Addicts, health officials trumpet success of safe ...
21-September-2004, Canada, CBC News
VANCOUVER - One year after the opening of Vancouver's safe injection site for heroin addicts, health care officials say it is a resounding success.
The injection site in the city's Downtown Eastside is meant to provide a safe place for addicts ...
30-40 drinks killed student
18-September-2004, United States, Colodaroan Online
Over a 10-hour time period, Samantha Spady consumed the equivalent of 30 to 40 drinks, mixing beer and hard liquor, Fort Collins Police officials said Friday. The 5-foot-6-inch, 126-pound Colorado State University sophomore, who died almost two ...
Shock tactics to stop drugs
18-September-2004, United Kingdom, Bluelight
One of the posters showing the victims of drug crime.
This shocking image is the police's latest weapon in the ongoing fight to rid the streets of Norfolk of drug-dealers.
Three stark posters will be launched on Monday to show the effects of ...
7 Asian nations in US drug blacklist, Thailand ...
17-September-2004, United States, inq7.net
US President George W. Bush on Thursday removed Thailand from an annual US narcotics blacklist but maintained in it other Asian nations Afghanistan, Myanmar, China, India, Laos, Pakistan and Vietnam.
He also expressed deep concern about North ...
Jury Duty? I'll Drink to That!
16-September-2004, United States, Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Yorkers dreading jury duty take note: it's OK to be drunk on booze or high on pot or cocaine while doing your civic duty.
So said a New York judge on Wednesday, who refused to set aside the verdict on a retired city ...
SOROS' $$ TOPPLES DA IN WAR OVER DRUGS
16-September-2004, United States, New York Post Online Edition
ALBANY — In an unusual infusion of big money into local upstate politics, billionaire George Soros poured cash into the Albany County district attorney's race — and engineered a stunning defeat of the incumbent because the DA supports the strict ...
Campos: Dishonesty in the drug war
14-September-2004, United States, Rocky Mountain News
TORONTO - The University of Toronto has just played host to an important conference, entitled "The Politics of Obesity," at which scholars from various academic disciplines examined the claim that North America is facing a health crisis because of ...
The Maple Leaf Forever
10-September-2004, United Kingdom, The Austinn Chronicle
In recent weeks, federal drug warrior John Walters has turned his attention to the latest and apparently, in his esteemed opinion, greatest threat: Canadian marijuana. Walters, head of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy – the ...
They're Back! Two DEA Raids on California Medical ...
10-September-2004, United States, DRC Net
After a lengthy period of relative quiescence, federal raids on California medical marijuana operations have started up again. With an August 18 raid on medical marijuana law envelope-pusher Eddy Lepp and his Eddy's Medicinal Gardens and ...
Prisoners Breed Spiders For Venom High
08-September-2004, Australia, CBS 2 Chicago
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) Inmates in an Australian prison have been caught breeding deadly redback spiders that they milked for venom to inject themselves for a high, according to government records.
Four spiders - with venom that can kill children ...
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