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 ...

Coca, Drugs and Social Protest in Bolivia and ...
03-March-2005, Peru, Reuters AlerNet
Coca cultivation is expanding in Bolivia and Peru, where weak states and a flawed U.S. drugs policy have produced social unrest and instability. Coca, Drugs and Social Protest in Bolivia and Peru,* the latest report from the International Crisis ...

Online sales of mind-altering drugs surges: UN
03-March-2005, Australia, Fair Fax Digital
The illicit sale over the internet of pharmaceutical drugs with narcotic effects surged in 2004, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) said on Tuesday. "Narcotic and psychotropic substances are increasingly being advertised and ...

A New Kind of Drug War
28-February-2005, United States, Business Week
The conventional one has been highly costly, with little return. Making narcotics legal -- and very expensive -- can reduce addiction and crime Starting with Richard Nixon, every U.S. President has declared war on drugs. The FBI, CIA, DEA, ...

Who paid for the drugs?
27-February-2005, United Kingdom, The Independent
They buy fair-trade coffee, recycle their papers and worry about the environment. Then they buy a gram of coke that leaves children's blood on their hands. Steve Bloomfield travels to Colombia to see the horrific cost of Britain's middle-class ...

Canada has a radical plan for social costs of ...
07-February-2005, Canada, seattlepi.com
By MIKE LEWIS SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Gina R. is small and sick, 100 pounds of furtive need. Sitting in a coffee shop in East Downtown, her collar covers the abscess in her neck where a handful of times this day -- ...

Ex-cop: Rein in the war on drugs
18-January-2005, United States, PittsburghLIVE.com
Howard Wooldridge rode into town last weekend on his horse, just like a lawman from the Old West. But the former detective didn't visit Pittsburgh to lock up bad guys. He was here to lecture on what he feels is the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on ...

War, drugs, and the war on drugs
17-January-2005, Switzerland, International Relations and Security Network
With the belated realization that the war in Afghanistan has turned the country once again into a narco-state, Washington has announced an increase in aid to Afghanistan from US$130 to US$780 to combat the opium and heroin trade. But the US record ...

Observer: Cocaine now cheaper than a cappuccino
09-January-2005, United Kingdom, Hard Dance London
A news report from the Observer claims the failure of the government's policy to stem drug imports is revealed today by research which shows that Britain is awash with cheap drugs, with a line of cocaine now costing less than a cappuccino. The ...

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