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A series of reports, documents and proposals on the ongoing abuse of chemistry in the service of the "war on drugs"

Collected and/or written by John Kelly of DC Metro SftP
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Marijuana Arrest Crusade - Racial bias and police policy in New York City, 1997-2007 by Harry G. Levine and Deborah Small. An amazing documentation by the New York Civil Liberties Union of the story behind the sudden 10-fold rise in marijuana arrests in New York City over the decade 1997-2007. (File may take some time to load)
  Posted Dec 13, 2010

Informal grant proposal in the form of a letter to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers by John Kelly. The proposal made under the auspices of DC Metro Science for the People seeks support to produce a practice manual that "would provide the wherewithal for the effective, proactive defense of marijuana charges" based on scienticially flawed and misleading test, currently in widespread use.
  Posted Dec 13, 2010

Formal grant proposal (draft) by SftP to produce the above practice manual
  Posted Dec 13, 2010

Text of the Melendez-Diaz vs Massachusetts Supreme Court Decision of 2009, which held that it was a violation of the Sixth Amendmant right of confrontation for a prosecutor to submit a chemical drug test report without the testimony of the scientist. This is an important precedent in the struggle to restore the rights of thousands of wrongly-imprisoned people
  Posted Dec 13, 2010

Dandelion High - A screenplay for a film about the struggle of a scientist whose work on drug testing is being abused to send hundreds to prison.
  Posted Dec 26, 2010

 


 

 

 


 


 


 
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