Cheaper, easier to get, harder to police: ...
28-November-2004, United Kingdom, The Independent
An ecstasy tablet that costs as little as a bar of chocolate and a line of cocaine for the price of a glass of wine. Many illegal drugs are cheaper and more widely available than ever before in Britain, despite the relentless attack by Customs and ...
Street price of drugs crashes to record low
28-November-2004, United Kingdom, The Independent
The average street price of illegal drugs is at the lowest level for a decade, according to new figures. The cost of a line of cocaine is now less than a glass of wine in some parts of Britain. A tablet of ecstasy costs as little as £1.
The ...
War on drugs may doom jungle towns
28-November-2004, Colombia, Houston Chronicle
Back when this jungle outpost was a drug-fueled boomtown ruled by Marxist rebels, cargo planes landed by the hour to unload rice, rum and chemicals to make cocaine.
Cantinas and bordellos overflowed with customers. Instead of Colombian pesos, ...
Afghan opium farmers say crops spraying made them ...
27-November-2004, Afghanistan, PakTribune
HAKIMABAD: Instead of the handful of people with skin diseases he usually deals with, Dr. Mohammed Rafi Safi says he has recently treated 30 Afghan farmers who allege their opium crops were sprayed with poison.
The flood of patients in the past ...
Afghanistan's Drugs
27-November-2004, Afghanistan, washingtonpost.com
PRESIDENT BUSH visited Colombia on Monday to celebrate that nation's progress in the war on drugs. With the help of U.S. money and military equipment, the Colombians have attacked traffickers, extradited dozens of their leaders and fumigated ...
High-flyers like their cocaine on the quiet
27-November-2004, Australia, Sidney Morning Herald
Cocaine may be the preferred drug of lawyers, bankers and IT professionals, but it seems many of these high-flyers have very low levels of drug use, researchers have found.
The high-income earners, mostly male and at least 10 years older than the ...
Producers of meth in Ky. skirting stricter laws
27-November-2004, United States, azcentral
Producers of methamphetamine in Kentucky are circumventing stricter laws regulating the drug's ingredients by traveling to states with looser laws to purchase the pills they need, police said.
The state law passed in 2002 that made possession of ...
Q&A: the drugs bill
26-November-2004, United Kingdom, Guardian Unlimited
Yesterday the government unveiled the details of its new drugs bill, claiming the new measures were a direct response to voters' concerns and built on reforms to rebalance the criminal justice system in favour of law-abiding citizens and victims of ...
Reduce prison drugs, police urge
26-November-2004, United Kingdom, BBC News
Senior police officers are urging the government to do more to cut the amount of illegal drugs smuggled into prisons.
Nottinghamshire Deputy Chief Constable Howard Roberts has told the Home Office that chances to change inmates' lifestyles are ...
University of Vermont to Pay $15,000 to Students ...
26-November-2004, United States, DRC Net
Two University of Vermont students arrested in April at an on-campus "420" rally because they advocated legalizing marijuana will be paid $7,500 each by the university for violating their First Amendment rights, the Chronicle of Higher Education ...
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