'Drug War Refugee' could get 10 years
18-June-2005, Canada, The Ottawa Citizen
Justice Minister Irwin Cotler has ordered the extradition of a woman who faces trial in California for tending marijuana plants at the Cannabis Castle, a Bel Air mansion that served as one of the state's first medical marijuana grow-ops in the ...
Cold pill laws offer little relief to plague of ...
16-June-2005, United States, The Bay City Times
People with the sniffles and the druggists who stock sinus medications may be the ones who pay for Michigan's fight against the illegal manufacture of methamphetamine. The cold pill ingredients ephedrine and pseudoephedrine are used to make meth. ...
Let's win the war on drugs
16-June-2005, United States, Charlotte Observer
From John Emerson, assistant special agent in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's Charlotte District office:
Observer community columnist Bill Reeside Jr. wrote ("Call off the war on drugs," May 26) that deadly narcotics such as ...
The staying power of drugs
15-June-2005, United States, MercuryNews.com
Exasperated by pessimism about the ``war on drugs,'' John Walters, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, says: Washington is awash with lobbyists hired by businesses worried that government may, intentionally or ...
Seeing Slavery in Liberalism
09-June-2005, United States, The New York Times
Janice Rogers Brown, the African-American daughter of Alabama sharecroppers who was confirmed Wednesday to the federal appeals court here, often invokes slavery in describing what she sees as the perils of liberalism.
Roll-Call Vote on Justice ...
Justices Say U.S. May Prohibit the Use of Medical ...
07-June-2005, United States, The New York Times
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the power of Congress to prohibit and prosecute the possession and use of marijuana for medical purposes, even in the 11 states that permit it.
The 6-to-3 decision, a firm reassertion of federal authority, ...
Reefer madness: Is sanity breaking out?
07-June-2005, United States, Salon.com
Despite the Supreme Court's ruling against medical marijuana and a scary proposed snitch law, America may finally be awakening from its decades-long stupor about recreational drugs.
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Court's ruling on marijuana reeks of 'reefer ...
06-June-2005, United States, USA Today
Diane Monson has suffered for years from degenerative spine disease and painful muscle spasms. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court told Monson that she can be prosecuted for trying to relieve her own pain.
Three years ago, federal agents barged into ...
Cold Drug Curbs Considered in Meth Fight
05-June-2005, United States, washingtonpost.com
The days of buying some cold remedies off the shelf in drug stores soon may be gone, a casualty of the methamphetamine epidemic.
Already more than a dozen states have laws that require retailers to sell Sudafed, Nyquil and other medicines only ...
Two Locals Jailed For Consuming Drugs
01-June-2005, Brunei, Brudirect.com
Two local men, who were produced before the Bandar Magistrate's Court yesterday to face drug charges, were sentenced to jail upon pleading guilty.
Ahmad bin Hj Mahmud, 38, faced a charge of possessing Methylamphetamine, a second charge of ...
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