Just Say No To The Drug War

JUST SAY NO TO THE DRUG WAR We love our troops! They have been misled. Many churches back the war in Irag and most back the drug war. War is a tool governments use to make us more docile, more accepting of their waste of our precious lives and resources. I hope, local church leaders and the community will consider this information: The United States has about 500,000 non-violent drug offenders behind bars, more people than are imprisoned in the European Union for all offenses and they have 100 million more people. As of June 30, 2004, the U.S. incarceration rate was 726 per 100,000 residents. That is about 7 times the rate of imprisonment in Europe and Canada. Incarceration is far from equal along racial lines. The White incarceration rate was 393 per 100,000, Latino-957 and Black-2,531. Texas number of offenders supervised per 100,000 is 36.5% higher than the national average and 50% of those imprisoned for drug offenses are black, 42% Hispanic/other, while only 8% are white. It is a scandal, the racism, corruption and uncaring destruction of young lives to make a buck or feed an addiction to power. Politics and money is there a way to separate them? Our politicians have excelled at distorting reality for years. Big corporations control our government. Oil and finance back the Iraq war against their competitors, just as tobacco, pharmaceuticals, alcohol back the drug war against some drugs that might compete with them. Yet, pharmaceuticals, alcohol and tobacco account for almost a full quarter of all those who die each year in the US. Illicit drugs account for less than 1% of total deaths! No deaths attributed to marijuana. A smokescreen to take our eyes off the real killers who we tolerate! This is a lot bigger deal than sex in the oval office! The agenda is plainly: get rid of undesirables - minorities and those smart enough to think for themselves and blow the whistle on the big picture. They have shamed, destroyed families, locked up, even killed so many for a wiser health choice in a recreational drug. Daniel Rocha was shot in the back by Austin Texas police earlier this year! Witnesses say he was on the ground defenseless. Daniel smoked marijuana sometime in the last month before he died. Recently police seized 2 ounces of marijuana at the Sunrise Florida home of Anthony Diotaiuto after shooting him 10 times. A total of at least 43 Americans have been abducted in the last 12 months in Nuevo Laredo. Many in Enforcement have been hurt or killed. Shame on our system, it reeks! It is obvious our drug policies are more about corporate/physician profit than the well being of the individual. Look at the cost of our medical care compared to our neighbors in Canada and Mexico. Leaders responsible for the current senseless policy will have to answer to a higher power for their crimes against humanity. Look at a petition to the government to promote open discussion at: http://www.dpft.org/petition.htm COLEEN MCCOOL Stephenville




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Sheriff's Office: Drugs

SHERIFF'S OFFICE: DRUGS, NOT TASER, CAUSED PORT SALERNO MAN'S DEATH STUART - Cocaine toxicity and not a Taser caused the death of man who fled sheriff's deputies last week, the chief Treasure Coast medical examiner said Monday. A history of drug use, the wild behavior that caused deputies to chase him and a positive cocaine test led Dr. Roger Mittleman to find Port Salerno resident Brian Lichtenstein, 31, died from the drug use, the examiner said. Martin County sheriff's deputies said Lichtenstein ran naked into the woods when they arrived at the Riverland Mobile Home Park on Kanner Highway about 11:50 p.m. Friday, after scared residents reported the man was lying in their yard. Sgt. Shane King fired his Taser at the man when he refused to come out of the woods and became aggressive, according to officials and sheriff's reports. Lichtenstein, who was finally wrestled into custody by deputies, died about 5:46 a.m. Saturday at the hospital. Typical Of Drug Psychosis "No, the Taser did not in any way contribute to the death," Mittleman said. "The finding was so typical of cocaine psychosis." The examiner said Lichtenstein had multiple organ failure because of low-blood pressure attributed to the cocaine. The man's wife said she and her husband had been smoking crack cocaine for the previous three days, deputies reported. Mittleman said he also found numerous bruises and scratches consistent with a man running through the woods and into other objects in a drug-induced frenzy. He said he found nothing to raise any other suspicions. No Link To Deaths Sheriff's spokeswoman Sgt. Jenell Atlas said Monday the agency would continue its use of Tasers. "The sheriff ( Robert Crowder ) has said, if and when someone proves to him Tasers are linked to deaths ... then he'll re-evaluate the use of Tasers," Atlas said. "No one has proven that to him yet." She said King, the sergeant who fired the Taser, did "everything right." An internal inquiry will still be completed as a standard procedure for an "in-custody" death. Examiner: Taser Appropriate Mittleman, who has seen the results of numerous cocaine binges, said he, too, believed in the use of the weapon in general. "To me, the Taser is appropriate to this type of situation because you're preventing him from hurting himself," he said.

















