Topic: DRUGS - on May 3, 2007 at 12:39:00 PM CEST
The Most Exotic Brands Of Weed
An odd top 10 list from Forbes: The Most Exotic Brands Of Weed.
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 2, 2007 at 1:06:00 PM CEST
20 tons of hashish recovered in Almería
Three Civil Guards have been arrested among a total number of 39 detained in an anti-drug operation in Almería.
20 tons of hashish was recovered as an international drug running group was broken up.
The gang ran the drugs from Morocco to Almería and had the collaboration of certain members of the Civil Guard to protect them.
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 2, 2007 at 1:04:00 PM CEST
Marijuana triggers psychotic symptoms, doctors say
New findings on marijuana's damaging effect on the brain show the drug triggers temporary psychotic symptoms in some people, including hallucinations and paranoid delusions, doctors say.
British doctors took brain scans of 15 healthy volunteers given small doses of two of the active ingredients of cannabis, as well as a placebo.
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 2, 2007 at 1:01:00 PM CEST
Hashish the cause of plugged courthouse toilet
Courthouse maintenance workers responding to a complaint about a clogged toilet found 14 kilograms of hashish in a pipe leading from a restroom used by prisoners, officials said Monday.
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 2, 2007 at 12:59:00 PM CEST
Prayers answered with pot
Often people pray to make a request or seek guidance. Confusing times then for a Kentucky congregation, who returned to their cars after a prayer service to find bags or marijuana on their car windscreens.
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 2, 2007 at 12:37:00 PM CEST
Colombia cuts drugs haul figure
The authorities in Colombia have revised the total of drugs seized in a haul on Monday from around 25 tonnes of cocaine to just over 13 tonnes.
It was found in 1,000 separate packages near the town of Pizarro, west of the capital, Bogota, buried in an estuary accessible only by sea.
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 27, 2007 at 12:45:00 PM CEST
U.S. marijuana grows stronger than before
Analysis of seized samples of marijuana and hashish showed that more of the cannabis on the market is of the strongest grade, the White House and National Institute for Drug Abuse said.
They cited data from the University of Mississippi's Marijuana Potency Project showing the average levels of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, in the products rose from 7 percent in 2003 to 8.5 percent in 2006.
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 26, 2007 at 10:51:00 AM CEST
LSD as Therapy? Write about It, Get Barred from US
Andrew Feldmar, a well-known Vancouver psychotherapist, rolled up to the Blaine border crossing last summer as he had hundreds of times in his career. At 66, his gray hair, neat beard, and rimless glasses give him the look of a seasoned intellectual. He handed his passport to the U.S. border guard and relaxed, thinking he would soon be with an old friend in Seattle. The border guard turned to his computer and googled "Andrew Feldmar."
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 24, 2007 at 12:38:00 PM CEST
Connoisseurs of Cannabis
Like fine wine, growing medicinal weed has become so specialized as to inspire tastings and a new vocabulary.
Stephen DeAngelo bent and sniffed deeply over a clump of frizzy purple nuggets in a petri dish, one of eight sitting in the middle of a long refectory table. They were not labeled or arranged in any particular order, although to the experts assembled in DeAngelo's Oakland loft -- "cannabis is my calling," he says -- their identity was no mystery.
"I would describe this as grapey, candy-like, sweet, with a slight undertone of spice," said DeAngelo, a longtime activist and hemp promoter who is now chief executive officer of Harborside Health Center, a medical marijuana dispensary in Oakland. He was holding the tasting at home where he could properly and legally -- at least in the eyes of California, if not the federal government -- evaluate some samples. To prepare, he'd taken off his green tweed coat, loosened his tie and settled in a chair near his vaporizer, an apparatus that allows him to breathe vapor instead of smoke, because it's less harsh.
"It is grapey, but I get flowers," said Rick Pfrommer, the dispensary's purchasing agent, as he inhaled a strain called the Purps. "I would use the word pungent. It has a pungent funk undertone."
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 24, 2007 at 12:33:00 PM CEST
US in record maritime drugs haul
The US Coast Guard says it has seized nearly 20 tonnes of cocaine with a street value of $600m, in the biggest maritime drugs bust in US history.
The drugs haul, unloaded in California on Monday, was seized in a raid last month off the coast of Central America.
Officials said they intercepted a cargo ship sailing under the Panamanian flag, and that the 14 crew - Panamanians and Mexicans - put up no resistance.
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 21, 2007 at 11:35:00 AM CEST
Marijuana lab explosion injures man
An explosion set fire to a Miami house being used to grow marijuana hydroponically on Wednesday and the force of the blast sent the occupant flying into the yard, police said.
Arson investigators were trying to determine the cause of the explosion, but police said the man may have been using propane gas near the high-intensity
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 18, 2007 at 12:11:00 PM CEST
EDU: OPED: THE TIME HAS COME TO LEGALIZE MARIJUANA USE
With all of the alcohol-related incidents that happen both in State College and around the United States, one would think that making alcohol illegal might be a good idea. Certainly, there would be fewer traffic-related deaths if alcohol were illegal, as the National Transportation Safety Board said that about 16,000 fatalities on the road are caused by alcohol each year.
Why, then, if alcohol causes so many problems, is deterring pot smoking the main focus of most drug education programs?
I'll say it right out. If alcohol is legal and smoking cigarettes is legal, then smoking marijuana should be within the bounds of the law as well.
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