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"Teens seek beach, park smoking ban" (Dana
Littlefield, The San Diego Union Tribune, Sept.
28, 2002) --
Californians are already prohibited
from smoking in bars, restaurants, public buildings and
near playgrounds. Now, a youth advocacy group is working
to extend the ban to beaches and parks. The small group
of teens from the Youth Tobacco Prevention Corps, an
offshoot of the San Dieguito Alliance for Drug Free
Youth, have been working since February to educate
children, parents and local legislators about the
dangers of tobacco.
ID# 6013
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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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"200 High Schoolers Show Up Drunk At
Dance" (The Associated Press, NBC San
Diego, Sept. 27, 2002) -- Students at Scarsdale High
School are about to learn that booze and boogie don't
mix. School dances are now banned after about 200
students turned up drunk at a homecoming party. Five of
the 600 students at last Friday night's dance were taken
to hospitals.
ID# 6011
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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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"Alcohol ads in pop-culture magazines target teens,
study finds" (Frank Green, The San Diego
Union Tribune, Sept. 25, 2002) --
Rolling Stone's hip,
under-21 readers might think the latest issue is a trade
magazine for bartenders. Fully 13 pages or 10
percent of the Oct. 3 edition are crammed with
distillers' and brewers' advertisements for Jack
Daniels, Bacardi, Corona and similar adult beverages.
ID# 6003
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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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"States become addicted to tobacco" (George
Will, The San Diego Union Tribune, Sept. 26, 2002) --
Let us stipulate that the
world would be better without cigarettes. But steadily
accumulating evidence indicates that many government
tobacco policies, purportedly designed to discourage
smoking but not too much, are bizarre. In the 1990s,
states sued tobacco companies, ostensibly to recoup
costs to them of their residents' smoking. Put plainly,
which is not how states like to have it put, the primary
aim was to recoup the cost of treating illnesses related
to the legal use of a legal product known to pose health
hazards.
ID# 6007
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"Youth group lobbies for smoke-free beaches" (Adam
Kaye, The North County Times, Sept. 22, 2002) --
Armed with statistics, a
high-tech presentation and a tub full of cigarette
butts, a youth group this week enlisted the support of
three city councils to snuff teen smoking. The Youth
Tobacco Prevention Corps' visits to Encinitas, Del Mar
and Solana Beach prompted proclamations by three mayors
to establish the week of Sept. 28 to Oct. 4 as
"Smoke Free Beach and Parks Week."
ID# 5996
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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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"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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"Study shows booming illegal cigarettes sales to
kids" (El Cajon Gazette, Sept. 10, 2002) --
East County study shows 77 percent of stores do not ask
minors their age. Public Health Community urges
licensing of Tobacco Retailers. Citing a study that
shows illegal cigarette sales to kids have gone up by
more than 50 percent in the last two years, the Tobacco
Free Communities Coalition, led by the American Lung
Association, American Heart Association and American
Cancer Society recently urged the San Diego City Council
to take strong action against stores that sell
cigarettes to minors.
ID# 5989
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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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"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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"Governor signs HIV treatment, tobacco-regulation
measures " (Louise
Chu, The San Diego Union Tribune, Sept. 19, 2002) --
AIDS activists declared a
major legislative victory yesterday, as Gov. Gray Davis
signed a bill that will provide treatment to HIV
patients in the early stages of the disease. The
governor also signed several other health-related bills,
including three to further regulate tobacco sales and
one to create the Asthma and Lung Disease Research Fund.
ID# 5976
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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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"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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"Class action suit against tobacco firms dismissed " (by
Greg Moran, The San Diego Union Tribune, Sept.
14, 2002) -- A
San Diego judge has tentatively dismissed a class-action
suit against major tobacco companies, ruling the legal
action violates the free speech rights of the companies.
Superior Court Judge Ronald S. Prager issued his ruling
Thursday. It came about a month before the case, brought
by four San Diego teen-agers on behalf of all California
minors who smoked a cigarette from April 1994 to
December 1999, was scheduled for trial.
ID# 5957
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"Company Claims Beer Will Reduce 'Beer Belly' " (NBC
News, Sept. 15, 2002) -- Anheuser-Busch
is getting ready to offer beer drinkers a way to cut
down on their "beer bellies" without giving up
the brew. Michelob Ultra will be the first beer in the
United States to claim that it's low in carbohydrates.
ID# 5956
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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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"More people die from cigarettes than alcohol" (by
Jennifer Cootware, The
North County Times, Sept. 13, 2002) -- I've
been reading some letters lately from people writing in
on the alcohol vs. smoking tax situation and thought I'd
send in a letter clarifying why smokers pay more in
taxes in comparison. First of all, smoking causes more
deaths than alcohol use, motor accidents, AIDS,
homicides, suicides and illicit drug use combined,
according to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
ID# 5945
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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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"Program: Celebrate 21st safely" (by
Leslie Hackett, The
Daily Aztec, Sept.
