Topic: DRUGS - on March 5, 2009 at 12:27:00 PM CET
Wiener Ermittler heben riesigen Drogenring aus
Einen großangelegten internationalen Drogenring haben Wiener Ermittler in Zusammenarbeit mit weltweiten Polizei- und Justizbehörden zerschlagen. Im Zuge der mehr als drei Jahre dauernden Operation "Leopold" ist es gelungen, rund 150 Kilogramm Heroin und Kokain sowie 350.000 Euro Bargeld sicherzustellen. Insgesamt wurden 174 Personen wegen Drogenschmuggels und -handels festgenommen, 145 davon in Österreich. Der Straßenverkaufswert des Suchtgifts wird auf ungefähr 15 Millionen Euro geschätzt. Das gaben das Landeskriminalamt (LKA) Wien und das Bundeskriminalamt (BK) am Mittwoch in Wien bekannt.
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Topic: DRUGS - on March 3, 2009 at 12:27:00 PM CET
Is Marijuana Prohibition America’s ‘Berlin Wall’?
It is said that almost everyone in the marijuana law reform movement has a seminal moment they can point to when their public activism started. My moment was in the fall, six years ago.
I’m a past president of our local Kiwanis Club. I’ve been a member for years; we meet for breakfast at 6:30am, every Wednesday morning. My fateful “activism moment” was meeting face-to-face with one morning’s Kiwanis Club program, our town’s newly acquired dope dog. Some rock-ribbed citizen had left money in his will for the city to buy a dope dog for our town of 3,000, in a county of 18,000 people. The dog’s handler and the police chief were up at the speaker’s table. I had to fight back the urge to turn around and run.
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Topic: DRUGS - on March 3, 2009 at 12:25:00 PM CET
Everybody must get stoned
A new plan to legalize marijuana in California would create a $1 billion tokin' tax and thousands of green jobs. Now that's a stimulus plan!
Can Californians help dig themselves out of their historic fiscal crisis by getting high? Tom Ammiano thinks so, and he isn't smoking a thing.
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Topic: DRUGS - on March 1, 2009 at 11:53:00 AM CET
State bill would decriminalize possession of less than an ounce of marijuana
John Carusello has sold pipes and related products for 30 years at his Lakewood Road shop, and he would love to see his customers put those products to use without fear of jail.
"We sell everything for tobacco," Carusello said, carefully, from behind a counter stocked with glass pipes in a wide range of colors, shapes and sizes. What goes in those pipes when the customers go home, Carusello said, is not his business. "We don't ask."
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Topic: DRUGS - on March 1, 2009 at 11:50:00 AM CET
Former cop: Legalizing drugs will help fight gang violence
Legalize and regulate drugs, or look to Mexico for our future.
That's what one 28-year veteran Vancouver Police officer is saying about the ongoing wave of gang violence in Metro Vancouver.
Tony Smith says keeping drugs illegal will only lead to more murders.
Smith says he isn't the only one who thinks this way.
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Topic: DRUGS - on March 1, 2009 at 11:49:00 AM CET
CDU-Politiker mit Heroin erwischt
Verdacht auf Drogenhandel: Ein CDU-Politiker wurde in Baden-Württemberg von der Polizei verhaftet, in seiner Wohnung fanden sich 80 Gramm für den Verkauf abgepacktes Heroingemisch und mehr als 5000 Euro - jetzt sitzt er in Untersuchungshaft.
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Topic: DRUGS - on February 28, 2009 at 12:00:00 PM CET
Time In The Joint
Ass kickin', genuine quality, 100% natural mug shots
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Topic: DRUGS - on February 27, 2009 at 12:18:00 PM CET
Blei und Quecksilber im Gras - Konsumenten vergiftet
Eine neue Serie von Warnungen erreicht den DHV. Bayrische Cannabiskonsumenten haben sich eine Bleivergiftung zugezogen. Im Raum Celle bei Hannover ist jemand mit einer Quecksilbervergiftung nach Cannabiskonsum im Krankenhaus gelandet.
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Topic: DRUGS - on February 27, 2009 at 12:16:00 PM CET
Holder may end federal raids on medical marijuana clubs - video
Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters that he will keep President Obama’s campaign promised with regards to medical marijuana. “What the president said during the campaign, you’ll be surprised to know, will be consistent with what we’ll be doing in law enforcement. He was my boss during the campaign. He is formally and technically and by law my boss now. What he said during the campaign is now American policy,” said Holder
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Topic: DRUGS - on February 26, 2009 at 12:29:00 PM CET
Calif. lawmaker proposes legalizing marijuana
A California legislator today proposed making the state the first to legalize the recreational use of marijuana.
The legislation, by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, a Democrat from San Francisco, would allow people 21 and older to grow, buy, sell and possess pot. It would be sold, regulated and taxed similar to alcohol. The state would collect $50 an ounce from sellers, and growers, too, would be taxed.
He estimates that the cash-strapped state could reap more than $1 billion a year.
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Topic: DRUGS - on February 25, 2009 at 10:48:00 AM CET
Gerüchte um Spice und JWH-018
Die Spice-Affäre zeigt, wie skrupellos Hersteller und Händler mit der Berauschungslust umgehen. Begünstigt das Cannabisverbot die Geschäftemacherei? Es gibt viele interessante Fragen, die sich nach dem Verbot der Kräutermischung stellen. Eine lautet sicher, was die Hamsterkäufer mit ihren Vorräten anstellen, nachdem bekannt ist, dass die Mixtur mit synthetischen Cannabinoiden versetzt wurde. In der Hoffnung auf einen mehr oder minder vernünftigen Ersatz für das eigentlich von ihnen präferierte Cannabis waren sie in die Head- und Smart-Shops der Republik geströmt, um sich für schlechte Zeiten einzudecken. Über Wochen kamen die Händler mit der Nachbestellung kaum hinterher. Bis kurz vor dem Verbot am 22. Januar verkaufte man die 3-Gramm-Tütchen zu Preisen zwischen 20 und 35 Euro. Nun lagern die kleinen Chemiebeutel in den Schubladen der Republik und eine weitere Frage lautet: Wie gefährlich sind die Inhaltsstoffe tatsächlich? Aber der Reihe nach.
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Topic: DRUGS - on February 24, 2009 at 10:56:00 AM CET
Legalize It: Ammiano to Introduce Legislation Monday to Allow Pot -- and Tax It
The story SF Weekly broke on Friday is true: Assemblyman Tom Ammiano will announce legislation on Monday to legalize marijuana and earn perhaps $1 billion annually by taxing it.
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