U.S war on drugs takes no prisoners
29-August-2005, United States, The Republican
The federal government says it won't approve the use of marijuana as a prescription medicine because it hasn't seen any scientific evidence to prove that it has any health benefits.
So what happened when Lyle Craker, a plant and soil sciences ...
Marijuana: The Myths Are Killing Us
26-April-2005, United States, DEA
When 14-year-old Irma Perez of Belmont, California, took a single ecstasy pill one evening last April, she had no idea she would become one of the 26,000 people who die every year from drugs.1 Irma took ecstasy with two of her 14-year-old friends in ...
2 sentenced to death for peddling ecstasy
21-April-2005, Philippines, The Philippines Star
Two women were meted the death penalty yesterday by the Mandaluyong City regional trial court (RTC) for selling ecstasy to agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) three years ago.
Judge Amelia Dy of the Mandaluyong RTC Branch 213 ...
DEA also involved with legal drugs
26-February-2005, United States, Billings Gazette
By ALLISON BATDORFF
Gazette Wyoming Bureau
CODY - The Drug Enforcement Administration is a "two sided house," according to 20-year DEA agent Bill Weinman.
On the enforcement side, DEA works to keep drugs out of the wrong hands. On the ...
Dr. Ecstasy
30-January-2005, United States, The New York Times
By DRAKE BENNETT
Alexander Shulgin, Sasha to his friends, lives with his wife, Ann, 30 minutes inland from the San Francisco Bay on a hillside dotted with valley oak, Monterey pine and hallucinogenic cactus. At 79, he stoops a little, but he is ...
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 ...
College Fails in Bid to Grow Marijuana
14-December-2004, United States, The New York Times
A longstanding request to grow marijuana at the University of Massachusetts so it can be tested for medical uses has been turned down by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
The decision was faxed to the university on Friday and made public ...
Newsbrief: AMT, Foxy Methoxy Permanently Placed ...
15-October-2004, United States, DRC Net
With a notice in the Federal Register on September 29, the DEA issued a "final rule" placing the psychedelic typtamines Alpha-Methyltryptamine (AMT) and 5-Methoxy-N,N-Diisopropyltryptamine (Foxy Methoxy) in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances ...
Two Brits on drug charges
09-October-2004, Singapore, Scotsman.com
TWO Britons have been arrested in Singapore as police allegedly smashed a major drug ring.
British-born magazine editor Nigel Bruce Simmonds, 35, was among 23 people held in raids against suspected traffickers and their clients which police said ...
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