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VOL. I: 1993
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Wire Stories on Hemp and Drug Policy For sample copies or advertising rates please write us.
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October 26 through November 29, 1993: Police Ponder Case Against Alleged "Robin Hood" Drug Dealer; Pro-Pot Group Overcomes Objections and Adopts Road; untitled [Albuquerque Journal Editorial]; Mexican Police Seize 11 Tons of Marijuana; Call on Love, Not Guards, To Help D.C.; Measure Backs Legalization of Marijuana; Four Arrested in Drug Bust; U.S. Military Changes Role In War On Drugs; White House-Virus; DEA Chief Steps Down; White House Shows "Absence of Leadership" on Nation's Drug Problems; Departing DEA Chief Has Harsh Words for Clinton Anti-Drug Policy; untitled [Justice Department Appeals Judge's Decision]; Jail Raid; Driveways Off Limits Without Warrant; Judge to Decide on Probation Termination; Drug Dealing Suspected in Shooting Deaths of Two Women; Berekely Man Indicted in Pot Forest; Helicopter Crash; Lite-Drug-Sniffing Pig; Danish Hippie Colony Thrives as "Paradise For Losers"; Proposal to Merge Firearms Bureau Into FBI Is Scrapped; Netherlands- Pot Purity; Colombia Should Legalize Drugs - Top Official; Drug-Alcohol Intervention.
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October 9 through October 23, 1993: Couple Draws Life Sentence for Possession of Gift-Wrapped Drugs; Drug Bust-Disney Trip; Quayle Prisoner; Medicinal Pot Defense Launched; Troopers Seize Marijuana; Marijuana Lost; Drug Fugitive Arrested in Guatemala; "The Big White Lie," by Michael Levine; Washington State Cop Charged With Drug Smuggling; Drugs-Congress; EP Committee Debates Legalisation of Drugs, Press Freedom; Jury Gives Go Ahead for AIDS Sufferer to Use Marijuana; HIV Pot User Cleared With Medicinal Defense; Marijuana Makes a Comeback - Arrests Here Are Up by 19% for Drug That Was on the Wane; Four Swedes Held on Federal Drug Charges; Foiled Escape; Dutch May Ban Sale of Marijuana to Foreigners; Drug Plan; Reno, in Speech, Says She Opposes DEA- FBI Merger; Federal Agents Seize 10 Tons of Marijuana; untitled [Victoria Sellers Pleads No Contest]; FBI-DEA; Reno Proposes Coordinator for Law Enforcement, DEA Survives; U.S. Attorney General Rejects FBI-Drug Agency Merger; Dutch Say No More Marijuana for Foreigners; Netherlands-Drugs; Reno Appoints Freeh Peacemaker at Justice; Drugs and Music; U.S. Drug Czar Plans Attack on Domestic Use; The Guard Isn't the City's Answer.
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September 18 through October 6, 1993: Pot Customs; Cuba, U.S. Cooperate in Drug Case; Marijuana Crop Discovered in Forest; War Over the Drug War; More Marijuana Plants Found in Lassen Forest; Schmoke Won't Run for Md. Governor - Baltimore Mayor, Despite Strong Support, Will Seek 3rd Term Instead; Movie Campaign; AP Arts - Film Review-Dazed and Confused; Bumper Marijuana Crop Increases Violence; Series of Marijuana Raids Leads to Two Arrests; Driver of Ambulance Carrying Marijuana Sentenced to Prison; Pot Protest Planned for Madison; Survey - 42 Percent Believe War on Drugs 'Lost'; Justice Merger; Supreme Court to Decide Legality of Taxes on Illegal Drugs; Reno Readies DEA-FBI Merger Proposal Recommendation; Marijuana Harvest Keeps Cops Busy; Justice Department Considers Its Own Antidrug Overseer; Tehama County's Makes Huge Drug Bust; Sheriff-Drugs; Drug Squad Swoops on Cannabis Cookies; It's Time to Get Real About Guns and Drugs [Mayor Schmoke]; Drug Search Upheld; Property Seizure; Drug Proceeds; Agent, 9 Others Arrested in Drug Smuggling Sweep; Road Crew Bags $6,000 of Pot; Daybook-6 [Victoria Sellers Busted]; Court Asked to Require Notice In Anti-Drug Property Seizures - Justices to Hear Arguments Today in Hawaii Case.
