Palliative value of opioid drugs has been ...
20-January-2005, United Kingdom, Financial Times
From Mr Don Aston. Sir, Perhaps your editorial "The unwinnable war on dangerous drugs" (January 15) could also have mentioned an important and often overlooked casualty of this unwinnable war. With specific reference to heroin (and other ...

David Davis: Drugs Bill is all talk but no action
18-January-2005, United Kingdom, Conservative Party
Speaking ahead of the Government's Drugs Bill which will be debated in Parliament today Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said: "This Bill is not a solution to many of the problems that this Government has itself created over the last 7 ...

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 ...

AFL announces party drug law
13-January-2005, Australia, The Australian
PLAYERS could be suspended for as many as 12 matches if they test positive three times for illegal social drugs. The AFL announced its Illicit Drugs Policy yesterday, covering substances such as marijuana and ecstasy. The Australian Sports ...

Former U.S. drug czar says drugs are bigger ...
12-January-2005, United States, SignOnSanDiego.com
Retired U.S. Gen. Barry McCaffrey, drug czar under former President Bill Clinton, said Wednesday the war against drugs is a bigger problem than the war against terror. Speaking at a news conference in Mexico City, McCaffrey said 52,000 people ...

French Chef Jailed in Singapore Drugs Case
10-January-2005, Singapore, Scotsman.com
Award-winning French chef Francois Fabien Mermilliod was sentenced to the minimum term of one year in prison today in connection with a high-profile drug case in Singapore. Mermilliod, 29, was one six foreigners charged in the case, including the ...

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 ...

Scariest drugs are legal ones
09-January-2005, United States, New York Daily News
In 1969, as a hippie kid at Woodstock, I sat in the mud with a score of Brooklyn pilgrims from Prospect Park's Hippie Hill listening to festival organizers shouting over the loudspeakers to the 400,000 zonked-out druggies, "Beware of the brown acid, ...

Anti-Reefer Madness Makes Drug War Victims Turn ...
05-January-2005, United States, RedNova News
Three decades before the current medicinal marijuana debate now before the U.S. Supreme Court, Illinois did the right thing. It passed a state law in 1978 making it legal for some sick people to seek medical relief by smoking a little ...

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