A foreign soldier walks through a poppy field in Afghanistan.
The Afghan minister of counter narcotics says foreign troops are earning money from drug production in Afghanistan.
General Khodaidad Khodaidad said the majority of drugs are stockpiled in two provinces controlled by troops from the US, the UK, and Canada, IRNA reported on Saturday.
He went [...]
Sacked – for telling the truth about drugs
Government fires top adviser for challenging its hardline policy on cannabis and ecstasy
By Jeremy Laurance
October 31, 2009
The Government’s drugs tsar was forced to resign last night for stating his view that cannabis, ecstasy and LSD were less harmful than the legal drugs tobacco and alcohol.
The Home Secretary Alan [...]
What A Shocker
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Source: RawStory
Insurgents in Afghanistan are using heroin as a tactical weapon against US forces, hoping to emulate the drug problems that plagued US troops in Vietnam and Soviet troops in Afghanistan in the 1980s, says a new investigative report.
In a report at the Daily Beast, author Gerald Posner cites “an internal US intelligence report” that [...]
10-05-2009 • Metrowest Daily News
In the first year since voters decided to decriminalize possession of small amounts of pot, school officials said districts aren’t seeing escalating drug problems, though they worry the law may encourage marijuana use among students.
At Framingham High School, Principal Michael Welch said six kids in the past month [...]
By Stephen C. Webster
Published: September 17, 2009
DEA says key ICE official sold info about informants, ran Panamanian cocaine to Spain via US ports
Richard Padilla Cramer, a 26-year veteran anti-drug official, is behind bars, arrested after officials accused him of directing a massive cocaine shipment to Spain via the United States, and selling important information in [...]
By Paul Armentano,
41 percent of the U.S. population say they’ve tried cannabis at least once in their lives, 10 percent say they’ve used it in the last year.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has once again released their annual survey on “drug use and health” — you know, the one where representatives [...]
Prosecutorial Discretion in Action: Andrew Sullivan Skates on Marijuana Charge
Prosecutors say they need a lot of discretion. Why? So that they can prosecute the powerless, while refusing to prosecute the powerful and connected? You think I’m some sort of wild-eyed Marxist?
Hardly. Here’s a typical case (via):
Political commentator, author and writer for The Atlantic magazine Andrew [...]
Source: Reuters
About a dozen hooded gunmen burst into a Mexican rehabilitation clinic near the U.S. border on Wednesday, lining up patients before killing 17 of them.
Drug gangs have targeted rehab clinics in the manufacturing city of Ciudad Juarez across from El Paso, Texas, accusing them of protecting dealers from rival gangs.
The attack was one of [...]
Source: AFP
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — Mexico’s Army took control of customs Sunday on the busy US border, as federal authorities pulled agents off the job in a massive anti-corruption shakeup, officials told AFP.
An Interior Ministry official said the dismissals were being carried out at all Mexican border facilities, and that the customs agents were being [...]
Mexico decriminalizes drug possession for small amounts as it battles big-time traffickers
MARK STEVENSON
AP News
Aug 21, 2009 06:49 EST
Mexico decriminalized small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin on Friday — a move that prosecutors say makes sense even in the midst of the government’s grueling battle against drug traffickers.
Prosecutors said the new law sets clear limits [...]
From: Skunk cannabis can make well users psychotic: study
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July 28, 2009 – 3:33PM
Potent cannabis can cause psychosis in healthy people, a new British study has proved conclusively.
The results appear to confirm a link between psychosis and skunk cannabis, which accounts for 80 per cent of street seizures of the drug.
Scientists at the Institute of Psychiatry [...]
Angela Macdonald
DoD- 300 tons of poppy are blown up by air-strike in southern
Afghanistan
July 24, 2009
As if our government has any control over what they call a drug “problem” in the United States, they are now taking their show on the road. Early this week, the U.S. military [...]
By Steve Elliott in SF Weekly
Monday, Jul. 20 2009 @ 3:59PM
Photo: chron.ron
The color of money
Mail-in voting closes Tuesday on Measure F, a new ordinance in Oakland which would impose a special tax on sales of medical marijuana in the city’s dispensaries. The measure would make Oakland the first city in the United States to [...]
The Tet Offensive of Mexico’s Drug War?
By Robert Mackey AND Elias E. Lopez
Quadratin Outside a Mexican federal police barracks in the state of Michoacán, where three police officers were killed during an attack by a drug cartel on Saturday, July 11.
Update | 6:56 p.m. The Mexican newspaper El Universal reports that a man believed [...]
from Drug War Chronicle
For most of this decade, Bob Newland has been the voice of marijuana law reform in South Dakota. The photographer and Black Hills resident has organized Hempfests, lobbied for reform legislation in the state capitol, relentlessly crisscrossed the state from the Black Hills to the Sioux Valley, and organized medical marijuana petition [...]
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Vancouver Sun
In 1991, an editorial in the British Journal of Addiction condemned the inordinate amount of resources devoted to drug law enforcement, and compared the war on drugs to the witch hunts of the past.
It’s an apt comparison, since drug warriors around the world are influenced more by myths, stereotypes and propaganda than by solid [...]
Would enable patients to get medical marijuana
Nancy Krause
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – A bill that would allow nonprofit stores in Rhode Island to sell marijuana to medical patients is headed to the governor’s desk. The state Senate passed the bill Tuesday afternoon by a 30-2 margin.
The bill has already passed the House and now heads to [...]
WASHINGTON – Rep. John Murtha steered millions of dollars in defense work to a campaign donor and the Pentagon went along with it, even though two convicted drug dealers had been deeply involved with the company.
Records filed in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh starting in 2005 raise questions about whether the government ever [...]
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