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August 27 through September 16, 1993: NORML Busts DEA Hydro-Tech Sting; Netherlands-Netherweed; Elderly Grower; Grandfather Grower; Colombia Ex-Central Banker Jailed on Drug Charge; Asset Forfeiture Money Goes to Sheriffs; Marijuana-Indictment; Man Sentenced for Smuggling Marijuana to Jail; Police Raid Home Pot Farm in Mass.; Publishing Company Accepts Resignation of Movie Mogul; Violence Increases in Marijuana Fields; untitled [Medical Marijuana News Conference]; Drug Conviction Reversed; Pot Plants Tossed at Dump; Jail Drug Ring Broken Up in Butte County; Three Arrested, 5,000 Pounds of Marijuana Seized; Quayle-Prisoner; Reno Says FBI and DEA Duplicate Efforts; Drug Use; Builder Sentenced in Drug Case; Drug Agents Arrest 4, Seize 7,000 Pounds of Marijuana; Police Uncover Marijuana Garden; Drug Use; Pentagon Re-thinking its Drug War Priorities; Drug Strategy; Toledo Drug Ring Exposed; U.S. Considers Shift in Drug War; Military Interdiction Called a Failure.
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August 12 through August 26, 1993: Drug Raid Nets Over 1,000 Marijuana Plants; Teacher-Marijuana; Smoking Pot Increases Risk of Pneumonia for HIV-Infected; Turkish Police Seize Hashish, Marijuana Plants; Search for Missing Man Turns Up Pot Farm in Mass; Drug Swallowing Smuggler Bagged in Japan; Noriega to Serve 40 Years at Miami Prison; Cannabis Research Opens a New Window on the Brain; Court Pot; Police Hack Down $1.5M worth of marijuana in Mass.; Body Found in Marijuana Field; Dead-Drugs; High Tech Pot Farm Designed After Disney; Police Seize Drug Donkeys High in the Hills; Strip Searches; Violent Morning in Willits; 60-Year-Old Woman Charged With Growing Marijuana.
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August 5 through August 10, 1993: Topeka Shooting; Two Dead, Five Injured in Courthouse Shootings, Explosions; Former Officer Pleads Guilty to Drug Charge; Topeka Shooting; Court System Was Target of Topeka Gunman, FBI Says; Guatemala-U.S. Operation Destroys Marijuana Fields; State Officials Seek to Derail Religious Rights Measure; Bad Money and the Bar - Can Defense Lawyers Keep Drug Dealers' Dirty Cash? Famed Attorney Charged in Laundering Case; Ohio Pot Bust Nets New York City Man; New Cocaine Road; Pot Field Shooting.
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July 20 through August 2, 1993: AIDS Patient Who Was Allowed to Smoke Pot Dies; Netherlands-Drugs; Rocker Mellencamp's Brother Arrested; Puerto Rico-Drug Raids; U.S. to Carry Out Anti-Drugs Sweep in Paraguay; Drug Sweep Results in 23 Arrests; State Legislator Acquitted on Drug Charge; Man Sentenced for Marijuana Farm; Britain, Colombia Sign Accord on Drug Assets; California Man Faces Drug Charges; Former Policeman Acquitted in Slaying; 6 Prison Workers Quit in Probe; Even Rats Get 'High' in Philippines; Survey Says Fewer Teens Using Drugs; untitled [Aykroyd posts bail for cultivator]; Mendocino DA Not to Prosecute Certain Misdemeanors; Committee Refuses to Reinstate Former Judge's License; Mexico-Drugs; Judge Will Reconsider Drug Dealer's Life Sentence; Pam Davis; German Woman Held in China on Drug Charges; untitled fragment [Appeals Court Rules Police Can't Use Child]; IU Survey Shows Decrease in Drug Use Except for Marijuana.
