Tag: cocaine

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October 26, 2012
10/26/2012
Traces of Cocaine and Marijuana Found in Air of Eight Italian Cities

Traces of Cocaine and Marijuana Found in Air of Eight Italian Cities

The answer to the question “Did you inhale?” may be yes, even if you’re only guilty of breathing the air in Rome. That’s because a new study...
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October 25, 2012
10/25/2012
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.10.24)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.10.24)

03:01am Small town police chiefs gone wild! Junkie cop sells stolen police guns to dealer! More crooked cops go down in stings! Let’s get to it:...
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October 17, 2012
10/17/2012
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.10.16)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.10.16)

06:31pm A St. Louis cop is headed for federal prison for re-selling seized pot, a Camden cop is heading there too, for running amok in the...
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October 1, 2012
10/01/2012
Peru Coca Crop Keeps Getting Bigger

Peru Coca Crop Keeps Getting Bigger

03:45am Coca cultivation in Peru increased again last year, up 5.2% over 2010, according to the 2011 coca monitoring survey conducted by the United Nations Office on Drugs...
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September 18, 2012
09/18/2012
Bolivia, Venezuela Reject U.S. Drug Criticism

Bolivia, Venezuela Reject U.S. Drug Criticism

03:44pm Last Thursday, the White House released its annual determination of major drug trafficking or producing countries, singling out Bolivia, Burma, and Venezuela as countries that have...
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September 7, 2012
09/07/2012
Colombia, FARC Rebels Set Peace Talks

Colombia, FARC Rebels Set Peace Talks

05:54pm For the first time in nearly a decade, the Colombian government will sit down for peace talks with the Marxist guerrillas of the FARC, which...
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September 6, 2012
09/06/2012
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.09.05)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.09.05)

02:53am The Murray County, Georgia, scandal keeps unraveling, another prison guard goes down, and a pair of South Texas deputies are going away for awhile. Let’s...
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August 30, 2012
08/30/2012
Book Review: Drugs, Insecurity, and Failed States: The Problems of Prohibition

Book Review: Drugs, Insecurity, and Failed States: The Problems of Prohibition

03:55pm Drugs, Insecurity, and Failed States: The Problems of Prohibition, by Nigel Inkster and Virginia Comolli (2012, Adelphi, 163 pages) Longtime readers of Drug War Chronicle...
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August 23, 2012
08/23/2012
Chronicle Book Review: The FARC

Chronicle Book Review: The FARC

01:10pm The FARC: The Longest Insurgency, by Garry Leech (2011, Zed Press, 178 pages) The FARC (the Spanish-language acronym for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia)...
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August 16, 2012
08/16/2012
Canadians Among Top Buyers, Sellers on ‘eBay’ for Illegal Drugs

Canadians Among Top Buyers, Sellers on ‘eBay’ for Illegal Drugs

Canadians are among the top sellers and buyers of marijuana, steroids, cocaine and other drugs available at the click of a mouse on an anonymous website called...
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August 8, 2012
08/08/2012
Infographic: Arguing Against Schedule I Marijuana

Infographic: Arguing Against Schedule I Marijuana

Here’s a great infographic from RehabToday, commenting on the Schedule I marijuana by going straight to the Schedule I definition and then demonstrates how cannabis does not...
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August 6, 2012
08/06/2012
The Last Word: Rewriting the Cost of the War on Drugs

The Last Word: Rewriting the Cost of the War on Drugs

What is the real cost of the war on drugs? How long do you fight a war that cannot be won? Lawrence O’Donnell (The Last Word, NBC News)...
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August 2, 2012
08/02/2012
Woman Walks After Prosecutorial Perfidy in Tucson

Woman Walks After Prosecutorial Perfidy in Tucson

02:57pm, (Issue #745) Special to the Chronicle by Houston-based investigative journalist Clarence Walker, who can be reached at cwalkerinvestigate@gmail.com. This article is the latest in his...
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July 27, 2012
07/27/2012
Colombia Coca Cultivation Ticks Upward

Colombia Coca Cultivation Ticks Upward

07:26pm Coca cultivation in Colombia was on the rise again last year for the first time since 2007, according to the UN Office on Drugs and...
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July 19, 2012
07/19/2012
Obama Administration to Review Clarence Aaron Commutation Request

Obama Administration to Review Clarence Aaron Commutation Request

10:03pm, (Issue #743) The Obama administration is seeking a fresh review of Clarence Aaron’s request for commutation of his cocaine trafficking sentence, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. Aaron,...
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July 8, 2012
07/08/2012
Drug War Snapshot: Volusia County, Florida

Drug War Snapshot: Volusia County, Florida

04:51pm, (Issue #742) Volusia County, Florida, situated midway up the state’s Atlantic Coast, has just under half a million people, and if its July 6 county...
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July 2, 2012
07/02/2012
What Would Marijuana As a Schedule II Drug Mean?

What Would Marijuana As a Schedule II Drug Mean?

    Senator Perry B. Clark ( D-Louisville) is scheduled to hold a press conference at 2pm EDT on Thursday, July 5 to introduce  the Gatewood Galbraith Memorial Medical...
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June 29, 2012
06/29/2012
Colombia High Court Okays Drug Decriminalization

Colombia High Court Okays Drug Decriminalization

04:09pm Colombia’s Constitutional Court has approved the government’s proposal to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of drugs for personal use. The opinion (scroll down to item three,...
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June 19, 2012
06/19/2012
Please Help Me With My Gateway Drug Math 101 Homework

Please Help Me With My Gateway Drug Math 101 Homework

Even if racial profiling, pharma loving, reefer madness politicians want to ignore the countless scientific studies rolling out debunking the marijuana gateway theory, we can all perform...
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