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"New meth like Pill popping up on underground club
scene" (Louise Chu, The San Diego Union
Tribune, Sept. 29, 2002) -- The
newest thing to hit the underground club scene in
California is a sweet, colorful little pill that can
keep someone dancing all night long. But what might seem
as harmless as candy is a new form of methamphetamine
called ya ba, a Thai name meaning "crazy
drug," that is said to be significantly more
powerful and dangerous than the current club
drug of choice, Ecstasy.
ID# 6012
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"Drug Ballads Hit Sour Notes" (Anne-Marie
O'Connor, The Los Angeles Times, Sept. 30, 2002) --
It was supposed to be the
day the music died. In an elegant hotel salon, the
governor of Baja California gathered with guests of
honor to witness a solemn promise to purge the state's
radio airwaves of "narco-ballads"--songs about
narcotics traffickers--a genre as popular, gory, and
hard to banish as gangsta rap.
ID# 6015
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"With Court Nod, Parents Debate School Drug Tests" (Tamar
Lewin, The New York Times, Sept. 29, 2002) --
In this serene lakeside town, a
group has gathered at the high school each week since
August to try to hammer out a consensus on drug testing
in the schools a pastor, a basketball coach, a sheriff,
a social worker, a superintendent and assorted parents,
teachers, students and school board members.
ID# 6014
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"Popular diet pills may pose health
risk" (Chanel Hachez, The
Telescope, May 13, 2002) -- About
17.2 million Americans buy diet potions and pills hoping
to lose weight each year, said in a report by the FDA.
Most of them are worthless- some of them are downright
dangerous. So why are they for sale? Do diet pills,
whether prescription or over the counter, work? The
craze today with many students is to depend on diet
pills to lose weight. But these pills typically fail to
live up to their promises and could even harm the users,
experts say.
ID# 6010
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"Study: Illegal substance use rising among college
student" (Jennifer Rogers, The Daily
Aztec, Sept. 26, 2002) -- Drug
use among college students is on the rise, according to
recent studies across the nation. Marijuana, cocaine and
ecstasy are the most common illegal substances on the
rise being used by college students. According to the
Core Institute's annual survey on drug and alcohol use
in college, students have been smoking more marijuana in
the last decade. In 1989, 26.4 percent of college
students between the ages of 18 and 25 said they use
marijuana, compared to 33.4 percent in 2000. "Weed
is easier to get than alcohol if you're not over
21," communication senior Taylor Steadman said.
"It is not even considered a drug by most kids our
age."
ID# 6008
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"Escondido adopts curfew hours of 11p.m. to 5a.m." (Daniel
Chacon, The San Diego Union Tribune, Sept. 26, 2002) --
Ramiro Vasquez is supposed
to be home each night by 8 o'clock. Curfew for the
17-year-old isn't a rule his parents made up, but one
imposed by Drug Court over his experimentation with
graffiti and drugs. For the rest of the city's
18-and-under set, curfew is now an hour later. The City
Council yesterday adopted a San Diego County grand jury
recommendation that curfew hours be from 11 p.m. to 5
a.m. instead of the city's 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. The grand
jury's recommendation was made in an attempt to have
consistent curfew hours throughout neighboring
jurisdictions.
ID# 6005
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"Pot activists face federal bundle" (Marisa
Taylor, The San Diego Union Tribune, Sept. 26, 2002) --
Medical-marijuana activist
Steve McWilliams believes the law is on his side when he
dispenses pot to the sick. After all, California voters
in 1996 approved Proposition 215, which allows patients
to grow and use marijuana for medicinal purposes. He may
not be as protected as he thinks. The federal law that
prohibits the cultivation of marijuana supersedes
California law and that allows the U.S. attorney in
San Diego to seek criminal charges against McWilliams.
ID# 6004
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"Survey: Parents, siblings influence teens' drug
use" (Clementine Wallace, Reuters Health, Sept. 19, 2002) --
Good family communication
can help teens stay away from drugs, alcohol and
tobacco, and siblings play an important role in getting
the message across, according to a new survey by the
National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA)
at Columbia University in New York.
ID# 5997
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"New drug seeping into California Communities " (Louise
Chu, The North County Times, Sept. 22, 2002) --
The newest thing to hit the
underground club scene in California is a sweet,
colorful little pill that can keep someone dancing all
night long.But what may seem as harmless as candy is a
new form of methamphetamine called ya ba, a Thai name
meaning "crazy drug." It is said to be
significantly more powerful ---- and dangerous ---- than
the current club drug of choice, Ecstasy.
ID# 5995
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"Keep Striving Toward a Rational
Drug Policy" (The
Los Angeles Times, Sept. 21, 2002) -- Mike
Males' "High Crimes and Misdemeanors"
(Opinion, Sept. 15) gives the dangerous and faulty
impression that marijuana is no more harmful for
adolescents than for adults. The "Marijuana Myths,
Marijuana Facts" reference he provides for this
statement is 5 years old. A recent study revealed that
people who begin smoking marijuana before age 17 have
smaller brains and less gray matter than those who start
smoking later in life. Data from adults show no
differences in brain structure between marijuana smokers
and nonsmokers.
