Canada: Quebec to Open Series of Safe Injection Sites
Health officials in Quebec are planning to open a safe injection site in Montreal, then Quebec City, and maybe more.
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Drug Testing: Hawaii Teachers Back Away from Random Testing Provisions of New Contract
Last year, Hawaiian teachers agreed to a labor contract that included random drug testing. Now, with one eye on costs and the other on the Constitution, they are balking, and the Republican governor is most unhappy.
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Feature: The Vultures Circle Sturgis, But One Man Fights Back
With South Dakota's annual Sturgis Motorcyle Rally just a few days away, state law enforcement is gearing up for unwary travelers. Eric Sage was one of their victims last year. He's not going this year, but he just filed a civil suit over his mistreatment.
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Medical Marijuana: Whole Plant Better Than Isolated Components in Pain Relief, Italian Study Finds
Research from Italy suggesting that whole-plant marijuana extracts provide more effective pain relief than isolated compounds from the plant should be welcome news for medical marijuana supporters.
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Southwest Asia: Former US Anti-Drug Official Accuses Afghan Government of Complicity in Drug Trade -- US and NATO Not Doing Much Either, He Complains
The man who until last month was in charge of US anti-drug efforts in Afghanistan accuses the Karzai government of involvement in the drug trade. He's not too happy with the US military and NATO, either.
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Death Penalty: More Executions in China, Saudi Arabia
The resort to the ultimate sanction for drug offenders continues apace in China and Saudi Arabia.
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Editorial: It's Everybody Else Who's Crazy
A former State Department official who fought the Afghan drug war has taken to the New York Times to tell why the failure of the program is everybody else's fault not his.
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Drug Smugglers Use Hurricane For Cover
Conditions that send everyone else running for shelter are actually appealing to drug traffickers:
Well, shucks, what are we gonna do about this? I guess it will be necessary to double border security during hurricanes to prevent smuggling. Any volunteers?
Smugglers tried to use Hurricane Dolly as a cover in at least three attempts to move drugs or illegal aliens through Texas, border officials said Wednesday.
About 9,600 pounds of marijuana was found buried under cotton seeds on a truck on U.S. 77 at the Border Patrol's Sarita checkpoint south of Kingsville, Texas, said Lloyd Easterling, a spokesman for Customs and Border Protection.
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Jayson Ahern, deputy commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, said the Sarita checkpoint marijuana bust was one of three Wednesday in which smuggling operations appeared to be attempting to operate under the cover of the storm. [CNN]
Well, shucks, what are we gonna do about this? I guess it will be necessary to double border security during hurricanes to prevent smuggling. Any volunteers?
In The Trenches
Drug Truth 07/24/08
The Unvarnished Truth About the Drug War From the Drug Truth Network:
(To downlad these 29:00 files, click on links below. To simply listen, go to www.drugtruth.net and select the arrow below the shows description.)
Cultural Baggage for 07/23/08 Reports from the Netroots Nation convention: Jeremy Scahill, Cliff Schecter, Jim Hightower, Gloria Littleshield & dozens of voices answering the question: "Can you name the #1 success of the drug war" + Drug War Facts with Doug McVay
MP3 LINK: http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/?q=audio/download/1979/FDBCB_072308.mp3
TRANSCRIPT: (To be posted by Friday)
Century of Lies for 07/22/08 Tex Rep Rick Noriega running for US Senate + Roger Goodman running for re-election as Wash state rep + Ada Fisher disses Obama's drug use
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