Topic: DRUGS - on December 15, 2006 at 12:30:00 PM CET
Ron Mann's Cannabis Clip Contest
Hey Flash videographers, animators and artists...
Stretch your creative brains and help NORML get the word out about marijuana law reform. Create the best Flash clip and win $1000 !
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 14, 2006 at 9:57:00 AM CET
Drugs: why we should medicalise, not criminalise
If you are a desperate drug addict and you are neither a trust fund babe nor a doctor with a prescription pad, you really have only three ways to pay for your habit: you steal, you deal or you sell your body. For those poor young women who have too many scruples to steal or deal, prostitution is often the only answer. Some 95 per cent of prostitutes, according to a Home Office study, are what they call “problematic drug users”.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 14, 2006 at 9:07:00 AM CET
This is no life for anyone
For women like me, prostitution is about a lot more than drugs, and getting out isn't easy.
I've been selling sex since I was 18 and I'm 41 now. I ran away from home when I was 14 because I was terrified my mum was going to put me in care, and ended up living with fairground people for three years. Like so many girls in my situation, I drifted to London. Having no skills, I ended up working in a hostess bar, then moved down the prostitution food chain and worked for an escort agency.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 14, 2006 at 9:05:00 AM CET
Plot to smuggle drugs in lollipops foiled
Spanish police foiled an attempt to smuggle cocaine into the country inside confectionery lollipops, a regional government official said Tuesday.
Gang members in Colombia packed the drug into 55 lollipops and sent them by airmail via Madrid's Barajas Airport, Vicente Ripa Gonzalez, governor of the northern region of Navarra, told a news conference in Pamplona.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 14, 2006 at 9:03:00 AM CET
11 Common Misconceptions About Marijuana
While conducting further research on marijuana use in the United States and its implications, I came across this little gem of misinformation on the Drug Free America Foundation’s website. It is a fine example of arrogantly scripted works of anti-marijuana propaganda. Of all the facts they present, only a select few cite sources in any way, and these facts tend largely to be red herrings, as I will explain below. I have conducted a line-by-line analysis of all of their marijuana “facts.”
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 13, 2006 at 11:40:00 AM CET
Homer Simpson pops up on medical marijuana packaging
San Francisco resident "Tremain Calm" shares this scan of a legally-obtained bag of medical marijuana, featuring the presumably illicit use of Homer Simpson's likeness. Although -- who knows? Perhaps Homer, too, is a card-carrying member of that club, which would explain in part the character's penchant for donuts.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 13, 2006 at 11:38:00 AM CET
Mexico launches drugs crackdown
Thousands of Mexican troops are patrolling the streets in Michoacan state in an anti-drug trafficking drive ordered by President Felipe Calderon.
Soldiers have also destroyed several marijuana and opium plantations.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 12, 2006 at 11:52:00 AM CET
1,000 Words
Believe it or not, there was a time when people would have doubted a picture like this could have been taken in America. No one would believe it -- probably some third-world despot or Eastern European dictatorship.
In fact, it was taken in Durham, North Carolina by a college photojournalist, and recently won in the "Spot News" category of the College Photographer of the Year competition.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 12, 2006 at 11:00:00 AM CET
MexianDrugCartelTube
It was just a matter of time before YouTube became about more than gummy grampas, pugs that think they're blenders and crazy women dancing in serial killer masks: Mexican drug cartels are now using YouTube to send death threats to one another...
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 12, 2006 at 10:58:00 AM CET
Psychedelic drug 'hope for OCD'
"Doc, I am ready to play ball."
It had been years since Jeff (not his real name) had touched a basketball.
Living with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), Jeff feared contamination from dirt and germs which prevented any part of his body from touching the ground, save for the soles of his shoes.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 11, 2006 at 1:04:00 PM CET
Afghan Poppies to Get Herbicide Spray
The top U.S. anti-drug official said Saturday that Afghan poppies would be sprayed with herbicide to combat an opium trade that produced a record heroin haul this year, a measure likely to anger farmers and scare Afghans unfamiliar with weed killers.
John Walters, the director of the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy, said Afghanistan could turn into a narco-state unless "giant steps" are made toward eliminating poppy cultivation.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 10, 2006 at 1:08:00 PM CET
TiHKAL - Tryptamines i Have Known And Loved By Alexander and Ann Shulgin
trypt-amine \ 'trip-ta-,men \ n. [tryptophan fr. tryptic, fr. trypsin, fr. Gk. tryein, to wear down (from its occurence in pancreatic juice as a proteolytic enzyme) + amine fr. NL ammonia] 1: A naturally occurring compound found in both the animal and plant kingdoms. It is an endogenous component of the human brain. 2: Any of a series of compounds containing the tryptamine skeleton, and modified by chemical constituents at appropriate positions in the molecule.
The Copyright for Part 1 of TiHKAL has been reserved in all forms and it may not be distributed. Part 2 of TiHKAL may be distributed for non-commerical reproduction provided that the introductory material, copyright notice, cautionary notice and ordering information remain attached.
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