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Attorney Seeking Details Of Drug Arrest

ATTORNEY SEEKING DETAILS OF DRUG ARREST State Attorney's Office Withholding Information, Lawyer Claims In Motion OCALA - The attorney for a man charged in a July 9 drug bust filed a motion on Monday accusing the State Attorney's Office of purposely withholding information it is legally required to disclose. "They have clearly violated the rules of criminal procedure," defense attorney James Tarquin said. He is representing Daniel James Colburn, 27, in state court and Gerald Dandridge Jr., 35, in federal court. The nine-page motion said Colburn was arraigned July 29 for possession of more than 20 grams of marijuana. At that hearing, he requested discovery. Still, at a hearing on Aug. 23, the State Attorney's Office refused to disclose any details that led investigators to 7848 N.W. 14th St., where county, state and federal drug agents reported finding guns, marijuana and cocaine. "It is frightening that the powerful prosecutorial arm of the state government is engaging in such a deliberate pattern of depriving Defendant of information that is necessary to prepare a defense and ready himself for a trial or hearing," Tarquin wrote. Discovery includes names and addresses of witnesses, witness statements to police, information on confidential informants and electronic surveillance, among other things. Chief Assistant State Attorney Ric Ridgway said Monday that the state dropped the marijuana charge on Friday. Friday was also the deadline that Fifth Circuit Judge David B. Eddy gave the State Attorney's Office to provide discovery in the Colburn case. "There is no right to discovery when there is not a case," Ridgway said. According to court records, the marijuana charge was dropped Monday morning. The document did not list a reason why the charge was dropped. "I'm not at liberty to discuss why the charge was dropped," Ridgway said. Tarquin earlier had requested similar discovery for his other client, Dandridge, who also was arrested in connection with the drug bust. Now, because Dandridge has been indicted federally, Tarquin must work through the U.S. District Courts to obtain the information that led investigators to the residence. "We're always working closely with them," Ridgway said, referring to the federal courts. Colburn has a pending charge of driving with a suspended license and violation of probation for possession of marijuana. He is being held at the Marion County Jail without bail. "The State has adopted a deliberate and calculated pattern of refusing to respond to motions, ignoring discovery requests and, in general, violating the accused's due process rights," Tarquin's motion said. Mabel Perez covers the courts.
























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Access To Treatment Critical

ACCESS TO TREATMENT CRITICAL Regarding your Aug. 23 editorial ( "Grant a welcome weapon in war on meth problem," p. 2 ), how should Tennessee respond to the growing use of methamphetamine? During the crack epidemic of the '80s, New York City chose the zero tolerance approach, opting to arrest and prosecute as many offenders as possible. Meanwhile, Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry was smoking crack and America's capital had the highest per capita murder rate in the country. Yet crack use declined in both cities simultaneously. Simply put, the younger generation saw firsthand what crack was doing to their older brothers and sisters and decided for themselves that crack was bad news. This is not to say nothing can be done about methamphetamine. Access to drug treatment is critical for the current generation of meth users. Diverting resources away from prisons and into cost-effective treatment would save both tax dollars and lives. Robert Sharpe, MPA Policy Analyst Common Sense for Drug Policy































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Cocaine Blamed For Death Of Man Shot With Taser

COCAINE BLAMED FOR DEATH OF MAN SHOT WITH TASER STUART -- The first death in Martin County involving a Taser stun gun was caused by cocaine poisoning, according to a preliminary ruling issued Monday by the Treasure Coast Medical Examiner's Office. "The Taser had nothing at all to do with his death," Medical Examiner Roger Mittleman said. Brian Lichtenstein, 31, had been smoking crack cocaine for three days before Martin County sheriff's deputies found him, naked and belligerent, Friday night in woods near Stuart's Riverland Mobile Home Park, according to the sheriff's office report. Lichtenstein refused to cooperate and was yelling, "Leave me alone, just let me die," before he was shot in the back of his shoulder with the Taser, Detective Mike Dougherty said. Lichtenstein dropped to one knee and was shocked again, Dougherty said. The second shock sent Lichtenstein to the ground. But the Port Salerno man got up after a few seconds and continued running through the woods, Dougherty said. When Lichtenstein was taken into custody later -- deputies said they pulled him from under bushes by his legs -- only one prong from the Taser gun was found in his back. Tasers shoot two prongs that can deliver an electric shock of up to 50,000 volts. Both prongs are needed to deliver the jolt. Medical examination Monday did not find any marks from the Taser prongs, but Mittleman said that is not unusual. The probes "are teeny tiny," he said. "And it's really beside the point. He died from cocaine." A Palm Beach Post analysis this year showed that, since 2000, more people have died in Florida after being shot by Tasers -- 27 -- than in any other state. Of those 27 deaths, 17 people had traces of cocaine in their body. "People have been dying from ( cocaine ) long before Tasers were invented," Martin County Sheriff Bob Crowder said. "I know there are folks out there who would love to implicate the Taser as the cause, but the evidence is just not there. If the Taser was not used, the death would have occurred anyway." About 90 percent of Martin County deputies carry Taser guns, which they fired 44 times from May 2002 to December 2004, according to sheriff department records. Although sheriff's office rules do not limit the number of times someone can be shocked with a Taser, a person must be showing some type of resistance to warrant a shot. "This is the type of behavior Tasers were intended for," Crowder said. Mittleman also rebutted claims from Lichtenstein's mother, Rosemarie Lichtenstein, that her son also had two broken arms. "I see no sign of any kind at all that would indicate a fracture," Mittleman said. "But we're going to do some X-rays to settle that issue." Mittleman said he did find "many" abrasions and bruises on Lichtenstein's back, which were consistent with someone running through bushes and being combative with officers. Lichtenstein also was shocked three times with a Taser on June 17 by Riviera Beach police officers after he was arrested for driving a stolen vehicle. Lichtenstein was arrested several times in the past 10 years, according to Florida Department of Law Enforcement records, and struggled with a drug problem, his mother said. Lichtenstein's wife, Angie, said the two had been smoking crack cocaine since Wednesday when they ran out of gas in front of the mobile home park. Lichtenstein became paranoid that police were chasing him and he ran into the park, his wife said. A resident in the mobile home park called 911 when she heard Lichtenstein groaning outside her home. In addition to his wife, Lichtenstein is survived by a 15-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter.








