The House version of a bill that would outlaw the sale of marijuana pipes known as “bongs” has cleared another...
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Tobacco interests spent over $51 million in the past year to exert influence on California legislative policy and elections
Tobacco interests spent a total of $51.1 million during the 2011-2012 election cycle to fight Proposition 29 and to influence...
Study questions effectiveness of ADHD medications
Questions about the effectiveness of treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have been raised in a new study. The study examined...
Transnational organized crime threats in East Asia and the Pacific
UNODC launched today an assessment of the transnational organized crime threat in the East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) region....
Italy files new charges over judge Giovanni Falcone slain by mafia
Italian prosecutors on Tuesday charged eight new people over the 1992 mafia bombing assassination of judge Giovanni Falcone — an...
SAM – Smart Approaches to Marijuana
SAM – Smart Approaches to Marijuana
U.S: Marijuana research funding cut as support for drug grows
As more states embrace legalized marijuana, the drug’s growing medicinal use has highlighted a disturbing fact for doctors: scant research...
900 kg of heroin seized in Russia this year
Almost 900 kilograms (2,000 lbs) of Afghan heroin were seized in Russia in the first three months of 2013, the...
Opium crop in Afghanistan heading for record levels
Afghanistan’s opium crop is heading towards record levels a bleak forecast warns, as the country risks becoming a narcostate despite...
Cartel money laundering case to begin in Texas
Prosecutors in Texas are set to open their case against leaders of a violent cartel accused of buying racehorses to...