Court's ruling on marijuana reeks of 'reefer ...
06-June-2005, United States, USA Today
Diane Monson has suffered for years from degenerative spine disease and painful muscle spasms. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court told Monson that she can be prosecuted for trying to relieve her own pain. Three years ago, federal agents barged into ...

KIDS USING CANNABIS UP BY 1,300 PER CENT
06-June-2005, United Kingdom, Mirror.co.uk
Alarm over 'huge rise' By Bridget Carter THE number of young schoolchildren taking cannabis has rocketed by more than 1,300 per cent, claims a report. Some 26 per cent of boys and 27 per cent of girls aged 14 and 15 said they had taken the ...

High Court to examine medicinal marijuana
29-May-2005, United States, Baltimore Sun
Robert Melamede's guidelines for better living go something like this: Eat right, exercise and smoke a little marijuana. The biology department chairman at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs is among the state's 625 registered legal ...

Corby guilty on drugs charges
27-May-2005, Indonesia, CNN.com
Accused Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has been found guilty by an Indonesian court of importing marijuana into Bali. The panel of three judges sentenced her to 20 years in jail, and fined her 10 million rupiahs ($10,700). Judge ...

Drug Tourists Could Be Barred from Dutch Coffee ...
23-May-2005, Netherlands, Join Together
Marijuana-selling "coffee shops" in the Netherlands could become off-limits to visitors from other countries as the Dutch government looks for ways to curb so-called "drug tourism," Reuters reported May 20. "We are developing a system whereby ...

Skunk cannabis may be reclassified
19-May-2005, United Kingdom, Guardian Unlimited
Drug experts will begin debating today whether stronger "skunk" varieties of cannabis should carry higher penalties for possession. The Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs, which meets in London, has been asked by the home secretary, ...

Marijuana policy just right
17-May-2005, United States, USA Today
By John Walters Assertions that our nation's drug policy minimizes cocaine and heroin while focusing on marijuana are misleading. The fallacy involves interpreting drug arrests as signals of changed drug policy, rather than as indicators of drug ...

Mother who smuggled drugs to prison jailed
16-May-2005, United Kingdom, Cambridge Evening News
A WOMAN who tried to smuggle cannabis to her boyfriend in Littlehey Prison was led sobbing "my children, my children" from the dock at Peterborough Crown Court as she was jailed. Margaret O'Reilly, 21, who was sent down for 14 months, stood to ...

Drugs policy up in smoke
15-May-2005, United Kingdom, Times Online
While Mark Lewis-Francis has lost a silver medal after traces of cannabis were found in his urine, blatant cheating over samples is left unpunished. SOMETIMES you’ve got to laugh at the lengths to which sportsmen go to plead their innocence. ...

The War on Pot
10-May-2005, United States, National Review
As the nation's "drug czar," John Walters is supposed to be saving us from the ravages of hard drugs like heroin and cocaine. At least that was the original sales pitch for the "war on drugs" in the 1980s. But the war has evolved into largely a ...

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