12, 2002) -- Alcohol, getting hammered and taking
lots of shots is what marketing junior Ben Harvey said
comes to his mind when he thinks about celebrating a
21st birthday. The non-profit organization Be
Responsible About Drinking Inc. has put together a
program to curb binge drinking behavior. The program was
designed in hopes of educating students about the
dangers of over-drinking while celebrating their 21st
birthdays.
ID# 5941
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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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"Effectiveness of stop-smoking aids questioned" (by
Cheryl Clark, The San Diego Union Tribune, Sept.
11, 2002) -- Nicotine replacement products such as
gum and patches have lost their effectiveness in helping
smokers quit long term, a UCSD study has found.
"These products have a role in removing symptoms of
nicotine withdrawal when you're trying to quit, which is
important," John P. Pierce, University of
California San Diego professor and lead author of the
report, said yesterday.
ID# 5937
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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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"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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"Inconsiderate actions are cause for concern" (by
Abra DeGeare, The Daily Aztec, Sept. 9, 2002) -- For
35-year College Area resident Boyd Malm, the disrespect
of college students renting in his neighborhood has gone
too far. "The neighborhood is not complaining
because they are just students, these are extenuating
circumstances," Boyd Malm, who lives on 55th Place,
said. College students have urinated, defecated and
stolen from his property, Boyd 0Malm said. They hide
from the cops on his front porch and will keep the
parties going until two or three in the morning.
ID# 5923
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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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"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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"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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"Labor Day Leaves
Four Dead" ( The San Diego Channel,
September 3, 2002) -- Four people died in San Diego
County traffic accidents over the Labor Day weekend, the
California Highway Patrol reported Tuesday. During the
same 78-hour period, CHP officers jailed 108 motorists
in the county on suspicion of driving while intoxicated,
compared with 131 last year.
ID# 5904
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"City explores
limit on liquor licenses in P.B." (by
Ray Huard, The San Diego Union Tribune,
September 4, 2002) -- San
Diego Mayor Dick Murphy and Councilwoman Donna Frye want
the city to limit the number of liquor licenses issued
in Pacific Beach and elsewhere in the city. Speaking
during a council meeting yesterday, Frye said there was
"an overconcentration of liquor licenses in Pacific
Beach." Murphy and Frye said the state has been too
lenient.
ID# 5903
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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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"Canada frequently
bars door to those with DUI convictions" (by
Leslie Fulbright, The San Diego Union Tribune,
September 4, 2002) -- Darin Patrick's lifelong dream
nearly ended at the Canadian border.Immigration
officials checked his identification and told him his
drunken-driving conviction prohibited him from entering
the country. He sat in a truck full of his possessions,
fearing a nearly 5-year-old crime would end his plans to
move to Alaska.
ID# 5901
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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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" Residents: booze
ban doesn't spoil good times" (by
Katherine Marks, The North County Times,
September 3, 2002) -- A new booze ban didn't seem to
dampen spirits at Woodland Park on Labor Day. Shortly
before noon, about a half dozen large groups and
scattered individuals filled the park's picnic areas and
clustered in the shade. With the temperature in the 90s,
the crowd was sparse compared to the turnout on many
weekends.
ID# 5893
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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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" Television ads taken
off air by Boston Beer" (by The
Associated Press, The San Diego Union Tribune, August
30, 2002) -- The
Boston Beer Co. decided to temporarily pull television
ads in response to complaints that they appeared to
depict underage drinking. The decision came the same day
the company ran ads in Boston's two major newspapers
apologizing for its sponsorship of a contest on a New
York radio station two weeks ago in which a couple
allegedly had sex in a cathedral to try to win a trip to
Boston.
ID# 5884
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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.
ID# 5883
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"Escondido Sobriety
Checkpoint Nets 3 DUI Arrests" (KFMB
TV Channel 8, August 31, 2002) -- Escondido
police reported Saturday that a sobriety checkpoint
resulted in the arrests of three people for allegedly
driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Between
9 p.m. Friday and midnight Saturday, 657
ID# 5879
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" Frat Life goes
Upscale" (by Eleanor Yang, The San Diego Union Tribune, August
30, 2002) -- By moving about half of the residential
fraternities to this central location, where they can be
watched more closely, the university hopes to improve
relations with neighbors who long have complained of
rowdy parties, trash and noise. For those accustomed to
fraternity house living, the rules outlined in a 12-page
lease agreement are formidable no kegs, no barbecues, no
bicycles on the balconies and no more than two guests
for each resident.
