Mexico steps up attacks on drugs, but problem may ...
05-July-2005, Mexico, The Seattle Times
Mexico finally is fighting the war on drugs that the U.S. government has demanded for decades: a frontal assault on drug barons, their organizations and their merchandise, using the police and military in concert with U.S. intelligence. The ...

The War On Drugs, Total Success
19-June-2005, United States, useless knowledge mag
By Lenny Gibeault III June 19, 2005 I have been reading a lot on the recent (growing, but still on the fringe) commentary on the abject failure of the US Drug War. I disagree with this notion, thought not for the reasons some might think. I ...

Cold pill laws offer little relief to plague of ...
16-June-2005, United States, The Bay City Times
People with the sniffles and the druggists who stock sinus medications may be the ones who pay for Michigan's fight against the illegal manufacture of methamphetamine. The cold pill ingredients ephedrine and pseudoephedrine are used to make meth. ...

Let's win the war on drugs
16-June-2005, United States, Charlotte Observer
From John Emerson, assistant special agent in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's Charlotte District office: Observer community columnist Bill Reeside Jr. wrote ("Call off the war on drugs," May 26) that deadly narcotics such as ...

The staying power of drugs
15-June-2005, United States, MercuryNews.com
Exasperated by pessimism about the ``war on drugs,'' John Walters, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, says: Washington is awash with lobbyists hired by businesses worried that government may, intentionally or ...

If you want to cut gun crime, first you have to ...
12-June-2005, United Kingdom, Times Online
Stories of the latest war on gun crime appeared last week flanked by advertisements for a film called Mr & Mrs Smith. A glamorous couple were depicted with handguns as sexually explicit fashion items. Gun laws are like gun movies. They are erotic ...

KIDS USING CANNABIS UP BY 1,300 PER CENT
06-June-2005, United Kingdom, Mirror.co.uk
Alarm over 'huge rise' By Bridget Carter THE number of young schoolchildren taking cannabis has rocketed by more than 1,300 per cent, claims a report. Some 26 per cent of boys and 27 per cent of girls aged 14 and 15 said they had taken the ...

Indonesian demonstrators demand the death ...
05-June-2005, Indonesia, Sidney Morning Herald
About 40 people protested in Jakarta yesterday to demand the death sentence for Schapelle Corby. Carrying signs reading "Corby, drugs dealers, must die" and "Intervention, no! Australia is supplier of drugs", the crowd picketed the Australian ...

Profits from selling cocaine make it a lucrative ...
31-May-2005, United States, Winona Daily News
By David Krotz / Winona Daily News The profits from cocaine are so great that drug dealers have been known to use two and four-engine airplanes on one-way flights into the United States, abandoning the planes once delivery is made. The ...

High Court to examine medicinal marijuana
29-May-2005, United States, Baltimore Sun
Robert Melamede's guidelines for better living go something like this: Eat right, exercise and smoke a little marijuana. The biology department chairman at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs is among the state's 625 registered legal ...

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