Marijuana Candy Bars Appear in Bay Area
25-June-2004, United States, Drug Reform Coordination Network
Eating these munchies could give you the munchies. A DEA intelligence report in the agency's Microgram Bulletin is alerting the feds to be on the lookout for candy bars containing marijuana. Packaged to resemble Snickers and Butterfingers candy ...
Russian Drugs Business Worth $10 bln
25-June-2004, Russia, Gateway to Russia
Illicit trade in drugs in Russia fetches up to $10 billion a year - nearly a tenth of government budget revenues ?a drugs control officer said on Thursday. Oleg Kharichkin, deputy head of the Federal Drugs Control Service, said much of the drugs ...
Federal Law on Sentencing Is Unjust, Judge Rules
24-June-2004, United States, New York Times
Federal judge in Boston ruled on Monday that federal sentencing laws were unconstitutional because they gave prosecutors too much power.
In an impassioned 177-page decision, the judge, William G. Young, described a system in which prosecutors ...
Russia’s Drug Business Worth a Tenth of Budget
24-June-2004, Russia, MosNews
Illicit trade in drugs in Russia fetches up to $10 billion a year — nearly a tenth of government budget revenues — a drug control officer was quoted by Reuters as saying on Thursday.
Oleg Kharichkin, deputy head of the Federal Drugs Control ...
Popping a Party Pill is Not so Abnormal
23-June-2004, Australia, The Sydney Morning Herald
Party drug use among young people is so prevalent, so infrequently intercepted by police and so rarely a cause of problems that society should rethink its attitude to drug policy, says the head researcher of a study of nightclub patrons.
The ...
Rehab for Synthetic Drug Abusers, not Jail
23-June-2004, Singapore, The Straits Times
Synthetic drug abusers will be sent for rehabilitation, instead of prison, from December this year - a shift in the law that has been hailed by halfway houses.
They say the new approach finally corrects an anomaly in Singapore's anti-narcotics ...
215 Chinese Restaurants Shut Down for Adding ...
18-June-2004, China, Associated Press
SHANGHAI - The soup wasn't just good. It was downright addictive.
Narcotics police in southwestern China shuttered 215 restaurants found to be mixing opium poppy into their soups and hot pot stews, Xinhua News Agency reported Friday.
Dishes ...
Federal Judge Whitman Knapp Dead at 95 -- Exposed ...
18-June-2004, United States, Drug Reform Coordination Network
US Senior District Court Judge Whitman Knapp died Monday at age 95 in Manhattan, where he resided. While Knapp is most widely known for leading a two-year investigation into New York City police corruption in the early 1970s, he also made a mark as ...
Philippine Travel Advisory
18-June-2004, Philippines, Drug Reform Coordination Network
With Filipino politicians competing with each other to come up with ever more severe measures to combat drug use and trafficking, the Philippines is deep in the throes of a full-blown anti-drug hysteria. Motivated primarily by an effort to stamp out ...
Swiss Parliament Rejects Marijuana Legalization
18-June-2004, Switzerland, Drug Reform Coordination Network
The Swiss House of Representatives Tuesday rejected a bill that would have amended the country's drug laws to allow for the legal personal use and production of marijuana and some domestic sales of the weed. By a vote of 102-92, the House for the ...
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