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    Drug War Chronicle, Issue #1048 -- 12/13/18
    Phillip S. Smith, Editor, psmith@drcnet.org https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/1048

    A Publication of StoptheDrugWar.org
    David Borden, Executive Director, borden@drcnet.org
    "Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"

    Table of Contents:

    1. TRUMP'S GHOULISH CALL FOR EVEN MORE CHINESE DRUG EXECUTIONS [FEATURE]
    It may or may not be good politics for the president, but it's
    definitely not good policy. https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/dec/12/trumps_ghoulish_call_even_more

    2. STUDY: CRACKDOWNS ON HEROIN, PAIN PILLS GAVE RISE TO FENTANYL
    OVERDOSE EPIDEMIC [FEATURE]
    The black market always has an answer. Too bad this one is so deadly. https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/dec/10/study_crackdowns_heroin_pain

    3. OREGON INITIATIVE WOULD DECRIMINALIZE PSILOCYBIN [FEATURE] Signature-gathering for 2020 is about to get underway. https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/dec/10/oregon_initiative_would

    4. MEDICAL MARIJUANA UPDATE
    The battle over medical marijuana in Utah continues, the battle over
    medical marijuana in Florida may be ending, and more. https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/dec/12/medical_marijuana_update

    5. CHRONICLE AM: FEDS WARN ON DENVER SAFE INJECTION SITE, IT'S J-DAY IN MICHIGAN, MORE... (12/6/18)
    Michigan became the first legal marijuana state in the Midwest today,
    the feds send a shot across the bow of an effort to get a safe injection
    site up and running in Denver, cartel violence challenges Mexico's new president, and more. https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/dec/06/chronicle_am_feds_warn_denver

    6. CHRONICLE AM: PROSPECTS DIM FOR FIRST STEP ACT, UT MEDMJ ADVOCATES
    FILE SUIT, MORE.... (12/7/18)
    The surgeon general suggests it's time to revise federal drug schedules,
    the First Step Act is being held hostage by Mitch McConnell, Utah
    patient advocates sue to block a legislative gutting of the
    voter-approved medical marijuana law, and more. https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/dec/07/chronicle_am_prospects_dim_first

    7. CHRONICLE AM: BILL BARR'S DRUG WARRIOR PAST, IRAN WARNS SANCTION
    COULD BRING "DELUGE OF DRUGS," MORE... (12/10/18)
    Trump's sanctions could come back to bite us, Iran warns; Trump's new
    attorney general pick has some solid drug warrior credentials, the WHO postpones a recommendation on marijuana scheduling, and more. https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/dec/10/chronicle_am_bill_barrs_drug

    8. CHRONICLE AM: FED CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL WILL GET SENATE VOTE, HEMP IS
    IN FARM BILL, MORE... (12/11/18)
    Mitch McConnell changes course and okays a Senate vote on the First Step
    Act, McConnell ensures the hemp provision remains in the farm bill, a
    Moscow court ruling could run the city's only harm reduction NGO out of business, and more. https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/dec/11/chronicle_am_fed_criminal

    9. CHRONICLE AM: SENATE APPROVES LEGAL HEMP, NJ ACLU ASSET FORFEITURE
    ABUSE REPORT, MORE... (12/12/18)
    Industrial hemp takes a big step toward legalization, New York's
    governor is planning on legalizing weed next year, the ACLU of New
    Jersey has a disturbing new report out on civil asset forfeiture, and more. https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/dec/12/chronicle_am_senate_approves

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    Drug War Chronicle, Issue #1048 -- 12/13/18
    Phillip S. Smith, Editor, psmith@drcnet.org https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/1048

    A Publication of StoptheDrugWar.org
    David Borden, Executive Director, borden@drcnet.org
    "Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"

    Table of Contents:

    1. TRUMP'S GHOULISH CALL FOR EVEN MORE CHINESE DRUG EXECUTIONS [FEATURE]
    It may or may not be good politics for the president, but it's
    definitely not good policy. https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/dec/12/trumps_ghoulish_call_even_more

    2. STUDY: CRACKDOWNS ON HEROIN, PAIN PILLS GAVE RISE TO FENTANYL
    OVERDOSE EPIDEMIC [FEATURE]
    The black market always has an answer. Too bad this one is so deadly. https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/dec/10/study_crackdowns_heroin_pain

    3. OREGON INITIATIVE WOULD DECRIMINALIZE PSILOCYBIN [FEATURE] Signature-gathering for 2020 is about to get underway. https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/dec/10/oregon_initiative_would

    4. MEDICAL MARIJUANA UPDATE
    The battle over medical marijuana in Utah continues, the battle over
    medical marijuana in Florida may be ending, and more. https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/dec/12/medical_marijuana_update

    5. CHRONICLE AM: FEDS WARN ON DENVER SAFE INJECTION SITE, IT'S J-DAY IN MICHIGAN, MORE... (12/6/18)
    Michigan became the first legal marijuana state in the Midwest today,
    the feds send a shot across the bow of an effort to get a safe injection
    site up and running in Denver, cartel violence challenges Mexico's new president, and more. https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/dec/06/chronicle_am_feds_warn_denver

