Word: antidrug
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...dismay of the Bush Administration, it's a banner waving over a large swath of South America. Coca eradication is the linchpin of Washington's antidrug strategy. The widening revolt against it is the loudest sign yet of a new resentment toward the U.S. in Latin America, where free-market reforms pushed by Washington have left much of the region's 500 million people poorer. A former parliamentary Deputy from Bolivia's central coca-growing region, Morales in the past was often dismissed as a radical relic in the land where Che Guevara died. But today he's strong enough...
...live in a drug culture, where instead of having fulfilled and interesting lives, people seek oblivion from the stresses of life through a chemical route." Despite her unhappiness with the government's actions, she finds the response from schoolchildren and young offenders, to whom she has taken her antidrug message, "hugely exhilarating. A 'Just Say No' approach would never work. But they are surprisingly receptive to hard facts." The daughter of an electrician and a chorus dancer, Greenfield enrolled at Oxford to study philosophy and psychology after graduating from school with an unusual mix of math, Greek and Latin...
...trade in hemp food." (The Canadian government has also formally objected.) The DEA's position is that U.S. drug laws clearly ban THC--any THC. The court's decision will turn on the historically murky question of whether Congress intended hemp to be part of those laws. Some antidrug groups-- including, most stridently, the Family Research Council--believe allowing hemp foods would send a pro-marijuana message...
DIED. CARRIE HAMILTON, 38, actress, musician and daughter of Carol Burnett and producer Joe Hamilton whose three-year adolescent descent into drugs made national headlines and prompted a family antidrug crusade; of cancer; in Los Angeles. A play she wrote with her mother, Hollywood Arms, will open at Chicago's Goodman Theater in April...
...lawmakers may object when spending more for counterterrorism means losing an FBI agent in their hometown who works on an antidrug task force. Other shuffling could incite a revolt in Congress. "If you try in any significant way to hinder the civil-rights division, that would be over the bodies of Senators on the Judiciary Committee," says a former Justice Department official. Which sounds like fightin' words--perfect for someone who seems more a general than an attorney...