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 ...
House rejects idea of taxing illegal drugs
25-March-2005, United States, The Clarion-Ledger
A tax on illegal drugs?
Mississippi lawmakers are scrounging for ways to put new money into the state budget before Saturday night. But the idea of requiring dealers to buy tax stamps for cocaine or other illegal drugs was just too much for some ...
War on drugs entangles women
17-March-2005, United States, Billings Gazette
America's war on drugs is inflicting deep and disproportionate harm on women - most of them mothers - who are filling prisons in ever-rising numbers despite their typically minor roles in drug rings, the American Civil Liberties Union and two other ...
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 ...
Drugs workers form alliance to challenge UN’s ...
06-March-2005, United Kingdom, The Sunday Herald
A LEADING Scottish drugs professional is to challenge the adoption of zero-tolerance drugs policies by the United Nations at an international drugs conference in Vienna this week.
David Liddell, director of the Scottish Drugs Forum and chair of ...
Open Letter From Advocates Urges U.N. Commission ...
05-March-2005, Austria, Medical News Today
More than 300 scientists, policy analysts, human rights and HIV/AIDS advocacy groups and advocates from 56 countries on Tuesday signed an open... letter urging delegates attending next week's meeting of the U.N. Commission on Narcotic Drugs in ...
U.S.: Afghanistan a near drugs' state:
04-March-2005, Afghanistan, newkerala
By KRISHNADEV CALAMUR WASHINGTON, March 4 : Afghanistan is on the verge of becoming a major narcotics state and could fill the world's heroin demand, a U.S. State Department report on drugs released Friday said.
"With an estimated 40 percent to ...
Washington state groups offer 'exit strategy' for ...
03-March-2005, United States, seattlepi.com
A group of Washington doctors, religious leaders and lawyers offered an "exit strategy" for the war on drugs Thursday, a proposal that would aim to dry up the black market for heroin, marijuana and other substances by having the state regulate their ...
Drugs arrests hit record
02-March-2005, United Kingdom, ThisisLondon
Dinner parties with cocaine and cannabis on the menu have sent drug arrests soaring to a new record, official figures showed yesterday.
The growing social use of illegal substances was blamed for a quarter rise in the number of people caught ...
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 ...
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