Topic: DRUGS - on November 22, 2007 at 12:40:00 PM CET
British woman on cocaine charge
A British woman has been detained at Lisbon airport on allegations she tried to smuggle cocaine into the country in two false-bottomed suitcases.
Portuguese customs officials say the woman was carrying almost 12.5kg (27.6lb) of the drug.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 22, 2007 at 12:38:00 PM CET
Girls guilty in Ghana drugs case
Two British 16-year-old girls have been found guilty of trying to smuggle cocaine from Ghana to the UK.
Yasemin Vatansever and Yatunde Diya, both of north London, were arrested at Accra international airport on 2 July.
They denied the charge of attempting to smuggle more than 6kg (13lbs) of the drug on a BA flight to London.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 21, 2007 at 11:45:00 AM CET
Salvia: The legal marijuana?
Experts are warning parents about a common houseplant that has been outlawed in several states due to its dangerous and potentially debilitating qualities.
Salvia, a legal hallucinogen, is known to yield an intense high. The substance has been used by the Mazatec Indians in Mexico for centuries, but several states recently banned the plant after a child in Delaware wrote about how salvia changed his life then later committed suicide.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 21, 2007 at 11:38:00 AM CET
The Most Dangerous Drug in the World
Scopolamine: Scopolamine is a colorless, tasteless, odorless drug. It is also known as hyoscine and is classified as a tropane alkaloid. The drug can be obtained from plants in the Solanacea (nightshade) family. Most scopolamine comes from jimsome weed, or as in Columbia, borrachero trees. The plants it can be derived from are many, and abundantly available. This makes its use widespread, and exceedingly dangerous. It is, surprisingly, one of the most feared substances in what is arguably the drug capital of the world, Columbia.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 21, 2007 at 11:37:00 AM CET
Smoking cannabis in public to remain a serious offence in Spain
A parliamentary commission in Congress has turned down a proposal under debate to depenalise possession of small amounts of cannabis. It was presented by Izquierda Unida, who placed the only vote in favour of the motion at a meeting of the Interior and Justice Committee in Congress on Tuesday: 35 voted against.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 20, 2007 at 5:41:00 PM CET
Cannabis Compound May Stop Metastatic Breast Cancer
A non-toxic, non-psychoactive compound in marijuana may block the progress of metastatic breast cancer, according to a new study by researchers in California.
"This is a new way to treat a patient that is not toxic like chemotherapy or radiotherapy. It is a new approach for metastatic cancer," said lead researcher Sean D. McAllister, an associate scientist at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute in San Francisco.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 20, 2007 at 5:38:00 PM CET
UK drugs trade tops £7bn, study shows
There are about 300 major drug importers into Britain, 3,000 wholesalers and 70,000 street dealers producing a turnover of £7-8bn a year, according to an internal Home Office estimate revealed today.
This official indication of the astonishing scale of the drugs trade in Britain, although very rough, has led Home Office researchers to calculate that by value it represents about a third of the size of the tobacco market in Britain and two-fifths of the trade in alcohol.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 20, 2007 at 11:05:00 AM CET
Homemade cocaine-smuggling sub
Colombian marines seized a makeshift submarine capable of smuggling up to 12 tonnes of cocaine through the Pacific to Central America, making it one of the largest such craft found, authorities said on Friday.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 20, 2007 at 11:04:00 AM CET
Eight suspects in Cádiz cocaine network released with charges
Nine are in prison, in an operation which seized cocaine with a street value of almost 1.4 million €
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 19, 2007 at 11:09:00 AM CET
60% of Aborigines smoke marijuana
New figures on cannabis rates among indigenous people show a drug use rate far higher than the Australian average, with researchers saying it is “firmly entwined” in the society.
Researchers at James Cook University in Cairns and the University of Sydney surveyed 164 people in Arnhem Land in 2006 and found 61 per cent of men and 58 per cent of women used cannabis at least weekly.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 19, 2007 at 11:07:00 AM CET
'Cannabis' may halt breast cancer
A compound found in cannabis may stop breast cancer spreading throughout the body, US scientists believe.
The California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute team are hopeful that cannabidiol or CBD could be a non-toxic alternative to chemotherapy.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 18, 2007 at 1:00:00 PM CET
Cannabis Cup 2007 in Amsterdam
Europa ist halt doch noch nicht ganz gleichgeschaltet. Auch gut so und so veranstalten die holländischen Nachbarn im November 2007 den zwanzigsten Cannabis Cup bei dem so mancher deutsche Tourist sich wohl die volle Dröhnung geben wird. Deutschland hingegen startet in den Fasching oder in die Fasnachtzeit.
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