On Feb,1, Gil Kerlikowske, Director of National Drug Control Policy, released the following statement following recent reports indicating the emerging...
Category: News Archive
The latest studies on cannabis
We will start publishing references to the latest research on cannabis. Information about the most recent studies (January 2011) are...
Medical marijuana reflects an indifference to public health
In 1996 a ballot initiative in California was approved (Prop. 215, and its successor SB420), which allowed for a smoked...
Paper on the right of children to be protected from narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances
The only explicit statement about narcotic and psychotropic drugs (henceforth drugs) in any core United Nations Human Rights Convention is...
Cocaine production increases destruction of Colombia’s rainforests
Scientists from Stony Brook University are reporting new evidence that cultivating coca bushes, the source of cocaine, is speeding up...
Bolivia´s proposal to remove the ban of coca leaf is dead
Today was the deadline for countries to submit objections to Bolivia´s proposal to remove the ban on coca leaf chewing....
Drug bust shows Argentina-Europe trafficking ties
The New York Times reports that a major cocaine bust in Spain is highlighting the growing drug-trafficking ties between Argentina...
Lebanese-based drug trafficking and money laundering network
An ongoing DEA investigation led to actions by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)...
Cash, diamonds, drugs, firearms & people smuggled in small airplanes
Europol has recently identified an expansion in the range of illicit commodities being trafficked using light aircraft. In the past,...
Waterpipes – smoking without risk? health effects, habits, attitudes and surveillance
The use of Tobacco causes injuries, illnesses and life-long addiction. Smoking waterpipes has been common in Eastern and African cultures...