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Brazil Health Ministry Writes Decriminalization Law
According to the Ministry, the current law treats the consumer as a criminal and impedes access to treatment
By Luciana Constantino and Iuri Dantas...
Posted: Thu, Apr 17, 2003 11:46am PDT
Draconian RAVE Act passes
On April 10, 2003, both houses of Congress passed The Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act (formerly known as the “RAVE Act”), which was attached to the AMBER Alert bill....
Posted: Sat, Apr 12, 2003 9:13pm PDT
Coca Battles Heat Up in Peru: Strikes, Street Battles, March to Lima
Peru heats up....
Posted: Sat, Apr 12, 2003 3:32pm PDT
The Marginal Diplomat Explains "Organized Crime" in Brazil
Simone Bastos de Menezes tells a young journalist about the rise and fall of an Ethics Code of the narco...
Posted: Sat, Apr 12, 2003 9:07am PDT
DEA Final Rule on Hemp Foods Challenged
On March 21, while most Americans were captivated by the U.S. led invasion of Iraq, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) published their final rules on hemp foods. The new “Final Rule” essentially bans the sale of all hemp food products by April 21, 2003......
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2003 1:56pm PST
George Bush - the heroin dealers best friend
Remember liberated Afghanistan, the success story and model for Iraq? It is now in the grip of heroin dealing, gang raping psychopaths, busy poisoning veins on a street corner near you. Drug production has gone through the roof....
Posted: Wed, Mar 19, 2003 3:11pm PST
Code Orange: The Truth is Getting Out!
The federal government continues its war on marijuana while it commits criminal acts and creates diversions....
Posted: Tue, Mar 11, 2003 11:07pm PST
Two Mexican Anti-Drug Helicopters Shot Down, 5 Dead
Tue March 11, 2003 12:31 AM ET
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Gunmen shot down two Mexican government helicopters on Monday, killing all five people aboard, as they set out to spray illegal opium poppy crops in the southern state of Guerrero on Monday....
Posted: Mon, Mar 10, 2003 10:26pm PST
Call for international antiproibitionist action in Vienna
Meeting against United Nation's international conference for War on Drugs Vienna 6-18 April 2003...
Posted: Sat, Mar 8, 2003 7:42am PST
American Liberty Under Siege at Home - 3 Articles
3 commercial media stories and analysis by "Doc Zombie" show that the assault on the Constitution rages all around us now. The war against marijuana has been both a model of the efficacy of high-powered propaganda in altering beliefs and a fig leaf for the incubation of a Fascist Government....
Posted: Wed, Mar 5, 2003 3:59pm PST
Unexpected Turnaround as Judge Frees Medical Marijuana Activist
Unexpected Turnaround as Judge Frees Medical Marijuana Activist...
Posted: Wed, Mar 5, 2003 11:26am PST
Gary Webb (CIA-Contra-cocaine drugs) joins NarcoNews.com as Guest Editor.
"Starting today, I [Alberto M. Giordano] am taking a sabbatical from the helm of Narco News and our new editor is Pulitzer prize winning Authentic Journalist Gary Webb. Webb, the author of "Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras and the Crack Cocaine Explosion," will work closely together with our Andean Bureau Chief Luis Gomez and our team of 50 students and professors from 10 countries of the Narco News School of Authentic Journalism to bring you the news about the drug war and ...
Posted: Tue, Mar 4, 2003 4:35am PST
Medical Marijuana Advocate Convicted for Free Speech
Medical Marijuana Advocate Convicted for Free Speech
Fri, Feb 28, 2003...
Posted: Fri, Feb 28, 2003 11:58pm PST
Pot case fuels jury power debate
Jurors who convicted Oakland medical marijuana grower Ed Rosenthal keep
saying they now wish they had not done so, something they said most
recently to a national television audience Friday....
Posted: Thu, Feb 27, 2003 10:13pm PST
Mistrial? Rosenthal Jurors Say They Received Outside Legal Advice!
February 26, 2003
CounterPunch Exclusive
Mistrial? Rosenthal Jurors Say They Received Outside Legal Advice!
by ANN HARRISON...
Posted: Wed, Feb 26, 2003 6:51pm PST
Feds Smoke Out Chong?
Chong, once one-half of the high-flying (literally) comedy team, Cheech & Chong, saw his Gardena, California, factory and Pacific Palisades home raided Monday by federal drug agents and other authorities, Los Angeles TV station NBC4 reported....
Posted: Wed, Feb 26, 2003 2:48am PST