Students volunteer to stamp out drugs
25-April-2005, China, Xinhuanet
BEIJING, April 25 -- Fudan University set up the city's first student social work team involved in preventing drug abuse yesterday. About 80 students have signed up to be part-time social workers with the Fudan Ziqiang Youth Volunteer Team, ...

College acts on ‘herbal drugs
18-April-2005, New Zealand, Wairarapa Times-Age
By Piers Fuller SEVERAL students at Wairarapa College have been reprimanded for taking "herbal drugs". Although the over the counter pills are legal, the school says it has a no drugs policy. Wairarapa College principal Mike Schwass said the ...

Parents ‘ostriching’ on drugs
07-April-2005, United States, Fort McMurray Today
Because consuming drugs like marijuana and cocaine is illegal and federal legislation forbids identifying young offenders, the names of the students in this story were changed. Adults are quoted in the story by their real names.) Each of the 10 ...

China wages "people's war" against drugs
05-April-2005, China, Xinhua
A senior secutiry official Monday vowed to launch a "people's war" against drugs, aiming at checking the sources of drugs, curbing the harmful influence of drug crimes and keeping the number of drug addicts from growing. "The nationwide ...

Medicinal Marijuana on Trial
29-March-2005, United States, The New York Times
Medical marijuana is now legal in 11 states, and bills to legalize it are pending in at least 7 more. The drug is also at the heart of a case being considered by the United States Supreme Court. Yet there remains much confusion over whether ...

Solvent Abuse Deadlier than Ecstasy
24-March-2005, United Kingdom, The Cheers Magazine
Life - Imagine a drug that can, potentially, be as dangerous as heroin and cocaine. Imagine that drug being legal. Now imagine that 10% of 14 to 18 year olds are, or have, misused this drug and that one-person dies every week in the United Kingdom ...

'Drugs easier to get than milk in Antrim'
14-March-2005, Ireland, Belfast Telegraph
A South Antrim UPRG (Ulster Political Research Group) representative claimed this week that it was 'easier to get drugs than a pint of milk after 10pm in Antrim'. Darran Smyth made the startling claim as he recalled painful personal experiences ...

Teens Buy Drugs With Fake Cash
14-March-2005, United States, FOXNews.com
A trio of Florida wise guys are lucky to have been arrested. That's because the jokers were allegedly printing funny money on a home laser printer — and then using it to pay drug dealers. Macclenny, Fla., residents Jeremy Randall Johnson, 32, ...

Drugs expert warns: cannabis as dangerous to ...
13-March-2005, United Kingdom, Sunday Herald
By Aideen McLaughlin A LEADING Scottish drugs researcher has claimed that cannabis could be as big a danger to society as cocaine and heroin. In a comment piece written for the Sunday Herald, Professor Neil McKeganey, of the Centre for ...

Drugs failure overshadows Blair's crime manifesto
11-March-2005, United Kingdom, Telegraph
The launch of Labour's crime manifesto was overshadowed yesterday by a report showing that a key government anti-drugs initiative is failing. The Commons public accounts committee said that only 28 per cent of offenders who received a drug ...

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