Topic: DRUGS - on June 29, 2008 at 2:40:53 PM CEST
Warum Drogenfahnder Amy Winehouse hassen
Kolumbien kämpft, aber es nützt wenig: 2007 wurden über 220.000 Hektar Koka-Anbaufläche zerstört - trotzdem stammen 90 Prozent des in den USA konsumierten Schnees aus dem Andenstaat. Die Regierung in Bogota warnt vor einem neuen Boom in Europa - und schimpft auf koksende Popstars.
spiegel.de
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 29, 2008 at 2:36:49 PM CEST
Amy back in hospital at 3am, just hours after scuffling with a fan at Glastonbury
Amy Winehouse returned to a London clinic in the early hours of this morning following her performance at the Glastonbury Festival last night.
Just hours earlier, the troubled singer stunned the Glastonbury crowd when she lashed out at a fan in the front row.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 28, 2008 at 12:19:03 PM CEST
One big drug test: Analyzing a city's sewage can put a number on its vices
Which city uses more cocaine: Los Angeles or London? Is heroin a big problem in San Diego? And has Ecstasy emerged in rural America?
Environmental scientists are beginning to use an unsavory new tool -- raw sewage -- to paint an accurate portrait of drug abuse in communities. Like one big, citywide urinalysis, tests at municipal sewage plants in many areas of the United States and Europe, including Los Angeles County, have detected illicit drugs such as cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 28, 2008 at 10:16:27 AM CEST
Joints ‘must be tobacco free’ in Amsterdam
“Amsterdam will be going smoke-free from July 1st, and customers in the famous marijuana-selling coffee shops have been told that they will still be permitted to light up their cannabis joints - but only if they are free of tobacco.”
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 28, 2008 at 10:12:27 AM CEST
'The Cartels Are Refining their Semi-Submersibles'
They can travel up to 5,000 kilometers and are almost impossible to detect: US law enforcement agencies are struggling to intrecept semi-submersibles built in the jungles of Colombia. SPIEGEL ONLINE speaks to Coast Guard Rear Admiral Joseph L. Nimmich about the increasingly sophisticated methods employed by the drug cartels.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 28, 2008 at 10:10:38 AM CEST
Colombia's Cocaine Cartels Learn a New Trick
The Columbian drug cartels have acquired a new weapon in their arsenal. They are now using small, submarine-like semi-submersibles assembled deep in the jungle to outmaneuver drug agents and traffic cocaine to North America.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 27, 2008 at 12:02:48 PM CEST
UN warns of rebel-held drug surge
A surge in the cultivation of opium and coca in rebel-held areas threatens to undermine recent progress in drug control efforts, says a UN report.
Afghanistan had a record opium harvest last year and coca leaf production in Colombia increased 27%, according to The World Drug Report 2008.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 27, 2008 at 11:58:33 AM CEST
2.7 tons of hashish has been recovered by the authorities in Murcia
The French/Spanish network of eight people stored the drugs in warehouses in Cartagena. 2.7 tons of hashish valued at 3.5 million € has been recovered in Murcia and eight people arrested. Seven Spaniards and a Frenchman are now in custody.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 27, 2008 at 11:57:03 AM CEST
13 Millionen Europäer nehmen Cannabis
Europas Cannabis-Konsum hat beeindruckende Ausmaße angenommen: Mehr als 13 Millionen Europäer haben laut einer EU-Studie im vergangenen Monat das Rauschmittel benutzt. Schmuggel ist dazu oft gar nicht nötig: Der Anbau in der eigenen Plantage boomt.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 21, 2008 at 2:04:06 PM CEST
Die arme Elfriede…
Heute lag die frische Ausgabe von DER SPIEGEL auf meinem Schreibtisch. Ich lese ihn gerne mal, besonders gerne auf Zugfahrten durch unsere schöne Republik. Das Magazin ist mit interessanten Artikeln gesegnet worden und auch die bebilderten Reportagen laden zum Verweilen ein. Auf Seite 100 findet man einen Artikel, der auf einen Bericht aus dem Hamburger Abendblatt basiert: “Echte Hausmannskost - Wie eine 72-Jährige zur Drogendealerin wurde”.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 21, 2008 at 2:02:35 PM CEST
The Pot-Dealing Grandmother of Karlsruhe
Elfriede B., a 72-year-old grandmother, supplemented her pension with a modest sideline in marijuana. "Oma's grass" became cool in Karlsruhe -- and led police to her door.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 20, 2008 at 10:21:37 AM CEST
Legalize All Drugs
The other day, reading the New York Post's popular Page Six gossip page, I was surprised to find a picture of me, followed by the lines: "ABC'S John Stossel wants the government to stop interfering with your right to get high. The crowd went silent at his call to legalize hard drugs".
I had attended a Marijuana Policy Project event celebrating the New York State Assembly's passage of a medical-marijuana bill. (The bill hasn't passed the Senate.) I told the audience I thought it pathetic that the mere half passage of a bill to allow sick people to try a possible remedy would merit such a celebration. Of course medical marijuana should be legal. For adults, everything should be legal. I'm amazed that the health police are so smug in their opposition.
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