Drug Tourists Could Be Barred from Dutch Coffee ...
23-May-2005, Netherlands, Join Together
Marijuana-selling "coffee shops" in the Netherlands could become off-limits to visitors from other countries as the Dutch government looks for ways to curb so-called "drug tourism," Reuters reported May 20. "We are developing a system whereby ...

Karzai rejects US criticism on drugs, slams abuse
22-May-2005, Afghanistan, Reuters AlerNet
By John Poirier WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday rejected U.S. criticisms of his antidrug efforts, called international help in the fight "half-hearted," and demanded justice for prisoners abused by U.S. ...

Skunk cannabis may be reclassified
19-May-2005, United Kingdom, Guardian Unlimited
Drug experts will begin debating today whether stronger "skunk" varieties of cannabis should carry higher penalties for possession. The Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs, which meets in London, has been asked by the home secretary, ...

Marijuana policy just right
17-May-2005, United States, USA Today
By John Walters Assertions that our nation's drug policy minimizes cocaine and heroin while focusing on marijuana are misleading. The fallacy involves interpreting drug arrests as signals of changed drug policy, rather than as indicators of drug ...

America's drugs plan in tatters as cocaine and ...
15-May-2005, United States, The Independent
Washington's "war on drugs" in Colombia is collapsing in chaos and corruption, and the drug producers are winning. The so-called Plan Colombia, which has cost the US more than $3bn (£1.6bn) in the past five years, is being abandoned, Secretary of ...

Officials: War on drugs simply not working
15-May-2005, United States, The Herald Zeitung
Comal County’s district attorney and one of its district judges agreed this past week that the United States government’s “war on drugs” — and its judicial system — just aren’t working when it comes to stopping abuse of alcohol and illegal ...

Chinese mass media mobilized for "people's war" ...
13-May-2005, China, People's Daily
Similar special columns will appear on 41 major local newspapers from 28 provinces to support the country's "people's war" on drugs as of June 1, sources with China 's Public Security Ministry said. It will be the first time that so many ...

Baggage handlers 'paid $300,000' in drug plot
11-May-2005, Australia, Sidney Morning Herald
Qantas baggage handlers were paid $300,000 to smuggle a briefcase of cocaine through Sydney airport, a court was told today. The allegation was set out in court documents tendered during a bail hearing for Ian Robert Chalmers, 40, charged over an ...

The War on Pot
10-May-2005, United States, National Review
As the nation's "drug czar," John Walters is supposed to be saving us from the ravages of hard drugs like heroin and cocaine. At least that was the original sales pitch for the "war on drugs" in the 1980s. But the war has evolved into largely a ...

Inside the war on drugs
08-May-2005, United States, Pittsburgh Tribune Review
If a mere 10 percent of Don Winslow's new novel, "The Power of the Dog," were true, it would be horrifying. "I would flip that ratio," Winslow says. That 90 percent could be true is nearly unfathomable. "The Power of the Dog" chronicles the ...

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