Items tagged with cocaine
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Brazil Supreme Court judge calls for drugs legalisation to beat gangs [11.02.2017] | A Brazilian Supreme Court justice called for the legalization of marijuana and even cocaine to undo the growing power of drug gangs behind a wave of ... |
Gangs less involved in cannabis compared with other drugs: Statscan [23.01.2017] | Canada’s organized crime groups and gangs are much less likely to produce and traffic marijuana than they are other illicit drugs such as cocaine and ... |
A brief history of war and drugs: From Vikings to Nazis [24.11.2016] | Adolf Hitler was a junkie and the Nazis' narcotics intake gives new meaning to the term 'war on drugs'. But they weren't the only ones. Recent public ... |
Needle vs needle: a vaccine for drug addiction? [13.07.2016] | Apparently they are working on a vaccine for drug addiction (specifically, opiate addiction). There are already studies into vaccinating against coca ... |
Is the global cocaine trade in decline? [23.06.2016] | The latest United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 2016 World Drug Report presents a long-term analysis of cocaine production, seizures and ... |
EU Drug Markets Report [04.04.2016] | The 2016 EU Drug Markets Report provides a unique insight into the operation of illicit drug markets in the EU. The report assesses the impact of the ... |
More South America teens using cocaine: Report [04.05.2015] | The Organization of American States' (OAS) latest drug consumption report highlights shifting trends in drug use among youths in the Western Hemisphe ... |
Making a mountain out of a molehill: myths on youth and crime in Saint Lucia [15.12.2014] | Caribbean states face challenges of youth involvement in crime, violence, gangs and other anti-social activities. It is not uncommonly heard the “dru ... |
'You will not be arrested for using drugs' [02.12.2014] | Authorities in the Netherlands are warning Amsterdam tourists about heroin masquerading as cocaine, which has already killed several people and sent ... |
How powerful synthetic drugs will upend drug markets globally [01.12.2014] | Illicit drugs made from plants (e.g., cocaine, heroin) are being replaced in some national drug markets by those that are synthesized (e.g., methamph ... |
Ecuador is freeing thousands of drug mules [06.10.2014] | In Latin America’s latest challenge to Washington’s “war on drugs,” Ecuador has quietly begun releasing thousands of convicted cocaine smugglers. The ... |
Reimagining Drug Policy in the Americas [27.06.2014] | Latin America is now at the vanguard of international efforts to promote drug policy reform: Bolivia has rewritten its constitution to recognize the ... |
West Africa should decriminalise drugs - Obasanjo commission [12.06.2014] | The West Africa Commission on Drugs says drug cartels are undermining the region by using it to transit cocaine. The commission, headed by former Nig ... |
Global drug policy is still deadly and ineffective [02.06.2014] | If you actually read the treaties, while they do set firm limitations on the legal, "non-medical" or "non-scientific" sale of schedule drugs — limits ... |
Cocaine: towards a self-regulation model [07.03.2014] | By taking cues from users’ self-regulation strategies, it is possible to design innovative operational models for drug services as well as drug polic ... |
Expert seminar: "Innovative cocaine and multi drug abuse prevention" [19.06.2013] | The expert seminar “Innovative cocaine and poly drug abuse prevention programme”, organized by the Forum Droghe, took place in Florence, gathering ov ... |
Brighton plans safe rooms for addicts to inject drugs [13.04.2013] | Brighton is set to be the first British city to offer official "drug consumption rooms" where addicts can use heroin, crack and cocaine under supervi ... |
Decriminalise heroin and cocaine says Belfast drugs worker [14.02.2013] | One of Northern Ireland's most senior drugs workers has said that class A drugs like heroin should be decriminalised, regulated and made available on ... |
Drug users to have secure site in Paris [11.02.2013] | Drug users in France will soon have a state-sanctioned place where they can use heroin, crack and other intravenous drugs, after the government appro ... |
Racism's hidden history in the war on drugs [02.01.2013] | The first anti-drug law in the US was a local law in San Francisco passed in 1875, outlawing the smoking of opium and directed at the Chinese. Mariju ... |
Coca leaf chewing as therapy for cocaine maintenance [30.09.2000] | The cocaine base, or “pasta”, may be seen as a type of South American crack. Its obligatory method of administration is smoking. A primary condition ... |
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