By The Associated Press Monday, December 27th, 2010 LISBON, Portugal (AP) — These days, Casal Ventoso is an ordinary blue-collar community – mothers push baby strollers, men smoke outside cafes, buses chug up and down the cobbled main street. Ten years ago, the Lisbon neighborhood was a hellhole, a “drug […]
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‘Legalise And Regulate Drugs’ Says UK’s Former Drugs And Defence Minister
Bob Ainsworth MP, former Home Office drugs minister and Secretary of State for Defence, will call for the legalisation and regulation of drugs during a Parliamentary debate he is leading in Westminster Hall, at 2.30pm, Thurs 16th December 2010.
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Mexico marijuana growers learn new tricks from U.S.
Tue, Dec 14 2010 By Mica Rosenberg AMATA, Mexico (Reuters) – Farmers growing marijuana in remote Mexican mountains are adopting techniques pioneered in the United States to produce more potent pot and boost profits from the cash crop that is fueling a deadly drug war. In the fertile valleys of […]
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Government of Canada Investment to Help Hemp Farmers and Processors Reach Full Potential
Dec 13, 2010 15:26 ET WINNIPEG, MANITOBA–(Marketwire – Dec. 13, 2010) – The Government of Canada is injecting more than $728,000 to help the hemp industry increase production capacity and make new inroads into the U.S. market. The Honourable Vic Toews, Minister of Public Safety, made the announcement today on […]
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Fight To Legalize Cannabis In African Nation Lands In High Court
By Steve Elliott Friday, Dec. 3 2010 A challenge to the marijuana laws of the southern African nation Swaziland is going all the way to the High Court. Dr. Ben Diamini wants cannabis legalized, and he has also called upon the Minister of Commerce, Industry and Trade to grant […]
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Time for an Impact Assessment of Drug Policy
All stakeholders in the debate on drug policy share the goal of maximising social, environmental, physical and psychological wellbeing. At a time of economic crisis, it is particularly important that drug policy expenditure is cost-effective. Yet despite the many billions of dollars in drug-related spending each year, there are significant […]
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IV drug policy fails HIV patients: Red Cross
The spread of HIV and AIDS among millions of people could be slowed if addicts who inject drugs were treated as medical patients rather than as criminals, the International Federation of the Red Cross said Friday. More than 80 per cent of the world’s governments “are inclined to artificial realities, […]
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What Can We Learn From The Portuguese Decriminalization Of Illicit Drugs?
A new study (http://bjc.oxfordjournals.org/content/50/6/999.full.pdf+html ), published this month in the British Journal of Criminology shows that decriminalisation of all drugs in Portugal did not lead to increases in drug-related harms. The article, written by Dr Caitlin Hughes of the University of New South Wales and Professor Alex Stevens of the […]
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N.Z.: Cart Of Burning Cannabis Pushed Inside Police Station
Wellington, New Zealand police will decide Friday whether to charge cannabis legalization activists who pushed a shopping cart full of burning marijuana into the central police station foyer. Officers will study CCTV footage showing the shopping cart loaded with smoking weed being pushed into the central police station at the […]