In Memoriam: Dr. John Beresford | StoptheDrugWar.org
WEBSep 28, 2007 · (courtesy Gaia Media Foundation and Erowid). Dr. John Beresford died on September 2, 2007 in a hospital in Canada. British-born John Beresford began his psychedelic research interests in 1961, when he resigned his post as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the New York Medical College and founded the Agora Scientific Trust, the world's first research organization devoted to investigating ...
Feature: Reed College in the Crosshairs of Prosecutorial Drug …
WEBApr 30, 2010 · According to the Oregon State Medical Examiner, 119 people died from heroin overdoses in 2008 and 127 in 2009.Including prescription drug overdoses, 492 Oregonians died of ODs in 2008, 270 from prescription opiates. For some reason, the State Medical Examiner did not include prescription drug deaths in the 2009 figures.
Washington State Supreme Court Limits Vehicle Searches
WEBApr 9, 2012 · In an 8-1 decision last Thursday, the Washington state Supreme Court ruled that police must obtain a search warrant to search a vehicle even if they believe it contains evidence of the crime for which the person was arrested.
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Federal Appeals Court Taps the Breaks on Drug Induced Homicide ...
WEBJun 24, 2021 · A woman who bought heroin with a pair of friends, one of whom shortly afterward suffered a fatal overdose on the drug, is not a murderer, at least according to the US 3 rd Circuit Court of Appeals. That was the June 1 ruling in US v.Semler, a case that may not set binding precedent, but does send a signal to the prosecutors and the judiciary that the federal courts do not want to see a federal ...
OR ACLU Sues Medford Police Over Spying on Harm …
WEB3 days ago · An Oregon state law—ORS 181A.250—prohibits police from collecting or maintaining information about the political, religious, or social views, and associations or activities of people who are not reasonably suspected of criminal activity. But in a lawsuit filed last month, the ACLU of Oregon accuses police in the Rogue Valley city of Medford of violating that law by conducting social media ...
House Progressives File Resolution Condemning Police Brutality, …
WEBJun 3, 2020 · As protests erupted across the country after the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, a dozen progressive Democratic House members filed a resolution May 29 th condemning police brutality not only in the case of Floyd but also in the case of Breonna Taylor, the black, 26-year-old Louisville EMT who was gunned down in her own home by cops on a misbegotten no ...
Utah SWAT Team Kills Drug Fugitive in Standoff
WEBJun 6, 2014 · According to the Salt Lake Tribune, citing police sources, Ogden police detectives attempting to arrest Simmons on "several drug-related and evading police felony warrants" located him at the auto body shop, but he and a woman with him fled into the shop, and he barricaded himself in a car.. What later …
ATF's Operation Gideon Raises Questions of Fairness, Justice, and …
WEBMay 30, 2014 · The argument at the 9 th Circuit in the Phoenix case centered on entrapment and whether ATF agents illegally enticed the defendants into the crime through "outrageous government conduct" beyond that allowed by entrapment doctrine.. Relying on the US Supreme Court's 1973 ruling in US v.Russell, where the court upheld such schemes if the defendant showed a predisposition to commit the offense, 9 ...
Fighting Back Against the Non-Consensual Drug Testing of …
WEBDec 23, 2021 · The two women, identified only as Crystal H. and Jane Doe, are being represented by the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) and National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW). The complaints against Garnet Health Medical Center (GHMC) in Middletown were filed with the state Division of Human Rights.
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