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28.112011November 28, 2011

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on drug policy

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During a recent visit to Florida, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich presented some of his views on U.S. drug policy....

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28.112011November 28, 2011

Spain infiltrated by Colombian mafia

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Today Spain’s National Intelligence Center (CNI – Centro Nacional de Inteligencia) announced that criminal organisations from Colombia have infiltrated the...

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28.112011November 28, 2011

Legalizing drugs is not the answer

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By making drugs more available and more accessible, legalization would do nothing to reduce drug use and its adverse consequences....

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25.112011November 25, 2011

Dutch to track cannabis from space

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Dutch police and local governments in the southern Netherlands will work with the European Space Agency to find illegal cannabis...

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23.112011November 23, 2011

The California “medical” marijuana bu$ine$$ scam

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It is becoming more and more obvious that a lot of “entrepreneurs” are making a lot of money in the...

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23.112011November 23, 2011

Germany´s Chancellor Angela Merkel says no to legalisation of cannabis

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In an interview today Germany´s Chancellor Angela Merkel says no to legalisation of cannabis.

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22.112011November 22, 2011

500kg cocaine stolen from Malaga police

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Police suspect robbers who took more than 500kg of cocaine from a police storage unit in Malaga, Spain had inside...

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22.112011November 22, 2011

‘Safe’drugs? Perhaps politicians as well as people are skeptical

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Drug policy has become ‘a taboo area’; politicians lack the ‘courage’ to contradict ‘crude’ assertions about going ‘soft’ on drugs;...

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22.112011November 22, 2011

More than 25% of people in Northern Ireland have used illegal drugs

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More than a quarter of people in Northern Ireland have taken illegal drugs, according to a survey published by the...

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21.112011November 21, 2011

International criticism and analysis of injection rooms

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Two interesting reports investigate injecting rooms. The Kings Cross injecting room Analysis of the 2011 Lancet study on deaths from...

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