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Category: News Archive

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23.012011January 23, 2011

High opium prices threaten drug control efforts of recent years

By WFADIn News Archive

Rising opium prices may encourage farmers in Afghanistan to plant more opium poppy, warns UNODC in its Afghanistan Opium Survey...

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23.012011January 23, 2011

Interview with Torgny Peterson, Special Advisor to WFAD

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Australian ABC has made an interview with our special advisor Mr. Peterson on the topic “Australian illicit drug policy in...

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23.012011January 23, 2011

Taxpayers are funding a guide to snort cocaine

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Taxpayers are funding a guide to snorting cocaine and other party drugs under the guise of AIDS prevention. A four-page...

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23.012011January 23, 2011

‘My son played Russian roulette with cannabis – and lost’

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Award-winning journalist Patrick Cockburn has spent many years working as a foreign correspondent, reporting from the world’s trouble spots from...

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21.012011July 4, 2020
New Broadcast: Jörgen Svidén, Director at the European Cities Against Drugs

New Broadcast: Jörgen Svidén, Director at the European Cities Against Drugs

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Interview with Jörgen Svidén, Director at the European Cities Against Drugs

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20.012011January 20, 2011

Swedish objection to proposed amendment to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961

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Today Maria Larsson, Minister for Children and the Elderly, received the Ambassador of Bolivia to Sweden, following Bolivia´s request to...

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20.012011January 20, 2011

Marijuana, schizophrenia and Jared Loughner

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In a commentary Robert L. DuPont, M.D. President, Institute for Behavior and Health, Inc. and Bertha Madras, Professor of psychobiology,...

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20.012011January 20, 2011

DEA position on marijuana

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DEA position paper on marijuana

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20.012011January 20, 2011

91 leaders,members and associates of La Cosa Nostra Families charged

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91 members and associates of seven organized crime families of La Cosa Nostra (LCN), including the New England LCN family,...

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19.012011January 19, 2011

Les Iversen appointed chair of ACMD

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Professor emeritus Les Iversen who has been interim chair of the ACMD (Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs) since...

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