Topic: - on January 1, 2003 at 1:56:38 PM CET
Cocaine kills brain's 'pleasure' cells
Repeated cocaine use damages, or even kills, the very brain cells that trigger the "high" users experience, scientists have found.
The drug damages key cells in the brain's pleasure centre.
The researchers say their findings could help explain the process of addiction and could even lead to the development of anti-addiction drugs.
¬> EurekAlert ¬> Independent ¬> UPI
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Topic: - on December 25, 2002 at 2:23:56 PM CET
Pot Delivery
Canada allows the use of therapeutic cannabis, but has yet to make it available which complicates matters for those in need, even with a Health-Canada exemption. We are here to answer that need and to provide service to those communities and individuals unable to access Canada’s established compassion clubs.
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Topic: - on December 22, 2002 at 3:02:38 PM CET
Exekutive fehlen Geräte für neue Drogentests
Paradox: Drogentest, aber keine Test-Sets
Ab 1. Jänner soll die Exekutive Jagd auf Drogenlenker machen. Dazu soll in jedem Streifenwagen ein Drogentest-Set mitgeführt werden. Bis jetzt ist aber noch kein einziges Test-Set vom Innenministerium bei der Verkehrsgendarmerie eingetroffen.... Link (0 comments) ... Comment
Topic: - on December 22, 2002 at 9:21:11 AM CET
Online-Bestellung von Cannabis
Nach Beendigung ihres Gerichtsverfahrens feierten zwei kanadische Marihuana-Aktivisten ihren Sieg mit dem Launch eines Online-Marihuana-Shops.
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Topic: - on December 22, 2002 at 9:18:42 AM CET
Streit Strasser - Häupl uber Drogenpolitik
Für Aufregung sorgen Berichte, wonach es in Wien bis zu 3.000 Dealer gibt. Bürgermeister Michael Häupl (SPÖ) forderte Innenminister Ernst Strasser (ÖVP) auf, klar zu stellen, wie das Kriminalamt auf diese Zahl komme.
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Topic: - on December 20, 2002 at 10:15:25 AM CET
One-Click Marijuana Shopping for Sick Canadians
Canadian activists for the medicinal use of marijuana celebrated a court victory on Thursday by launching an Internet site offering home delivery of cannabis for seriously ill people.
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Topic: - on December 15, 2002 at 11:35:35 AM CET
HANF-SONG
Gerhard Schröder ist mit dem "Steuersong" nicht mehr der einzige Politiker in den Charts. Mit dem neuen Hit "Gebt das Hanf frei" verschaffte der TV-Komiker Stefan Raab dem grünen Urgestein Hans-Christian Ströbele unerwartete Beliebtheit: Schon fangen Berliner Teenager an, vor ihrem neuen Idol in der U-Bahn zu rappen.
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Topic: - on December 12, 2002 at 12:39:37 PM CET
Number 17
Mexican authorities discover drug tunnel in Tijuana
Mexican federal agents discovered another drug tunnel under construction a block from the U.S. border in Tijuana, federal authorities said Wednesday. Found Tuesday, the partially built tunnel was more than 60 feet deep and 10 feet in diameter, the attorney general's office said in a statement. It ran under a removable section of concrete floor in an empty warehouse adjacent to a home near Otay Mesa, a border crossing for trucks.
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Topic: - on December 12, 2002 at 12:13:14 PM CET
Pot: Girl gives teacher marijuana
Normally, teachers who receive holiday gifts from their young students might be glad for the exchange. On Monday afternoon shortly after 3:30, however, one teacher from the Churchill Head Start Early Childhood Center at 41 Commercial St. called police to report that a 4-year-old girl had presented her teacher with a small bag of marijuana.
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Topic: - on December 12, 2002 at 4:01:13 AM CET
Legal Pot For Canada?
A parliamentary committee called for legalizing marijuana use among adults, increasing pressure on the government to shift drug laws away from the zero-tolerance policy of the United States.
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Topic: - on December 10, 2002 at 12:21:35 PM CET
Pot decriminalization may come in months
Kanada - dann ist es Jederda
The federal government may introduce legislation early in the new year to decriminalize the use of marijuana, says Justice Minister Martin Cauchon. "If we're talking about that question of decriminalizing marijuana, we may move ahead quickly as a government," he said today outside the House of Commons.
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Topic: - on December 10, 2002 at 10:23:48 AM CET
"Dröhnende" Pilze
Der Drogenbericht 2002 lässt aufhorchen. Zwar ist der Drogenmissbrauch bei Cannabis-Produkten nach wie vor am höchsten. Doch immer mehr Drogenkonsumenten weichen in den Bereich "legaler" Drogen aus und "dröhnen" sich mit Pilzen und anderen so genannten psychotropen Substanzen zu. Erstmals hat man diesen Bereich genauer unter die Lupe genommen.
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