Marijuana: The Myths Are Killing Us
26-April-2005, United States, DEA
When 14-year-old Irma Perez of Belmont, California, took a single ecstasy pill one evening last April, she had no idea she would become one of the 26,000 people who die every year from drugs.1 Irma took ecstasy with two of her 14-year-old friends in ...
End the war on drugs
23-April-2005, United Kingdom, Socialist Worker Online
There is a radical alternative to drugs prohibition, says Steve Rolles of think tank Transform, but the mainstream parties are ignoring it
All three major parties have outlined policies on drugs in their general election manifestos—and all three ...
It Takes Money to Feed Your Head
17-March-2005, United States, Wired News
An organization that supports psychedelic drug research is hosting an eBay auction featuring ecstasy icon Alexander Shulgin's lab glassware, LSD blotter paper art and a week of "tanning, dancing and trancing" on Ibiza, among other mind-bending ...
Opinion: Legalizing drugs could solve a lot of ...
17-March-2005, United States, The Gateway
Tim Peppin
Whether you realize it or not, social policies—indeed, all government policies—are a form of experiment. Like a proper experiment, their hypotheses have certain assumptions at their core and certain strategies, methods and instruments ...
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 ...
Seeking merit in street drugs
04-January-2005, United States, Newsday.com
For some, the diagnosis comes out of the blue. For others, it arrives after a long battle. Either way, the news that death is just a few months away poses a daunting challenge for both doctor and patient.
Drugs can ease pain and reduce anxiety, ...
Legalizing street drugs an experiment worth ...
03-January-2005, United States, The Seattle Times
Can a single city do anything to change drug policies that are delivering terror to our inner-city streets, diverting police, clogging our courts, breaking up families, and making a once-proud America quite literally the incarceration capital of the ...
Hovde on target
03-November-2004, Canada, The Colombian
Hurray for Elizabeth Hovde's Oct. 21 opinion column, "War on pot burns time, tax dollars." Finally someone using logic instead of emotion to address the issue of legalization of marijuana. Though I do not agree with her opinions of those who use ...
Marijuana initiatives fail in Alaska, Ore., pass ...
03-November-2004, United States, BP News
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Marijuana initiatives failed in two of the three states where they were on the ballot Nov. 2. Alaskans voted against decriminalizing the substance and voters in Oregon opted not to expand the state's medical marijuana laws. ...
The Stoned Myths of Canada
03-November-2004, Canada, getunderground.com
Bud Country. The legends, myths, and lore surrounding the pot paradise that Canada has become has reached legendary proportions. An incredible level of tolerance has created a relaxing toking environment that Potheads booting the bong filled with ...
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