ID# 5992
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"Meth Makers Target Farmers' Fertilizer" (The
Los Angeles Times, Sept. 22, 2002) --
Dale Parmley has lost count
of how many times that thieves have crept onto his
1,800-acre farm to rob him. You might think that he was
mining gold instead of growing corn and soybeans. The
bandits are after anhydrous ammonia, a volatile liquid
fertilizer that can be used to produce methamphetamine.
ID# 5991
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"Coronado SAFE Helps Parents and Kids Avoid Drugs" (Coronado
Eagle & Journal, Sept. 4, 2002) -- Kids who
want to get illegal drugs and alcohol in Coronado don't
have to go anywhere to find it, says Cecily Kelly,
executive director of the Coronado SAFE Foundation.
"Kids will tell you they know who among their peers
they could approach to get drugs," she said.
"They can buy drugs without leaving Coronado or
without somebody from outside coming in."
ID# 5990
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"Public urged to prevent underage drinking" (Coast
News, Sept. 5, 2002) -- With the school year
starting and the Labor Day weekend approaching, local
officials and youth advocates gathered in front of the
Oceanside Police Department to urge the public to report
underage drinking parties to the WeTIP Crime reporting
hotline at 180078CRIME (or 18007827463).
ID# 5988
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"Study: Most Drug Inmates Not Violent"
(Yahoo News, Sept. 20, 2002) --
Most drug offenders in
state prisons are black males with no history of
violence or high-level drug dealing, an interest group
says. The Sentencing Project, which advocates for
alternatives to incarceration, says that just over half
of these state inmates 58 percent, or 124,885 people
are nonviolent offenders. "They represent a
pool of appropriate candidates for diversion to
treatment programs or some other type of community-based
sanctions," the authors wrote.
ID# 5985
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"The hospice raid and the war on drugs" (Ethan
Nadelmann, The San Diego Union Tribune, Sept. 19, 2002) --
The war on drugs keeps
getting bigger and meaner. Just when you think the tide
is beginning to turn, someone in charge takes it a step
further. Last week, DEA agents armed with automatic
weapons raided a hospice on the outskirts of Santa Cruz
because it grew and used marijuana for its patients,
most of them terminally ill.
ID# 5982
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"Pot grower gets letter of warning" (Jeff
McDonald, The San Diego Union Tribune, Sept. 20, 2002) --
Federal law enforcement
officials in San Diego may be preparing to crack down on
medical marijuana activist Steven McWilliams, who this
week handed out samples of the drug to sick people
outside City Hall. An agent from the U.S. Drug
Enforcement Administration approached McWilliams on the
street as he was running errands yesterday afternoon and
hand-delivered a letter warning him to stop cultivating
his plants or face arrest.
ID# 5981
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"Local Drug Raid Part of Nationwide Sweep"
(NBC San Diego, Sept. 19, 2002) -- A drug raid by
federal agents at a home in North Park was part of a
nationwide operation on Internet drug trafficking that
resulted in 115 arrests in 84 cities, the Justice
Department said Thursday. The San Diego raid resulted in
the arrests of two men. Agents from the Drug Enforcement
Administration carried off computers and seized illegal
drugs including GHB, Ecstasy and methamphetamine,
authorities said.
ID# 5979
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"EU to crack down on chemicals used in illegal
drugs " (Reuters
Health, Sept.
18, 2002) -- A
new regulation to reinforce controls on the trade of
chemicals that can be used to make illegal drugs was
proposed by the European Union's executive branch on
Wednesday. The European Commission proposal would
toughen the existing rules on substances that have
legitimate uses but can also form the precursors for
drugs such as heroin and cocaine.
ID# 5974
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"Dozens held in date-rape drug probe " (MSNBC
News, Sept. 19, 2002) -- Federal
authorities have arrested dozens of people in 70 cities
on charges that they sold the date-rape drug popularly
known as GHB over the Internet, U.S. officials told NBC
News on Wednesday.
ID# 5973
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"Police discover meth lab near elementary school " (Gene
Maddaus, The Los Angeles Times, Sept. 19, 2002) --
Officers conducting a
search found a methamphetamine lab in a house just 30
feet from an elementary school Wednesday morning. In a
simultaneous search at a home in El Monte, officers
found 10 pounds of finished methamphetamine and $1
million in cash, Baldwin Park Police Lt. Michael Davis
said. The cash came from narcotics sales, police said.
ID#5972
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"Pot Advocates face
up to 40 years" (by
Holly Wolcott, Los Angeles Times, Sept. 18, 2002)
-- Lockwood
Valley residents Lynn and Judy Osburn, medical marijuana
advocates repeatedly targeted by authorities for growing
pot, have been charged in federal court in a case that
could land them in prison for up to 40 years. A federal
prosecutor said Tuesday he is preparing his case against
the couple following their most recent arrest, in which
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents seized 32
marijuana plants at the Osburns' northern Ventura County
ranch.
