Running on the coca ticket
23-November-2005, Bolivia, Sun Sentinel
The coca farmers on these steep mountain slopes have long felt their livelihood and Indian identity threatened by U.S.-backed efforts to uproot the crop that makes cocaine. Now they are pinning their hopes on one of their own: an Indian coca farmer ...
Victims of the Drug War
22-November-2005, United States, BlueOregon
As if the US “war on drugs” was not absurd enough, it has now claimed its first marijuana-related casualty.
Jonathan Magbie, a quadriplegic, was sentenced to a 10-day jail sentence in Washington, DC for possession of one joint. He died four days ...
Marijuana: A Pointless But Ending War
21-November-2005, United States, The Knight News
Back in my supermarket days as a stock boy, a coworker gave me an anecdote about how he was getting high with his friends at a deserted rail yard. Two police officers appeared suddenly, so the kids languidly tried to hide their joints behind their ...
Truth raffled in Leslie case
21-November-2005, Indonesia, The Sunday Herald Sun
UNDERWEAR model, Muslim convert, ecstasy user, naive victim or all of the above?
An apt description for Michelle Leslie is as difficult to pin down as the truth in her case and after her deportation we are no closer to it.
The circus of ...
Former judge calls drug war a 'failure'
17-November-2005, United States, Sierra Times
RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina should consider decriminalizing illegal drugs as it tries to stem the need for additional prisons, a former state Supreme Court chief justice said Monday.
Burley Mitchell, the state's top judge from 1995 to 1999, ...
Just Say Yes: U.S.O.C. Hires a Maker of ...
16-November-2005, United States, The New York Times
Departing from its traditional just-say-no stance toward nutritional supplement use by athletes, the United States Olympic Committee has taken a new approach: signing up a supplement manufacturer as an official supporter and requiring every batch of ...
Young, Assured and Playing Pharmacist to Friends
16-November-2005, United States, The New York Times
Nathan Tylutki arrived late in New York, tired but eager to go out dancing. When his friend Katherine K. offered him the Ritalin she had inherited from someone who had stopped taking his prescription, he popped two pills and stayed out all night. ...
Speakout: Time has come to legalize marijuana
14-November-2005, United States, Rocky Mountain News
The Rocky Mountain News editorializes that the city of Denver must enforce the state pot law in the wake of the repeal of the city ordinance by voters, as if some profound prinicple were at stake here ("City must enforce state pot law," Nov. 7). In ...
Moss celebrates at rave resort
07-November-2005, Spain, Herald Sun
SHAMED British model Kate Moss celebrated the end of a 30-day spell in a rehabilitation clinic with a two-day assignment on Ibiza -- regarded as the rave capital of Europe.
The 31-year-old, who checked into the Meadows, in Arizona, after she was ...
Drug-sniffing dog dies in California after ...
05-November-2005, United States, AP Wire
Basko took a bite out of crime - but it cost him his life.
The 5-year-old drug-sniffing German shepherd died Friday after he bit into a bag of cocaine during an annual certification search in Riverside County, according to Sgt. Jim Banach with ...
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