Topic: DRUGS - on October 4, 2007 at 10:33:00 AM CEST
Marijuana Users Arrested Every 38 Seconds
829,000 Arrested in U.S. in 2006 for Marijuana Violations! WTF! New government statistics show police arrested a record 829,000 people for marijuana violations last year. According to the group NORML a pot-smoker is now arrested every 38 seconds in the country. The total number of marijuana arrests in the U.S. far exceeded the total number of arrests in the U.S. for all violent crimes combined, including murder, manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 4, 2007 at 10:30:00 AM CEST
Noam Chomsky talks about Marijuana
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 3, 2007 at 1:08:00 PM CEST
Dutch Marijuana Becomes More Expensive as Police Raids Rise
The effectiveness of one gram of Dutch-grown marijuana also has decreased by 1.5 percent, according to an e-mailed statement from the Trimbos Institute, a Dutch group that studies drug addiction and treatments. The level of THC, the compound that gives cannabis its potency, fell to 16 percent from 17.5 percent last year.
It is the first time that the price of Dutch marijuana has risen since the institute started keeping a record of hemp prices in 1999. One gram of marijuana, grown in the Netherlands, costs 7.30 euros ($10.30) currently.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 2, 2007 at 10:23:00 AM CEST
Weeds' Mary-Louise Parker voted the 21st Top CelebStoner
Mary-Louise Parker's brown eyes dart from side to side, giving her time to respond to the latest crisis on Weeds, Showtime's popular pot show. Her character Nancy Botwin sells kind bud to the Agrestic's denizens when she's not busy raisng her family or going on drive-by shootings with the local gangsta.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 1, 2007 at 12:27:00 PM CEST
CIA Jet Used for “Rendering” Suspects Crashes with Four Tons of Cocaine on Board
U.S. authorities are assisting the Mexican government in the investigation of an American business jet that crashed near Cancun this week with four tons of cocaine on board, officials said Thursday.
One of the men listed as the registered owners of the plane, Joao Luiz Malago, said in a telephone interview from Brazil that his Florida-based company sold the aircraft for $2 million on Sept. 16 to a Lakeland, Fla., man and his partner, who Malago believed was from Miami.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 26, 2007 at 10:37:00 AM CEST
What are they smoking on 'Weeds'?
You'd think that on Weeds - Showtime's hit pot show - they would smoke the real stuff, just like in a Cheech & Chong movie. Wrong.
That scene in a recent episode where Silas (Hunter Parrish) turns on Tara (Mary-Kate Olsen) with a neatly rolled clear-paper joint. Looks like pot, right? Not.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 21, 2007 at 1:28:00 PM CEST
Drug scanner checks public
Scores of pub-goers in Bicester were tested for traces of illegal drugs during a police operation aimed at tackling violent street crime.
Police used the force's new drugs itemiser - which scans people for traces of banned substances - at the Litten Tree pub.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 21, 2007 at 1:26:00 PM CEST
Four tons of cannabis seized on Huelva coast
Civil Guard recovered the drugs in two operations in Almonte and Isla Cristina.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 17, 2007 at 10:58:00 AM CEST
NORML Founder Arrested in Boston For Smoking Joint
"Eight hundred thousand people were arrested last year for marijuana. Every 41 seconds someone gets arrested for marijuana. I got arrested a couple of hours ago right here."
NORML founder Keith Stroup was delivering his yearly speech at the 18th Annual Boston Freedom Rally on Sept. 15 when he let it slip out that he had been busted just three hour earlier while smoking a joint with High Times associate publisher Rick Cusick behind the High Times/NORML booth.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 17, 2007 at 10:56:00 AM CEST
Skunk strength has doubled, studies suggest
The unpublished results of authoritative research into cannabis confirm the "skunk" now on sale in England is stronger than it was a decade ago, but demolish claims that a new "super-strength skunk" - which is 20 times more powerful - is dominating the market.
Two studies due to be published later this year, which together analysed nearly 550 samples of skunk seized by the police, both conclude that the average content of the main psychoactive agent in skunk strains of cannabis, THC, has doubled from 7% in 1995 to 14% in 2005.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 16, 2007 at 12:20:00 PM CEST
Power and Control LSD in The Sixties [video]
Aron Ranen’s Power & Control LSD in The Sixties
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 16, 2007 at 12:06:00 PM CEST
How law enforcement uses Google Earth
When a Wisconsin man was arrested last October on suspicion of harvesting 18 pounds of marijuana, it was partly thanks to Google Earth.
The sheriff's deputies who pulled the man over found, in addition to what they estimated was at least $63,000 worth of pot, a GPS unit around his neck that was filled with a series of local coordinates, according to The Journal Times of Racine, Wis. After plugging those coordinates into Google Earth, the police were able to identify the location of several marijuana fields to which the man was allegedly connected.
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