ID# 5968
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"2 canisters found by woman may be portions of meth
lab " (The San Diego Union Tribune, Sept.
18, 2002) -- A
woman who was out for her nightly walk yesterday brought
home two plastic canisters that looked like pipe bombs,
sheriff's officials said. Bomb-arson squad detectives
decided the devices weren't explosive, but were parts of
a portable methamphetamine lab.
ID# 5971
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"Prescription: Pot Santa Cruz defies feds with
marijuana giveaway " (by Martha
Mendoza, The San Diego Union Tribune, Sept.
18, 2002) -- Calling
Santa Cruz a sanctuary from federal authorities,
medicinal marijuana advocates joined by city leaders
passed out pot yesterday to about a dozen sick
people at City Hall. "Santa Cruz is a special
place, and today we're letting the world know how
compassionate we can be," Mayor Christopher Krohn
said. "We're taking a stand."
ID# 5969
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"Risks of pot use greater than thought, parents
cautioned " (by The Associated Press, The San Diego Union Tribune, Sept.
18, 2002) -- The
nation's drug policy director warned parents yesterday
against trivializing the dangers of marijuana to their
kids, warning them that more teens are addicted to pot
than to alcohol or all other illegal drugs combined.
Many parents and children have outdated perceptions
about marijuana, said John Walters, director of the
Office of National Drug Control Policy.
ID# 5967
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"Marijuana offered outside City Hall " (by
Ray Huard, The San Diego Union Tribune, Sept.
18, 2002) -- McWilliams
said he was trying to draw attention to what he said was
the city's delay in issuing identification cards to
medical marijuana users. He said the city also needs to
adopt guidelines on who should be allowed to grow
marijuana for sick people and how much they could
legally grow.
ID# 5965
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"Center comes to
aid of teen addicts" (by
Laura Cruz, El Paso Times, Sept. 17, 2002)
-- Serena Pickman,
administrator at the NCED Mental Health Center, walks
down the center's hallway, which is filled with antidrug
posters. A new treatment program geared toward
adolescents started Monday. El Paso now has a dedicated
residential treatment program for teens who have the
common and difficult combination of a mental-health
disorder and an addiction to drugs or alcohol.
ID# 5963
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"9 Marines charged with selling, using drugs; some
face hearings " (by Jeanette Steele, The San Diego Union Tribune, Sept.
17, 2002) -- Nine
Marines from an infantry battalion have been charged
with selling or using drugs, and some face grand
jury-type hearings next week. Many of the charges
involve Ecstasy, the so-called club drug that has
plagued military and civilian police departments as the
cheap, easily obtainable pills have grown in popularity.
ID# 5962
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"Know the Score
About Dangerous Drugs Like Steroids" (by
Health Scout News, Yahoo News, Sept. 15, 2002)
-- Anabolic
steroids, human growth hormones and nutritional
supplements can be all too tempting for young athletes
trying to maximize their performance. Now, the National
Collegiate Athletic Association has adopted a Web-based
drug education and wellness program for student athletes
to help them make the right decisions.
ID# 5959
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"Survey Finds
'Denial Gap' on Drug Abuse" (by
Felicity Stone, Yahoo News, Sept. 13, 2002)
-- Millions of
Americans habitually smoke pot, snort cocaine and
swallow prescription drugs -- yet many of them deny they
might be addicts in need of help. So say the findings of
a new U.S. government report on drug abuse, which finds
a surprising number of people are unaware that they have
a serious problem.
ID# 5950
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"Routine Steroids Testing
for Fighters in New York" (by
Mike Freeman, The New York Times, Sept. 13, 2002)
-- Professional
boxers who fight in New York will now be required to
submit to regular steroid testing, making New York the
first state in the nation to test for the substance
routinely, boxing officials said yesterday. "The
main thing we are trying to do is protect the health of
our fighters since numerous tests have shown that
steroid use can damage the body," said Barry
Jordan, a neurologist and the chief medical officer for
the New York State Athletic Commission. "This is a
significant step in that direction."
ID# 5949
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"Pot bust follows a probe of thefts" (by
Irene Jackson, The San Diego Union Tribune, Sept.
13, 2002) -- A
six-week investigation into a vehicle-theft ring led
California Highway Patrol officers yesterday to a large
marijuana farm on an oak-studded 30-acre ranch here. By
day's end, about 2,200 pot plants were found growing
indoors and outside and four people were arrested by
Narcotics Task Force officers who were called in to
assist the CHP.
ID# 5946
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"Pot Farm Discovered in East County" (NBC
San Diego, Sept. 12, 2002) -- Authorities arrested
several people Thursday after stumbling across a
clandestine marijuana-growing operation in East County
while serving a warrant related to another
investigation. California Highway Patrol officers came
across a large plot of marijuana plants near State Route
79 and Old Highway 80 near the rural community of
Descanso, according to CHP public affairs Officer Phil
Konstantin.