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'just Say No' Is A Blurry Slogan

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MEDICAL MARIJUANA CONFISCATED Federal and state laws have clashed in opposition with one another and left those who claim marijuana eases suffering from painful illnesses such as cancer, wide-eyed and bewildered. Even though a patient in Colorado may have a certificate to possess marijuana for medicinal purposes, they are still subject to prosecution under the federal law. Timothy Haas' doctor recommended he use marijuana for medicinal purposes and his half-ounce of the drug was confiscated from him about three weeks ago in Denver, his lawyer said to the Associated Press Haas' lawyer, Robert Corry, said due to an undisclosed medical condition, Haas uses the drug to ease severe pain and back problems. The marijuana was found during a security check at Denver Hospital where Haas was visiting his brother, Corry said. The officer confiscated the drug even after Haas showed him a copy of the doctor's recommendation that he use marijuana. The line used to determine the legality of medicinal marijuana can be blurry. Under state law, residents of Colorado are allowed to grow and possess small amounts of the drug if they have a certificate verifying the drug is for pain relief. Federal law, however, still considers the drug illegal. Brian Vicente, executive director of Sensible Colorado, a non-profit organization that works pro bono on drug reform policy in Colorado, said state police are sworn to uphold state law. Since medical marijuana is illegal is the eyes of the federal law, it is federal authorities that should enforce federal law. "Patients do have the right to possess this medicine," Vicente said. "The police officer was really out of line." Tim Kelleher, junior construction management major , disagrees. "It's plain and simple. The federal law says it's illegal so it's illegal," Kelleher said. "He clearly broke the law and should have to face the consequences." However, junior engineering science major Krista VanBuren does not see a problem with patients possessing and using marijuana for medical purposes because of personal reasons. VanBuren's mother used marijuana to ease pain before she died from brain cancer. "If someone is in that much pain and ( marijuana ) helps them, I think it should be okay," VanBuren said. "That's why I feel that way - because of my mom."
































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Sheriff's Office - Drugs, Not Taser, Caused Port

SHERIFF'S OFFICE -- DRUGS, NOT TASER, CAUSED PORT SALERNO MAN'S DEATH STUART -- Cocaine toxicity and not a Taser caused the death of man who fled sheriff's deputies last week, the chief Treasure Coast medical examiner said Monday. A history of drug use, the wild behavior that caused deputies to chase him and a positive cocaine test led Dr. Roger Mittleman to find Port Salerno resident Brian Lichtenstein, 31, died from the drug use, the examiner said. Martin County sheriff's deputies said Lichtenstein ran naked into the woods when they arrived at the Riverland Mobile Home Park on Kanner Highway about 11:50 p.m. Friday, after scared residents reported the man was lying in their yard. Sgt. Shane King fired his Taser at the man when he refused to come out of the woods and became aggressive, according to officials and sheriff's reports. Lichtenstein, who was finally wrestled into custody by deputies, died about 5:46 a.m. Saturday at the hospital. Typical Of Drug Psychosis "No, the Taser did not in any way contribute to the death," Mittleman said. "The finding was so typical of cocaine psychosis." The examiner said Lichtenstein had multiple organ failure because of low-blood pressure attributed to the cocaine. The man's wife said she and her husband had been smoking crack cocaine for the previous three days, deputies reported. Mittleman said he also found numerous bruises and scratches consistent with a man running through the woods and into other objects in a drug- induced frenzy. He said he found nothing to raise any other suspicions. No Link To Deaths Sheriff's spokeswoman Sgt. Jenell Atlas said Monday the agency would continue its use of Tasers. "The sheriff ( Robert Crowder ) has said, if and when someone proves to him Tasers are linked to deaths ... then he'll re-evaluate the use of Tasers," Atlas said. "No one has proven that to him yet." She said King, the sergeant who fired the Taser, did "everything right." An internal inquiry will still be completed as a standard procedure for an "in-custody" death. Examiner: Taser appropriate Mittleman, who has seen the results of numerous cocaine binges, said he, too, believed in the use of the weapon in general. "To me, the Taser is appropriate to this type of situation because you're preventing him from hurting himself," he said.























