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DEA Final Rule on Hemp Foods Challenged
On March 21, while most Americans were captivated by the U.S. led invasion of Iraq, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) published their final rules on hemp foods. The new “Final Rule” essentially bans the sale of all hemp food products by April 21, 2003......
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2003 1:56pm PST
Two Mexican Anti-Drug Helicopters Shot Down, 5 Dead
Tue March 11, 2003 12:31 AM ET
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Gunmen shot down two Mexican government helicopters on Monday, killing all five people aboard, as they set out to spray illegal opium poppy crops in the southern state of Guerrero on Monday....
Posted: Mon, Mar 10, 2003 10:26pm PST
Call for international antiproibitionist action in Vienna
Meeting against United Nation's international conference for War on Drugs Vienna 6-18 April 2003...
Posted: Sat, Mar 8, 2003 7:42am PST
Gary Webb Joins Narco News as Guest Editor
Giordano goes to look for América: "The objective conditions now exist for an authentic revolution against Commercial Media Tyranny"...
Posted: Tue, Mar 4, 2003 7:24pm PST
Gary Webb (CIA-Contra-cocaine drugs) joins NarcoNews.com as Guest Editor.
"Starting today, I [Alberto M. Giordano] am taking a sabbatical from the helm of Narco News and our new editor is Pulitzer prize winning Authentic Journalist Gary Webb. Webb, the author of "Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras and the Crack Cocaine Explosion," will work closely together with our Andean Bureau Chief Luis Gomez and our team of 50 students and professors from 10 countries of the Narco News School of Authentic Journalism to bring you the news about the drug war and ...
Posted: Tue, Mar 4, 2003 4:35am PST
Feds Smoke Out Chong?
Chong, once one-half of the high-flying (literally) comedy team, Cheech & Chong, saw his Gardena, California, factory and Pacific Palisades home raided Monday by federal drug agents and other authorities, Los Angeles TV station NBC4 reported....
Posted: Wed, Feb 26, 2003 2:48am PST
Girl Shot At DEA Stakeout Is Dead
As Ashley Villarreal lay in the hospital and drew her last breaths Tuesday, a friend challenged the official version of how federal agents days earlier shot the 14-year-old daughter of a drug trafficking suspect....
Posted: Tue, Feb 18, 2003 2:19pm PST
First Day of Narco News Authenthic Journalism School
first day...
Posted: Fri, Feb 14, 2003 1:09am PST
Out From the Shadows - Day One
Day one of the Out From the Shadows conference in Mérida, Mexico....
Posted: Thu, Feb 13, 2003 11:48pm PST
A Report from the Narco News J-School
A report from the Narco News J-School, where dozens of guerrilla journalists have gathered to cover OUT FROM THE SHADOWS: Ending Drug Prohibition in the 21st Century, an international summit at the Universidad Autonoma de Yucatán in Mérida, México....
Posted: Wed, Feb 12, 2003 4:17am PST
WILL THE ROSENTHAL CASE DESTROY FEDERAL MEDICAL MARIJUANA ENFORCEMENT?
Found on a listserv...
Posted: Tue, Feb 11, 2003 11:51pm PST
Flashpoints Feb 8: West Bank ISMers attacked; Ed Rosenthal's Marijuana Journal
KPFA Flashpoints Radio, February 7, 2003
-On the West Bank, 'International Solidarity Movment' members beaten, shot at, threated with death.. live interviews from a confrontation at checkpoint outside Nablus
-Dick Cheney's old companies, Halliburton, Brown and Root profitting greatly from war
-Ed Rosenthal begins a weekly Flashpoints feature about Medical Marijuana and the illegal war on drugs...
Posted: Mon, Feb 10, 2003 12:39am PST
Ed Rosenthal Trial Update: Gag Order Sought
Gag Order Fight Draws First-Amendment Expert to Rosenthal Defense
Federal Government Seeks to Silence Self-Help Author Ed Rosenthal...
Posted: Thu, Jan 23, 2003 5:04pm PST