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Government
to fine parents of drinkers |
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Parents who allow their children to drink alcohol
in public may be fined £1,000 or forced to do community
work under plans to be announced by the Home Secretary on Wednesday
[Telegraph, UK] |
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Cannabis
is stronger, but users smoke less |
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Experts consider regrading drug's legal status
[Guardian, UK] |
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Surge
in skunk adds to pressure for reversal of cannabis downgrading |
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Three-quarters of the cannabis in circulation
is the potent "skunk" variety blamed for causing mental
illness, research for the Home Office has disclosed [Independent,
UK] |
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The
Big Question: What is the truth about skunk, and have the dangers
been overstated? |
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Yesterday, the Advisory Council on the Misuse
of Drugs began reviewing scientific evidence on the classification
of cannabis, amid widespread fears that Britain is in the grip
of an epidemic of cannabis-induced psychosis [Independent, UK] |
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ACMD’s
Cannabis Review |
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Lots of stories. Lots of Lost Boys. I hope
I said enough for them [SarahG - MySpace blog, UK] |
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Minister
'has open mind' on cannabis classification |
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Chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse
of Drugs (ACMD), Professor Sir Michael Rawlins, said he had received
a letter of reassurance from the politician [Home Secretary Jacqui
Smith] after reports that she was prepared to disregard the committee's
recommendations [MHF, UK] |
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Educating
Reefer |
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Rethink's cannabis
report 2008 and YouGov survey results [Rethink, UK] |
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Cannabis
dealers prey on hospitals |
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Drug dealers are preying on patients in mental
health units by pretending that they are friends and selling
them cannabis, a government health chief revealed last night
[Times, UK] |
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MSPs
agree on drugs policy revamp |
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Ministers have agreed to draft a new strategy
involving less reliance on methadone and a potentially greater
stress on promoting abstinence [BBC, UK] |
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Breakthrough
Glasgow |
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A positive report on the reversal of social
breakdown in Glasgow [The Centre for Social Justice, UK] |
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Poverty
'hampers' city's recovery |
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Glasgow is blighted by "epidemic" levels
of drug and alcohol abuse and has the same number of teenage
gangs as London, according to a think tank [BBC, UK] |
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Shelter
and National Housing Federation condemn minister |
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Shelter and other charities have condemned
housing minister Caroline Flint for her proposal for unemployed
social housing tenants who do not seek work to face eviction
[Community Care, UK] |
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Motorists
to face roadside tests for drugs |
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Police could be using a device within the next
two years to detect illegal substances in saliva [Telegraph,
UK] |
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React
Responsibly Rizla ... |
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... and Put Cannabis Health Warnings On Your
Products [Medical News Today, UK] |
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Drug
legalization proposed at conference on drug use |
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The legalization of drugs, including marijuana
and heroin, is among the controversial solutions being offered
at an international conference in Vancouver [CBC, Canada] |
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U.S.
cities monitoring safe-injection site |
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Some of the toughest cities south of the border
are watching Vancouver closely as they try to deal with hardcore
drug addiction, say delegates at an international drug conference
[Globe and Mail, Canada] |
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U.S.-style
war on drugs a dismal failure and Canada shouldn't try it,
says former cop |
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As long as the U.S-style "war on drugs" continues,
criminals will control what drugs are sold, how much they cost,
how deadly those drugs are, and how young their customers will
be [The Province, Canada] |
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2007
International Drug Policy Reform Conference: Program |
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Audio/Video and Other Content [DPA, USA] |
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Open
Letter to Parents on Prescription Drug Abuse |
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This Open Letter to parents has begun running
in 43 national and regional newspapers. 1-page PDF [Pushing Back,
ONDCP, USA] |
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Marijuana
Withdrawal Part 2 |
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There is little evidence in animal models for
tolerance and withdrawal, the classic determinants of addiction.
For at least four decades, million of Americans have used marijuana
without clear evidence of a withdrawal syndrome [Addiction Inbox,
USA] |
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Opium
economy will take 20 years and £1bn to remove |
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Europe and other major heroin markets should
brace themselves for health consequences of harvest, warns UN
[Guardian, UK] |
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Bumper
opium crop to boost Taliban: UN |
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Afghanistan, the world's biggest opium producer,
is set for another bumper crop in 2008, providing a windfall
for the Taliban, the UN says [The Age, Australia] |
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Donors
attack US proposals to destroy Afghan poppy crop |
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A US proposal to begin widespread aerial spraying
of opium poppies in Afghanistan came under fire at a donor conference
in Tokyo yesterday, highlighting a split between the US and its
allies over drugs and security policy in the country [FT, UK] |
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Indonesia:
HIV spreads among IDUs despite campaigns |
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Drugs are a major problem in Indonesia and
injecting drug use is particularly rampant [IRIN] |
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Age
verification card for tobacco vending machine introduced |
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The new system requires cigarette buyers to use the taspo IC
card before they can use a vending machine. Anyone aged over
20 can apply [Japan Today] |
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