A Less Fashionable War
22-September-2005, United States, OpEdNews.com
BY CHARLES SHAW - Malcolm X once said, “Any person who claims to have deep feeling for other human beings should think a long, long time before he votes to have other men kept behind bars—caged. I am not saying there shouldn’t be prisons, but there ...
Surgeon in strife after cocaine bust
22-September-2005, Australia, The Courier-Mail
A DRUG-fuelled night of partying in Surfers Paradise could cost one of the nation's top neurosurgeons his job.
Dr Timothy Steel, 41, was caught at The Drink nightclub with 1g of cocaine early on Monday.
On Tuesday afternoon the socialite ...
Drug war fuels crime
19-September-2005, United States, The Charlotte Observer
How should North Carolina respond to the growing use of methamphetamine? During the crack epidemic of the '80s, New York City chose the zero tolerance approach, opting to arrest and prosecute as many offenders as possible. Meanwhile, Washington, ...
Use of synthetic drugs should not be viewed as ...
18-September-2005, Singapore, Channelnewsasia
Synthetic drugs should not be viewed as "soft" lifestyle drugs, and therefore, their use seen as permissible and acceptable, or worse still, "cool" and "hip".
Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng warned that if a new generation of Singaporeans ...
U.S. Soldier Fighting 'War On Drugs' Smuggles ...
16-September-2005, United States, WXII12
An Army soldier has pleaded guilty to being a part of a plan to smuggle cocaine on military planes.
Army Staff Sgt. Kelvin Irizarry-Melendez has pleaded guilty in Texas to conspiracy, wrongful importation of cocaine, and a money charge. He'd been ...
Bush administration: Venezuela no longer ...
15-September-2005, Venezuela, The Miami Herald
The Bush administration Thursday scratched Venezuela off its list of allies in the war on drugs, saying that President Hugo Chávez's government has replaced effective law enforcement officers with political loyalists and cut off bilateral anti-drug ...
Prospect of drugs ‘black list’ hangs over ...
15-September-2005, Venezuela, Financial Times
From the jetty at San Juan de las Galdonas, a fishing village on the eastern coast of Venezuela, Pedro Salcedo casts his eye across the Caribbean. The sea is calm. A fine day for sailing.
Fishing, however, is just an occasional pastime for Mr ...
War on drugs 'sparks AIDS spike'
15-September-2005, Australia, Herald Sun
AUSTRALIA has told Asian countries that tough tactics in their war on drugs have accelerated the spread of HIV/AIDS in the region.
The warning came during a two-day seminar of senior police officers from 12 Asian nations at the Thai seaside ...
Hallucinating stars and stripes
13-September-2005, United Kingdom, Hallucinating stars and stripes
The party was definitely over. It was 1989 when George Bush Sr held up a bag of crack-cocaine, seized "in a park just across the street" from the White House, and formally declared war on drugs. Thanks to a media obsessed with crack babies and ...
Smoked Out
12-September-2005, United States, AlterNet
In a November 2002 letter to the nation's prosecutors, the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) didn't bother beating around the proverbial bush. "No drug matches the threat posed by marijuana," began the letter from Scott ...
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