Afghan president says 'fight drugs like Russians'
09-December-2004, Afghanistan, Reuters
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has urged his countrymen to tackle the war on drugs with the same zeal they fought the Red Army during the Soviet Union's decade-long occupation that ended in 1990.
Speaking two days after being sworn in as the ...
Sanity is AWOL in war on drugs
09-December-2004, United States, New York Daily News
The latest battle in the great War on Drugs showed up in the Supreme Court on Monday, with the feds arguing that if sick or dying people are allowed to use homegrown marijuana for their pain, the price on the streets will go down.
In the logic of ...
Drugs in Sports: No Outrage?
08-December-2004, United States, The Christian Science Monitor
The three-martini lunch in America is a social relic. Smoking in most workplaces and restaurants is banned.
So when will the cultural shift that made these unsavory practices un-cool also spread to the world of sports - where doping ...
New York to Ease Prison Terms for Drugs
08-December-2004, United States, Guardian Unlimited
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - State lawmakers voted Tuesday to scale back some mandatory sentences under New York's infamously harsh drug laws, which could send a person to prison for life for possessing just a few ounces of heroin or cocaine.
Among the ...
Afghan anti-drugs drive 'will turn tide' of opium
07-December-2004, Afghanistan, Financial Times
International efforts to combat Afghanistan's booming opium industry should begin to reduce output next year, a British minister with responsibility for counternarcotics said yesterday.
Bill Rammell, Foreign Office minister, said a "robust" ...
Drug barons grow new line in cocaine
07-December-2004, Colombia, Financial Times
Colombian police have identified a genetically modified and super-hardy coca "tree" that yields up to eight times more cocaine than a traditional shrub.
The discovery, detailed in a counter-narcotics police intelligence dossier obtained by the ...
Results of drugs probe due
07-December-2004, Australia, news.com.au
The Australian Defence Force is expected today to receive the preliminary results of a probe into claims that nine officer cadets at Duntroon took illegal drugs.
In the army's latest scandal, military police raided the cadets' rooms at the Royal ...
A Mania Called Horse
06-December-2004, United States, Reason Online
In case you missed it, cheese is the new morphine. At least that’s what the head of the animal rights group (and oddly named) Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine reports.
At a November Congressional hearing designed to stir up hysteria ...
Drugs Growing Problem in Britain, Despite Police ...
06-December-2004, United Kingdom, Join Together
Although Customs officials and police in Britain have enforced tougher measures to catch drug traffickers and dealers, illegal drugs have become more widely available than ever before, the Independent reported Nov. 28.
A new report from the ...
Free of Drugs and Alcohol, and Acting Like a ...
06-December-2004, United States, The New York Times
Dennis Barton was a promising young man, a member of the Boys Clubs of America, a hobbyist who built model ships and airplanes, a fan of James Brown, and a regular at church on Sundays.
But things started going south, as he puts it, when he ...
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