Drugs failure overshadows Blair's crime manifesto
11-March-2005, United Kingdom, Telegraph
The launch of Labour's crime manifesto was overshadowed yesterday by a report showing that a key government anti-drugs initiative is failing.
The Commons public accounts committee said that only 28 per cent of offenders who received a drug ...
Rainforest new front in Colombian drug war
11-March-2005, Colombia, seattlepi.com
A helicopter machine gunner looks over the Garrapatas Canyon, in Colombia's western Choco state, Thursday, March 10, 2005. In the newest front in Colombia's drug war, cocaine producers are penetrating one of the largest tracts of virgin rainforest ...
Velvet Revolver's Scott Weiland Says He's Off ...
10-March-2005, United States, Yahoo news
Velvet Revolver vocalist Scott Weiland says in the April issue of Esquire that his family helped him kick drugs for good, according to the Associated Press. Weiland tells the magazine, "Right now, for the first time in my life, I'm finally happy. I ...
Africa remains weak link in fight against drugs
06-March-2005, Austria, Mail & Guardian Online
Africa remains the world's weak spot in the fight against drugs because most countries on the continent lack the means to combat trafficking, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) said in Vienna on Wednesday.
"Most countries in Africa ...
Cannabis reclassification: six months on: ...
06-March-2005, United Kingdom, politics.co.uk
David Davis, the Conservatives shadow Home Secretary, said downgrading cannabis had been wrong and would be reversed by a Conservative government, as it made young people think the drug was harmless and made the streets more difficult to ...
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 ...
Hundreds of Yokosuka seaman test positive for ...
05-March-2005, Japan, Mainichi Interactive
Almost 250 service members from the U.S. Seventh Fleet at Yokosuka Naval Base tested positive for drug use over a three-year period, according to Pacific Stars and Stripes.
According to Stars and Stripes, 111 positive drug tests were produced in ...
Open Letter From Advocates Urges U.N. Commission ...
05-March-2005, Austria, Medical News Today
More than 300 scientists, policy analysts, human rights and HIV/AIDS advocacy groups and advocates from 56 countries on Tuesday signed an open... letter urging delegates attending next week's meeting of the U.N. Commission on Narcotic Drugs in ...
U.S.: Afghanistan a near drugs' state:
04-March-2005, Afghanistan, newkerala
By KRISHNADEV CALAMUR WASHINGTON, March 4 : Afghanistan is on the verge of becoming a major narcotics state and could fill the world's heroin demand, a U.S. State Department report on drugs released Friday said.
"With an estimated 40 percent to ...
Coca, Drugs and Social Protest in Bolivia and ...
03-March-2005, Peru, Reuters AlerNet
Coca cultivation is expanding in Bolivia and Peru, where weak states and a flawed U.S. drugs policy have produced social unrest and instability.
Coca, Drugs and Social Protest in Bolivia and Peru,* the latest report from the International Crisis ...
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