ID# 5944
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"ICC to educate
players on doping, list of banned drugs sent to all
member countries" (by
Dilip Ganguly, Yahoo News, Sept. 12, 2002)
-- The
International Cricket Council will educate cricketers so
that players using drugs out of ignorance will stop
doing so well before next year's World Cup when such
performance enhancing drugs would be banned. The doping
regime will come into force during the 2003 World Cup
and the ICC believes that, with a majority of cricket
playing nations having no formal doping regulations, it
is the right time to start an education program.
ID# 5942
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"Jordanian man pleads guilty to role in nationwide
drug ring" (by Marisa Taylor, The San Diego Union Tribune, Sept.
12, 2002) -- A Jordanian man pleaded guilty
yesterday in a nationwide case that targeted smugglers
of pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient in the production
of methamphetamine. Hussein Mohammad Hussein, 29, is the
first San Diego defendant to plead guilty in the federal
case. He admitted distributing close to seven pounds of
the chemical used to make methamphetamine.
ID# 5940
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"Santa Cruz officials to join medical pot users at
giveaway" (by Martha Mendoza, The San Diego Union Tribune, Sept.
12, 2002) -- City leaders plan to join medical
marijuana users at a pot giveaway at City Hall next
week. Their goal is to send a message to federal
authorities that, in this town, medical marijuana is
welcome. The development comes one week after agents
from the Drug Enforcement Agency arrested the
high-profile owners of a pot farm and confiscated 130
plants that had been grown to be used as medicine.
ID# 5939
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"3 arrested in Bust
of Major Drug Ring" (The
Los Angeles Times, Sept. 11, 2002)
-- Three key
figures in a major Central Coast drug ring have been
arrested by federal agents. Aided by Watsonville police,
the FBI built a case against the three men, who were
arrested Monday and booked for investigation of
attempting to distribute more than 500 grams of
methamphetamine.
ID# 5935
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"Use of illegal drug khat coming to the U.S. with
immigrants" (by Stephanie Siek, The San Diego Union Tribune, Sept.
11, 2002) -- An influx of immigrants from Somalia
and other African and Middle Eastern countries has led
to increased use in some U.S. cities of the illegal drug
khat, a leaf that usually is chewed for its
amphetaminelike high, authorities say. Although khat has
been seen in Detroit and New York since the 1980s, it
was virtually unknown in places like Columbus and
Minneapolis until the late 1990s, law enforcement
authorities say.
ID# 5936
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"European court
opinion delivers blow to tobacco companies' campaign
against EU rules" (by
Paul Ames, Yahoo News, Sept. 10, 2002)
-- Tobacco
companies received a major setback Tuesday in their
legal efforts to overturn strict new European Union (
news - web sites) regulations on the manufacture and
marketing of cigarettes. The Advocate General of the
European Union's highest court rejected arguments by
British American Tobacco Ltd. and Imperial Tobacco Ltd.
that the new laws were illegal.
ID# 5932
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"A lamentable two-fer
Starving recovering addicts is stupid" (The
Sacramento Bee, Sept. 10, 2002)
-- Want
to increase the number of desperate people forced to
steal to eat? Want to make it harder for recovering drug
addicts to fully recover or get a job and support their
families? Want to increase the chance that crime rates
will start rising again?
ID# 5931
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"Kids' Internet
Domain to Follow FCC Rules" (by
Reuters, The Los Angeles Times, Sept. 10, 2002)
-- Sex, violence
and foul language prohibited by the Federal
Communications Commission would be banned from a
children's Internet domain. Washington-based NeuStar
Inc., which plans to set up the kid-friendly Internet
zone, said it would rely on existing guidelines for
television and advertising to determine what material
would be appropriate for the ".kids.us"
domain.
ID# 5929
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"School safety in sharp focus" (by
Jill Spielvogel, The San Diego Union Tribune, Sept.
10, 2002) -- When students returned to West Hills
High this year, two additional "eyes" were
watching as they arrived on campus, hung out in the
school's quad and headed home for the day. In an era
when school safety is a key concern, West Hills is among
a growing number of campuses that have installed cameras
to monitor students and others who enter the campus. The
hope is that the cameras will deter misbehavior and
capture images of those involved in campus fights,
weekend vandalism or more serious crimes.
ID# 5930
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"Nevada Ponders
Looser Curbs on Marijuana" (by
Rene Sanchez, The Washington Post, Sept. 7, 2002)
-- As soon as he
took over the nation's only campaign to make even
recreational use of marijuana legal, Billy Rogers laid
down a few firm rules. No stoners hanging out at the
headquarters here. No pot plants either. And no straying
from the core message to voters This is to free cops and
courts from the burdens of petty drug busts, not just to
win the right to get high.
ID# 5927
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"The myth of 'superweed'
" (by
Clarence Page, The Chicago Tribune, Sept. 8, 2002)
-- The nation's
drug czar is annoyed again. This time it is with me.
