Topic: DRUGS - on June 12, 2008 at 1:31:38 PM CEST
Polizei beschlagnahmt 235 Tonnen Haschisch
Es lag versteckt in Gräben und hat einen Wert von 400 Millionen Dollar: Die Polizei in Afghanistan hat rund 235 Tonnen Haschisch beschlagnahmt. Nach Behördenangaben ist es die größte Menge Haschisch, die weltweit jemals sichergestellt wurde.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 12, 2008 at 1:05:39 PM CEST
Afghans seize 'largest drug haul'
Afghan police working with British special forces have uncovered a drugs stash of 237 tonnes of hashish.
Afghan and British officials say they believe it to be the world's biggest seizure of drugs in terms of weight.
The drugs were found hidden in trenches in Kandahar province on Monday. The haul was so large that British jets bombed it to destroy the hashish.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 3, 2008 at 2:46:04 PM CEST
CNBC covers the cannabis industry
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 3, 2008 at 12:52:07 PM CEST
Nigeria seizes 80 tonnes of drugs
Nigeria's National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has seized 80 metric tonnes of cannabis in one of its largest ever hauls, officials say.
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 28, 2008 at 8:24:15 AM CEST
Customs gives passenger free hashish
Customs officials have lost 124 grams of hashish they planted in an unknowing traveler’s luggage to train drug sniffing dogs, the head of Narita Customs said Monday.
Customs officials are banned from using travelers’ luggage for training practices, but one worker said it was common practice.
“We want to improve the sniffer dogs’ ability, so we have practiced this way several times in the past,” the official said on condition of anonymity.
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 26, 2008 at 10:22:25 AM CEST
Wachsende Sorgen mit "Gras"-Anbau
"Wiener Drogenpolitik 1970 bis 2005" heißt die Bilanz, die dem Standard exklusiv vorliegt. Drei Wissenschafter beschäftigten sich darin damit, wie die Stadt 35 Jahre lang mit Suchterkrankungen umgegangen ist - und noch immer umgeht. Irmgard Eisenbach-Stangl und Christine Riedl vom Europä-ischen Zentrum für Wohlfahrtsforschung sowie Arno Pilgram, Researcher am Institut für Rechts- und Kriminalsoziologie in Wien haben die Studie mit Unterstützung der Wiener Drogenkoordinationsstelle durchgeführt.
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 26, 2008 at 10:19:54 AM CEST
Ton of hashish dumped off the Costa Blanca
Half a ton of hashish pollen has been thrown overboard from two boats off the Costa Blanca. The Agencia Tributaria has recovered about 500 kilos of the drugs off the coast at Torrevieja and Dénia, but they think that the drug runners may have dumped upto double the amount recovered.
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 23, 2008 at 4:37:41 PM CEST
The Bong Guitar
Mike Edison, former publisher of High Times magazine and author of the new I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World, demonstrates the ChroniCaster. The ChroniCaster made its debut in the High Times movie in the hands of Tommy Chong."
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 19, 2008 at 12:24:20 PM CEST
Colombian 'hit' that set off a UK cocaine war
A drugs baron from Liverpool built up a £200m fortune through his links with the Colombian cartels. But when he tried to cheat the South American traffickers, he was brutally assassinated by a contract killer. Now police across Europe fear an international drugs war between the two syndicates.
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 16, 2008 at 3:51:40 PM CEST
Vietnam drugs haul 'largest ever'
Police in Vietnam say they have found nearly nine tons of cannabis in a shipment of blue jeans from Pakistan.
The authorities say it is their largest ever drugs seizure - at a value of $90m (£45m).
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 15, 2008 at 1:52:09 PM CEST
The FBI Busts Tommy Chong... for DVD's!
The FBI is after Tommy Chong again, but this time it's for Josh Gilbert's documentary, "a/k/a Tommy Chong!"
May 9, 2008 - Tommy Chong appears on Alex Jones' nationally syndicated radio show to discuss the recent FBI raid of Spectrum Labs and the seizure of 10,000 DVDs. Also on the show is Kevin Booth, creator of American Drug War: The Last White Hope; Josh Gilbert, creator of a/k/a Tommy Chong; and Matt Stevens, owner of Spectrum Labs. The show is guest-hosted by co-producer of the Loose Change documentaries, Jason Bermas.
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 14, 2008 at 3:20:14 PM CEST
The Future of Psychedelics
The 2008 World Psychedelic Forum was an almost shockingly respectable affair. Held in Basel, Switzerland, in a spacious convention center next to the five-star Swissôtel Basel, the event drew 1,500 visitors for a two-day symposium on the past and present state of psychedelic thought and research. Despite flashes of eccentricity and DayGlo, you could have easily thought you were at a conference for alternative medicine or some abstruse but uncontroversial hobby. I felt honored to be one of the speakers, part of a high-profile group which included the Czech LSD researcher and theorist Stanislav Grof; Ralph Metzner, a well-known author and teacher and one of Leary's original partners at Harvard; botanists Dennis McKenna, Christian Raetsch and Kat Harrison; MAPS director Rick Doblin; anthropologist and author Jeremy Narby; visionary artists Alex and Allyson Grey; and many more.
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