SOCA (Serious Organised Crime Agency) reports that a British organised crime group based in Alicante, Spain, has been dismantled by...
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Marijuana tracking on the way in Colorado
The Associated Press reports that Colorado will soon be the first state to monitor medical marijuana purchases in an effort...
“Sound public policy should be based on facts, not smoke”
A sound public policy should be based on facts not smoke, writes Edvin Meese III, a former attorney general of...
Proposition 19: The promise is not the reality
San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, San Diego County Sheriff William Gore and Alan Lanning, the police chief of...
Travel Alert Europe
Travel Alert Europe U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Bureau of Consular Affairs Europe October 3, 2010 The State Department alerts U.S....
Britain should not make the same mistakes as Portugal
To the attention of organisations like “The charitable think tank “Transform”, which is lobbying for a change in the law”...
Schwarzenegger signs decriminalisation bill
On Thursday California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law a bill, SB 1449, decriminalising possession of up to one ounce...
Afghan opium production halves in 2010, according to UNODC annual survey
Afghanistan’s opium production halved in 2010 but soaring prices may encourage farmers to go back to opium cultivation, warned UNODC...
Drug use in Bolivia
Celin-Bolivia has published a study on drug use in Bolivia covering the period 1992-2010. The study, El uso indebido de...
News media turns young people off illicit drugs
Media reports on illicit drugs “reduce acceptability and increase perception of risk” among young people, study finds Mainstream media reporting...