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Narcotics
Scratching out cannabis
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2010
Municipal authorities in the Netherlands think citizens can help uncover illegal cannabis growers in Rotterdam and The Hague.
Poppy fields forever
Issue Date: Feb 28, 2010
A team of women in Myanmar have risked their lives to document the heroin-filled world they inhabit. The report exposes the spreading opium fields in the north-eastern corner of the military-ruled country. Myanmar’s military regime gives the impression that poppy cultivation continues in areas only under the control of ethnic rebel groups.
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Issue Date: Jun 30, 2009
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Human genes create stir in US
According to report
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2009
Hub of illicit drug trade: Criminal networks in Africa are setting up fake pharmaceutical companies as a front to trade in substances used to make street methamphetamines, a psychostimulant, the International Narcotics Control Board's 2008 annual report said. Companies forge import permits to illegally divert ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, ingredients in the highly addictive central nervous system stimulant crystal meth, the report added.
According to report
Issue Date: Mar 15, 2009
Marijuana to cancer: Scientists in Seattle have found that young men smoking marijuana were at a higher risk of developing an aggressive form of testicular cancer called nonseminoma than those who had never tried the drug. The disease is known to strike men in there 20s and 30s and is the most common type of cancer among men in the UK, the researchers said. The study, published in the journal Cancer, suggests that smoking the drug before the age of 18 raises the cancer risk by coaxing immature cells in the testes to become tumours later in life.
According To Report
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2008
China overtakes US: China has edged ahead of the US as the world's leading emitter of greenhouse gases (ghg). According to the findings of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, China's emissions increased by 8 per cent in 2007, which is two-thirds of the growth in the year's global ghg emissions. With this, China's emissions were 14 per cent higher than the us's.
Afghanistan seeks aid in the name of poppy
Issue Date: May 31, 2008
Afghanistans agriculture ministry has called for us $2.5- billion international aid to boost its ailing agriculture sector by 2011.
The fund will help the government eliminate poppy cultivation in the country, while ensuring food security, says an adviser to the ministry. Under the plan, the government seeks us $100 million in the next few weeks to boost 2008 yields.
In court
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2008
US farmers appeal for commercial hemp farming
Two farmers in the US state of North Dakota are appealing against a lower court's decision over commercial hemp farming. The lawsuit aims to end the US Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA's) ban on state-regulated commercial hemp farming.
Australia defends new TV campaign on drugs
Issue Date: Sep 15, 2007
The Australian government's advisory group on drugs has defended a graphic new television campaign about the drug crystal methamphetamine or ice. It shows an office worker unable to sleep after smoking the drug; a man flying into a psychotic rage in a hospital and smashing a window; a young woman compulsively picking at her skin because she thinks there are bugs under there and a young man fighting with his mother under the influence of the drug.
Afghanistan under pressure to enact anti-narcotics plan
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2007
Afghanistan is once again under pressure from the us government to implement a controversial counter-narcotics plan for eradication of its poppy fields. As per the us plan, Afghanistan should spray poppy fields with a crop-killing herbicide, much as is done with coca in Colombia, and develop new sources of income for poppy farmers.
