Afghan president says 'fight drugs like Russians'
09-December-2004, Afghanistan, Reuters
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has urged his countrymen to tackle the war on drugs with the same zeal they fought the Red Army during the Soviet Union's decade-long occupation that ended in 1990.
Speaking two days after being sworn in as the ...
Sanity is AWOL in war on drugs
09-December-2004, United States, New York Daily News
The latest battle in the great War on Drugs showed up in the Supreme Court on Monday, with the feds arguing that if sick or dying people are allowed to use homegrown marijuana for their pain, the price on the streets will go down.
In the logic of ...
Afghan anti-drugs drive 'will turn tide' of opium
07-December-2004, Afghanistan, Financial Times
International efforts to combat Afghanistan's booming opium industry should begin to reduce output next year, a British minister with responsibility for counternarcotics said yesterday.
Bill Rammell, Foreign Office minister, said a "robust" ...
Drug barons grow new line in cocaine
07-December-2004, Colombia, Financial Times
Colombian police have identified a genetically modified and super-hardy coca "tree" that yields up to eight times more cocaine than a traditional shrub.
The discovery, detailed in a counter-narcotics police intelligence dossier obtained by the ...
A Mania Called Horse
06-December-2004, United States, Reason Online
In case you missed it, cheese is the new morphine. At least that’s what the head of the animal rights group (and oddly named) Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine reports.
At a November Congressional hearing designed to stir up hysteria ...
Drugs Growing Problem in Britain, Despite Police ...
06-December-2004, United Kingdom, Join Together
Although Customs officials and police in Britain have enforced tougher measures to catch drug traffickers and dealers, illegal drugs have become more widely available than ever before, the Independent reported Nov. 28.
A new report from the ...
Sanity's AWOL in war on drugs
02-December-2004, United States, New York Daily News
The latest battle in the great War on Drugs showed up in the Supreme Court on Monday, with the feds arguing that if sick or dying people are allowed to use homegrown marijuana for their pain, the price on the streets will go down.
In the logic of ...
New report suggests U.S. is losing the war on ...
01-December-2004, United States, Detroit Free Press
Prices for cocaine and heroin have reached 20-year lows, according to a report released Tuesday.
The Washington Office on Latin America, which usually is critical of U.S. policies in Latin America, said the low prices called into question the ...
Preserving the Power of Congress
29-November-2004, United States, The New York Times
The Supreme Court is hearing arguments today in a case involving two important, but very different, legal issues: medical marijuana and federalism. Two California women have sued the federal government to stop it from prosecuting them for using ...
Cheaper, easier to get, harder to police: ...
28-November-2004, United Kingdom, The Independent
An ecstasy tablet that costs as little as a bar of chocolate and a line of cocaine for the price of a glass of wine. Many illegal drugs are cheaper and more widely available than ever before in Britain, despite the relentless attack by Customs and ...
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