Outcry as Defence denies soft drugs stance
02-October-2004, Australia, The Sunday Mail
MILITARY personnel who admit they have drug problems are being referred at government expense to civilian treatment programs, some of which advise them on safer drug use such as eating hash cookies instead of smoking "joints".
In a deviation from ...
Passing fancy in the NFL
02-October-2004, United Kingdom, The Mercury News
PHILADELPHIA - (KRT) - Week 3 was a banner week for NFL quarterbacks. Not since the second week of the 2000 season had five players passed for more than 350 yards, but last weekend, Peyton Manning, Daunte Culpepper, Brett Favre, Marc Bulger and ...
Addiction behind the burka: how Afghan women use ...
30-September-2004, Afghanistan, The Independent
Halima first smoked opium to dull the nightmares after her husband's violent death. He was shot at a checkpoint in front of her as they tried to flee fighting in Kabul, leaving her a widow at the age of 27 with three young children and a joyless ...
An end to marijuana prohibition
30-September-2004, United States, The Anchorage Press
Never before have so many Americans supported decriminalizing and even legalizing marijuana. Seventy-two percent say that for simple marijuana possession, people should not be incarcerated but fined: the generally accepted definition of ...
Heroin prescription scheme call
30-September-2004, United Kingdom, BBC News
The Scottish Drugs Forum has said users could be helped by prescribed heroin and it believes a pilot should be set up to study the benefits of the idea.
The Home Office is soon to announce prescribing pilot schemes in England.
The Scottish ...
Long Trip for Psychedelic Drugs
27-September-2004, United States, Wired News
Psychedelic drugs are inching their way slowly but surely toward prescription status in the United States, thanks to a group of persistent scientists who believe drugs like ecstasy and psilocybin can help people with terminal cancer, ...
Outrage at college drugs booklet
27-September-2004, United Kingdom, Birmingham Post
A Birmingham university is producing a booklet telling students how to safely take illegal drugs such as cocaine, marijuana and ecstasy.
The Aston University publication will explain what drugs can be taken together without causing dangerous ...
Unabashed Media Support for U.S. Drug War
27-September-2004, Colombia, Colombia Journal Online
A September 27 article by Juan Pablo Toro of the Associated Press titled "Colombia Police Aim to Disrupt Drug Trade" is yet another example of U.S. mainstream media functioning as a mouthpiece for U.S. foreign policy. Given most U.S. media outlets' ...
Criminals giving 'illegal drugs' new meaning
26-September-2004, United States, The Star Ledger
On a Sunday afternoon last May, two Schering-Plough employees went to the drug maker's Kenilworth warehouse and took $3.4 million worth of an allergy medication.
One of the men drove away in a van filled with Clarinex and stopped in a nearby ...
The Colors of Justice
25-September-2004, United States, Austin Chronicle
In 2003, Williamson County Sheriff's Office investigators made a series of significant felony drug busts. In January and again in October, WCSO detectives dismantled two methamphetamine lab operations – one near Georgetown and one further west, in ...
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