ID# 5873
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" Global youth
smoking rates big 'problem' " (by
Associated Press, The San Diego Union Tribune, August
30, 2002) -- Health officials are taking a snapshot
of child smoking rates around the world, and they say
the preliminary findings are alarming. In Buenos Aires,
Argentina, one in four children ages 13 to 15 smokes
cigarettes. In Moscow, it's one in three, and in the
Northern Mariana Islands, nearly 40 percent of children
in that age bracket smoke.
ID# 5872
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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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" Beer brewing,
college education not compatible" (by
Kathleen Lippitt, The
North County Times, August 29, 2002) -- British
anti-tobacco groups are concerned that a
British-American tobacco company's $3.8 million donation
to the University of Nottingham will influence academia.
Ya think? But tobacco companies have nothing on alcohol
companies. An American beer company recently donated $5
million to UC Davis to help build a 16,000-square-foot
beer-brewing laboratory.
ID# 5859
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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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" Effort to
Raise Smoking Age 21 dies in Assembly
committee" (by Associated Press, The
North County Times, August 28, 2002) -- A
last-minute legislative maneuver to save a proposal that
would have made California the first in the nation to
raise the smoking age from 18 to 21 died in an Assembly
committee Monday. Sen. Richard Polanco, D-Los Angeles,
pulled his bill, SB 1680, from the Assembly Governmental
Organization Committee, much to the dismay of
Assemblyman Rod Pacheco, R-Riverside, who had amended
the senator's bill last week to include raising the
smoking age.
ID# 5850
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August 26, 2002 The
North
County Times SM
council to consider booze ban In
an attempt to curb complaints from neighbors and
sheriff's deputies about noisy gatherings and
out-of-control behavior in city parks, the City Council
on Tuesday will consider restricting alcohol in those
areas. The council will weigh a recommendation from the
city's Community Services Commission to require people
to get permits before bringing alcohol into city parks.
Except within 100 feet of organized youth activities,
such as Little League or Pop Warner games, alcohol is
allowed in city parks, said Bill Schramm, the city's
community services director.
ID# 5833
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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 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 22, 2002 The
San Diego Union Tribune San Diego California Smoking-age
bill appears dead in committee
A widely watched measure to raise the state's legal
smoking age to 21 was left for dead in a Senate
committee yesterday just hours after the Assembly
embraced the concept for the first time. The bill was
held without debate by the Senate Appropriations
Committee, where it had been sent because of fiscal
implications, notably the potential to cost the state up
to $26 million a year in lost tobacco taxes.
ID# 5822
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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 16, 2002 The
San Diego Channel San Diego California Six
Tons Of Pot Confiscated At Border Federal
agents confiscated more than six tons of marijuana from
a big rig trucker at the U.S.-Mexico border, officials
said Thursday. A service dog alerted U.S. Customs
Service officers to the hidden stash at an Otay Mesa
inspection facility late Wednesday morning, USCS
information officer Vince Bond said.
ID# 5792
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August 16, 2002 The
North
Coiunty Times San Diego California
Officials say Pala iodine crystals lab first in state A
Pala home laboratory that allegedly produced iodine
crystals that can be used to make methamphetamine
appears to be the first of its kind in California,
authorities said this week. Federal and state drug
agents raided the lab the night of July 24 behind Bates
Feed on private property within the Pala Indian
Reservation. They arrested the husband and wife who own
the feed store.
ID# 5791
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August 14, 2002 The
San Diego Union Tribune San Diego California
Bill to increase state's smoking age put on hold
A high-profile measure to raise California's legal
smoking age to 21 appeared to be in trouble yesterday
when it was shelved by a key Senate panel. The
Appropriations Committee will reconsider the legislation
next week, but Chairwoman Dede Alpert, D-Coronado, said
she and other likely supporters are struggling with the
novel proposal, which has drawn national attention.
ID# 5778
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August 14, 2002 The
San Diego Union Tribune San Diego California
Tobacco firms worked to curb marketing of nicotine gum
Tobacco companies in the 1980s and 1990s were able to
strong-arm drug companies into scaling back marketing of
nicotine gum and skin patches that help people quit
smoking, according to a new study of tobacco industry
documents.
ID# 5777
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August 11, 2002 The
San Diego Union Tribune San Diego California
'3 Strikes' no deterrent to drug crimes, study shows.
California's landmark "three strikes and you're
out" law contributed to the state's sharp decrease
in property crimes and violent crimes but has done
nothing to reduce drug offenses, according to a new
report to be released next month. The study by a
consortium of the Claremont colleges was led by a
self-described skeptic of the get-tough sentencing law
and is the first to closely examine its impact on drug
crimes.
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August 12, 2002 The
North
County Times San Diego California
Task Force score tons of pot for $85,000
It's harvest season, and the sheriff's deputies in the
Marijuana Eradication Task Force are busy. Starting
early in the morning, they go out and find hidden pot
patches and tear out the plants, as many as their
$85,000 a year budget will allow., "They get pretty
good bang for their buck," said Lt. Doyle Krouskop,
of the county Sheriff's Department. "Everybody
provides a little help and the funding goes for overtime
and equipment."
