Agencies sharing spoils of drug war
11-September-2005, United States, Morning Sentinel
A 1999 Dodge Durango sport utility vehicle parked in the garage at the Fairfield Police Department and more than $22,000 in cash sit waiting to be claimed -- not by the former owner, but by police and prosecutors.
The heavy V-8 Magnum SUV and the ...
Labour 'losing the war on drugs'
06-September-2005, United Kingdom, ePolitix
Figures showing that the price of hard drugs is continuing to fall are "a shocking indictment" of government failure, David Davis has said.
The shadow home secretary slammed ministers after figures published by the charity DrugScope revealed that ...
Drug war mistargets students
03-September-2005, United States, boston.com
AS COLLEGE students around the country return to campus this fall, thousands of their peers won't be joining them because of a federal law that strips financial aid from students with drug convictions.
The policy is up for reconsideration this ...
Garfunkel busted for marijuana
30-August-2005, United States, CNN.com
Singer Art Garfunkel, who pleaded guilty to marijuana possession last year, has been arrested again on the same charge.
Garfunkel, 63, half of the legendary '60s duo Simon and Garfunkel, was pulled over on Sunday by a New York state trooper near ...
The War on Drugs
30-August-2005, United States, Foreign Policy
The war on drugs will soon be over. It won’t have been won or lost, and we certainly won’t have wiped out illicit drug use. People will still pursue their personal pleasures and uncontrollable addictions. No, the war on drugs will end because drugs ...
Canadian faces death penalty in Taiwan for drug ...
29-August-2005, Taiwan, CBC News
A former resident of British Columbia is in jail and facing the death penalty in Taiwan after being charged with smuggling and trafficking cocaine.
28-year-old Mathieu Forand was allegedly found with cocaine, ecstasy and marijuana at a party in ...
Shooting evidence of drug war failure
29-August-2005, United States, Sun Sentinel
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Posted August 29 2005
The tragedy in Sunrise in which a young man, Anthony Diotaiuto, age 23, was brutally shot to death in his home by police, brings into ...
Tourists visiting Bali nightclubs face random ...
29-August-2005, Indonesia, Guardian Unlimited
Tourists visiting nightclubs on the Indonesian island of Bali are being subjected to random drug tests as part of a crackdown on gambling, drugs and prostitution.
With the clubbing season at its peak, attracting hundreds of thousands of young ...
U.S war on drugs takes no prisoners
29-August-2005, United States, The Republican
The federal government says it won't approve the use of marijuana as a prescription medicine because it hasn't seen any scientific evidence to prove that it has any health benefits.
So what happened when Lyle Craker, a plant and soil sciences ...
Stupid Aussies wander into drug war
27-August-2005, Indonesia, The Courier-Mail
ONE could be forgiven for thinking that Australian model Michelle Leslie was the only person arrested at Bali's GWK cultural park last Saturday.
She wasn't. Four others, all Indonesians, also were nabbed in the same anti-drugs raid. They had more ...
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