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College Urges Parents To Drug Test Their Kids

COLLEGE URGES PARENTS TO DRUG TEST THEIR KIDS Morrinsville College is recommending parents drug-test their children for cannabis after 13 and 14-year-old students were caught with the drug. In a school newsletter principal John Inger said there had been two incidents over the past couple of months where students had been found to be using drugs, either at school or when they were playing truant. He said peer pressure could lead to other students trying cannabis and suggested parents who see changes in their children get $30 urine tests to check for cannabis use. "It is money well spent, as you will then know if your child is using cannabis," Mr Inger said. Stopping the use of cannabis was important so children did not move on to harder drugs like methamphetamine, he said. Students caught with drugs at Morrinsville College are stood down for a maximum of five days and appear before the school board's disciplinary committee. The school also consults police youth aid officer, Senior Constable Wayne Aberhart, about the situation. Mr Aberhart is a member of the disciplinary committee. Melville-based Green MP Nandor Tanczos - who supports cannabis law reform - commended the school's approach of not suspending or expelling students, but said drug testing was sometimes unreliable. "The danger is that it can give false negative results so parents think there is no problem, or a false positive where the child is accused wrongly." He said schools needed to take drug use very seriously, and determine if it was experimentation or abuse. Deputy principal Marian Sogarty said most students also underwent random drug testing for a year to 18 months after being caught, and have to write an essay or do research into drugs. She said in the past few months a couple of groups of students from Year 9 and 10 have been caught with "tiny" amounts of the drug. "It's always difficult to track down where it is coming from, they could be getting it from anywhere." Drug use was rife in the community, she said. Mr Inger said students caught with drugs at school were usually "the silly ones, the show-offs, who have somehow acquired cannabis and want to make a statement to others about being cool and rebellious". Three years ago, drug dogs were used at the college in an attempt to track down students with drugs. No drugs were found in the search.




















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DRUG TESTING FOR POLICE, FIREFIGHTERS SHOULDN'T BE NEGOTIABLE It's time for state lawmakers to summon up the courage to take on the public safety unions and allow drug testing of those who serve in local police and fire departments. While testing is often required of those applying for a public-safety position, once hired such testing can only be conducted in accordance with individual collective bargaining contracts. And as a story in last Saturday's Salem News pointed out, those policies can be all over the map. The Salem Police Department, which has one of the toughest such policies in the region, allows testing with probable cause, and suspension or even discharge could result if an officer refuses to cooperate. The Beverly and Danvers fire departments, on the other hand, have no provisions for testing, even if drug use is suspected. It's ludicrous that the state, which requires those carrying commercial driver's licenses to take random drug tests, has no similar standard for those who are routinely involved in situations that require quick reflexes and a clear head. Danvers Fire Chief James Tutko is an advocate of drug testing, "given the position we have, given the fact that firefighters are driving heavy vehicles and working with very sophisticated equipment," but he has been thwarted in his efforts to get the necessary language in that town's contract with the firefighters. The fact is that this is not something that should be subject to the kind of horse-trading that goes on at the bargaining table. These are well-paid positions with generous benefits, for which there is usually no shortage of applicants. Given the responsibilities involved, carrying a gun, making arrests, carrying people from burning buildings, responding to motor vehicle accidents, there's no reason anyone in either of these professions who's suspected of drug use shouldn't be tested. And there's no reason those who have tested positive once, after receiving appropriate discipline and treatment, shouldn't be subject to random testing in the future. Yet the patchwork of policies has resulted in situations as ludicrous as the one in Peabody where a firefighter who tested positive for drug use now stands to have his suspension reversed because of the city's failure to advise him in advance that the test would be conducted using a hair follicle rather than a urine sample. Bay State lawmakers have been notoriously reluctant to take on the police and firefighters unions. It's one of the reasons, for example, that this state stands virtually alone in requiring uniformed officers paid at a healthy overtime rate to direct traffic at every road construction site. In this case, however, the Legislature ought to put the interest of the general public ahead of that of its friends in the public safety ranks.


