Life sentence of drugs must end
16-October-2004, United Kingdom, Scotsman.com
FOR those working to reduce the damaging consequences of Scotland’s drug problem, this week’s "revelations" about drugs entering Edinburgh Prison are nothing new. As we have seen over the last 20 years, whatever we do, drugs will continue to get to ...
COCAINE BUSTS
15-October-2004, Singapore, straitstimes
THE Rolls-Royce driving executive arrested last week by narcotics officers has been identified as top financial broker Andrew Veale.
The Briton, who has worked in Singapore for almost 10 years, was among 23 people hauled in when the Central ...
California reconsiders 'three-strikes' sentencing
14-October-2004, United States, CNN.com
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- California voters are taking a second whack at "three-strikes" guidelines a decade after they first passed the nation's toughest sentencing law.
Crime and punishment have always made for raw politics, and the ...
Heroin 'will be legal by 2020'
14-October-2004, United Kingdom, dailyrecord
ALL drugs will be legalised within 20 years, it was claimed last night.
A study by think tank Transform said the 'prohibition' of cannabis, cocaine and hard drugs such as heroin had proved a disaster across the world.
And they said governments ...
Deputy drug czar opposes legalizing marijuana
07-October-2004, United States, Billings Gazette
By CLAIR JOHNSON
Of The Gazette Staff
Scott Burns, a top federal official in the war on drugs, visited Montana this week intending to discuss methamphetamine. But Burns found himself talking instead mostly about marijuana, as Montanans prepare ...
An end to marijuana prohibition
30-September-2004, United States, The Anchorage Press
Never before have so many Americans supported decriminalizing and even legalizing marijuana. Seventy-two percent say that for simple marijuana possession, people should not be incarcerated but fined: the generally accepted definition of ...
7 Asian nations in US drug blacklist, Thailand ...
17-September-2004, United States, inq7.net
US President George W. Bush on Thursday removed Thailand from an annual US narcotics blacklist but maintained in it other Asian nations Afghanistan, Myanmar, China, India, Laos, Pakistan and Vietnam.
He also expressed deep concern about North ...
Commentary: Drugs and the 9/11 Commission Report
23-July-2004, United States, Drug Reform Coordination Network
Drugs and drug policy are everywhere -- even in the final report released yesterday by the 9-11 Commission. Drugs were a decidedly secondary issue for the commission, understandably -- we are able to include literally every excerpt on the topic in ...
Federal Law on Sentencing Is Unjust, Judge Rules
24-June-2004, United States, New York Times
Federal judge in Boston ruled on Monday that federal sentencing laws were unconstitutional because they gave prosecutors too much power.
In an impassioned 177-page decision, the judge, William G. Young, described a system in which prosecutors ...
Popping a Party Pill is Not so Abnormal
23-June-2004, Australia, The Sydney Morning Herald
Party drug use among young people is so prevalent, so infrequently intercepted by police and so rarely a cause of problems that society should rethink its attitude to drug policy, says the head researcher of a study of nightclub patrons.
The ...
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