Topic: DRUGS - on July 14, 2008 at 11:56:04 AM CEST
Rasta smoker wins appeal against pot conviction in Italy
If you're a Rastafarian in Italy, you might be able to possess more marijuana than the law allows everyone else.
Italy's highest criminal court has ruled that the fact Rastafarians consider marijuana use a religious sacrament should be taken into account if they are tried on trafficking charges.
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 11, 2008 at 11:25:11 AM CEST
Afghanistan's New Cash Crop
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 11, 2008 at 11:24:07 AM CEST
Suchthilfe statt "War on Drugs"
Die Vereinten Nationen binden verstärkt NGOs ein, um Prävention und Hilfsprojekte für Suchtkranke zu fördern.
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 11, 2008 at 11:22:47 AM CEST
Ärzte begrüßen staatlichen Cannabis-Anbau
Nicht nur die UNO geht neue Wege in der Drogenpolitik sondern auch Österreich : Der Anbau von Cannabis wird erlaubt. Allerdings geht es nicht ums Kiffen sondern um Medizin. Mit der Novelle zum Suchtmittelgesetz soll die Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit die Möglichkeit erhalten, selbst oder über eine Tochtergesellschaft Cannabis für medizinische und wissenschaftliche Zwecke anzubauen. Ähnliche Regelungen gibt es bereits in vielen anderen Ländern Europas.
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 8, 2008 at 11:08:44 AM CEST
Police nab two cannabis growers in cemetery
Police have detained two custodians who were about to harvest their first crop of cannabis, a source of drugs like hashish and marijuana, from a cemetery in Vietnam's capital, a state-run newspaper reported on Monday.
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 5, 2008 at 12:03:24 PM CEST
Das Für und Wider von Cannabis
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 5, 2008 at 11:55:19 AM CEST
Legaler Cannabis-Anbau in Österreich
... zu medizinischen Zwecken.
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 5, 2008 at 11:53:42 AM CEST
The World Health Organization Documents Failure of U.S. Drug Policies
The numbers are startling. In the United States, 42.4 percent admitted having used marijuana. The only other nation that came close was New Zealand, another bastion of get-tough policies, at 41.9 percent. No one else was even close. The results for cocaine use were similar, with the United States leading the world by a large margin.
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 4, 2008 at 2:52:41 PM CEST
Green thumb prunes cannabis into hedge
IT looked like an average Nerang back yard with an above-ground pool and neatly trimmed hedges.
But a closer look at the shrubbery revealed they were actually cannabis plants and that put a new twist on the expression 'cultivating drugs'.
Nerang officer-in-charge Senior Sergeant Gary Symons said police yesterday removed 30 healthy and mature plants, some more than 2m tall, with a street value of more than $100,000.
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 4, 2008 at 2:49:14 PM CEST
Top 10 Cocaine Songs Of All Time
Cocaine has had a significant impact on popular music. While booze is far more likely to result in sloppy work and an unsightly beer gut in middle age, coke leaves you wired enough to ensure that you will produce a whole lot of something, and thus ups the odds that you will actually produce something good.
listverse.com
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 3, 2008 at 9:59:11 AM CEST
Study finds long benefit in illegal mushroom drug
People who took magic mushrooms were still feeling the love more than a year later, and one might say they were on cloud nine about it, scientists report in the Journal of Psychopharmacology.
"Most of the volunteers looked back on their experience up to 14 months later and rated it as the most, or one of the five most, personally meaningful and spiritually significant of their lives," comparing it with the birth of a child or the death of a parent, says neuroscientist Roland Griffiths of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who led the research. "It's one thing to have a dramatic experience you say is impressive. It's another thing to say you consider it as meaningful 14 months later. There's something about the saliency of these experiences that's stunning."
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 29, 2008 at 2:43:05 PM CEST
Die gedopte Elite
Große Teile der Bevölkerung helfen schon heute ihrer Hirnleistung chemisch auf die Sprünge – mit zugelassenen Medikamenten oder illegalen Drogen. Künftig dürfte die Auswahl noch größer werden - denn Pharmaunternehmen wittern einen gewinnträchtigen Zukunftsmarkt.
Der IT-Spezialist will sich über die Zeit retten: "Er kommt seit fünf Jahren. Gerade gestern war er wieder da und wollte für weitere zwei Jahre fit gemacht werden. Danach will er in den Ruhestand gehen", erzählt Professor Hinderk Emrich, Leiter der Klinik für Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie an der Medizinischen Hochschule Hannover (MHH). Der Betroffene sei einerseits ein sehr leistungsstarker Mensch, andererseits von Depressionen und Angstzuständen geplagt. Eigentlich, sagt Emrich, hätte er schon lange nur eingeschränkt arbeiten dürfen, "aber er wollte die Familie ernähren". Sein Patient griff zu Opiaten und Medikamenten. Fünf Jahre lang hielt er damit den Druck aus, dann brach er zusammen und suchte Hilfe bei Emrich.
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