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July 1 through July 18, 1993: Caught With Marijuana, Bank Director Quits; untitled [forfeiture editorial]; Drug War Locks Up Prisons - Tough U.S. Penalties Crowd Florida Complex; Vegetable Bust; Ireland-Drugs; Court Rules in Tax Assessment Case; Man Convicted of Marijuana Charge; Drop in Student Drug Use Halts - Study; Former Sheriff Convicted of Drug Conspiracy; Mayor's Mouth.
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June 10 through June 30, 1993: Anti-drug Programs Needed in High Schools, Researchers Say; Pot Smokers Run Risk of Illness, Injury, Study Shows; Traffickers Take On Salinas in Court; Smuggler Appointed; Drug Agents Find Two Tons of Marijuana in Cargo of Frozen Spinach; Drug Seizures; Lebanon- Narcotics; Hyde Proposes Changes in Property Seizure Law; untitled [Schwarzenegger Inhaled]; Ginsburg-Writings; Seven Arrested in Pot Bust; Madera County Rewarded for Big Pot Bust; Agents Net 1,935 Pot Plants, $37,300 in Cash; Thirty Arrested in Alleged Drug Ring; National Briefs [Brett Kimberlin]; Troops Destroy Cannabis Fields in Eastern Lebanon; Drug Use; Court Rules DPS Roadblock Unconstitutional; Lawyer Says Parole Board Broke Its Own Rules; EC to Aid Lebanon in Drugs Crackdown; Mixed Reaction to Evidence Ruling; Drug Dogs Don't Violate Fourth Amendment; Ex-Miss World Arrested for Drugs Possession; Amsterdam Hash Cafes Asked to Stop Sales.
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May 26 through June 9, 1993: Texas Man Arrested with Marijuana; Opium Is Colombia's Number One Illicit Crop - U.N.; Man Sentenced for Marijuana Farm; L.A. Man Arrested with $30,000 Worth of Marijuana; Five Defendants to be Sentenced for Marijuana Trafficking; untitled [Amsterdam Coffee Shops Feel the Heat]; Judge Rescinds Weedstock Ban; 103 arrests reported at 'Weedstock'; Weedstock; Colombian Central Banker Caught With Marijuana in Luggage; untitled [Report on Weedstock]; Drug Dog Killing; Border Tunnel; Inviting Arrest; Crew Ditches 7,217 Pounds of Marijauna; Pot Smokers Run Risk of Illness, Injury, Study Shows; Fast-living Drug Buyer Nabbed at Fed- Ex Counter; Computer Groups Mark National Computer Virus Awareness Day; Man Arrested After Advertising Marijuana Trade; Psychemedics Cocaine Tests of Employees' Hair.
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May 12 through May 24, 1993: Police Arrest Three for Hauling Marijuana with Patient in Ambulance; Raid Nets 96 Marijuana Plants; Barney Blasts Authorities; untitled [Long Beach Press-Telegram editorial]; $5 Million in Drug-tainted Cash Seized; Ancient Marijuana; Weekend Rally to Raise Money for Weedstock Defense; Financial Officer Charged with Cultivation Takes Early Retirement; Deputy Charged With Supplying Drugs to Inmates; Another Day in Court for Forfeiture Case; Consumer Protection for Marijuana Users Has Sharp Teeth; Medicine - Use of Marijuana in Childbirth; untitled [David Lee Roth Off the Hook].
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May 2 through May 11, 1993: Judge to Ask Clinton to Legalize Drugs; Bill Restricting Forfeiture Before Senate Committee; Dethrone the Drug Czar; Controversy over U.S. Drug-Sentencing Rules Reaches New High; Rancher-Drug Operation; Commonwealth of Independent States - New Colombia; Drug Trafficking on the Increase in Russia; untitled [bulletin on mandatory minimums and what to do about them from the Cannabis Reform Coalition at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst].
