California reconsiders 'three-strikes' sentencing
14-October-2004, United States, CNN.com
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- California voters are taking a second whack at "three-strikes" guidelines a decade after they first passed the nation's toughest sentencing law.
Crime and punishment have always made for raw politics, and the ...
Heroin 'will be legal by 2020'
14-October-2004, United Kingdom, dailyrecord
ALL drugs will be legalised within 20 years, it was claimed last night.
A study by think tank Transform said the 'prohibition' of cannabis, cocaine and hard drugs such as heroin had proved a disaster across the world.
And they said governments ...
San Francisco Takes Gay Crystal Meth Fight To The ...
14-October-2004, United States, 365gay.com
The San Francisco Department of Public Health's HIV Prevention Program Thursday launched a new, confrontational media campaign aimed at educating the city's gay population about an alarming increase in HIV infections associated with crystal meth ...
Pub yobs turning to hard drugs
13-October-2004, United Kingdom, News & Star
POLICE fear the success of a crackdown on drunken yobs is leading to a new drugs threat among West Cumbrian clubbers.
Officers now say that the number of people being caught in possession of hard drugs like cocaine and the dance drug Ecstasy is ...
Secret squad picks up trash, sifts it seeking ...
13-October-2004, United States, cleveland.com
Secret squad picks up trash, sifts it seeking drug evidence
Heights officer testifies action is almost daily
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
James F. McCarty
Plain Dealer Reporter
Residents of Cleveland Heights would be wise to treat their ...
Minister pledges drugs crackdown
12-October-2004, United Kingdom, BBC News
Justice Minister Cathy Jamieson has pledged to tackle the death and misery caused by drugs in Scotland. Her vow follows an admission by staff at one of Scotland's toughest jails that they are losing the battle against drug smugglers.
Official ...
Novel treatment using ketamine has shown success ...
12-October-2004, Australia, News-Medical.net
A novel treatment using a common anesthetic drug has shown success in reducing the severe pain caused by Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), according to a study published in the September 2004 issue of Pain Medicine.
CRPS, a disorder that can ...
Culture of Chemicals
11-October-2004, United States, ESPN
There was a buoyant cheeriness in the visitors' clubhouse at Angel Stadium after the Red Sox beat Anaheim in Game 1 of the Division Series. Some players still smudged with eye black chatted at their lockers, while others finished interviews with the ...
Ice Cream With Drug Names Banned in Russia
09-October-2004, Russia, NYNewsday
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia -- Whatever happened to chocolate, vanilla and strawberry? A court in southern Russia has banned the sale of Ukrainian ice cream that hit the shelves under names alluding to drugs, such as "Your Hemp Dose" and "Poppy Fun," a ...
Two Brits on drug charges
09-October-2004, Singapore, Scotsman.com
TWO Britons have been arrested in Singapore as police allegedly smashed a major drug ring.
British-born magazine editor Nigel Bruce Simmonds, 35, was among 23 people held in raids against suspected traffickers and their clients which police said ...
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