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SA woman, German man jailed for drugs
Mataram :: Indonesia | 19 days ago
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An Indonesian court has sentenced a German man and a South African woman to life in prison for attempting to smuggle drugs into a resort island in two separate cases, a judge said on Friday. Rolf Oskar Josef Schweikert, 57, was caught trying to
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Qld police alarmed at rise in drug driving
Brisbane :: Australia | 20 days ago
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Since random roadside drug tests were introduced in 2007, police have tested more than 95,000 drivers in Queensland. In 2007 one in every 39 drivers tested positive for illicit drugs, and a year later it was one in 50. But by last year the incidence
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Lake Highland Prep will drug-test students
Winter Park :: FL :: USA | 21 days ago
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The nearly 1,200 students in the middle school and upper school will be tested for about 18 drugs, including marijuana, painkillers, heroin and cocaine. The test, which requires snipping a section of hair, does not detect alcohol or synthetic drugs.
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Federal grand jury indicts Kansas doctor
Wichita :: KS :: USA | 21 days ago
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Kan. (AP) The U.S. attorney's office for Kansas says a federal grand jury has returned a four-count indictment against a Kansas physician accused of unlawfully distributing prescription drugs. Michael Schuster of Manhattan was indicted Wednesday on
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Maize school district to drop random drug testing of students
El Dorado Hills :: CA :: USA | 22 days ago
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Maize school leaders have decided to drop a policy that requires students who participate in extracurricular activities to agree to random drug tests. Karen McDermott, spokeswoman for the Maize district, said the school board voted April 8 to
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U.S. illicit drug use 2009-11 highest since 2002
Washington :: DC :: USA | 25 days ago
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Jared Allaway holds a sign during a public consumption of marijuana rally on December 6, 2012 in Seattle. Despite the new law's ban on public marijuana use which is subject to a fine of about $50 In November, Washington state jumped into history
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Canada's ‘Law Enforcement Against Prohibition'
Toronto :: Canada | 25 days ago
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Apr 27, 2013 A retired 29-year veteran of the Winnipeg Police Service told Vice magazine that he wants to see all drugs legalized and regulated by the government. When I started in the police department in '72, the War on Drugs was just starting, and
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GAO: No progress was made on reducing teen drug use
Gao :: Mali | 26 days ago
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U.S. government agencies have not made progress on achieving most of the goals articulated in the 2010 National Drug Control Strategy, federal officials said. The strategy identified seven goals involved in reducing drug use among teens by 15 percent
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WEF discusses "war on drugs"
Lima :: OH :: USA | 26 days ago
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Anti-drugs policy should ban this term." "When we add the concept of war, what happens is that the criminal knows his only option is death and so the logic is he has to kill or he will be killed...Michael Botticelli, Deputy Director, National Drug
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Prison bosses call for drugs rethink
Brighton :: United Kingdom | 27 days ago
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Class A drugs policy failing, say prison governors The PGA has called for "a fundamental review of the prohibition-based policy" Current policy on illegal drugs creates victims of crime and more prisoners at a cost to taxpayers, the Prison Governors
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