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The Right To Grow

THE RIGHT TO GROW A Second Chance For Medical Marijuana Dr. Lyle Craker, a professor of plant and soil sciences at UMass Amherst, has been trying since 2001 to get a license from the Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ) to grow research-grade marijuana for use in Food and Drug Administration-approved studies of the plant's potential to become a legally prescribed medicine. Last December, after more than three years of stonewalling, the DEA officially rejected his application, holding that his study "would not be consistent with the public interest." ( See "Up in Smoke," This Just In, December 17, 2004. ) Now Craker, along with the Belmont-based Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies ( MAPS ) and the ACLU's Drug Law Reform Project, is challenging that ruling. Hearings began in Washington this week before DEA administrative-law judge Mary Ellen Bittner. Supporters hope the proceedings will end the DEA's obstruction and remove the federal government's monopoly on research marijuana. In the wake of the Raich v. Ashcroft decision in June, in which the Supreme Court affirmed that federal law supersedes state law in matters of drug enforcement, FDA approval is really the only avenue left for medical marijuana. Before that can happen, there must be studies into its safety and efficacy. "We have considerable lay information about the potential health benefits of this plant material, but we lack the scientific studies that are necessary to prove the value of medicine," Craker told the Phoenix in December. "The first step in that is producing quality plant material that will have bioactive constituents in it." But at the moment, all marijuana used for research in the US comes from a closely monitored crop maintained by the National Institute on Drug Abuse ( NIDA ). The complainants in the Craker case maintain that the supply is insufficient, and of inadequate quality, for proper research - let alone for prescription sale should the FDA ever approve it. Moreover, the feds are stingy in distributing the plants. MAPS president Rick Doblin says that just last week, NIDA refused to provide 10 grams of marijuana for a MAPS-sponsored vaporizer study at Chemic Labs in Canton. Last month, Democratic Massachusetts representatives John Olver and Michael Capuano sent a letter to DEA administrator Karen Tandy, expressing "strong support" for issuing Dr. Craker's license and pointing out that NIDA's monopoly makes little sense since the DEA has licensed privately funded production of other Schedule I drugs, such as MDMA and LSD. ( MAPS has funded studies using independently produced MDMA and psilocybin. ) "The government is basically scared of this research," says Doblin, during a break in testimony. "They want it two ways. They want to say there's not enough research to make marijuana into a medicine, and they want to block the research." Still, he feels reasonably confident that the DEA's decision might be reversed. "My sense is that the judge is fair, she's asking good questions, I have a lot of respect for the way she's interacted with us so far." Time will tell if his optimism is well-founded. There will be another week of testimony toward the end of September, and another ( if need be ) in December, before Judge Bittner makes a recommendation to the head of the DEA. In the meantime, Doblin will be commenting nightly on the goings-on in Washington at http://www.maps.org/weblogs/rick.


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Drinking Bush's Bathwater

DRINKING BUSH'S BATHWATER RE Not An Outlaw Here ( NOW, August 4-10 ). Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, recently kicked the Drug Enforcement Administration out of Venezuela, saying "the DEA's war on drugs has nothing to do with actually shutting down the business, but is rather part of a strategy of political intervention in Latin American affairs." It is clear that the DEA vendetta regarding Marc Emery is also a political intervention. If Venezuelans can have a government that looks after their sovereignty, why are we in Canada stuck with politicians who so much enjoy the flavour of George Bush's bathwater? Chuck Beyer Port Alberni, British Columbia


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Our Bumper Pot Crop

OUR BUMPER POT CROP Rural Manitoba has a new cash crop, apparently. Since farmers aren't making much of anything from grain, cattle or oilseeds, it seems some entrepreneurial green thumbs are heading to the country to plant another special crop - marijuana. Narcotics officers from Winnipeg and Brandon made a tremendous bust near Oak Lake on Monday afternoon when they shut down a grow-op with 13,200 plants. At about $1,000 a plant, the grow house had more than $13 million of marijuana, making it one of the largest drug busts in this part of the world in memory. Let's put that into perspective: the value of the drugs seized Monday was double the value of Manitoba's rye crop in 2004. According to the provincial agricultural department's statistics, it was more than half the value of the province's soybean crop last year and more than a quarter of what its barley crop fetched in 2004. While the bust was no doubt huge, one can't be so naive to think that it was the only grow-op in rural Manitoba. It seems more and more, drug growers are turning to remote areas to ply their trade instead of converting houses in Brandon or Winnipeg into grow-ops. Last summer, a grow house was shut down in the hamlet of Clanwilliam, north of Minnedosa. Earlier this year, another place that was producing the dangerous drug crystal meth was raided in Kelwood, another small town north of Neepawa. For police, who the Winnipeg Free Press reported shut down a grow house every three days in 2003, the move by marijuana growers from the city to the country has to be concerning. They can only hope that rural residents notice something fishy going on at the neighbours' place and help them bust these places before they take root outside Manitoba's largest cities.













