Topic: DRUGS - on September 30, 2002 at 4:51:47 PM CEST
Cannabiskonsum wird in Deutschland entkriminalisiert
SPD scheint Forderung der Grünen nachzugeben, sträubt sich aber noch gegen vollständige Legalisierung.
¬> <a href="derstandard.at"target="blank"> derStandard ¬> <a href="www.spiegel.de"target="blank"> Spiegel
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Topic: - on September 30, 2002 at 4:44:18 PM CEST
Cannabis genießen statt verbieten
Erste Vorarlberger Hanfkonferenz am Dornbirner Spielboden.
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Topic: - on September 29, 2002 at 11:14:29 PM CEST
Mexico's Poor Trading Machetes for AK-47s
Growing guerrilla movement in Guerrero state ensnares peasants in drug trade and violence. Mexico's newest insurgency is no ordinary guerrilla movement. According to secret Mexican government documents, guerrillas of the Popular Revolutionary Army are helping protect poppy production in one southern state in exchange for weapons from two Mexican drug cartels. While past guerrilla movements have been involved with traffickers in Colombia and Peru, this marks the first time an anti-government insurgency has been drawn this closely into the drug trade in Mexico. It presents two problems for the Mexican government: Drug operations are being protected by increasingly well-armed guerrillas and peasants; and the drug cartels are helping strengthen the fledgling anti-government insurgency.
¬><a href="www.abqjournal.com"target="_blank"> Albuquerque Journal
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Topic: - on September 28, 2002 at 10:56:15 PM CEST
Judge frees medical-pot patient, returns stash
Federal prosecutors might not respect the state law that allows people to grow marijuana for medical use, but a judge in Santa Cruz County does. Medical-marijuana user Greg Brown walked out of the courthouse Wednesday a free man with a legal bag of marijuana.
¬><a href="www.santacruzsentinel.com"target="_blank"> santa cruz sentinel
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Topic: - on September 28, 2002 at 2:51:45 PM CEST
Opium glut in Hamid Karzai’s Afghanistan | another point of view
Europe is about to be inundated by a tidal wave of cheap heroin from Afghanistan, which will reach the cities of the Old Continent via Turkey and Albania.
Since the Taleban regime was ousted and the US-backed regime of Hamid Karzai was installed in Kabul, opium production has risen by one thousand, five hundred tonnes. In one year.
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Topic: - on September 28, 2002 at 3:36:25 AM CEST
Psychedelic philanthropist and shareware leader dies
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Psychedelic philanthropist and computer shareware pioneer Bob Wallace -- Microsoft Corp.'s ninth employee -- died at his San Rafael, Calif., home Friday. He was 53. During the past decade, Mr. Wallace championed such psychoactive drugs as MDMA, or Ecstasy, donating up to $350,000 a year to groups studying the drug. "MDMA seems to help reduce the fear people have of really looking at themselves, and it really helps people communicate well," Mr. Wallace told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in May.
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Topic: - on September 28, 2002 at 2:51:15 AM CEST
!!! WARNING !!! One night's ecstasy use can cause brain damage
'Like Russian roulette': Study finds drastic effect on neurons of monkeys, baboons Just one night's use of the drug ecstasy can cause long-lasting damage to the brain that may lead to the early onset of Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative diseases, according to a study published today in the journal Science. The researchers gave baboons and monkeys the same amount of the drug as is often taken at all-night rave parties. They found "severe" neurotoxicity and brain damage in the animals.
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Topic: - on September 28, 2002 at 2:17:07 AM CEST
War against drugs just isn't working
What do the following items have in common?
• We have embarked on yet another attempt to eradicate the coca crop in Colombia, a country beset by civil war.
• Law enforcement drew a direct link recently between terrorism and the drug trade, moving beyond those ill-reasoned TV spots and arresting suspects in the Midwest who were allegedly funneling proceeds to terrorist groups.
The simplistic view is that drugs, of course, connect all these items. What really connects them, however, is the black market in drugs.
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Topic: - on September 28, 2002 at 12:47:35 AM CEST
Wife files for divorce from agricultural-researcher husband, then notifies cops about his special backyard "herb" garden.
University of Florida agricultural researcher active in Palm Coast politics was arrested Sunday on a warrant charging him with using his green thumb to cultivate an illicit herb. Jeff Seib, 53, a former member of the county's Palm Coast Service District Advisory Council and a 1998 candidate for the Flagler County Commission, was picked up by sheriff's Deputy Jamie Roster.
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Topic: - on September 27, 2002 at 3:23:43 PM CEST
Military seeks to control riots with calming drugs
The U.S. military is exploring ways to use drugs such as Valium to calm people without killing them during riots or other crowd control situations where lethal weapons are inappropriate. Some critics say the effort violates international treaties and federal laws against chemical weapons, an allegation the military denies.
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Topic: - on September 27, 2002 at 2:05:23 PM CEST
ECSTASY-FOLGEN
Party-Droge schädigt das Gehirn. Feste feiern und dabei ein paar bunte Pillen einwerfen - für manche Jugendlichen scheint daran nichts Schlimmes zu sein. Doch auch wenn Ecstasy auf den ersten Blick keine schädliche Wirkung zeigt, ist die Droge alles andere als harmlos. Schon eine einzige unter starkem Ecstasy-Einfluss durchtanzte Nacht kann offenbar dauerhaft das Gehirn der Konsumenten schädigen. Wie US-amerikanische Mediziner im Wissenschaftsmagazin "Science" berichten, kann die Partydroge das Risiko, in späteren Jahren an schweren neurologischen Störungen zu erkranken, deutlich steigern. Darauf deuteten Versuche an Totenkopfäffchen und Pavianen hin.
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Topic: - on September 26, 2002 at 5:20:57 PM CEST
TRUTH OR D.A.R.E.
The father whose own son turned him in for growing pot in his garage goes on the record for the first time about his son, his arrest, his drug use, and his treatment at the hands of the media.
When Aaron Palmer was arrested outside his Covington, Washington, home on May 7 for growing pot in his garage, he didn't suspect that his own 17-year-old son, Trever Palmer, was the one who called the police. A single father raising three children--17-year-old Trever, 15-year-old daughter Ashley, and a seven-year-old son--Palmer, a computer programmer, had been smoking pot most of his adult life.
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