    6. CHRONICLE AM: PROSPECTS DIM FOR FIRST STEP ACT, UT MEDMJ ADVOCATES
    FILE SUIT, MORE.... (12/7/18)
    The surgeon general suggests it's time to revise federal drug schedules,
    the First Step Act is being held hostage by Mitch McConnell, Utah
    patient advocates sue to block a legislative gutting of the
    voter-approved medical marijuana law, and more. https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/dec/07/chronicle_am_prospects_dim_first

    7. CHRONICLE AM: BILL BARR'S DRUG WARRIOR PAST, IRAN WARNS SANCTION
    COULD BRING "DELUGE OF DRUGS," MORE... (12/10/18)
    Trump's sanctions could come back to bite us, Iran warns; Trump's new
    attorney general pick has some solid drug warrior credentials, the WHO postpones a recommendation on marijuana scheduling, and more. https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/dec/10/chronicle_am_bill_barrs_drug

    8. CHRONICLE AM: FED CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL WILL GET SENATE VOTE, HEMP IS
    IN FARM BILL, MORE... (12/11/18)
    Mitch McConnell changes course and okays a Senate vote on the First Step
    Act, McConnell ensures the hemp provision remains in the farm bill, a
    Moscow court ruling could run the city's only harm reduction NGO out of business, and more. https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/dec/11/chronicle_am_fed_criminal

    9. CHRONICLE AM: SENATE APPROVES LEGAL HEMP, NJ ACLU ASSET FORFEITURE
    ABUSE REPORT, MORE... (12/12/18)
    Industrial hemp takes a big step toward legalization, New York's
    governor is planning on legalizing weed next year, the ACLU of New
    Jersey has a disturbing new report out on civil asset forfeiture, and more. https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/dec/12/chronicle_am_senate_approves

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    Trump's Ghoulish Call for Even More Chinese Drug Executions [FEATURE]

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    by psmith, December 12, 2018, 04:18pm, (Issue #1048)
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    Death Penalty Executive Branch Fentanyl News Brief

    In a pair of tweets last Wednesday, President Trump urged China to
    crack down on fentanyl, which he described as a "horror drug," and
    predicted "incredible results" if China would start executing people for fentanyl-related offenses.

    Trump urges the Chinese to kill more drug offenders. (Flickr/Gage
    Skidmore)
    Fentanyl is an extremely powerful synthetic opioid linked to tens of
    thousands of overdose deaths in the US in recent years. Chinese chemical factories are believed to be the primary producers of fentanyl and
    related synthetic opioid analogs, which are then mixed in with other
    illicit drugs, making them even more dangerous than they were on their own.

    Trump's tweets came just days after he errantly praised China's
    President Xi Jinping for agreeing that China would "designate Fentanyl
    as a Controlled Substance, meaning that people selling Fentanyl to the
    United States will be subject to China's maximum penalty under the law."

    In reality, China made fentanyl and five fentanyl products controlled
    substances back in 2015 and promised President Obama it would "crack
    down" on it in 2016. Yet, the flow of fentanyl continued and
    fentanyl-related overdose deaths continued to climb.

    And in reality, China is already most likely the world's leading drug
    executioner. The only reason for any doubt is that China does not
    provide data on how many people it executes for drug offenses, but
    according to Amnesty International, "thousands of executions… were
    believed to have been carried out in China" last year.

    China's closest competitor in the gruesome race to execute drug
    offenders has been Iran, where Amnesty says more than 200 were hung in
    2017, but recognizing the futility of the hardline approach and heeding pressure from European funders of Iranian anti-drug efforts, the Islamic Republic has now moved to greatly reduce the number of drug executions.

    But as has been evident from his support of bloody-handed Philippine
    President Rodrigo Duterte, who was presided over a war on drug sellers
    and users that has left thousands dead, Trump has a fondness for the
    death penalty. And despite the lack of any evidence that killing drug
    offenders actually leads to a reduction in drug use or trafficking, he
    wants more.
    hat brought a quick response from the Drug Policy Alliance, which
    ripped into Trump's cheerleading the death penalty in China as "morally repugnant" and instead urged responses to the fentanyl crisis that might actually achieve something.

    "Draconian criminal punishments for fentanyl will actually make the
    problems associated with this drug much worse than they are now," said
    Grant Smith, the group's deputy director of national affairs. "This
    won't reduce addiction and overdose deaths in the US, but it will
    incentivize the proliferation of even more potent drugs that will
    further exacerbate the crisis. President Trump's push for China to
    execute more of its citizens for drug offenses is morally repugnant and
    ignores the decades-long failure of extremely harsh drug policies here
    in the US."

    Instead of lobbying for harsh, but inhumane and ineffective, drug
    policies in China, Trump would better address the overdose crisis by implementing proven harm reduction measures, Smith added.

    "Fentanyl has indeed become the leading cause of overdose deaths in
    the US, but health-based measures are far more effective than
    criminalization," he said. "Interventions like drug checking, naloxone, supervised consumption spaces, and expanding access to evidence-based
    treatment are urgently needed to reduce fentanyl-related deaths."

    But the Trump administration isn't into that. In fact, the Trump
    Justice Department just recently went out of its way to promise a
    crackdown on any cities that try to open safe injection sites as a means
    of reducing overdose deaths and the spread of blood-borne diseases. He
    would rather American drug users die and Chinese drug sellers be killed
    than come up with effective responses that would actually save lives.


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