Dutch support legalizing marijuana in Netherlands
27-April-2005, Netherlands, Jerusalem Post
Two polls released Wednesday showed strong support in the Netherlands for legalizing marijuana outright after several decades of a tolerance policy.
Newspaper Trouw interviewed the mayors of the Netherlands' 30 largest cities, and two-thirds ...
Panelists decry 'war' on drugs
27-April-2005, United States, The Brown Daily Herald
At Tuesday night's panel, "The International War on Drugs: Plan Colombia and Beyond," Peter Andreas, assistant professor of political science and international studies, admitted that he once inadvertently contributed to Bolivia's cocaine economy by ...
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 ...
NEW ORDER RELIED ON DRUGS DURING THEIR HEYDAY
26-April-2005, United Kingdom, contactmusic.com
The British TEMPTATION band spent much of the 1980s and 1990s on narcotics and depended on mind-altering substances to help them write songs.
And while they've learned to create music sober, frontman BERNARD SUMNER believes they wouldn't have ...
Students volunteer to stamp out drugs
25-April-2005, China, Xinhuanet
BEIJING, April 25 -- Fudan University set up the city's first student social work team involved in preventing drug abuse yesterday.
About 80 students have signed up to be part-time social workers with the Fudan Ziqiang Youth Volunteer Team, ...
Woman in Arab jail after taking prescription ...
25-April-2005, United Arab Emirates, Telegraph
A campaign has been launched to free a British woman being held in a Middle East jail after prescription drugs were found in her system.
Tracy Wilkinson, 44, has been in jail in the United Arab Emirates since March 5 when she was arrested at ...
U.S. Prison Population, World's Highest, Up Again
24-April-2005, United States, Reuters
The U.S. penal system, the world's largest, maintained its steady growth in 2004, the Department of Justice reported on Sunday.
The latest official half-yearly figures found the nation's prison and jail population at 2,131,180 in the middle of ...
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 ...
'Infomania' worse than marijuana
22-April-2005, United States, BBC News
Workers distracted by email and phone calls suffer a fall in IQ more than twice that found in marijuana smokers, new research has claimed.
The study for computing firm Hewlett Packard warned of a rise in "infomania", with people becoming addicted ...
Players can get 'high' in 'Narc' video game
22-April-2005, United States, CNN
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- In the first-person video game "Narc," published by Midway, you play an undercover police officer busting drug dealers.
Except in this game, your cop character can take the drugs he confiscates -- and the illicit ...
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