June 19, 2014
By ThorNews
One of the women in the Oseberg ship was found with a little leather pouch full of cannabis. Scientists ask themselves: How would she use them?
Albanian police battle cannabis growers in Lazarat
19 June 2014
Albanian police have seized more than 10 tonnes of marijuana in a major operation against cannabis growers in the southern village of Lazarat.
Cannabis regulation: high time for change?
21 May 2014
Rebecca Coombes, magazine editor
Cannabis is widely available despite its use and production being illegal in most countries. Rebecca Coombes looks at recent moves to regulate production and the potential effects on public health
How Antwerp turned into Europe’s go-to city for cocaine
1 June 2014
By Jamie Doward
Antwerp, Belgium’s genteel port city, is now revealed as a global drugs gateway and the cocaine capital of Europe
Cannabis & Law: Prohibition vs regulation
06.06.2014
Hotel Lev, Ljubljana
The purpose of this and all other forthcoming seminars in the Demystifying Cannabis series which will be organised in the next few months is to spread new knowledge gained in this field and to make it known to legal experts as well as other experts, policy-makers and the general public in Slovenia.
Portugal Set to Introduce Its First Drug Consumption Room
27 May 2014
Portugal’s capital city, Lisbon, has announced that it is exploring opening the country’s first ever drug consumption room (DCR), a positive, though somewhat belated development in the country’s pioneering drug law reforms.
European cities’ sewer water exposes use of cocaine, cannabis, meth and ecstasy
28 May 2014
Source: CNN
Think about you might let your city urinate in a cup and submit the pattern to a laboratory for drug testing. Wouldn’t it cross?
Researchers in Europe did one thing comparable with forty two main cities, and many of them failed.
Lab checks on sewage water to detect chemical compounds excreted after drug use turned up excessive ranges of cannabis, cocaine, ecstasy, meth and different amphetamines.
MEPs who want to end the war on drugs
In the elections for the European Parliament
There was something to vote for
Several candidates promised to help us end the war on drugs
The following were elected:
After 5 months of legalization in Colorado, revenue is up and crime is down
By Theo Stroomer
20 May 2014
If America’s first marijuana legalization experiment is any indication, the end of prohibition can start smoothly.
NSA Memo Says Agency Is ‘Blurring The Lines’ Between Terrorism And Drugs
By Matt Siedge
19 May 2014
The National Security Agency is “blurring the lines” between the war on drugs and the war on terror, according to a memo produced by the spy agency itself and published Monday by Glenn Greenwald’s new website The Intercept.