Topic: DRUGS - on April 17, 2007 at 3:18:00 PM CEST
Mexico drugs cartels feud erupts
At least 20 people have been killed in what Mexican police say is a violent feud between rival drugs gangs across the country.
Police said bodies were found in several of the country's states from the early hours of Monday.
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 16, 2007 at 11:10:00 AM CEST
Britain's fight against drugs 'a total failure'
The number of young people using cocaine and cannabis has increased rapidly over the past 20 years despite high-profile campaigns, such as the £9m 'Frank' initiative aimed at 11 to 15-year-olds, according to an in-depth examination of official efforts to tackle Britain's chronic drug problem. It is also expected to claim that Britain's 'unusually severe drug problem compared with that of our European neighbours' is linked to social and economic deprivation, that punitive laws have had little effect and that police efforts to disrupt the drugs trade have also failed.
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 16, 2007 at 11:08:00 AM CEST
April 16, 1943: Setting the Stage for the World's First Acid Trip
Hofmann, a Swiss chemist, was researching the synthesis of a lysergic acid compound, LSD-25, when he inadvertently absorbed a bit through his fingertips. Intrigued by the stimulating effects on his perception, Hofmann decided further exploration was warranted. Three days later he ingested 250 milligrams of LSD, embarking on the first full-fledged acid trip.
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 14, 2007 at 11:58:00 AM CEST
Cocaine cleric jailed for unholy post
An Italian priest has been jailed for three-and-a-half years after posting a package of cocaine to himself.
Father Stefano Ciacca was arrested in possession of half a kilogram of cocaine, with a street value of about £340,000.
The Catholic priest had travelled to Colombia with an accomplice last year to buy the drugs, using Ciacca's savings.
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 14, 2007 at 11:54:00 AM CEST
Port-a-potty doesn't make good hiding place
Police looking for a purse snatcher were able to flush the suspect out from the portable toilet where he was hiding. "A Port-A-Potty is not a good place to hide," police Chief James Kudlak said Wednesday. "There's only one way out."
Johnny Snodgrass, 21, apparently matched the description of a man caught on videotape at a store where an 89-year-old woman's purse was stolen in March and from a nearby video poker establishment where her wallet was found, police said.
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 14, 2007 at 11:51:00 AM CEST
U.S. prosecutors to retry California's 'Guru of Ganja' marijuana grower - Ed Rosenthal
Federal prosecutors said Friday they would retry a marijuana grower known as the "guru of ganja," even after a federal judge urged them to drop the case.
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer demanded to know who in the Justice Department made the decision to continue pursuing Ed Rosenthal, whose conviction was overturned last year.
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 14, 2007 at 11:47:00 AM CEST
The Great Tennessee Marijuana Cave
Law enforcement officers in Tennessee make the greatest underground discovery since Tutankhamen’s tomb was unearthed in the Valley of the Kings. Under this ordinary house is a marijuana grow-op unlike any you have ever seen. Within the caves of middle Tennessee, growers constructed a complex of offices, living quarters, restroom facilities, and a climate-controlled forest of over one thousand cannabis plants.
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 14, 2007 at 11:42:00 AM CEST
Tacoma Man Gets 15 Years in Prison for Very Sophisticated Marijuana Grow Operation
CHAD ROBERT LATHAM, 30, of Tacoma, Washington was sentenced today to 15 years in prison and five years of supervised release for Conspiracy to Manufacture Marijuana and Manufacturing Marijuana. At sentencing U.S. District Judge Ronald B. Leighton noted that LATHAM had two prior state convictions for growing marijuana.
According to the plea agreement, LATHAM designed eight machines out of aluminum that looked like ferris wheels. Each machine held 24 rows of plants with eight plants in each row for a total of 192 plants per machine. The plants would rotate around the machine, passing by grow lights, dipping into a hydroponic grow solution at the bottom or passing under a hydroponic grow solution spray at the top. In 2003-2004, the grow operation was located in a garage in rural Pierce County in McKenna, Washington. A co-conspirator, DANIEL IRWIN, lived on the property and hung a deteriorating deer carcase near the door to the building so that the smell of the rotting deer would mask the smell of marijuana.
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 12, 2007 at 12:30:00 PM CEST
Police raid ex-Rastafarian temple
Police have arrested 23 people during a raid on a former Rastafarian temple in south London in the early hours.
About 60 armed officers targeted St Agnes Place in Kennington, just after 0300 following suspicions of "serious criminality" at the site.
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 10, 2007 at 4:30:00 PM CEST
Goodbye Prozac, Hello Magic Mushrooms!
Scientists are to investigate a hallucinogenic chemical in "magic mushrooms" as a possible new treatment for depression, anxiety and drug dependence.
24dash.com Psilocybin can occasion mystical-type experiences having substantial and sustained personal meaning and spiritual significance
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 10, 2007 at 4:28:00 PM CEST
Two tons of cannabis seized off Motril coast
The drugs were on a French catamaran boarded as part of a routine control
Two men are under arrest after a drugs haul which took place ten miles off the coast of Motril on Sunday.
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 10, 2007 at 4:26:00 PM CEST
Mexican Drug Cartels Leave a Bloody Trail on YouTube
Bloody bodies -- slumped at steering wheels, stacked in pickup trucks, crumpled on sidewalks -- clog nearly every frame of the music video that shook Mexico's criminal underworld.
Posted on YouTube and countless Mexican Web sites last year, the video opens with blaring horns and accordions. Valentín Elizalde, a singer known as the "Golden Rooster," croons over images of an open-mouthed shooting victim. "I'm singing this song to all my enemies," he belts out.
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