Without mentioning me by name, a guest column by John P.
Walters, director of the Office of National Drug Control
Policy, in the Sept. 1 San Francisco Chronicle held up
one of my columns as an example of how journalists can
be "fed misleading advocacy information that they
swallow whole."
ID# 5926
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"Canadian senators
urge legalizing pot" (by Kim Lunman, The San Diego Union Tribune, Sept.
7, 2002) -- A
Canadian Senate committee is recommending legalization
of marijuana and putting its distribution in the hands
of the state, touching off a national debate on the
drug's use and infuriating groups like the Canadian
Police Association. The 600-page report issued this week
concluded that marijuana should be readily available to
consumers.
ID# 5922
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"10% in high school try Ecstasy, survey says" (by
the Associated Press, The San Diego Union Tribune, Sept.
7, 2002) -- A survey of California students released
yesterday found more than 10 percent of high school
students have tried the drug Ecstasy, prompting the
state to create a media campaign to target use of the
drug. The biennial survey by state Attorney General Bill
Lockyer's office found Ecstasy was the third most
popular drug among the seventh-, ninth-and 11th-graders
questioned.
ID# 5921
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"'Denial gap' fuels
drug abuse" (by
Shira Kantor, The Chicago Tribune, Sept. 6, 2002)
-- Far more
Americans could benefit from drug abuse treatment than
previously thought, but the vast majority of them don't
believe they need help, according to an annual study
released Thursday by the Department of Health and Human
Services. "The denial gap is one of our biggest
treatment problems," said John Walters, director of
National Drug Control Policy.
ID# 5918
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"Meth Lab's Dump
Found in Canyon" (by
Vivian Letran, The Los Angeles Times, Sept. 6, 2002)
-- The state
Justice Department said it has uncovered a
methamphetamine dump site in Black Star Canyon.
Officials said Wednesday that they discovered 20 black
trash bags along a private road. The bags contained
toxic chemical waste, glassware, antifreeze containers
and other materials.
ID# 5915
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"California crime rate
up again after dipping in the 1990s" (by
Gregory Gross, The San Diego Union Tribune, Sept.
6, 2002) -- Crime
in California continued its slow upward march last year,
and San Diego County was no exception, according to a
state report released yesterday. The 3.7 percent
increase continues a pattern long predicted by law
enforcement officials and criminologists, who have
warned that crime rates could be expected to rise after
a decade of dramatic declines, especially in the face of
a slackening economy and a growing population of teens
and young adults.
ID# 5917
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"Drug use up among
youth" (by Sumana Chatterjee, The San Diego Union Tribune,
Sept. 6, 2002) -- Use
of marijuana, cocaine and other illegal drugs increased
sharply among young Americans last year, a government
survey says. The survey also found sharp increases in
the nonmedical use of prescription painkillers and
tranquilizers. Only tobacco use declined. John Walters,
the director of the White House Office of National Drug
Control Policy, attributed the increased marijuana use
to "a fundamental misunderstanding" propagated
by the baby boomer generation that marijuana is safe and
should be legal.
ID# 5916
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"Critics protest
anti-drug tactics" (By
Donna Leinwand, Yahoo News, September 5, 2002)
-- In drug-plagued
neighborhoods of Wilmington, Del., it's become a
nighttime routine Police ''jump out'' squads descend on
a street corner, round up a few suspected dealers and
cart them off to jail. But then the cops go a step
further They detain others in the area for up to two
hours, take digital photographs of them, get their names
and other details, and then put the information in a
database to use in future investigations.
ID# 5913
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"Our Appetite for
Drugs" (By
Joan Mistretta, The New York Times, September 5, 2002)
-- Re "U.S. to
Step Up Spraying to Kill Colombia Coca" (front
page, Sept. 4) It seems typical of American arrogance
that it is our drug use that creates and sustains the
drug trade, and yet our solution is to take aim at the
farmers of Colombia. What difference will it make if we
kill all the coca crops in Colombia?
ID# 5911
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"How much of a problem
are illegal drugs anyhow?" (By Keith
Taylor, The San Diego Union Tribune,
September 5, 2002) -- According
to a recent article in The San Diego Union-Tribune, the
Navy discharged more people last year for drug use than
all the other services combined. They booted some 3,407
sailors. It wasn't like this in the good old days. Back
when I was a sailor, we didn't have drugs.
ID# 5909
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"Canadian
Parliament committee calls for legalizing marijuana" (By
Tom Cohen, The North County Times,
September 5, 2002) -- A parliamentary committee
called for legalizing marijuana use among adults,
increasing pressure on the government to shift drug laws
away from the zero-tolerance policy of the United
States. The report by the Senate Committee on Illegal
Drugs recommended that Canada adopt a system that
regulates marijuana the same way as alcohol, and expunge
criminal records for marijuana possession.
ID# 5908
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"U.S. Intensifies
Colombian drug war" (by Juan Forero, The San Diego Union Tribune,
September 4, 2002) -- With the full
support of the Colombian president, the United States
has begun what U.S. officials say will be the biggest
and most aggressive effort yet to wipe out coca growing.
