Supreme Court strikes down conviction of pot activist
• CBCThe Supreme Court of Canada has overturned the conviction of a medical marijuana crusader, ruling the trial judge erred by directing the jury to find the man guilty.
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Drug War
With Beheadings and Attacks, Drug Gangs Terrorize Mexico
• NY TimesMusic was blaring at the bar when men in military garb broke up the late night party. Waving high-powered machine guns, they screamed at the crowd to stay put and then dumped 5 human heads on the dance floor.
DEA warns of soft drink-cough syrup mix
• USA TodayWhen San Diego Chargers defensive back Terrence Kiel was charged last month with illegally shipping cases of prescription cough syrup back home to East Texas, it cast a spotlight on a drug trend authorities say is spreading throughout the South and b
Politicians caught out in TV drug test
• news.com.auSIXTEEN Italian politicians tested positive for cocaine or cannabis use in a trick drug test carried out by a television satire show, the country's media reported today.
Library volunteers just say no to drug testing
• gainesville.comLevy County's public libraries are struggling to get books checked out or reshelved because retirees who usually handle many of those chores have refused requirements that they "pee in a cup" as part of a mandatory drug test for all cou
Ariz. Pair Resigns Pot Church Leadership
• APA Pima, Ariz. couple has stepped down as leaders of a church that considers marijuana a sacrament and deity. Dan and Mary Quaintance say pending federal charges against them have made it impossible to properly lead the church.
Buying friends and influencing drug lords
• Asia TimesAs Hand in Glove, a new study by the Chiang Mai-based Shan Herald Agency for News demonstates, Myanmar's army, the Tatmadaw, has been a good friend of the drug trade for years. This probably explains why Myanmar
Religious leaders unite on Pot Initiative
• Reno Gazette-JournalA dozen Norther Nevada religious leaders plan to announce today they support the initiative to legalize marijuana. "I know of no place else in the country where a group of religious leaders is coming together to speak with a unified voice with
FDA role restored over mail-order drug imports
• ReutersU.S. customs officials will still seize prescription drugs imported from Canada through the mail but will hand over enforcement to federal health officials in a policy reversal that one lawmaker said would benefit consumers seeking cheaper medicines.
SWAT team shoots dog at wrong home (again)
• ocala.comA Doberman pinscher is recovering after being shot Thursday, when drug enforcement officials went to the wrong home.
Children handcuffed & family dog killed in police drug raid
• timesunion.comDuring the ensuing chaos, police handcuffed two of the woman's children, Elijah Bradley, 11, and 12-year-old Victoria Perez, and shot at her dog in the kitchen before killing it in the bathroom, Woodyear said.
Drug imports from Canada set to be eased
• USA Today[How generous.] Americans could buy and carry home prescription drugs from Canada under an agreement reached between Republicans. Customs agents would be prohibited from seizing up to 90-day supplies of prescribed medicines brought across the border.
Economic Laws Trump Drug Laws Everytime...
• MSNBCInternational gangs fill void after cops crack down on makeshift home labs. Price said the shift has made the drug so abundant that distributors now commonly "front" up to 2 pounds of ice to street dealers on credit.
DEA Agents are glorified weeders with guns
• NORMLMore than 98 percent of all of the marijuana plants seized by law enforcement in the United States is feral hemp not cultivated cannabis, according to newly released data by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Pot farms found on park land
• San Francisco ChronicleThe discovery of 22,740 marijuana plants growing in and around Point Reyes National Seashore last week wasn't only the biggest pot seizure ever made in Marin County. It was an enviromental mess that will take several months and tens of
Feds may ease limit on painkillers
• USA Today[After decades of destroying the lives of patients and doctors] Patients who use powerful narcotic painkillers such as OxyContin or hyperactivity drugs such as Ritalin will be able to get up to a 90-day supply of the drugs, rather then just a one-mon
Undercover DEA Agent Identified By Trichome Healing Center Staff
• theAgitator.comAn undercover Drug Enforcement Administration agent was blocked from leaving a marijuana facility because he had a gun and employees thought he was a robber, medical marijuana advocates said Saturday.
DEA using taxpayer money to stop initiative
• NORMLColorado media outlets are roundly criticizing an effort by DEA officials to spend taxpayers' dollars and use paid staff time to campaign against Amendment 44, "the Alcohol-Marijuana Equalization Initiative." Correspondences from DEA o
Dog shot in 2005 incident; suit accuses four police departments
• TheAgitator.comAn Irondequoit couple whose home was raided and dog was shot last year by police seeking evidence of illegal drug sales has filed a sweeping lawsuit against four local police departments, four municipalities and numerous individual police officers.
Drug Ads don't work
• APThe government's anti-drug campaign has not been proven to deter children from using drugs, and lawmakers should consider reducing funding for the $1.2 billion program, congressional auditors said Friday. (How about ending it, along with the war
DEA Using Federal Tax Dollars To Campaign Against State Ballot Initiatives
• DenverChannel.comThe e-mail was sent from a U.S. Department of Justice account and asks those interested in helping to call Moore at his DEA office, the Camera reported, and Moore said there was $10,000 available to launch the campaign.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
• TheAgitator.comLEAP needs more attention. This is an organization of 5,000 current and former law enforcement officials who recognize the failure and the damage effected by the war on drugs. And it has grown to 5,000 from just five founding members a few years ago.
How war against drugs may have helped Hezbollah
• London TimesBRITAIN’S attempts to counter heroin traffickers may have provided Iran with the opportunity to supply Hezbollah with British military equipment. Around 250 sets of military night vision equipment sent to Tehran from Britain appear to have been pa
Colombia’s Coca Survives U.S. Plan to Uproot It
• NY Times[The Bush Years.] The latest chapter in America’s long war on drugs — a six-year, $4.7 billion effort to slash Colombia’s coca crop — has left the price, quality and availability of cocaine on American streets virtually unchanged.
Afghan Opium Cultivation Hits a Record
• APOpium cultivation in Afghanistan has hit record levels up by more than 40% from 2005 despite hundreds of millions in counternarcotics money. Serious repercussions for an already grave security situation, with drug lords joining the Taliban-led fight
DEA busts nongovernment authorized businessmen
• APFederal agents arrested more than 130 alleged drug traffickers from coast-to-coast Tuesday, saying they smuggled heroin from Mexico and even offered phone-up home deliveries like a pizza shop.
Drug Use, Drug Availability, Drug Legality in your town.
• webehigh.comWorldwide Marijuana Travel Guide With Marijuana Prices, Spots & Legalization Status - Curently covering 305 cities. New cities and cities updates every day!
Craigslist becomes a place for pot peddlers
• Seattle TimesThe classified-advertising Web site craigslist has become popular in recent years with the young seeking apartments, jobs and for-sale items. But it's also being used as an Information Age black market for some Seattle-area marijuana dealers.
30,000 marijuana plants about 20 miles east of Payson, Arizona
• Arizona Republic"...years for the land to recover from damage inflicted by the pot growers. The damage that's being done here should offend people." (Be an Environmentalist, grow pot in your back yard)
Marijuana plants for sale
• APJoseph White's home office is like a modern-day hippie hangout. Books on Buddhism and yoga, an acoustic guitar rests next to a shuffle of sheet music for "Mr. Tambourine Man." And then there are the marijuana stalks. Towering six-footer
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