Topic: DRUGS - on January 20, 2004 at 2:31:00 PM CET
KILLED BY SIX JOINTS A DAY
A MAN died from cannabis poisoning after smoking around 24,000 reefers in 11 years.
Lee Maisey, 36, is believed to be the first Briton to die as a direct result of taking the drug, which the Government will downgrade to class C next week.
An inquest heard he smoked around six spliffs a day.
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 20, 2004 at 1:01:00 PM CET
Zöllner finden 60.000 Ecstasy-Tabletten
Polnische Zöllner haben am Autobahnübergang Frankfurt/Swiecko die Rekordzahl von 60.000 Ecstasy-Tabletten und knapp drei Kilogramm Marihuana sichergestellt. Die Beamten entdeckten ihren Fund in einem aus Deutschland kommenden polnischen Pkw.
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Topic: - on January 20, 2004 at 12:10:00 PM CET
Chong Backed by Tokin' Resistance
At first glance, Tommy Chong seems woefully miscast in the role of martyr.
The comedian, who rose to fame in the '70s and '80s, is renowned for, more than anything else, playing a bumbling pot smoker as half of the moviemaking team Cheech and Chong. More recently, he played off that image with a glass pipe and bong business, Nice Dreams Enterprises; an advertising campaign for a contraption to foil drug tests; and a recurring role on the Fox sitcom That '70s Show.
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 16, 2004 at 10:56:00 AM CET
Ecstacy: end of the affair
One pill now costs about the same as a pint of beer - and is almost as easy to get hold of. But the youth of Britain is starting to turn its back on ecstasy. Leo Benedictus on how the drug of the 90s fell from favour.
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 16, 2004 at 10:48:00 AM CET
Grow operations
The "big box" marijuana growing operation found in the former Molson brewery in Barrie, Ont., was the largest and most sophisticated in Canadian history, police said.
30,000 Estimated number of plants
$30 million Estimated street value of the plants found
$100 million Estimated worth of the annual crop, based on four crops a year
1,000 Number of growing lamps
25 Number of beer vats converted to incubation chambers for the seedlings
6,000 Size of the growing facility, in square metres, about half of the entire building
50 Number of people who could be housed in the on-site dormitory
9 Number of people arrested in the raid
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 13, 2004 at 12:36:00 PM CET
Top Ten Drug War Stories of 2003
With the American public's attention firmly directed toward the daily events of the Bush Administration's "War on Terror," the US-led and exported "War on Drugs" continues to exact crippling costs to taxpayers, minority groups, the environment, civil liberties and struggling democracies around the world.
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 13, 2004 at 12:17:00 PM CET
Officers follow their noses to illegal pot farm
Officers in Southern California didn't need a crime dog to sniff out a pot farm _ they just followed their own noses. Police found more than a thousand marijuana plants and a sophisticated growing operation Tuesday in a warehouse in the Costa Mesa area. During the raid, officers confiscated about $75,000 worth of water pumps, electric valves and giant lights used in cultivating the illegal weed.
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 13, 2004 at 7:34:00 AM CET
Drogenersatz: Eine Injektion alle sechs Wochen
Die Drogen-Ersatzbehandlung bringt vielen Süchtigen ein Leben ohne ständigen Beschaffungszwang für Heroin. In den USA wurde nun eine sechs Wochen wirkende Injektion getestet - mit ambivalenten Folgen.
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 12, 2004 at 12:26:00 AM CET
Study links marijuana buzz to 'runner's high'
The same family of chemicals that produces a buzz in marijuana smokers may be responsible for "runner's high," the euphoric feeling that some people get when they exercise, U.S. researchers say.
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 9, 2004 at 2:00:00 PM CET
Triebtäter im Blumenbeet
Gartenbesitzer klagen schon lange über den mysteriösen, massenhaften Diebstahl von Hortensien. Die Blüten der Strauchgewächse sollen berauschende Wirkung besitzen. Doch trotz kriminalistischer Feinstarbeit kommt die Polizei den Tätern nicht auf die Spur.
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 8, 2004 at 5:54:00 PM CET
The Emperor Wears No Clothes
This is the book that started the hemp revolution. More than 600,000 copies have been sold to date. The print version of The Emperor Wears No Clothes is available in Jack's Hemporium. Jack wants this information to be available to everyone, so he has published the text of the book here on the internet for free. This is only half of what is actually in the book. If you want all the source material and graphics, please buy a copy of the book.
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 7, 2004 at 5:41:00 PM CET
Ecstasy kills boy who made anti-drug film
A schoolboy who wrote and directed an anti-drugs film died after taking ecstasy "because he heard it was a laugh", an inquest was told yesterday.
Ben Hennessy, 15, lost consciousness after "bombing" up to four and a half ecstasy tablets with a friend, only a week after the film was first screened.
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