannabis Task Force
recommendations also would allow patients to grow as
many as 72 marijuana plants for their own use.
ID# 6040
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"Proposed Substance Abuse Laws hailed by prevention
groups" (Andrea Moss, The North County
Times, Oct.16, 2002) --
Leaders of substance-abuse
prevention efforts hailed two draft ordinances related
to alcohol and drugs Tuesday, but told the Poway City
Council they would like to see one of the laws go even
further. The comments came during a council meeting at
which the panel gave its preliminary approval to the
proposed ordinances, designed to decrease drunken
driving and underage drinking. Each will be discussed
again before a final vote at the council's Oct. 29
meeting.
ID# 6041
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"US drug officials support 'rave'
crackdown law" (Todd
Zwillich, Reuters Health, Oct.14 , 2002) --
Drug officials voiced
support on Capitol Hill Thursday for a proposed federal
law that would hamper popular "rave" parties
where some young people buy Ecstasy and other drugs. The
law would extend current drug penalties to make it
illegal for property owners to knowingly rent or
maintain property that is being used to manufacture,
store or use drugs. Under the legislation, property
owners or managers could be fined up to $250,000 if
convicted of the offense, even if they are not involved
with drug dealing or distribution.
ID# 6037
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"New bill would ban steroid-like muscle builders" (Todd
Zwillich, Reuters Health, Oct.9 , 2002) --
A bill introduced in the US
Congress Wednesday seeks to ban over-the-counter sales
of steroid-like performance enhancers available in many
health-food stores. The measure would reclassify steroid
precursors like androstenedione and androstenediol as
schedule III controlled substances, making them
available only with a doctor's prescription.
ID# 6036
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"Rape-Drug Detectors: California YWCA Branch
Distributes Devices to Spot Date-Rape Drugs" (Debora
Villalon, ABC News, Oct. 6, 2002) --
Students at San Jose State
University are among the first in California getting a
look at the coasters, which contain test spots designed
to chemically react and change color when someone uses a
finger or a swizzle stick to put a drug-tainted drink
sample on them. If the drugs are not detected, the test
spots' appearance should not change, though sometimes
false positives occur... Bars around campus also are
being asked to make the coasters available to customers.
As of last week, only the Brittania Arms had agreed.
ID# 6032
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"County to city: No marijuana use" (Marty
Graham, The San Diego Union Tribune, Oct. 3, 2002) --
County supervisors voted
4-1 Tuesday to ask the San Diego City Council to reject
a proposal that would allow medical marijuana users to
have up to three pounds of the illegal drug at a time.
Opponents, including members of the city's Cannabis Task
Force, decried the supervisors' vote, saying the
information presented by supervisors was inaccurate and
misleading.
ID# 6021
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"Medical marijuana conflict intensifies" (Marisa
Taylor, The San Diego Union Tribune, Oct. 1st, 2002) --
The dispute over medical
marijuana has turned into a war of words, providing yet
more proof of a deepening conflict between California
and the U.S. Justice Department over whether medical
marijuana providers should be left alone. Last month,
California Attorney General Bill Lockyer complained
about recent federal raids of California cannabis clubs
in a letter to U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and
Asa Hutchinson, chief of the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration.
ID# 6017
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