Topic: DRUGS - on November 4, 2007 at 12:15:00 PM CET
Infamous 'pot cave' goes on auction block
For sale at auction: One cave, very old, but with many new improvements by former owner. Unique property in an out-of-the-way location. Very subterranean. Perfect for, um, well, a law-abiding tenant with imagination.
Yes, even you could own Tennessee's infamous "pot cave.''
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 3, 2007 at 3:59:00 PM CET
Iranische Polizei stellte mehr als 2,5 Tonnen Drogen sicher
Das teilte das iranische Fernsehen am Samstag mit. Die Operation sei am Vortag 120 Kilometer von der Stadt Tabas im Nordosten des Landes durchgeführt worden. Bei einer zweistündigen Schießerei sei ein Drogenhändler getötet worden, mehrere konnten festgenommen werden, hieß es.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 3, 2007 at 3:56:00 PM CET
Drew Carey Defends Medical Marijuana
“I think it’s clear by now that the federal government needs to reclassify marijuana. People who need it should be able to get it – safely and easily,” says The Price Is Right and Power of 10 host Drew Carey in a new Reason.tv video examining medical marijuana and the war on drugs.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 2, 2007 at 11:27:00 AM CET
Hingis fails cocaine test and makes hurried exit
Switzerland's Martina Hingis, five times a grand slam winner and the youngest No1 in modern tennis, revealed yesterday that she had tested positive for cocaine during this year's Wimbledon and was retiring immediately. "I have never taken drugs and I feel 100% innocent," Hingis said. "The reason I have come out with this is because I do not want to have a fight with anti-doping authorities."
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 2, 2007 at 11:07:00 AM CET
Mexico calls cocaine seizure biggest in nation’s history
Mexican authorities said Thursday they had seized 23.6 metric tons (26 tons) of cocaine from a ship in the port city of Manzanillo in one of the biggest drug busts on record.
washingtonpost.com azstarnet.com globalgeopolitics.org thestandard.com.hk scmp.com militaryphotos.net
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 2, 2007 at 11:05:00 AM CET
24 Tonnen Kokain in Mexiko beschlagmahnt
Die mexikanische Polizei hat auf einem Schiff im Hafen von Manzanillo 23,6 Tonnen Kokain beschlagnahmt. Es war den Angaben zufolge der größte Drogenfund in der Geschichte Mexikos.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 1, 2007 at 12:26:00 PM CET
Paris Hilton's handbag stash
Socialite Paris Hilton has been known to enjoy the sweet-smelling green herbal smoke. In fact, the above photo was taken in Milan at a fashion show in October.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 1, 2007 at 12:18:00 PM CET
Bong Jovi
Back in the '70s, marijuana was "Bad Medicine" for Jon Bon Jovi, who now recalls smoking "dope laced with PCP and then have that whole summer of hallucinations. It was fucking awful."
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 1, 2007 at 12:15:00 PM CET
Britney Spears In New Cocaine Controversy
Britney Spears invited a man to snort cocaine off her chest during a wild party at her Hollywood mansion just two days after losing visitation rights to see her sons, it has been reported.
Scott Kohler, 29, claims he and a group of 10 other strangers were invited to join Spears for a night of heavy partying on October 19, when the troubled star drowned her sorrows with vodka and cavorted with the men in her jacuzzi.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 1, 2007 at 12:10:00 PM CET
Chicago Public Radio on crashed drug plane
In the comments to the weird story about the crashed drug plane with ties to the CIA, Mongip pointed to a "much more detailed, objective and intriguing investigative report on this plane," from Chicago Public Radio.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 1, 2007 at 12:09:00 PM CET
Drug submarines found in Colombia
The Colombian navy has seized two homemade submarines believed to have been built by the Farc rebel group to smuggle cocaine out of the country.
The two fibreglass vessels were found in a clandestine shipyard outside the country's largest port, Buenaventura.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 30, 2007 at 10:54:00 AM CET
The deadly South American arrow poison
I've just found a fantastic article on the history of curare, the powerful Amazonian arrow poison that causes paralysis and death. It's from a 2005 edition of the Journal of the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh and is available online as a pdf.
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