Milanzi gets drugs ban
06-February-2005, United Kingdom, BBC News
Zambia striker Harry Milanzi has been handed a suspended six-month ban by the South Africa Football Association (Safa) for failing a drug test. Milanzi was also fined US$2,500 after traces of marijuana were recently found in his blood. But ...

We're rather sniffy about our drugs
06-February-2005, United Kingdom, Telegraph
by Oliver Pritchett The new Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, said last week that he would pursue "middle-class drug users, the people who take cocaine at dinner parties and at the weekend". This is going to make dinner party ...

This foolish hard line on drugs
05-February-2005, United Kingdom, The Independent
The debate about drugs was rekindled this week. Sir Ian Blair, the new Metropolitan Police Commissioner, set the tone on Tuesday with some ill-judged remarks about cocaine. He decided to use the first day of his new job to grab headlines with a ...

Crackdown on dinner party drugs
02-February-2005, United Kingdom, Guardian Unlimited
The new head of Scotland Yard took a swipe at London's white collar and celebrity drug culture yesterday by threatening to arrest weekend consumers of cocaine at dinner parties and in clubs and bars. Sir Ian Blair, who took over as the UK's most ...

Medicare will cover Viagra, similar drugs
02-February-2005, United States, Startribune
Sexual performance drugs such as Viagra will be covered in Medicare's new prescription drug program, a lifestyle rather than lifesaving benefit that conservatives and watchdog groups say the government shouldn't provide. Prescriptions for Viagra, ...

Force Fires First Shots in Drugs Raid
01-February-2005, United Kingdom, Scotsman.com
Armed police opened fire for the first time in their force’s history as they arrested a man, believed to be a former police officer, during a drugs raid, it emerged today. The shots were fired by officers as they swooped on the scene in Lincoln ...

Kate Moss gives drugs deadline to Pete Doherty!:
01-February-2005, United Kingdom, newkerala
Super model Kate Moss has warned her rocker boyfriend Pete Doherty to quit hard drugs or face losing her. According to the sources, Doherty's pictures, published in British newspapers showing him smoking heroin at his East London home, have made ...

Where there's a way, drugs will be inside
31-January-2005, New Zealand, stuff.co
Customs officers are facing a flood of cunning, dangerous and downright whacky drug-smuggling methods as drug imports rise to unprecedented levels. Haydon Dewes reports. Think of a cavity, any cavity – chances are traffickers have tried ...

Dr. Ecstasy
30-January-2005, United States, The New York Times
By DRAKE BENNETT Alexander Shulgin, Sasha to his friends, lives with his wife, Ann, 30 minutes inland from the San Francisco Bay on a hillside dotted with valley oak, Monterey pine and hallucinogenic cactus. At 79, he stoops a little, but he is ...

Official proposes agency to give drugs to addicts
30-January-2005, United States, Indianapolis Star
Crown Point -- A top Lake County officeholder is calling for a national agency that would give certified addicts the drugs they crave so they do not patronize dealers on the streets. Gerry Scheub, president of the Lake County Commissioners, said ...

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