Fox says Mexico successful in drug war
19-March-2005, Mexico, BigNews Network
Despite U.S. complaints to the contrary, Mexico President Vicente Fox says his nation is doing a good job rousting drug lords.
Recent borderland violence prompted the United States to charge Mexico wasn't doing enough to fight organized ...
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 ...
Rainforest new front in Colombian drug war
11-March-2005, Colombia, seattlepi.com
A helicopter machine gunner looks over the Garrapatas Canyon, in Colombia's western Choco state, Thursday, March 10, 2005. In the newest front in Colombia's drug war, cocaine producers are penetrating one of the largest tracts of virgin rainforest ...
Africa remains weak link in fight against drugs
06-March-2005, Austria, Mail & Guardian Online
Africa remains the world's weak spot in the fight against drugs because most countries on the continent lack the means to combat trafficking, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) said in Vienna on Wednesday.
"Most countries in Africa ...
Cannabis reclassification: six months on: ...
06-March-2005, United Kingdom, politics.co.uk
David Davis, the Conservatives shadow Home Secretary, said downgrading cannabis had been wrong and would be reversed by a Conservative government, as it made young people think the drug was harmless and made the streets more difficult to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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