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Other Cases Demand Attention Of DA

OTHER CASES DEMAND ATTENTION OF DA The Eagle's editorial of Aug. 19 concerning the odd priorities of District Attorney David Capeless was short and to the point. While I have respect for his office and the weight of his responsibilities I am troubled by his recent choices. There were more then 69 cases on the criminal trial list for Superior Court in July, many involving violent acts: assaults, rape and other crimes that directly impact public safety. In July alone there were at lest two rape cases that went unheard because of the lengthy and unsuccessful prosecution of Kyle Sawin for selling a small amount of marijuana to an undercover officer. One of the rape cases, now more than a year old, involves a nursing home resident whose illness is characterized by the rapid deterioration of her physical ability, including her ability to communicate. At the close of the Sawin trial, which ended in a hung jury, the judge suggested that the prosecutor meet with the defense attorney before deciding how to proceed. But the district attorney announced within hours that he would re-try the case in September. Meanwhile there is a rape victim who lives in a nursing home and her ability to testify against her assailant diminishes with every passing day. JOHN J. WHALAN





























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'Hot' Dope Claims Five

'HOT' DOPE CLAIMS FIVE "Hot heroin" is being blamed for five deaths last weekend. After Vancouver Police said Monday that three people had overdosed on heroin on the weekend, Sgt. Anne Drennan told the media yesterday that two more have been added to the list. Two downtown eastside males in their 40s were found overdosed together, leading police to believe deadly doses of the drug are being sold. Drennan says putting stronger doses of heroin on the street has been done before. Both police and the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority are urging drug users to use the safe injection site in Vancouver.








































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CANADIANS SHOULDN'T TOLERATE U.S. ANTI-DRUG TACTICS Re: The long arm of Uncle Sam, Aug. 20 For the love of freedom and Canadian integrity, please just say no to the United States and its war on drugs. I find it incredibly depressing to be looking to the citizens of another country to stand up to my own government, but I think it is important that Canadians understand that not all -- or even most -- Americans expect Canada to give up its sovereignty so that the U.S. can bust more pot smokers. I was disgusted, but not surprised, to read that the tragedy of 9/11 is the basis for encroachments across the border by U.S. law enforcement, apparently with the cooperation of Canadian authorities. How the terrorist acts of that day are avenged by arresting Canadians who sell pot seeds, I am at a loss to say. Likewise, how can future acts of wanton destruction be avoided by seizing Canadian territory in the name of fighting reefer madness? Please, Canadians, do not bend to the whims of the U.S. government on these matters. What our government does in the U.S. in the name of fighting drugs is well beyond the bounds of our own Constitution. Taking the fight to Canada using the same brutal tactics should not be tolerated. Jeff Allen Arlington, Texas


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More Cops, More Crime

MORE COPS, MORE CRIME The New Police Crackdown On Gangs Will Only Raise The Stakes On The Street And Lead To More Violence As horrifying as the recent wave of shootings has been, we have to guard against being led down the garden path of believing an extreme situation demands an extreme solution. The fact is, Toronto's homicide rate is consistently lower than those in the lawless cities of Edmonton, Winnipeg and Vancouver. Fortunately, for the past decade only approximately 30 per cent of all homicides in Canada have been shootings. The sad truth is that far more people use guns to kill themselves than to kill others. Gun violence is not epidemic in Canada, but every year or two Toronto erupts like a war zone. On October 27, 2002, four people were killed and three others wounded in three shooting incidents, all within 90 minutes. During the week of October 26, 2003, Toronto residents were subjected to seven shootings, a few deadly stabbings and three armed home invasions. As expected, these past eruptions triggered calls for a task force, a public inquiry, stiffer sentences, specialized gun courts, more cops, more prosecutors and more power. This broken record is being played once again this summer. I would agree that cowards who strut around with guns like little Napoleons with low self-esteem deserve harsh punishment. However, the public is being duped if they are led to believe that making the existing harsh penalties even more draconian will curb gun violence. The institution of criminal justice was never designed to reduce the incidence of crime - it was designed to punish crime. There is a difference. Severe punishment does not deter. I have yet to see a convincing empirical study demonstrating that get-tough policies lead to a reduction in crime. In theory, the threat of severe punishment could deter the Enron or WorldCom type of offender, because corporate criminals calculate and factor into their cost-benefit analysis the consequences of being caught. But for most other criminals, the crime is just an expression of character and circumstance, and harm is caused without any real consideration of the looming presence of a punitive institution. Frankly, the current empirical evidence just confirms what the anecdotal evidence from our common law past has told us. Until the 1830s, there were over 200 capital offences. People could be executed for murder and rape as well as pickpocketing and stealing sheep. Ironically, the best place for pickpockets to ply their trade was at bustling public executions. If the very sight of a fellow pickpocket having the life squeezed out of his body on the gallows could not serve as a deterrent, why do we think a modern Criminal Code would have greater impact today? The law will not solve the gun problem, because good people will be good regardless and bad people will continue to harm in spite of the law. Reliance upon increasingly severe sentences to address a serious social problem has a serious downside. First, it leaves the public with the false impression that the problem has been solved, and in the spirit of naive optimism we believe it unnecessary to undertake the more difficult task of exploring the root causes of gun violence and other predatory criminality. Second, knee-jerk reliance upon sentence severity can actually serve to increase the incidence of crime. For example, in a seemingly unrelated show of bravado this past month, the feds increased the maximum penalties for methamphetamine use, production and sale. Like the deterrence myth, this is another example of state officials wanting to believe, and wanting us to believe, that severity of punishment is an effective tool for controlling what people do with their bodies. 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Patients Feel Pain When DEA Targets Doctors

