Cheaper, easier to get, harder to police: ...
28-November-2004, United Kingdom, The Independent
An ecstasy tablet that costs as little as a bar of chocolate and a line of cocaine for the price of a glass of wine. Many illegal drugs are cheaper and more widely available than ever before in Britain, despite the relentless attack by Customs and ...

Street price of drugs crashes to record low
28-November-2004, United Kingdom, The Independent
The average street price of illegal drugs is at the lowest level for a decade, according to new figures. The cost of a line of cocaine is now less than a glass of wine in some parts of Britain. A tablet of ecstasy costs as little as £1. The ...

War on drugs may doom jungle towns
28-November-2004, Colombia, Houston Chronicle
Back when this jungle outpost was a drug-fueled boomtown ruled by Marxist rebels, cargo planes landed by the hour to unload rice, rum and chemicals to make cocaine. Cantinas and bordellos overflowed with customers. Instead of Colombian pesos, ...

Producers of meth in Ky. skirting stricter laws
27-November-2004, United States, azcentral
Producers of methamphetamine in Kentucky are circumventing stricter laws regulating the drug's ingredients by traveling to states with looser laws to purchase the pills they need, police said. The state law passed in 2002 that made possession of ...

Q&A: the drugs bill
26-November-2004, United Kingdom, Guardian Unlimited
Yesterday the government unveiled the details of its new drugs bill, claiming the new measures were a direct response to voters' concerns and built on reforms to rebalance the criminal justice system in favour of law-abiding citizens and victims of ...

War on drugs is new battleground for party ...
26-November-2004, United Kingdom, Times Online
TONY BLAIR and Michael Howard promised firmer action on drugs as figures published yesterday showed that more 15-year-olds have tried cannabis in England than in any other European country. The EU survey revealed that Britain also has the highest ...

DRUG NATION
24-November-2004, United Kingdom, Mirror.co.uk
ANY DISCUSSION of Britain's worsening drug problem is riddled with stereotypes. But behind the labels of user, addict and dealer are the human stories of those involved in the costly trade. Here, a range of people whose lives have been influenced ...

A Prohibition-Style Crime Wave
23-November-2004, United States, Alternet
The more the government spends on the drug war, the more violent crime increases. One researcher says eliminating drug prohibition could reduce the homicide rate by up to 75 percent. The U.S. government spends $33 billion annually on the "war ...

Blunkett gets tougher on drugs
22-November-2004, United Kingdom, Guardian Unlimited
New police powers to prosecute offenders for possession if they test positive for drugs when they are arrested, even if the only drugs they have are in their bloodstream, are to be announced this week. The measure is part of legislation to be ...

Fear is the key as Blair apes Bush's victory plan
21-November-2004, United Kingdom, Scotsman.com
TONY Blair will place national security and crime at the heart of his bid for a third term in Downing Street under a ‘scare’ strategy similar to the one that helped return George W Bush to the White House. ‘Operation Third Term’, led by campaign ...

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