Senate Adopts $700 Million for Halting Opium Production
press release from Drug Policy Alliance
For Immediate Release: September 7, 2006
Contact: Tony Newman (646) 335-5384 OR Bill Piper (202) 669-6430
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Feature: Afghan Opium Crop Hits Record as Violence Increases
The West faces a crisis in Afghanistan, as opium cultivation rises to all-time record levels and a reinvigorated Taliban insurgency takes on NATO and the US.
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Attention Night Owls: Your Editor Will Be on the Radio Sunday Night
Chronicle editor Phil Smith (that's me) will be the guest on Kootenay Co-op Radio's "Fane of the Cosmos" program Sunday night. Based in Nelson, BC, Kootenay Co-op Radio is the independent voice of the Kootenay counterculture.
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Feature: Law Enforcement Against Prohibition Stirs the Waters in Ireland
LEAP member former Florida police chief Jerry Cameron went to Ireland and managed to really roil the waters.
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Reformers Call for a âNew Bottom Lineâ
For Immediate Release: September 7, 2006
Contact: Tony Newman (646) 335-5384 OR Bill Piper (202) 669-6430
New Government Survey Shows Illegal Drug Use Rates Holding Steady; Drug War Critics Point to Overwhelming Failure
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DEA Feeling the Pain
The DEAâs war on pain doctors got a facelift today as explained in their ironically titled press-release âWorking Together: DEA and the Medical Communityâ.
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Europe: Scottish Police Move Toward Warnings for Simple Marijuana Possession
Scottish police have embarked on a pilot program where people caught with small amounts of marijuana are warned, not arrested.
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Pain Medicine: DEA Set to Ease Restrictions on Schedule II Prescriptions
The DEA has issued new "proposed rules" to again allow doctors to prescribe Schedule II pain relieving drugs for up to 90 days on one prescription instead of the current 30 days.
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Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
The temptations of the border tarnish another Texas lawman's badge, a Tulsa cop is convicted of being too helpful to a drug dealer, and a pair of Newark's finest plea to a pill-pushing scheme.
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Southeast Asia: Australian Foreign Minister "Grateful" for Indonesia's Tough Drug Stance After Four Australians Sentenced to Death for Smuggling
With six young Australians now facing the death penalty for drug smuggling in Indonesia, Australia's foreign minister pronounces himself "grateful" for the Indonesians' tough stance.
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