Undercover officers buy,sell drugs as part of ...
10-February-2005, United States, Charleston Daily Mail
Charleston police are stepping up efforts to fight the wave of crime that has plagued the West Side and East End by having undercover officers work both sides of the drug trade in sting operations. As a different strategy, undercover officers are ...

Vancouver clinic offers free heroin in North ...
10-February-2005, Canada, CBC News
VANCOUVER - A clinic in Vancouver began recruiting heroin addicts to give them free drugs, as part of a national study that's the first of its kind in North America. The North American Opiate Medication Initiative plans to enroll 470 ...

"Human Rights is a very flexible concept"
08-February-2005, United Kingdom, Michaelmoore.com
CIA prisoners 'tortured' in Arab jails By Stephen Grey / BBC A former CIA official has confirmed suspicions that dozens of terror suspects have been flown to jails in Middle Eastern countries where torture is routinely practised, and without ...

We're rather sniffy about our drugs
06-February-2005, United Kingdom, Telegraph
by Oliver Pritchett The new Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, said last week that he would pursue "middle-class drug users, the people who take cocaine at dinner parties and at the weekend". This is going to make dinner party ...

Crackdown on dinner party drugs
02-February-2005, United Kingdom, Guardian Unlimited
The new head of Scotland Yard took a swipe at London's white collar and celebrity drug culture yesterday by threatening to arrest weekend consumers of cocaine at dinner parties and in clubs and bars. Sir Ian Blair, who took over as the UK's most ...

Force Fires First Shots in Drugs Raid
01-February-2005, United Kingdom, Scotsman.com
Armed police opened fire for the first time in their force’s history as they arrested a man, believed to be a former police officer, during a drugs raid, it emerged today. The shots were fired by officers as they swooped on the scene in Lincoln ...

Where there's a way, drugs will be inside
31-January-2005, New Zealand, stuff.co
Customs officers are facing a flood of cunning, dangerous and downright whacky drug-smuggling methods as drug imports rise to unprecedented levels. Haydon Dewes reports. Think of a cavity, any cavity – chances are traffickers have tried ...

No changes for drogs dog use in SC
27-January-2005, United States, WISTV
(Lexington) Jan. 25, 2005 - Lexington County Sheriff's investigator Derek Applegate and his partner Spyro, a two-year-old Belgian Malinois, were on the hunt for cocaine on Tuesday evening. In a new ruling, the US Supreme Court says during traffic ...

Torture treaty doesn't bar `cruel, inhuman' ...
26-January-2005, United States, Knight Ridder
By Frank Davies / Knight Ridder WASHINGTON - Alberto Gonzales has asserted to the Senate committee weighing his nomination to be attorney general that there's a legal rationale for harsh treatment of foreign prisoners by U.S. forces. In more ...

War, drugs, and the war on drugs
17-January-2005, Switzerland, International Relations and Security Network
With the belated realization that the war in Afghanistan has turned the country once again into a narco-state, Washington has announced an increase in aid to Afghanistan from US$130 to US$780 to combat the opium and heroin trade. But the US record ...

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