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April 23 through May 1, 1993: Pot Activists Push Agriculture, Medical Uses of Plant; Customs Seizes Marijuana, Mothership; Lawyers Oppose Drug Tax in Rare Hearing; Masel says Weedstock Will Go On; Prosecutor's Grant of Immunity Gone to Pot; Wife of Former Indianapolis 500 Racer Randy Lanier Sentenced to Nine Years; Syria Steps Up Fight Against Drugs; Juror's Key.
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April 8 through April 19, 1993: Daughter Charges Wrongful Death in Millionaire's Shooting; Judge Rules Drug Tax 'Double Jeopardy'; Philippine Police Burn Marijuana Crop; Alleged Drug Traffickers Kill Six in Mexico; Five Indicted on Drug Charges; Grenada Drops Drug Charges Against Pakistani Cricket Players; Teens and Drugs-Glance; Brothers Who Grew Pot for "Religious Reasons" Sentenced to Probation; Hundreds Gather to Mark LSD's 50th Anniversary; Next Train at Platform One The Disco Express; Drug Money; Scotus-Reservation Crimes.
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March 31 through April 6, 1993: Jury Convicts Three in Drug Distribution, Money Laundering Scheme; Drug Testing in 85 Per Cent of All U.S. Companies - Survey; Russian Connection; Authorities Seize Drug-stuffed Bunny; Court Reinstates Wrongful Termination Suit Against PG&E; Authorities Mull Asset Forfeiture Laws in Wake of Killing; Australians Test Paper Made From Marijuana; Tasmania Mills Test Hemp Fibre in Papermaking; Indiana Authorities Continue Marijuana Eradication; DPS Officer Fatally Shoots Man in Struggle; UNICOR's Use Of Prison Labor For Private Buisiness Has Wide Ranging Rights and Social Implications; untitled [article from Diatribe].
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February 28 through March 30, 1993: Truce in Needle Park - Time to End the Drug War; Drugs in the EC; Ganja Wars; Eleven Killed in Stampede on Festival of Color; Police Officer's Home Scene of Drug Bust; Erie Man Sentenced for Drugs, Money Laundering; Cop Shot on Lower East Side; Dutch Conference to Argue for Soft Policy on Drugs; Former FSU Football Star Arrested on Bribery Charges; Liberal Dutch Policy May be the Best Way to Combat Abuse; Club Owner Charged in Huge Marijuana Growing Operation; Goshen Man Indicted in Drug Conspiracy; Justices to Review Government Drug Seizure Authority; Three Talents; untitled [Two prisoners charged ...]; State Lawmaker Proclaims Innocence in Valley Drug Case; Canadian Leadership Candidate Says She Smoked Pot; Man Gets Seven Years for Pot Farm; D.A. Says Drug Raid Lacked Legal Justification; 'Benign Neglect' Means Danger; untitled [Prosecutor Asks Dismissal of Marijuana Charges Against Epileptic].
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February 20 and February 21, 1993 Clinton Urges U.S.-Central American Unity in Drug War; Police Question American Professor Over Marijuana.
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November 10, 1992 through February 18, 1993: Judge to Decide on Probation Termination; Dutch Premier Slams French Minister for Drugs; Designer Cannabis Gives Dutch Officials a Headache; Corrections Investigating Drug Overdose; Federal Agents Arrest Wrong Person; Dutch Police Swoop on Drug- Peddling Coffee Shops; Pinckney Man Sent to Prison for 7 Years for Growing; Tugboat Union Head, Daughter Charged with Selling Pot; Anti-Oregano; Man Indicted on Drug Charges; Chesterton Man Arrested on Marijuana Charges; Marijuana-Birds; For Ex-Defendant, The Nightmare Continues; As Rasta Culture Spreads, Faith May Be Waning; Parish Apologizes for Marijuana Charges; Drug Forfeiture; Australian Farmers Given A Legal Taste Of Cannabis; British Farmers To Grow Cannabis - Legally; Valentine Day Massacre; Vancouver Called Hothouse for Gourmet Marijuana; City Official Arrested; Court Upholds Ban on Marijuana Medicinal Use.
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