Topic: DRUGS - on June 29, 2007 at 3:01:00 PM CEST
How Geography Affects The Price Of Cocaine
The street price of cocaine varies hugely across the world. No surprise that it is cheapest in Colombia, the world's biggest producer of coca: at $2, a gram costs less than a Big Mac. Geography is an obvious price factor. The farther away a country from the main producers in South and Central America, and the more isolated it is, the higher the cost to traffick there. In far-flung New Zealand, a gram costs a wallet-busting $714.30.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 29, 2007 at 2:59:00 PM CEST
Quiet Spanish city is Europe's coke capital
Miranda de Ebro, a small industrial city in northern Spain, was once known for small blood sausages, a three-day fiesta after Holy Week and its strategic location as highway stopover - on the way to somewhere else.
But now the city has a new distinction: cocaine capital of Europe.
The United Nations World Drug Report this year ranks Miranda de Ebro as the city with the highest incidence of cocaine use in Europe and second in the world after New York, with a rate nearly five times as high as in St Moritz, London, Zurich and Madrid.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 28, 2007 at 11:32:00 AM CEST
Record opium crop in southern Afghanistan
Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, where some 7,000 British troops are based, is on the verge of becoming the world's biggest drugs supplier, cultivating more opium than entire countries such as Burma, Morocco, or even Colombia, the UN warned yesterday.
The region was largely responsible for a huge increase last year in Afghanistan's opium poppy harvest, the origin of most of the heroin on the streets of Britain and mainland Europe. And Helmand's poppy harvest is expected to increase again this year, according to the latest annual report of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 26, 2007 at 4:59:00 PM CEST
Drugs go up in smoke in Thailand
Thailand marks International Anti Drug Day by burning tonnes of narcotics.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 23, 2007 at 1:00:00 PM CEST
Cannabis buyers face biometric testing
Buying cannabis in the Dutch city of Maastricht will soon mean having your fingerprints taken, your face scanned and your biometric data recorded.
All 15 coffee shops in the southern city are spending about 100,000 euros (67,000 pounds) installing a security system that makes it harder for an under-age cannabis smoker to enter than a terrorist to set foot in Europe, according to Marc Josemans, head of the local coffee shop union.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 21, 2007 at 10:47:00 AM CEST
Two drug swoops on the Huelva coast
The news was released on Wednesday that officers from the Agencia Tributaria tax authority have seized more than three tons of cannabis resin in two drug smuggling operations on the coast of Huelva. Officers confiscated three boats which were used to carry the drugs.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 21, 2007 at 10:45:00 AM CEST
Marijuana humor
Ok folks , today I have some humor for you. Its time that people start laughing more in this crazy fucked up world.
So sit back roll up a big joint and relax......
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 18, 2007 at 10:40:00 AM CEST
An die zwei Tonnen Marihuana erzeugt
Eine 500 Quadratmeter große Marihuana-Plantage in Wien-Liesing hat die Polizei im Februar ausgeforscht. Inzwischen konnten sechs Verdächtige ermittelt werden: Sie sollen an die zwei Tonnen Marihuana erzeugt und verkauft haben.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 18, 2007 at 10:39:00 AM CEST
Romancing the snow
IN 1999, Washington launched "Plan Colombia," with the promise that the anti-drug program would halve Colombian cocaine production.
The law of unintended consequences rules in this drug war. Plan Colombia has not delivered.
U.S. crop dusters have sprayed an area the size of Delaware and Rhode Island. U.S. taxpayers have forked over some $4.7 billion. Yet cocaine is abundant and cheap on the streets of America. As Ken Dermota wrote in the July/August issue of the Atlantic, the price of a gram of cocaine in Los Angeles fell from $50 to $100 per gram in 1999 to $30-$50 in 2005. Prices are down in New York, Seattle and Atlanta. White House Drug Czar John Walters recently admitted that street cocaine prices fell by 11 percent from February 2005 to October 2006.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 18, 2007 at 10:34:00 AM CEST
5 Year Old Hands Out Heroin In Day Care
Earlier this week, a YWCA Daycare Center on Grant Street in Buffalo was closed because six children at a local daycare center were given heroin by another student who thought it was candy.
Early Tuesday morning, teachers learned that a youngster brought small packets to school which he passed out to classmates telling them it was candy.
Teachers quickly learned the child was actually doling out heroin and called police immediately. Six children, from two to five years old, were taken to Women and Children's Hospital for evaluation.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 18, 2007 at 10:27:00 AM CEST
Pacific island in spin over planned pro-marijuana conference
SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AFP) - A proposed pro-marijuana conference to be held in the US-administered Northern Mariana Islands has led to a bizarre row among local legislators.
Opponents of the conference of Californian-based activists advocating that marijuana should be legalised have suggested the territory should be renamed the Northern Marijuana Islands.
But the cash-strapped government says the conference would be a boon for the sagging tourism industry.
"We welcome anybody who wants to hold a conference here, whether it be to discuss marijuana or not," government spokesman Charles Reyes said Thursday.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 18, 2007 at 10:20:00 AM CEST
Marijuana make fireman feels like he is in heaven
A fire at a house in San Diego with a Marijuana farm inside of the garage made a fireman inhale a lot of smoke.
Now you think, how is the fireman doing…….well watch this.
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