Topic: DRUGS - on September 8, 2004 at 12:36:00 PM CEST
Joints statt Pausenbrot – Haschkonsum an Schulen nimmt zu
12-jährige Schüler verstecken sich auf dem Schulhof und rauchen Hasch. Heimlich bringen die Kinder und Jugendlichen ihre Wasserpfeifen in Sporttaschen mit oder drehen sich ihre Joints selbst. So verschaffen sie sich schon am Vormittag einen schnellen Rausch. Und das aus Spaß und um cool zu sein. Anschließend sitzen sie zugedröhnt vor der Unterrichtstafel und können dem Lehrer kaum folgen. Keine andere Droge hat ähnliche Zuwachsraten wie Cannabis.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 8, 2004 at 9:33:00 AM CEST
Ganze Wiener Familie als Cannabiszüchter tätig
Eine vierköpfige Familie ist in Wien als mutmaßliche Drogenbande verhaftet worden. Vater, Mutter, Tochter und deren Freund sollen Haschisch in der Wohnung angebaut und weiterverkauft haben.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 5, 2004 at 1:59:00 PM CEST
Children's Prank Call Results In Big Drug Bust
Police in New Jersey are crediting kids playing with a phone for a big pot bust.
Officers were dispatched to a Hackensack home after two hang-up calls to 911. Police found some kids playing outside the home.
But officers say when they knocked on the door Jeffrey Chung, 26, answered it, then tried to slam it shut. Police say they forced their way in and found nine pounds of marijuana and nearly $39,000 in cash.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 2, 2004 at 7:30:00 PM CEST
Prison Guards Find Basketball Full of Pot
Basketballs are usually puffed up with air, but somebody found a way of inflating one with a substance usually associated with puffing of another kind.
Oklahoma State Penitentiary officials cut into an exercise-yard basketball and found nearly two pounds of what is believed to be marijuana stuffed inside.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 2, 2004 at 7:15:00 PM CEST
Altered Plants Pose New Drug War Threat
Authorities suspect a new threat is lurking in the mountains and jungles of Colombia: Not a new rebel cadre, but altered coca plants that are bigger, faster-growing and produce more of the compound that gives cocaine its kick.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 1, 2004 at 10:52:00 AM CEST
Man who smuggled pot with squid shipment sentenced
A man who drove a trailer-truck loaded with more than 6,700 pounds of marijuana mixed with 30,000 pounds of frozen squid across the Otay Mesa border was sentenced today to 121 months in federal custody.
A jury on May 28 convicted Roberto Armenta-Orozco, 37, of conspiracy to distribute marijuana, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and importation of marijuana.
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 27, 2004 at 12:06:00 PM CEST
Winnipeg makes crack smoking safer
Social workers in Winnipeg have begun handing out “high-quality” crack pipes and instructions to addicts on the city's streets, part of a harm-reduction strategy put in place by local health officials.
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 27, 2004 at 11:58:00 AM CEST
School mistakes student's hometown for drug reference
The town of Hempstead, N.Y., has a message for Gwinnett County school administrators: Before you target a student wearing a Hempstead shirt, look at a map.
Terrell Jones, a student in Gwinnett County's Grayson High School, was weeded out of a classroom by a school administrator because he wore a shirt that read: "Hempstead, NY 516," a reference to the Long Island town and its telephone area code.
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 24, 2004 at 7:28:00 PM CEST
Kartelle setzen auf genmanipulierte Kokapflanzen
Kolumbiens Drogenbarone experimentieren neuerdings mit Gentechnik, um ihre Umsätze zu steigern. Erbmanipulierte Koka-Pflanzen können nicht nur weit größer werden als herkömmliche - sie liefern auch hochwertigeren Stoff.
Die Kartelle hätten unbekannten ausländischen Wissenschaftlern 150 Millionen Dollar für eine genetisch veränderte Kokapflanze gezahlt, berichteten Fahnder am Dienstag in der kolumbianischen Hauptstadt Bogotá.
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 24, 2004 at 4:21:00 PM CEST
Mexico jails top suspect in drug dealing
One of Mexico's most-wanted drug-trafficking suspects was captured without a shot fired over the weekend, authorities said Monday, the latest in a series of high-profile arrests by Mexican law enforcement using intelligence supplied by U.S. narcotics agents.
The arrest of Gilberto Higuera Guerrero in Mexicali on Sunday morning is a major victory in President Vicente Fox's campaign against Mexico's major drug cartels. Leaders in each of the four largest drug cartels have been arrested in recent months, although officials say the flow of drugs through Mexico into the United States probably has not receded.
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 24, 2004 at 4:20:00 PM CEST
Record cocaine bust; 6 arrests in Kalamata
In the biggest cocaine haul ever made in Greece, police in the southern Peloponnese yesterday seized over 700 kilos of the drug and arrested six suspected smugglers.
The bust, in the seaside town of Kalamata, followed a three-month surveillance operation in which Greek narcotics police, coast guard and members of the Finance Ministry’s financial crimes squad (SDOE) cooperated with the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 23, 2004 at 9:21:00 AM CEST
Catching Meth Cooks Pink-Handed
It may fall a shade shy of catching thieves redhanded, but for farmers fed up with methamphetamine cooks filching their fertilizer, staining them pink will do just fine.
Assuming you can discourage thieves you cannot easily catch, a new product called GloTell -- which is added to tanks of anhydrous ammonia -- will not only besmirch the hands of those who touch the fertilizer, but leaves its mark on anyone who snorts or shoots the end product.
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