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Category: News Archive

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30.032012March 30, 2012

Pot gardens pose environmental problems

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California authorities say the proliferation of outdoor marijuana plantations in the Santa Cruz Mountains are damaging the environment and increasing...

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30.032012March 30, 2012

New York State Health Commissioner orders a stop to sale of synthetic marijuana

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New York State Health Commissioner Nirav R. Shah, M.D., M.P.H. has issued an order of summary action banning the sale...

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29.032012March 29, 2012

U.S. judge bars import of drug used in death penalty

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A U.S. judge on Tuesday barred U.S. authorities from importing an anesthesia drug used in carrying out death sentences because...

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28.032012March 28, 2012

The real dope on “medical” marijuana

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Marijuana is, after all, not a uniform, well-defined material. Different plant strains and batches vary radically in their levels of...

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28.032012March 28, 2012

Natural and pharmaceutical opioids can encourage cancer; opioid antagonists may suppress

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The suspicion that opioid drugs for pain could encourage cancer growth began with a laboratory report from the University of...

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28.032012March 28, 2012

Written evidence accepted by the UK Parliament Home Affairs Committee for the drugs inquiry

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Anybody interested in the written evidence accepted by the UK Parliament Home Affairs Committee for the drugs inquiry will find...

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28.032012March 28, 2012

Establishment of a European Cybercrime Centre

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Today the European Commission will propose to establish a European Cybercrime Centre as the focal point in the fight against...

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28.032012March 28, 2012

Europe has the highest proportion of drinkers in the world

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Alcohol is a key public health and social concern across the Community. Europe has the highest proportion of drinkers in...

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27.032012March 27, 2012

Death penalty 2011 – alarming levels of executions in the few countries that kill

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Countries that carried out executions in 2011 did so at an alarming rate but those employing capital punishment have decreased...

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25.032012March 25, 2012

UK sells cannabis to Amsterdam?

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In 1997 only 11 per cent of cannabis sold on UK streets was grown in Britain. A decade later the...

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