ID# 5902
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"Museum exhibit links
drug trade to terror" (by the
Associated Press, The San Diego Union Tribune,
September 4, 2002) -- Attorney
General John Ashcroft and former New York City Mayor
Rudolph Giuliani helped open a museum exhibit yesterday
intended to show Americans that buying illegal drugs can
support terrorist attacks. The exhibit, titled
"Target America," includes rubble from the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It is housed at a
museum in the Drug Enforcement Administration's
headquarters.
ID# 5900
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"For some, 'yaba'
becoming a drug of choice" (By
Steve Wiegand, The Sacramento Bee, September 2, 2002)
-- But whatever you
call it, law enforcement officials say the highly
addictive tablet has become the drug of choice among
drug users in Sacramento's burgeoning Southeast Asian
community, and has the potential to spread elsewhere as
it becomes more prevalent. "We are seeing it in
pretty significant numbers," said Sacramento County
Undersheriff John McGinness. "We are going to see
it at problem levels, there's no doubt about it."
ID# 5895
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"Scientists say
long-term effects of Ecstasy unclear" ( By Patricia
Reaney, Reuters
Health, September 3, 2002)
-- The party drug
Ecstasy may be dangerous and could cause brain damage,
but its long-term effects are still unclear, a team of
researchers said on Monday. The dance clubbers' favorite
drug has been linked to psychological and memory
problems but scientists in Britain and the United States
said results of studies of Ecstasy may have been
misinterpreted and sensationalized by the media.
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"Police arrest
Mexican man accused of heading up Texas drug gang" (
Yahoo News, September 2, 2002)
-- Police arrested
the alleged leader of a powerful Texas-based gang that
distributed loads of cocaine across the United States,
the Mexican attorney general's office said in a
statement Saturday. Authorities said Juan Heriberto
Carrillo Olivas, a Mexican citizen, headed up a gang in
El Paso, Texas, that used a fleet of tractor-trailers to
transport cocaine to other U.S. cities, according to the
statement.
ID# 5887
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"Bill OKs Free Sale
of Syringes" (By
Charles Ornstein, The Los Angeles Times, August
31, 2002)
-- The Legislature
gave its final approval Friday to a measure that would
allow pharmacies to sell up to 30 syringes, or
hypodermic needles, to an adult without a prescription.
Supporters say over-the-counter syringe sales would
reduce the spread of HIV and infectious hepatitis among
drug users, saving millions of dollars in medical costs.
ID# 5881
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" U.S. drug czar
lauds Mexico but says job's not done" (by
Sandra Dibble, The San Diego Union Tribune, August
31, 2002) -- The U.S. drug
czar yesterday visited this city on the front lines of
the drug wars and praised the Mexican government's
efforts to fight traffickers. "From
two years ago, there's no question that Mexico is moving
ahead," said John P. Walters, director of the White
House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
ID# 5886
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" Drug czar likes the
way Oceanside's testing works" (by
Lola Sherman, The San Diego Union Tribune, August
31, 2002) -- For
the first time yesterday, the White House drug czar
said, he got to talk with students actually involved in
a mandatory drug-testing program. John Walters, director
of National Drug Control Policy, said afterward that he
liked what he heard. "It's great to see their
positive attitude."
ID# 5885
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" Seizure in
Idyllwild marks start of pot-harvest time" (by
The Associated Press, The San Diego Union Tribune,
September 1, 2002) -- A seizure of some 3,460
marijuana plants this week in the San Bernardino
National Forest signaled the beginning of
marijuana-harvest time, narcotic agents said.
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"White House pushes
for more drug testing in schools" (By Todd Zwillich,
Reuters
Health, August 30, 2002)
-- Capitalizing on
a recent US Supreme Court decision, Bush administration
officials on Thursday encouraged more of the nation's
public school districts to consider implementing random
drug testing of students. White House drug policy
officials released a new booklet they said is designed
to help middle schools and high schools decide if and
how they should begin testing students for drug use.
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"Government to pay
farmers to switch from coca to trees" (The
Chicago Tribune, August 29, 2002) -- Colombia
will spend $300 million over the next four years to
persuade peasant farmers growing raw materials for
cocaine and heroin to switch to forestry instead, a
senior official said Wednesday. The project will replace
Plan Colombia, implemented under then-President Andres
Pastrana, which had mixed results in encouraging
peasants to swap coca leaves and opium poppies for legal
crops.
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"Pot smoking in
youth tied to more drug use later" (Reuters
Health, August 29, 2002) -- People who first try
marijuana early in life may be more likely than others
to abuse or become dependent on illegal drugs later on,
US government researchers said on Wednesday. They found
that 62% of adults ages 26 or older who first started
using marijuana before they were 15 had also tried
cocaine at some point. More than 9% reported they had
used heroin, and more than half had used prescription
drugs for recreational purposes.
