Topic: DRUGS - on October 21, 2013 at 2:59:00 PM CEST
Seattle thrift store finds 2.5 pounds of marijuana in donation bin
Despite the recent legalization of recreational marijuana in Washington, Seattle police want to remind everyone that thrift stores can't resell donated bags of pot.
The department released a lighthearted press release on Friday to remind the public of the rules after employees at a thrift store in North Seattle found a large bag of marijuana in the donation bin.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 18, 2013 at 3:04:00 PM CEST
Europol sieht Gefahr in Teams aus Hackern und Schmugglern
Mindestens seit Juni 2011 beauftragten holländische Drogenschmuggler professionelle Hacker, um Computersysteme im Antwerpener Hafen auszuspionieren. Mit Hilfe der ausgespähten Daten verschob die Bande mutmaßlich Drogen im Wert von mehreren Hundert Millionen Euro. Rob Wainwright, Chef von Europol, sieht in dieser Kooperation eine neue Art von Kriminalität und hofft auf mehr Technikwissen bei der Polizei. Regierungen und Parlamente sollten aber zusätzlich Gesetze erlassen, mit denen die "Ausnutzung des Internets" bekämpft werden könne, berichtet die BBC.
heise.de Hafen von Antwerpen: Hacker halfen Drogenschmugglern beim Containerklau
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 18, 2013 at 3:01:00 PM CEST
Why Oreos Are As Addictive As Cocaine To Your Brain
A small new study suggests the brain responds to Oreo cookies quite like it responds to actual drugs – at least if you’re a rat. The “pleasure center” of the brain, the nucleus accumbens, apparently gets just as activated in response to Oreos as it does to cocaine and morphine, which could actually have some major public health implications. While the study was done in rats, the authors say it’s likely relevant to humans as well, and could explain why people have such a hard time resisting eating an entire sleeve of the cookies. The study, which will be presented at the Society for Neuroscience’s annual conference next month, also made another discovery: Rats, like humans, like to eat Oreo’s creamy center first.
forbes.com Student-faculty research shows Oreos are just as addictive as drugs in lab rats
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 17, 2013 at 4:23:00 PM CEST
Silk Road: Will cybercrime evolve in wake of takedown?
Silk Road, the infamous online marketplace for drugs and other illegal goods, was closed down by the FBI earlier this month. Since then its alleged founder, Ross Ulbricht - who denies being the site's operator known as Dread Pirate Roberts - has been taken into custody, and police forces around the world have been making arrests.
It is a blow to the sale and distribution of harmful substances, including cocaine and heroin, as well as disrupting other criminal activities arranged online, such as the sale of weapons and hitmen for hire.
But for how long will society have been made safer?
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 16, 2013 at 5:04:00 PM CEST
The Dalai Lama Supports Medical Marijuana Use
The Dalai Lama isn't that keen on recreational marijuana use, but the spiritual leader told supporters in Mexico on Tuesday that he supports legal, medicinal marijuana when the drug has been shown to have value. The comments, in the middle of a debate on the drug in the country as Mexico City considers legislation to legalize pot, came at an event hosted by former president Vicente Fox. Fox supports the legalization of pot for a different reason: because it could cut off a valuable stream of revenue for the country's drug cartels.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 16, 2013 at 4:51:00 PM CEST
Panel to vote on rules for Washington pot industry
After nearly a year of research, planning and public hearings, Washington state is poised to approve the rules for its new legal marijuana industry.
The rules will dictate everything from the security at and size of licensed marijuana gardens, to how many pot stores can open in cities across the state.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 16, 2013 at 4:42:00 PM CEST
North America’s Largest City Moves to Legalize Pot
Legislators in Mexico City, the largest city in North America, are preparing to push through certain measures that would decriminalize and regulate the consumption of marijuana in the Mexican capital, a move that may speed up pot legalization elsewhere on the continent
Though deprived of sunlight and breathing the smog-ridden air of Mexico’s mountain capital, the marijuana plants, from a strain known as purple kush, reach 0.9 m in a brick home at a middle-class suburb. They are alimented with electric lights and kept behind closed curtains by the owner, who says he grows them to smoke himself. If police found them, he could be nailed for drug production and face a hefty prison sentence under laws designed to tackle the country’s ultraviolent cartels.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 15, 2013 at 4:32:00 PM CEST
Cannabis can CURE CANCER - cheaply and without getting you high
The non-hallucinogenic parts of cannabis seem to be potentially highly effective anti-cancer drugs, according to a new study.
“This study is a critical step in unpicking the mysteries of cannabis as a source of medicine," explains Dr Wai Liu. "The cannabinoids examined have minimal, if any, hallucinogenic side effects, and their properties as anti-cancer agents are promising.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 15, 2013 at 4:28:00 PM CEST
Denver considering $999 fine/year in jail for smoking legal cannabis in your backyard
Today at 2 p.m., marijuana activists Mason Tvert and Brian Vicente will hold a press conference decrying a new proposal that would potentially criminalize marijuana smoking in one's own home if its odor can be smelled outside it.
In a press release announcing the event (see it below), Tvert and Vicente denounce the concept as unconstitutional and charge Mayor Michael Hancock, who backs the policy, of hypocrisy by announcing it during this week's Great American Beer Festival.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 14, 2013 at 2:08:00 PM CEST
Study Shows No Evidence Medical Marijuana Increases Teen Drug Use
While marijuana use by teens has been increasing since 2005, an analysis of data from 1993 through 2009 by economists at three universities has found no evidence to link the legalization of medical marijuana to increased use of the drug among high school students.
"There is anecdotal evidence that medical marijuana is finding its way into the hands of teenagers, but there's no statistical evidence that legalization increases the probability of use," said Daniel I. Rees, a professor of economics at the University of Colorado Denver.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 13, 2013 at 5:31:00 PM CEST
Legal or not, Colorado farmers bringing in nation’s first hemp harvest since the 1950s
Southeast Colorado farmer Ryan Loflin tried an illegal crop this year. He didn’t hide it from neighbors, and he never feared law enforcement would come asking about it.
Loflin is among about two dozen Colorado farmers who raised industrial hemp, marijuana’s non-intoxicating cousin that can’t be grown under federal drug law, and bringing in the nation’s first acknowledged crop in more than five decades.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 13, 2013 at 5:29:00 PM CEST
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