Russia says NATO ignores CSTO offers to fight Afghan drugs – Wonder Why?
RT Russia’s foreign minister says NATO has so far ignored repeated offers from the CSTO bloc to start real action in fighting the Afghanistan drug trade, such as destroying poppy crops and heroin labs....
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Drug Corporations Push Taliban Opium for Medical Use
Susanne Posel, Contributor Activist Post In 1998, scientists at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, discovered that noscapine could be used to combat tumors. Noscapine is derived from the opium poppy...
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Is Legalizing Weed Obama’s Secret Weapon? Elspeth Reeve htheatlanticwire.com In 2004 George W. Bush’s re-election campaign worked to put anti-gay marriage ballot initiatives up for vote in several...
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Mexican president a disaster, says Oliver Stone
By Agence France-Presse US filmmaker Oliver Stone blasted outgoing Mexican President Felipe Calderon as a “disaster”, saying he had plunged his country into a “nightmare” by declaring war on drug...
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Marijuana And Hemp News In the U.S.
Sen. Ron Wyden calls for decriminalization of industrial hemp farming Wednesday, June 20, 2012 by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer (NaturalNews) There is a prevailing misunderstanding in America today...
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Florida cops report another drug-fueled cannibalism attack
By Stephen C. Webster Raw Story A man in Palmetto, Florida ate a chunk of human flesh Wednesday night after becoming intoxicated on an unknown substance, stripping off his clothing and going on a...
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Scientist: Pushing OxyContin addicts to heroin reveals ‘utter failure’ of...
By Stephen C. Webster Raw Story The author of a landmark study on how the recent decline in abuse of the opium-based painkiller drug OxyContin has driven up heroin addiction rates slammed the “utter...
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Tax court burns entire U.S. medical marijuana industry
Raw Story By Stephen C. Webster Medical marijuana dispensaries that have taken federal tax deductions are about to be gut-checked by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), thanks to a recent ruling by the...
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Drug War Attacking Another Beneficial Plant: Kratom
Phillip Smith Stop The Drug War The prohibitionist impulse is strong. When confronted with a newly encountered psychoactive substance, there are always special pleaders to sound the alarm and...
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Number of medical marijuana cardholders in Oregon triples
By Kyle Odegard, Albany Democrat-Herald The number of Oregon Medical Marijuana Program cardholders has nearly tripled in the past three years, and the growth trend also is present in the mid-Willamette...
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Report: Drug cartel used Fast and Furious weapon in failed assassination plot
(DAILY CALLER) Drug cartel operatives used weapons from Operation Fast and Furious in a failed attempt to assassinate a high-ranking Mexican law enforcement official, the El Paso Times reports in an...
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Medical marijuana appears headed for Arkansas ballot
By Stephen C. Webster Tuesday, August 14, 2012 12:49 EDT A group of Arkansas drug reform activists submitted on Monday more than double the number of signatures needed to put their medical marijuana...
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Rome police bust massive marijuana plantation under Bank of Italy By Tom Kington, The Guardian Tuesday, August 14, 2012 12:02 EDT Tipped off by the strong smell wafting into a suburban street, police...
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Redefining the English Language to Fight the Drug War
Scott Morgan Stop The Drug War The tendency of the courts to trash our privacy rights in a pathetic attempt to prevent marijuana smoking is so routine that I seldom bother even to point it out anymore,...
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Marijuana Legalization Would Yield $60 Million for Colorado: Study
Paul Armentano NORML The passage and enactment of a statewide marijuana ballot measure this fall could generate as much as $60 million in savings and revenue, according to a just published budgetary...
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Ridiculous “War On Drugs” News
Guns of Pot Users to be Confiscated Susanne Posel Infowars.com September 13, 2012 The Obama Administration through the Justice Department has given the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and...
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The Gateway Drug to Opiates: Not Always Marijuana ; Cannabis In Other News
Elizabeth Renter NaturalSociety September 22, 2012 Despite what the talking political puppets and generals in the War on Drugs would have you think—pot is not much of a gateway drug, at least not when...
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Michael Kelley businessinsider.com October 2, 2012 Leaked emails from the private U.S. security firm Stratfor cite a Mexican diplomat who says the U.S. government works with Mexican cartels to traffic...
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On state ballots: Has pro-marijuana camp found way to win over middle America?
By The Christian Science Monitor Wednesday, October 17, 2012 8:03 EDT The failure of Prop. 19 – a California legalization measure – two years ago was widely seen as a stunning defeat for high-flying...
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Hemp Farming, Pot Decriminalization Good For Economy ; IQ-Link Disputed In...
New San Diego mayor stops medical marijuana crackdown By Stephen C. Webster Monday, January 14, 2013 10:59 EST Less than two months into his first term, the new Democratic mayor of San Diego is coming...
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