ID# 5860
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" Protect police
officers: make syringe purchase legal" (by
Norm Stamper, The San Diego Union Tribune, August
29, 2002) -- Connecticut legalized purchase and
possession of syringes in 1992. The U.S. Center for
Disease Control and Johns Hopkins University studied the
effect of syringe decriminalization on needlestick
injuries to police officers in New Haven, Conn. They
reviewed over a thousand drug-related arrests in the six
months leading up to decriminalization, and another
thousand in the six months following.
ID# 5864
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" It's harvest time
for pot thieves as well" (by Jeff
McDonald, The San Diego Union Tribune, August
29, 2002) -- In
this most sensitive time of the season, McWilliams has
taken to sleeping in his garden, next to thousands of
dollars' worth of maturing marijuana plants he smokes to
ease chronic pain from a motorcycle crash. Twice
this week, and too many times in the past to count,
thieves tried to climb into his yard and steal his crop.
Last year, he was beaten and kicked in the head by
someone who was after his plants.
ID# 5863
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" 6,000 POT PLANTS
FOUND IN EAST COUNTY" (KFMB TV,
CHANNEL 8, August 28, 2002) -- Drug agents
seized more than $1 million worth of marijuana plants on
Tuesday. The 6,000 plants were found growing on the
Santa Ysabel Indian Reservation. No arrests were made,
but undercover agents say there are clear signs that
people had been living there and keeping a close eye on
the property.
ID# 5855
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"Police raid
college dormitory, arrest nine; chief wants dorm
forfeited under federal drug law" (by Stephen
Frothingham, Yahoo News, August 28, 2002) -- Police
arrested nine current and former McIntosh College
students on drug charges Tuesday after a raid on a
college dormitory that the police chief called "an
open-air drug market like we've never seen in the
city." Chief William Fenniman said police would
push to close the dorm, where most of the suspects
lived, under a federal law aimed at crack houses.
ID# 5852
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"Deal is Reached
on Drug Testing" (by Ross Newhan, The Los
Angeles Times, August 28, 2002) -- As
Commissioner Bud Selig was preparing Tuesday to leave
Milwaukee on his private plane today to participate in
the final attempts to reach a bargaining agreement and
avoid baseball's ninth work stoppage in 30 years,
negotiators for the players and owners removed one
obstacle when they reached what a union lawyer confirmed
is a virtual agreement on steroid testing.
ID# 5848
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August 27, 2002 The
New York Times New York, New York
Baseball's Drug Plan
Lacks Muscle Along
with copies of the drug-testing plan that's being worked
out, baseball should send players samples of anabolic
steroids, human growth hormone, andro and other
testosterone-boosting supplements. They'll be free to
use them, anyway.
ID# 5845
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August 26, 2002
Reuters Health
Thais consider vomit
fix to stop drug abuse
Thailand is considering
manufacturing fake speed pills that cause headaches and
vomiting to stop people abusing drugs, Prime Minister
Thaksin Shinawatra said on Monday. "I want the
public health ministry to talk to psychiatrists and
chemists on whether the government should produce drugs
that give people headaches and nausea," Thaksin
told a drugs seminar.
ID# 5843
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Editorial
August 25, 2002 The
Chicago Tribune Chicago, Illinois
Get with the program Cocaine
is not merely a recreational drug. It is an illegal drug
that is highly addictive. Cocaineor st use can result in
seizures, cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest roke.
Cocaine addiction saps financial resources, destroys
relationships and renders professional athletes unable
to compete.
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August 23, 2002 The
Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California
Marijuana court ruling may open door to abuses
Here's a decision that will keep
criminal defense lawyers like me busy for a while. The
California Supreme Court recently put marijuana use for
medical purposes on the same plane as any other
prescription drug. This all goes back to Proposition
215, passed by the voters in California in 1996, which
allows people to grow and use marijuana if they are
doing so for medical purposes.
ID# 5832
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August 23, 2002 USA
TodayU.S.
Seizures of narcotic shrub on the rise
Khat, a narcotic leaf that has long
been popular in East Africa and on the Saudi Arabian
peninsula, is becoming increasingly prevalent in the
USA, largely because of an influx of immigrants from
nations such as Somalia and Yemen, U.S. officials say.
ID# 5831
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August 23, 2002
Reuters HealthEscape
from loneliness may drive Ecstasy Use
Many young people drawn to
the "party drug" Ecstasy may use it as a way
to banish feelings of loneliness, according to new
research. "Given the subjective effects of Ecstasy
in promoting 'togetherness,' it is likely taken by
people who feel socially isolated and perhaps unable to
feel a sense of belonging in other ways," said
researcher Dr. Ami Rokach, of York University in
Toronto, Ontario.
ID# 5828
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August 23, 2002 The
San Diego Union Tribune Couple
indicted for ignoring son's heroin use
A couple showed "conscious disregard" for
their 18-year-old son by ignoring the heroin use that
killed him, a grand jury said in a manslaughter
indictment that legal experts say raises questions about
parental liability.
