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The 'Pot' Lobby in Congress MAGAZINE OF THE NATIONAL ANTI-DRUG COALITION $2.00 November 1980 Vol. 1, No. 4 $2.25 in Canada The 'pot' lobby in Congress JAMAICA: Who turned it into a drug economy by Gretchen Small and Carlos Wesley An alternative to drugs and rock in the schools Int'l conference on drug abuse indicts marijuana by Ned Rosinsky, M.D. Editor-in-Chief Nora Street Hamerman International Editor Michele Steinberg Counterintelligence MAGAZINE OF THE NATIONAL ANTI-DRUG COALITION ^3 Editor November 1980 Vol. I, No. 4 ~ Christian Curtis Medical Editor Ned Rosinsky, M.D. Senior Editor Dope, Inc. runs Vin Berg Washington foreign policy NADC News Editor by Marilyn James and Michele Steinberg Bonnie Mesaros Behind the Carter no-win strategy against heroin—a political coverup of Legislation Editor the 'China card' 12 Martha Zoller Art Director Who made Jamaica Deborah Asch a drug economy Assistant Art Director by Gretchen Small and Carlos Wesley Laurie Sloan A case history of the International Monetary Production Editor Fund forcing a nation to dope 22 Gail G. Kay Editorial Board The congressmen who of Advisers sponsored marijuana "decrim" Max Dean, Esq. David Goldman by Vin Berg and Lydia Cherry Konstandinos Kalimtgis Ridding Capitol Hill of the prodrug DeForest Z. Rathbone lobby is a priority 39 Jiirgen Spahn, M.D. Jeffrey Steinberg • Juan Torres Int'l conference on drug abuse indicts pot War on Drugs is published monthly by the National Anti- by Ned Rosinsky, M.D 59 Drug Coalition, 304 West 58th Street, 5th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10019. The views of the NADC are stated in the edito­ rials; opinions expressed in ar­ Departments ticles are not necessarily those of the coalition. Subscriptions 2 Editorial by mail are $18 for 10 issues, National news $35 for 20 issues, and $36 for 8 Reagan adviser Friedman: legalize heroin foreign air mail (10 issues). 43 Legislative calendar 44 Profile Note to readers: This issue of War on Drugs is dated Novem­ Sheila Jones on an alternative to the drug-rock culture ber to meet newsstand require­ 46 Book review ments. No monthly issue has 48 Frontline: Colombia been skipped. by Fausto Charris 49 Drugfighters' target Application to mail at second class rates pending in New Mathea Falco York, New York. Postmaster: 50 International news forward all change of address 64 Facts about drugs forms to 304 W. 58th St., 5th by Dr. Edward Christian Floor, New York, N.Y 10019. Copyright ° November 1980 On the cover: the heroin epidemic hitting Europe and the United States National Anti-Drug Coalition was mapped out by the same geopoliticians who devised the alliance with Printed in the U.S.A. "Islamic fundamentalism" and Peking's dope pushers as a tool of U.S. All Rights Reserved foreign policy. Photo: Philip Ulanowaky ISSN 0270-2606 Editorial the "Golden Triangle" of the Far East, with Communist China in collaboration with Hong Kong playing the role of maintaining the financial and shipping apparatus for a massive "opium war" against the United States. The Drug En­ forcement Administration's re­ ports on the heroin epidemic this year essentially ignore these two centers, concentrating instead on the Golden Crescent of Iran, Paki­ End Dope, Inc. control stan and Afghanistan as the source for the heroin glut. of U.S. foreign policy Our investigation shows that Red China and Turkey are, accord­ his issue of War on Drugs is ing to overwhelming evidence, still Torganized to provide you—the the major suppliers of the drugs. antidrug educator, parent, medical A third center within the Golden doctor or other concerned individ­ Crescent is Pakistan—which has ual—with the knowledge you need close ties to both the United States of how the international drug traf­ and to Peking. ficking cartel has taken control This gives the lie to the Carter over US; foreign policy against the administration's plea that the po­ will of the majority of Americans. litical instability of the Golden From its inception, the National Crescent and lack of US influence Anti-Drug Coalition has insisted in the region tie the hands of drug on an international approach to enforcement efforts. combatting the drug plague. Bet­ ter education in our schools about Geopolitical blinders what drugs do to you (and don't The Carter White House is cov­ do) is certainly needed. But the ering up Red China's opium war fact remains that the drugs have against the United States because to come from somewhere, and that of a policy commitment initiated somewhere cannot be "lack of com­ by Henry Kissinger under the Nix­ munication between parents and on administration, the so-called their children." China card. This policy overlaps Heroin, marijuana and cocaine with another stance of the admini­ do not fall like manna from heav­ stration, Zbigniew Brzezinski's en. They are cultivated, trans­ often reiterated support for "Is­ shipped^ refined and sold on a mas­ lamic fundamentalism." sive scale. This requires sophisti­ Both the China card and the cated infrastructure and financ­ Islamic fundamentalist card stem ing. Any serious approach to law from a concept that is explained in enforcement against illegal sub­ our book review section this stances must begin by tracing the month, "geopolitics." This is the sources and means by which drugs old scheme of the British oligarchy, are reaching American markets. dating back to the 19th century, to In this issue, we have looked in surround Russia with hostile pow­ some depth at two problems of this ers on her southern flank. Since type. First, we have investigated Russia is now governed by a Soviet the hefoin epidemic now hitting rather than a czarist government, the United States. Second, we have "geopolitics" has been updated looked into one of the key Carib­ with an "anticommunist" veneer. bean sources of marijuana and the The real target is not commu­ related culture of marijuana—Ja­ nism. The purpose of geopolitics is maica. to prevent industrial capitalist The historic centers of opium countries of Western Europe, led and heroin trade are Turkey and by France and West Germany, from 2 War on Drugs / November 1980 THE R£)G TON6£-iN WHICH JI'MMITCAICIK mErsrem HSMO-P/NG cooperating with the Soviet Union tional Monetary Fund, which with the United States. Such foreign in the kind of economic develop­ official U.S. support enjoys a vir­ policies are not only repugnant for ment projects that would stabilize tual monopoly over credit to the their overseas victims, but they Third World countries, including developing sector. How the IMF return home. the southern flank of the U.S.S.R. uses its power is shown in the case Opposing drugs means opposing To stop that kind of economic of Turkey and in our extended dos­ the economic policy that motivates development, Washington has al­ sier on Jamaica. the evil minds behind the drug lied with the most genocidal re­ Rather than strengthening the traffic. We must reject the "small gime the world has ever seen, the Jamaican economy by developing is beautiful," anti-industrial credo Chinese Communists. It has joined its industrial potential, the IMF of the oligarchy, including its ideo­ hands with the Islamic fundamen­ has acted to dismantle industry logies like Milton "Legalize Hero­ talists, otherwise known as the and slash living standards. U.S. in" Friedman. Muslim Brotherhood, the evil cult taxpayers' funds have been used to We call on all those who want to that runs the Khomeini regime help the transition to a drug econ­ win the war on drugs to work to and the government of Billy Car­ omy by funding "sociological" return U.S. foreign policy to its ter's friends in Libya. studies on the use of marijuana to historical origins. Let us first tear These are the most anticapital- make back-breaking labor beara­ up the China card. Then let us ist forces in the world today, feroc­ ble. export technological progress to iously committed to destroying the Instead of food, Jamaica is being develop the Third World and thus idea of progress upon which Amer­ encouraged to grow a new "cash create the new markets that will ica was built. crop" to pay its debts to the IMF- relaunch our own economy. The same policy was imposed on marijuana. Another, equally dan­ In so doing we will give our Ronald-Reagan by Henry Kissinger gerous export is the test tube-cre­ youth the job opportunities they at the GOP national convention in ated cult of Rastafarianism, blood lack and a moral purpose for de­ July, and written into the Republi­ brother to the Muslim Brother­ veloping their minds and making a can platform with a plank of hood in hatred of industrial prog­ contribution to the world. That is strong support for the People's Re­ ress and indeed of every trace of a powerful motive for not suc­ public of China and abandonment human civilization. cumbing to the fictitious pleasures of traditional U.S. partnership As Turkey turned to a drug econ­ of drugs. with Nationalist China (Taiwan). omy under IMF "conditionalities," Turkish heroin headed for Europe International Monetary Fund and the United States. Jamaican The other side of this picture is marijuana is being used to dope Washington's subservience to a su­ American youth and create pres­ -Nora Hamerman pranational agency, the Interna­ sure for legalization of the weed in Editor in Chief November 1980 / War on Drugs 3 NATIONAL NEWS Special Report The fight against dope paraphernalia Over the July 4th weekend, New state legislature a bill decriminal­ response to the increasingly bla­ York Governor Hugh Carey signed izing the possession and transfer tant activity of the pot lobby in into law two bills relating to mari­ of up to one ounce of marijuana.
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