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Secretary Webchat |
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Home Secretary Jacqui Smith will be in Downing
Street on 17 April for a live webchat from 14:00 BST. Log in
and post your question [10 Downing Street, UK] |
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The
seriously inconvenient truth on drugs |
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For those who warmly applaud Gordon Brown's
declared desire to toughen up the law on cannabis, raising it
from a Class C to Class B drug, there is always a simple question.
How would you react if your son, or perhaps your grandchild -
otherwise law-abiding and blameless citizens - were caught with
that drug and at once thrown in a cell [Daily Mail, UK] |
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Why
girls are far more likely to abuse drugs like speed, Ecstasy
and cocaine than boys |
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Teenagegirls are being exposed to drugs earlier
than boys and experimenting with a wider range of narcotics from
a younger age, a new survey has revealed [The Scotsman, UK] |
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Doctors
slam 'supersized' drinks |
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Increasingly large pub measures are pushing
customers towards unsafe levels of drinking, the Royal College
of Physicians has warned [BBC, UK] |
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Imams
taking drugs seriously |
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Ilford played host to over 40 Imams, community
leaders and local councillors early this month as part of an
unprecedented event to tackle the issue of drug abuse within
the Muslim and Asian communities. The founder and Executive Director
of Drugsline,
Rabbi Aryeh Sufrin, added, "There are no boundaries
to those who can find themselves struggling with addiction. We
need everyone to reach out and spread the message in their communities
to let them know that these services exist [BBC, UK] |
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Beware
the Dreaded Skunk |
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British Press Suffers Contact High, Contracts
Bad Case of Reefer Madness [Stop the Drug War, USA] |
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Are
we addicted to a lack of drugs policy? |
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Politicians fear that any statement on policy
that is a radical departure from convention will be seized upon
by their opponents in the media and other parties. This is the
only explanation for the paralysis of drugs policy in the UK
[getreading, UK] |
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Mentor
UK CHAMP Awards 2008 |
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Closing date to e-mail or post your entry is
20th April, 2008 [Mentor UK] |
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Alice
Cooper and Slash honoured for work with addicts |
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After 26 years of sobriety, Alice Cooper has
some advice to pass along to the younger generation: "I
don't think you need to die for your art." [Reuters] |
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Vancouver's
INSITE service and other Supervised injection sites: What has
been learned from research? |
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Final report of the Expert Advisory Committee
on Supervised Injection Site Research [Health Canada] |
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Clinton
would end mandatory prison sentence for crack cocaine |
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Clinton urges the end of the five-year term
for crack users, who are disproportionately black, because the
law punishes them more harshly than powder cocaine users, who
are predominantly white [LA Times, USA] |
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Poppy
crop destruction drives farmers towards Taliban |
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Critically, this counter-narcotics strategy
ignores the demand side. If not Afghanistan, new suppliers will
invariably emerge elsewhere. It also fails to find alternative
livelihoods for farmers [Financial Times, UK] |
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