PATIENTS FEEL PAIN WHEN DEA TARGETS DOCTORS Not long ago, chronic pain patients trusted their doctors to prescribe the medicines they needed to live a normal, pain-free life. Attorneys general from 29 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico - -- but not Virginia -- say those days are now gone; that to protect themselves from federal agents, America's physicians are shortchanging their patients. In a letter sent to Washington earlier this year and signed by all 31 attorneys general, a solid case was laid out against the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. The letter described how the drug warrior tactics used by DEA to catch a few bad doctors is tearing apart the traditional patient-doctor relationship -- especially for end-of-life patients. These law officials of course want to stop those who divert Oxycontin and other opioid-based prescription medicines onto the black market. But they do not accept federal methods that condemn American citizens to needlessly live in pain. The case against the DEA, according to the 31 attorneys general, looks like this. "In our consumer protection role, working to remove barriers to quality care for citizens of our states at the end of life," the attorneys general wrote, "we have learned that adequate pain management is often difficult to obtain. ... Many physicians fear investigations and enforcement actions if they prescribe adequate levels of opioids or have many patients with prescriptions for pain medications." The DEA puts patients at risk by giving doctors mixed signals, and not drawing a clear legal line to define where medical practice crosses into what the DEA considers illegal, drug-dealing territory. By reserving for itself the complete discretion to decide when a crime has been committed by a doctor, the DEA keeps physicians in a legal fog. The DEA's crime indicators make little sense to a doctor. For example, the number of patients in a practice who receive pain killers, the number of tablets prescribed for each patient and the duration of therapy with these drugs, according to the DEA, are factors that may indicate drug diversion by a physician. The letter writers disagree: "Because good practice may involve precisely the factors that DEA believes might be indicative of diversion, DEA is creating a climate that puts legitimate medical practitioners in danger of investigation and discourages good practice." The letter adds, "As law enforcement agents, we should concentrate on drugs that are illegally on the streets and work back to see how they got there. An undue focus [by DEA] on potentially misleading factors like the number of prescriptions written or number of patients seen in a practice serves neither the goals of law enforcement nor the needs of suffering patients." In other words, the DEA should get out of the doctor's office and spend more time out on the street. State officials are also concerned that current DEA policies give the agency a blank check to harass physicians. The DEA contends: "It is a longstanding legal principle that the [federal] government can investigate merely on suspicion that a law is being violated or even just because it wants assurances that it is not." Why, the state lawmen want to know, does the DEA feel it necessary to broadcast that any physician can be investigated at any time for any reason? "This type of uncertainty alone," they wrote, "is detrimental to the practice of medicine because physicians tend to practice conservatively to avoid even the possibility of legal involvement. Such practice is not primarily concerned with the best interests of patients, but is instead concerned with protecting physicians from liability. Physicians should not be put in the position of having to choose between protecting themselves and providing the best possible care for the patients who need their services." And who pays the price when doctors cover their legal backsides by undertreating people in pain, by withholding medicines that might raise a red flag in Washington? Why, the patients do. The states have called upon the DEA to take a close look at the collateral damage being caused by its drug war culture and tactics and to "focus on factors that distinguish the criminal trafficking and diversion of pain medicines from the legitimate and responsible practice of medicine." Many millions of Americans in chronic pain, including those in Virginia, are now waiting to see if the DEA got the message.

















