Topic: DRUGS - on November 30, 2008 at 12:40:36 PM CET
Fünf Kilo Kokain in Fischamend sichergestellt
Das Suchtgift gelangte versteckt in Großgepäck zum Flughafen Wien in Schwechat. Bei einer Kontrolle seien die Drogen entdeckt worden, diese war aber für den Besitzer, einen 72-jährigen Italiener, nicht wahrnehmbar, so die Angaben der Polizei. Der Mann wurde in der Folge observiert.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 30, 2008 at 12:37:58 PM CET
Wasting Drug War Resources
A recent report by the Government Accountability Office, commissioned by Sen. Joe Biden, has come to an unsurprising conclusion: After more than $6 billion spent, the controversial drug control operation known as Plan Colombia has failed by large margins to meet its targets.
The goal had been to cut cocaine production in Colombia by 50 percent from 2000 to 2006 through eradication of coca crops and training of anti-narcotics police and military personnel. In fact, cocaine production in Colombia rose 4 percent during that period, the GAO found. With increases in Peru and Bolivia, production of cocaine in South America increased by 12 percent during that period. In 1999 it cost $142 to buy a gram of cocaine on the street in the United States, according to inflation-adjusted figures from the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime. By 2006 the price had fallen to $94 per gram.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 30, 2008 at 12:35:16 PM CET
U.S. war on drugs has failed, report says
The United States' war on drugs has failed and will continue to do so as long as it emphasizes law enforcement and neglects the problem of consumption, a Washington think tank says in a report co-chaired by a former president of Mexico.
The former president, Ernesto Zedillo, in an interview, called for a major rethinking of U.S. policy, which he said has been "asymmetrical" in demanding that countries such as Mexico stanch the flow of drugs northward, without successful efforts to stop the flow of guns south. In addition to disrupting drug-smuggling routes, eradicating crops and prosecuting dealers, the U.S. must confront the public health issue that large-scale consumption poses, he said.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 30, 2008 at 12:33:11 PM CET
Swiss voters decide on heroin and cannabis
Voters in Switzerland are going to the polls in a series of referendum votes to decide the country's policy on illegal drugs.
One ballot asks voters to vote on whether to approve heroin prescription as a permanent Swiss health policy.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 29, 2008 at 2:13:10 PM CET
Das älteste Marijuana der Welt in China gefunden
Der Cannabisfund ist etwa 2700 Jahre alt und wurde klar “vorsätzlich für berauschende Zwecke kultiviert”, sagt das Forschungspapier in dem Journal für Experimentelle Botanik.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 29, 2008 at 2:11:52 PM CET
2,700-year-old marijuana found in Chinese tomb
Researchers say they have located the world's oldest stash of marijuana, in a tomb in a remote part of China.
The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly ``cultivated for psychoactive purposes," rather than as fibre for clothing or as food, says a research paper in the Journal of Experimental Botany.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 25, 2008 at 10:29:07 AM CET
Art Glass Molecules - THC Molecule (small)
With your membership we are pleased to be able to offer these beautiful glass molecules as thank you gifts. They are unique pieces hand-made by artist Ed Steckley. Visit our glass molecules page for more information about the molecules and artist.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 25, 2008 at 10:24:17 AM CET
Städtisch geprüftes Cannabis
Vor ca. 2 Monaten forderte der CDA Fraktionschef noch das totale Verbot von Verkauf und Anbau von Cannabis, die Antwort vieler Gemeinden kam prompt: Sie wollen selber anbauen.
Die CDA, entspricht in Deutschland der CDU, wollte ein komplettes Verbot und versprach sich mit diesem populistischen Ausspruch eine Lufthoheit bei den Stammtischen, bei einer Umfrage allerdings sprachen sich über 60 Prozent der Niederländer gegen ein Verbot aus, darunter auch viele CDA Wähler und jede Menge Nicht-Konsumenten.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 25, 2008 at 10:22:44 AM CET
Amsterdam closes cannabis shops
Almost a fifth of Amsterdam's popular marijuana-selling coffee shops will be closed down because they are too close to schools, the city council said Friday.
Of the 228 coffee shops in the Dutch capital, 43 must close by the end of 2011 because they are within 250 meters of a school, the council said.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 25, 2008 at 10:21:16 AM CET
Scientists attack plan to upgrade cannabis
Government plans to overrule its own drug advisers and reclassify cannabis as a more dangerous substance are attacked by leading scientists and MPs in a letter to the Guardian today.
The home secretary, Jacqui Smith, intends to move cannabis from class C to class B, where it will sit alongside amphetamines, such as speed, and barbiturates. The move comes despite repeated recommendations from the government's drug advisers that its classification should not be upgraded.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 22, 2008 at 2:48:13 PM CET
Terence McKenna Bibliography
The Web's largest list of references to books, articles, audio, video,interviews and translations by and about Terence McKenna (1946–2000). Many links and lots of cover art. Read more about this Visionary Philosopher, Shamanologist and Psychedelic Raconteur
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 22, 2008 at 2:41:06 PM CET
Holland gets tough on cannabis
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