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August 9, 2002 The
San Diego Union Tribune San Diego California
$100 million OK'd to offer kids free preschool in L.A.
A commission voted yesterday to provide $100 million in
tobacco tax money to make free preschooling available to
every 3-and 4-year-old child in Los Angeles County. The
nine-member county panel that has final say on
distributing the county's share of the tax money voted
unanimously to create what may be the first and
certainly the largest program of its kind in the nation.
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August 8, 2002 The
San Diego Union Tribune San Diego California
Baseball players union agrees to steroid testing
Weary of the whispers that have grown into screams of
outrage, major league baseball players made their own
major statement yesterday with an agreement to all be
tested for illegal steroids, beginning next season. In
the process, the players union provided the most
promising sign yet that it finally may be able to work
out a collective bargaining agreement with team owners,
thus averting what has been looming as the game's ninth
work stoppage in 30 years.
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August 7, 2002 The
San Diego Union Tribune San Diego California
St. Louis Police Claim Massive Drug Bust
More than 30 people were charged Tuesday in what police
say is the breakup of a massive drug ring in St. Louis.
Police say the ring brought cocaine by the kilo and
marijuana by the ton into the area and used violence to
protect its trade.
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2, 2002 The
San Diego Union Tribune San Diego California Eight-Year
term given in drunken driving fatality
A judge told an Oceanside woman who killed a man while
driving drunk that he wasn't persuaded by her
"crocodile tears" and sentenced her to more
than eight years in prison yesterday. Superior Court
Judge Frederick Maguire said the crash that killed
Joseph "Joey" Martinez, 20, last November
could have been avoided.
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July 30, 2002 The
San Diego Union Tribune San Diego California
Navy
will work to check drug use, secretary says
The Navy's civilian leader yesterday pledged
the service would reverse a three-year trend
of higher drug use among sailors. Navy Secretary
Gordon England, touring San Diego-area Navy
and Marine Corps bases and meeting with local
business leaders, said, "I guess I'm surprised
the numbers are up."
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July 28, 2002 The
San Diego Union Tribune San Diego California
Tijuana
rehab groups find California program helpful
Some Tijuana rehabilitation groups are using
a California training program to help their
staffs work more professionally with drug and
alcohol abusers. The 90-hour course, which starts
this month and continues through November, provides
an overview of pharmacology, pointers on how
to lead group sessions, and methods of properly
evaluating and referring substance abusers for
treatment.
ID# 5708 |
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July 29, 2002 The
San Diego Union Tribune San Diego California
Needle
exchanges start here
San Diego's needle-exchange program is under
way. The pilot program encourages intravenous
drug users to swap dirty needles for clean ones
in hopes of reducing the spread of hepatitis,
HIV and other blood-borne diseases.
ID# 5707 |
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July 20, 2002 The
San Diego Union Tribune San Diego California
Supervisors
to vote on Tobacco law
County supervisors are scheduled to vote on
a law aimed at preventing tobacco products from
getting into the hands of young people. The
board is to vote Tuesday on an ordinance banning
the sale of individual cigarettes; banning the
free distribution of tobacco samples or promotional
items at street fairs and public events; and
preventing businesses from having smoking products
in open display cases, except in bars and places
where minors are not permitted.
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July 22, 2002 The
San Diego Union Tribune San Diego California
Broadcasts
of pro-drug tunes set to end in Baja
Baja California's radio and television stations
have agreed to stop broadcasting music that
glorifies drug trafficking. Station representatives
signed an accord this week that is not legally
binding but targets narco-corridos, catchy tunes
that tell tales of the border culture's drug
trade.
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July 22, 2002 The
San Diego Union Tribune San Diego California
Tijuana
Pipe sales go up in smoke
Decorative pipes bought mostly by tourists are
being targeted by city officials, who say the
pipes promote drug abuse and damage the city's
image. City officials have encouraged vendors
to clear the pipes off their shelves by the
end of this month. Starting in August, said
one official, city inspectors will begin confiscating
the pipes during their routine rounds.
ID# 5667 |
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July 22, 2002 KFMB
Local 8 News San Diego California
No
Drunk Driving Arrests At National City DUI Checkpoint
Police officials said that officers issued 15
citations and impounded 10 vehicles but arrested
no suspected drunken drivers at a sobriety checkpoint
in National City.
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July 18, 2002 The
San Diego Union Tribune San Diego California
Meth
Production Down in County
A federal, state and local task force on methamphetamine
says that while fewer people are producing the
drug in San Diego County the number of users
has not declined. In 2001, hazardous materials
specialists were called to fewer than half the
meth lab cleanups as the year before, said Superv | | |