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Families Of Heroin Victims Applauded For

FAMILIES OF HEROIN VICTIMS APPLAUDED FOR COURAGE IN SHARING STORIES Kevin Caufield's recent series on heroin in the Illinois Valley was an important and excellent piece of journalism. Mr. Caufield should be congratulated for the way he helped his readers come to better understand those who suffer and die because of a mistaken belief that "it can't happen to me." As importantly, I would like to acknowledge the families of the men and women who were the subjects of the articles. It would have been easier for them to have decided to keep such matters private. By sharing the stories of their families with us, they have shown courage and concern for others and have given greater meaning to the tragic deaths of their sons and daughters. Paul Scoma Princeton

















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San Quentin Death Row Overdose Case Closed - Heroin

SAN QUENTIN DEATH ROW OVERDOSE CASE CLOSED; HEROIN SOURCE UNKNOWN More than a month after a death row inmate died of a heroin overdose, San Quentin State Prison officials closed the investigation without determining how the drugs got into the facility's highest security area. "I don't think we will find out," prison spokesman Eric Messick said Tuesday. "We feel that we already do as much as we are allowed to do to stem the flow of contraband into the institution." Nicholas Rodriguez, 27, was the first death row inmate in California known to die of a drug overdose. Messick confirmed earlier reports that Rodriguez's July 10 death was unintentional. No suicide note was found, and along with a spoon and syringe, extra heroin was uncovered during a search of his cell, Messick said. "That really suggests an accident because he was planning on having more fun later," he said. Rodriguez, who prison officials said had a history of drug abuse before prison, was last seen alive at a 5 a.m. head count, Messick said. He was found unresponsive two hours later and was declared dead within about 20 minutes. The 5-foot-7-inch, 120-pound inmate was in good physical health and did not appear to be a regular intravenous drug user, Messick said, adding he had no visible track marks. Rodriguez's cause of death was "respiratory failure due to acute drug toxicity," he said. The amount of morphine, or metabolized heroin, found in his system was .65 milligrams per liter. The potentially toxic range is .1 to 1.0 milligrams per liter, according to the coroner's office. Prison investigators searched Rodriguez's belongings, interviewed other inmates, reviewed phone logs and analyzed visitor records. Other than being fairly certain Rodriguez didn't get the heroin from one of his visitors, officials don't have any leads. "We have nothing conclusive," Messick said. While drugs in California's prisons are not uncommon, they're less prevalent on death row. The 644 inmates use their own exercise yard, and they're not allowed to mix with the general prison population, although some outside inmates do hold clerk and laundry jobs on death row, Messick said. Throughout San Quentin in 2003, the latest year for which figures are available, just 30 incidents involving controlled substances were reported. Most death row inmates can see visitors on weekends, but anyone from outside the prison is searched before coming in, and even pencils are not permitted. Inmates are strip-searched before and after every visit. Care packages are carefully vetted. Friends and family members can only send prepackaged goods from approved vendors, which pack and deliver the shipments to San Quentin. Messick said the easiest way for inmates to get illegal drugs is to swallow a small pouch, then regurgitate it later. "We have no way of checking that," he said, adding that only inmates with money can afford drugs. Since the July 1 ban of all tobacco products, the going price for a pouch of tobacco is about the same as heroin: $80.


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MOCK DRUG LAB TO HELP TRAIN POLICE Police in training will soon have their own methamphetamine lab to help in their battle against illegal drugs. The Ontario Police College near Aylmer is helping battle methamphetamine, or crystal meth, and the provincial government is helping out with a $230,000 grant to build and equip a mock illegal drug lab. The lab will be a one-floor modular home, said Steve Hibbard, deputy director at the college. On the outside it will resemble a residential house and on the inside it will contain all the chemicals and tools used in a real meth lab. Having a permanent training site will allow the college to put more people through the drug training that will help officers protect themselves from the harmful chemicals commonly found in meth labs. "Communities across the province will be safer because of this new facility, as police officers will get the most up-to-date training on how to deal with the dangers of crystal meth and marijuana production," said Rudy Gheysen, director of the police college. Unlike grow-ops, which can be connected to high hydro use, there are few signs to identify houses as meth labs. "Most of the information would come from informants," Hibbard said. Chemicals used to make crystal meth can be extracted from everyday items such as cold medications and match heads. When customers buy large quantities of products, police are usually tipped off, Hibbard said. Front-line officers are also being taught how to recognize the signs that point to drug users. Hibbard said users are often paranoid and have nervous tendencies. In addition to the lab, Ontario has put a working group together to determine the scope of meth use in the province. "Ontario is getting out in front of what could be a real problem in drug use," said Tony Brown, communications officer with the police college. The group will work with communities, health care providers, educators and police services to find ways to combat the growing use and production of crystal meth.








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