Category: News Archive

Five held in Glasgow over Italy heroin and cannabis haul
Five men have been arrested in Glasgow in connection with the seizure of a huge consignment of drugs in Italy.Two...
Clinton: Legalization not the answer to the drug war
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that she did not believe that domestic drug legalization was the answer to the...
Medical marijuana laws may put officials at risk, says CRS
While state medical marijuana laws are legally valid, they may expose state officials to federal criminal liability, says the Congressional...
U.S: More NFL players testing positive for amphetamines
More NFL players are testing positive for amphetamines, a class of substances that includes the ADHD drug Adderall. Since the...
More Cockburn-articles in The Independent
Henry Cockburn: ‘I can hear what other people can’t’Henry Cockburn smoked joints daily for seven years. Does that explain what...
CIA sued over 1950s ‘murder’ of government scientist plied with LSD
Frank Olsen’s family claim CIA threw him from a hotel window and covered up his death after he witnessed torture...
UN: General Assembly Special Session on Drugs in 2016
The 67th UN General Assembly has unanimously adopted a resolution, presented by Mexico, on international cooperation on the global problem...
Schizophrenia – the cannabis link – part 2
‘I was completely introverted. I felt there was no one I could trust to tell them what was going on...
21-year-old wannabee mafioso arrested in Naples
21-year-old wannabee mafioso Mariano Abete has been arrested in Naples. Further reading