Topic: DRUGS - on November 4, 2006 at 11:03:00 AM CET
Broadband over Power Lines weeds out dope pushers
The illegal hydroponics industry can potentially be weeded out if the rollout of Broadband over Power Lines technology becomes increasingly more prevalent. But catching dope growers is just one of many and varied benefits that can be delivered to service providers by this technology.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 1, 2006 at 10:54:00 AM CET
Lebanon war puts damper on Israeli pot smokers
Israel's recent war with Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas has sent cannabis prices sky high in the Jewish state. Boosted security on the Lebanon frontier brought a drastic reduction in drug smuggling, with the cost of cannabis in Israel up eight-fold, the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 28, 2006 at 11:49:00 AM CEST
Dopewars
DrunkMenWorkHere.org features with Dopewars one of the best games on the net. Be a drug dealer in New York or Rotterdam and compete against other users in real time. It’s all about strategy. Figure out how many bitches you can maintain, what guns are best, which drugs give you the best margins and what suburbs are the least trouble. You’ll be chased by your loanshark’s hitmen if you don’t pay your dept and get into fire fights with other dealers and the cops.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 25, 2006 at 12:28:00 PM CEST
Psychedelic, educational video available today for free
Terrence McKenna, Alex Grey, Robert Anton Wilson, Timothy Leary, and more: a listing of every psychedelic, educational video available today for free.
secondattention.org via RealityCarnival
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 25, 2006 at 12:01:00 PM CEST
Illinois Senator Barack Obama
I Inhaled — That Was The Point
That was what Illinois Senator Barack Obama, currently on a book tour that may or may not segue into a run for the 2008 presidency, said to New Yorker editor David Remnick this afternoon at the American Magazine Conference, after Remnick asked Obama whether or not his admission of drug use in the book would become problematic if he does, if fact, run for president.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 24, 2006 at 9:53:00 AM CEST
Pot grown in a PC
"A few days ago police in Poland arrested a 17 year old kid who ran a mini-farm of cannabis inside his PC. The PC was normally used but modded to contain a light source, and keep humidity and temperature at proper levels."
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 20, 2006 at 12:27:00 AM CEST
A Billion Dollars a Year for Pot?
American taxpayers are now spending more than a billion dollars per year to incarcerate its citizens for pot. That’s according to statistics released last week by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics.
According to the new BJS report, “Drug Use and Dependence, State and Federal Prisoners, 2004,” 12.7 percent of state inmates and 12.4 percent of federal inmates incarcerated for drug violations are serving time for marijuana offenses. Combining these percentages with separate U.S. Department of Justice statistics on the total number of state and federal drug prisoners (BJS October 2005 Bulletin: “Prisoners in 2004” – NCJ 210677) suggests that there are now about 33,655 state inmates and 10,785 federal inmates behind bars for marijuana offenses. (The report failed to include estimates on the percentage of inmates incarcerated in county jails for pot-related offenses.)
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 18, 2006 at 3:19:00 PM CEST
Nevada to vote on pot shops
Gambling, prostitution, and now pot? Organizers of a Nevada ballot measure hope voters in a state where almost everything goes will go one better and legalize marijuana.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 13, 2006 at 11:54:00 AM CEST
Canada troops battle 10-foot Afghan marijuana plants
Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy -- almost impenetrable forests of marijuana plants 10 feet tall.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 13, 2006 at 10:15:00 AM CEST
Is U.S. Government Using LSD for Interrogations?
Old-fashioned journalists have a term for bizarre, interesting and/or disturbing little articles -- "Hey Mabel" stories, they call them. And the New York Sun's Josh Gerstein had a doozy of a "Hey Mabel" in yesterday's paper.
In a new court filing on behalf of alleged dirty bomber Jose Padilla, his lawyers allege that government interrogators forced him to take LSD, Gerstein reported.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 11, 2006 at 12:07:00 AM CEST
Überführte Parlamentarier
Ein heimlicher Drogentest an italienischen Parlamentariern durch eine italienische TV-Satiresendung sorgt für Aufregung. Unter falschem Vorwand lud die Sendung "Le Iene" 50 Abgeordnete des italienischen Unterhauses zu einem Interview ein und machte beim Schminken für die TV-Sendung heimlich Schweißproben. Bei der Auswertung der Proben stellte sich heraus: Jeder dritte Abgeordnete hatte in den 36 Stunden davor entweder Cannabis oder Kokain konsumiert. Mittlerweile wurde die Ausstrahlung der Sendung verboten - und eine Diskussion über Zensur ist südlich der Alpen entbrannt.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 10, 2006 at 4:44:00 PM CEST
Italien: Abgeordnete des Drogenkonsums überführt
Bei einem heimlichen Drogentest hat ein italienischer TV-Sender 16 Parlamentsabgeordnete des Rauschgiftkonsums überführt. Im Make-Up, das den Politikern aufgetragen worden war, fanden sich Spuren von Kokain und Cannabis.
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