ID# 5830
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August 22, 2002 El
Paso Times El Paso, TexasTeen
Caught smuggling cocaine
A 17-year-old boy from
Juαrez was caught trying to smuggle 114 pounds of
cocaine, worth over $5 million, on the Bridge of the
Americas Tuesday evening in a pickup, officials of the
U.S. Customs Service said. The seizure blows away the
previous record for largest cocaine load -- 87.5 pounds
on April 22, 1999 -- but also illustrates what officials
say is a sad trend teenagers being used to smuggle
drugs.
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August 22, 2002 The
Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California2
Ex-Officers Sent to Prison for Drug Theft
Two former police officers
were sentenced to prison Wednesday for their roles in a
ring that stole 650 pounds of cocaine from an evidence
locker. Michael Wilcox, 42, a former California Highway
Patrol officer, received a 63-month sentence after
pleading guilty in Los Angeles federal court to
conspiring to distribute cocaine and to structuring a
bank deposit to avoid federal reporting requirements.
ID# 5821
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August 18, 2002 The
North
County Times San Diego California
Medicinal Marijuana use case in court
A Temecula couple facing felony charges of possessing
marijuana for sales say they grew and used the drug
strictly for medicinal purposes ---- as allowed by state
law. Martin and LaVonne Victor were arrested in October
after Riverside County sheriff's deputies raided their
home and seized the marijuana. Both are facing charges
of possession of marijuana for sales and cultivation of
marijuana.
ID# 5824
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August 21, 2002 The
Sacramento Bee Sacramento, California 10
arrested on drug-import chargesTen
people have been arrested after being indicted by a
federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy to import
methamphetamine pills known as Ya Ba.
ID# 5818
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August 19, 2002 The
Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, CaliforniaAnnual
Teen Drug Study Finds Mixed Results
Nearly two-thirds of
teenagers say their schools are drug-free, according to
a survey released Tuesday. But it's good news, bad news
for parents, because the survey group of a thousand
12-to 17-year-olds also says that marijuana is as easy
to get as tobacco and even easier to buy than alcohol.
ID# 5815
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August 18, 2002 The
San Diego Union Tribune San Diego California
Lawless Tijuana prison seized
More than 1,500 heavily armed police stormed Tijuana's
La Mesa State Penitentiary early yesterday and
dismantled its infamous prison community, nicknamed El
Pueblito, the Little Town. Close to 2,200 prisoners were
transferred before daybreak to a new penitentiary about
60 miles east in the tiny community of El Hongo.
ID# 5817
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August 18, 2002 The
North
County Times San Diego California
Scientists weigh merits of pot as pain reliever
Can you inhale your way past the pain and nausea of
diseases such as cancer and AIDS? Plenty of marijuana
advocates say you can, but scientific evidence has been
nearly nonexistent. Now, scientists are stepping up
their research into the painkilling properties of
marijuana and drugs derived from it. Several research
projects are underway at UC San Diego, which is home to
the two-year-old Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research.
ID# 5816
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August 18, 2002 The
North
County Times San Diego California
Teens say marijuana easier to buy than beer, cigarettes
When the National Center on Addiction and Substance
Abuse polled 1,000 teens last winter, 27 percent said
they could buy marijuana in an hour or less; another 8
percent said it would take a few hours. But for the
first time since the study began in 1996, teenagers said
it was easier to buy marijuana than cigarettes or beer.
ID# 5813
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August 19, 2002 Yahoo
News New
Drug Being Imported to Sacramento AreaA
recent drug bust is showing that a more potent form of
methamphetamine is being imported almost exclusively
into the Sacramento area. More than a dozen people have
been arrested as part of an international operation to
import a new drug known as Ya-Ba.
ID# 5814
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August 20, 2002
The New
York Times New York, New York Teens
Say Buying Dope is Easy
Few teenagers say they've tried marijuana, but teens say
it's easier to buy than cigarettes or beer, according to
a national survey. More than one-third of teens polled
by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse
said they could buy marijuana in just a few hours, 27
percent in an hour or less.
ID# 5813
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August 20, 2002
The
Chicago Tribune Chicago, Illinois Cocaine
mother lode sized
Surrounded by hundreds of
bricks of cocaine, Chicago police Monday announced the
seizure of what they said was nearly a quarter-billion
dollars worth of the drug. What officers described as
the largest cocaine seizure in department history also
led to the arrests of a suspected local ringleader of a
Mexican drug cartel as well as two major operatives,
police said.
ID# 5812
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August 20, 2002
The
Sacramento Bee Sacramento, California Nevadans
to vote on legalizing marijuana
The state that turned
"sin" into "$in" is at it again.
With the unique history of having already legalized --
and profited from -- gambling, brothels and quickie
divorces, Nevada voters will decide in November whether
their state should become the first in the nation to
legalize marijuana for recreational use and tax it. The
initiative also puts Nevada at the center of the ongoing
battle between the federal government and the states
over who gets the last word about marijuana laws.
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