Topic: DRUGS - on December 17, 2007 at 1:03:00 PM CET
CIA Drug Op in Sleepy St. Petersburg
Its been six hundred and twenty-two days since an American-registered DC9 airliner, "tricked out" to look like an airplane from the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, took off from the St. Petersburg-Clearwater Int'l Airport and was busted in Mexico carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 14, 2007 at 1:20:00 PM CET
Army 'losing battalion' to drugs
The Army is dismissing the equivalent of almost a battalion of soldiers every year for taking drugs, a report says.
The Royal United Services Institute said the number of positive tests for illegal drugs, like ecstasy and heroin, rose from 517 in 2003 to 769 last year.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 14, 2007 at 1:10:00 PM CET
THE EFFECTS OF DECRIMINALIZATION OF DRUG USE IN PORTUGAL
The Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Programme (BFDPP, www.internationaldrugpolicy.net) is a non-governmental initiative dedicated to providing a rigorous independent review of the effectiveness of national and international drug policies. The aim of this programme of research and analysis is to assemble and disseminate material that supports the rational consideration of complex drug policy issues, and leads to more effective management of the widespread use of psychoactive substances in the future. The Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Programme is a member of the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC, www.idpc.info), which is a global network of NGOs specialising in issues related to illegal drug use and government responses to the related problems. The Consortium aims to promote objective debate on the effectiveness, direction and content of drug policies at national and international level.
bfdpp_bp_14_effectsofdecriminalisation_en (application/pdf, 529 KB)
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 14, 2007 at 1:07:00 PM CET
Drugs haul on a beach in Balanegra
Four men from Roquetas de Mar are under arrest, after they were caught in the act unloading a cargo of more than a ton of cannabis resin on a beach in Balanegra on Tuesday night. The smugglers who transported the drugs to the Seto Maleno beach managed to escape out to sea.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 13, 2007 at 2:58:00 PM CET
Drug Smugglers Lure Germany's Unemployed
Once the work of South Americans and Africans, Germans are now serving as human couriers to smuggle cocaine into Europe inside their bodies. A number of Germany's long-term unemployed, it seems, are willing to do the potentially deadly work of being drug mules in exchange for a tropical vacation and thousands of euros.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 12, 2007 at 2:10:00 PM CET
Grow-op leaks into day care center
The second-floor commercial space was crammed with more than 1,500 mature marijuana plants.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 12, 2007 at 2:01:00 PM CET
Pot cave sold to cheesemaker for $285,000
A home built above a large cave that once housed a sophisticated underground marijuana operation may have a delicious - and legal - future.
Authorities seized the home in 2005 after finding more than 850 marijuana plants growing under lights in two secured, 100-yard-long underground rooms connected to the home.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 11, 2007 at 1:20:00 PM CET
There's no such thing as an old junkie
Agency: Abbot Mead Vickers BBDO, London, United Kingdom Creative Director: Paul Brazier Art Director: Mike Bond Copywriter: Bern Hunter
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 8, 2007 at 6:38:00 PM CET
Campaign to name US street after Douglas Adams
A group of American Douglas Adams fans are seeking to have a street named after him in Portland, Oregon. The chosen street - naturally - is currently called 42nd Avenue.
"On May 11, 2001 a very talented writer and activist was taken from this world far before his time," say the activists of rename42nd.org.
"Not yet 50 years of age, Douglas Adams passed on and left a legacy for all that would come after him."
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 8, 2007 at 6:14:00 PM CET
Smoking Marijuana Mental Disorder - Psychology with Sandy
According to the American Psychiatric Associations, Cannabis (Marijuana) intoxication is an official mental disorder listed in the DSM or Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders.
This isn't to be confused with pot addiction, dependency or abuse, this is just being high.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 6, 2007 at 11:05:00 AM CET
Smartest Drug Story of the Year
Wallace-Wells captures the complete costs of the drug war better than any journalist I've read in a long time. He documents how the federal government has dropped about $500 billion combating illicit drugs over the past 35 years. Nearly 500,000 people sit in jail or prison for drug crimes, "a twelvefold increase since 1980," Wallace-Wells writes. For all the money the government has spent and all the people it's jailed, it's still failed to make a long-term impact on the availability of drugs. The militarized drug-control techniques favored by the Bush administration, he reports, have increased violence and political corruption abroad, violated human rights, and destabilized several Latin American nations.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 6, 2007 at 10:58:00 AM CET
More smoke toad venom to get high
"Toad smoking," which is a substitute for "toad licking," is done by extracting venom from the Sonoran Desert toad of the Colorado River. The toad's venom — which is secreted when the toad gets angry or scared — contains a hallucinogen called bufotenine that can be dried and smoked to produce a buzz.
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