• Drug War Chronicle, Issue #1051 -- 1/10/19 - Table of Contents with Liv

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    Drug War Chronicle, Issue #1051 -- 1/10/19
    Phillip S. Smith, Editor, psmith@drcnet.org https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/1051

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

    Table of Contents:

    1. OF ALL PEOPLE: THE DEA DEMOLISHES ONE OF TRUMP'S MAIN CLAIMS ABOUT
    THE BORDER WALL
    No, it's not going to stop drugs from coming into the country. https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2019/jan/08/all_people_dea_demolishes_one

    2. DOES KRATOM KILL? [FEATURE]
    Or is it getting a bad rap? https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2019/jan/09/does_kratom_kill_feature

    3. MEDICAL MARIJUANA UPDATE
    A new year and state legislatures are getting back to work. Medical
    marijuana is on the agenda. https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2019/jan/09/medical_marijuana_update

    4. CHRONICLE AM: JAMES CARROLL APPROVED AS DRUG CZAR, TIJUANA'S BLOODY
    2018, MORE... (1/3/19)
    Pennsylvania lawmakers are moving on marijuana legalization, the US
    finally gets a permanent drug czar, Tijuana saw a bloody year last year,
    and more. https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2019/jan/03/chronicle_am_james_carroll

    5. CHRONICLE AM: FEDERAL MARIJUANA BILL FILED, CIUDAD JUAREZ DRUG WAR
    KILLINGS SURGE, MORE... (1/4/19)
    Wow, that was fast: The first marijuana bill of the new Congress has
    already been filed, an Arizona sheriff finally hops on board the
    naloxone train, Ciudad Juarez drug war killings are way up, and more. https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2019/jan/04/chronicle_am_federal_marijuana

    6. CHRONICLE AM: DENVER PSILOCYBIN INIT ADVANCES, WA GOVERNOR TO PARDON
    POT PEOPLE, MORE... (1/7/19)
    The Denver magic mushroom initiative campaign hands in signatures,
    medical marijuana bills proliferate in Texas, Washington's governor
    announces plans to pardon small-time pot offenders, and more. https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2019/jan/07/chronicle_am_denver_psilocybin

    7. CHRONICLE AM: FL FORMERLY INCARCERATED CAN NOW REGISTER TO VOTE, NY
    MMJ BILLS, MORE... (1/8/19)
    It's a landmark day for voting rights in Florida, New York sees a pair
    of bills filed to expand medical marijuana access, and more. https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2019/jan/08/chronicle_am_fl_formerly

    8. CHRONICLE AM: DRUG CZAR'S OFFICE SHUTTERED IN SHUTDOWN, DC FULL POT LEGALIZATION BILL FILED, MORE... (1/9/19)
    The federal government shutdown shutters the drug czar's office, Trump
    again mischaracterizes the nature of border drug smuggling, New Jersey's highest court lends a hand to drug court graduates seeking expungement,
    and more. https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2019/jan/09/chronicle_am_drug_czars_office

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    1. OF ALL PEOPLE: THE DEA DEMOLISHES ONE OF TRUMP'S MAIN CLAIMS ABOUT
    THE BORDER WALL https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2019/jan/08/all_people_dea_demolishes_one

    As the president attempts to make his case for a wall on the US-Mexico
    border, one of his main selling points is that the wall would reduce the
    flow of illicit drugs into the country. Of all people, it's not our
    favorite agency that has rebutted the claim.

    That agency is the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), which in its
    2018 National Drug Threat Assessment (https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2018-11/DIR-032-18 2018 NDTA
    final low resolution.pdf) released just two months ago makes clear that
    at best Trump is uninformed and at worst that he is lying to the
    American people.

    "Remember drugs. The drugs are pouring into this country. They don't go
    through the ports of entry. When they do, they sometimes get caught,"
    Trump claimed (https://www.apnews.com/7a14725f21a845cb9d04b5bf990cac59)
    at a Rose Garden news conference last Friday.

    It's not a new claim for the president; it has been a pillar of his
    claim that there is a "crisis" on the border. But repeating a false
    claim doesn't make it any less false. What is true, as the DEA reports,
    is that the southwest border "remains the primary entry point for heroin
    into the United States," but it is not being lugged across the desert
    via a wall-less border.

    According to the DEA, "the majority of the flow is through POVs
    [privately owned vehicles] entering the United States at legal ports of
    entry, followed by tractor-trailers, where the heroin is co-mingled with
    legal goods. Body carriers represent a smaller percentage of heroin
    movement and they typically smuggle amounts ranging from three to six
    pounds taped to their torso, or in shoes and backpacks."

    To be clear, the body carriers the DEA is talking about are people
    coming through ports of entry -- not across an open border. The agency
    reported that only "a small percentage of all heroin seized" along the
    border was seized between ports of entry.

    It's the same thing with fentanyl. According to the DEA, which says
    fentanyl imports are split between China and Mexico, Mexican drug
    traffickers "most commonly smuggle multi-kilogram loads of fentanyl
    concealed in POVs before trafficking the drugs through Southwest Border
    ports of entry." In the San Diego sector, which saw the biggest fentanyl seizures, 74 percent off seizures were from cars at ports of entry. In
    the Tucson sector, which had the next highest fentanyl seizure numbers,
    that figure was 91 percent.

    Claiming that building a border wall would reduce the flow of drugs into
    the country is probably not the biggest lie Trump and his allies have
    told about the wall, but it is patently false.

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