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Obama Entrapped Me: Medical Marijuana Provider Mounts a Novel Criminal Defensenew

More than most citizens, James Dean Stacy feels betrayed by the candidate for whom he voted for president. Stacy was arrested in September when his medical-marijuana collective, Movement in Action, was raided along with 13 others.
San Diego CityBeat |
Dave Maass |
12-28-2009 |
Drugs
How Today's Pot Debate is Like the Fall of Prohibitionnew

Law-enforcement maverick Norm Stamper noted "striking" parallels between Prohibition of a bygone era and today's drug debate. "Major difference? It took us only 13 years to end the former" over "essentially identical" reasons: violence, overdose deaths on bad "bathtub gin," public health and revenue.
San Diego CityBeat |
John R. Lamb |
10-07-2009 |
Drugs
Has the Nation's Former Meth Capital Really Turned a Corner?new
For the last dozen years, a concerted effort to suppress methamphetamine use in San Diego County has, at times, been like a Whac-a-Mole game — just as one problem’s solved, another pops up. But a report card released last week by the county’s Methamphetamine Strike Force touts success.
San Diego CityBeat |
Kelly Davis |
03-04-2009 |
Drugs
Details of the Big SDSU Drug Bust Emergenew
The District Attorney conveyed the impression that the DEA had uncovered a single huge drug ring, led and organized by Kenneth Ciaccio and centered in six fraternities. The reality, as it turns out, was a little different.
San Diego CityBeat |
Eric Wolff |
05-28-2008 |
Drugs
The Politics of Addictionnew
Methadone is the "gold standard" for getting addicts off heroin -- just not in San Diego County.
San Diego CityBeat |
Kelly Davis |
01-30-2008 |
Drugs
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