Gestern, 13. Januar 2010, durchsuchten mehr als 1560 Polizeibeamte unter Federführung der Staatsanwaltschaft Nürnberg/Fürth 350 Objekte im gesamten Bundesgebiet, in Österreich, der Schweiz und Slowenien.

Bei dieser Durchsuchungsaktion, die als eine der größten in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland gegen die Verbreiter synthetischer Drogen bezeichnet werden kann, waren 323 Beschuldigte im Visier der Fahnder.

Die Staatsanwaltschaft legt den Beschuldigten unerlaubtes Inverkehrbringen bedenklicher Arzneimittel gem. § 95 AMG zur Last. Sie hat den Verdacht, dass diese seit dem Jahr 2007 in einer Vielzahl von Fällen GBL (Gamma-Butyrolacton) bezogen und zum Verkauf vorrätig gehalten haben.

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Gamma-Butyrolacton (C4-H6-O2) [suchtzentrum.de]

When the Mexican military opened its Museum of Drugs in 1985, there were only a couple of dusty display cases in a small cramped room.

A year earlier, journalist Alan Riding had published a book still cited today about contemporary Mexico called "Distant Neighbors." His examination of all things Mexican was omnivorous: chapters on energy, politics, culture, corruption, poverty, agriculture. Yet there is only a single paragraph on narcotics trafficking.

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Bereits über 300 Meldungen über verunreinigtes Marihuana wurden seit einigen Monaten vom DHV gesammelt und in einer Datenbank öffentlich gemacht. Dabei zählen nach Konsumentenangaben Kopfschmerzen, Hustenreiz und Übelkeit noch zu den harmlosen Auswirkungen: Im Extremfall kann es zu lebensbedrohlichen Erkrankungen kommen, wie zum Beispiel einer Lungenentzündung oder ein Lungenriss.

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Backers of a new medical marijuana initiative announced today that they have collected over 75,000 signatures on petitions to place Initiative #28 on the November 2010 ballot. The new initiative would add a regulated supply system of dispensaries and producers to the current medical marijuana law which requires patients to produce their own medicine.
Backers need 82,769 valid signatures by July 2, 2010 to place the measure on the November ballot. New election laws require all chief petitioners to turn in signatures collected by paid circulators monthly. All paid signatures collected so far must be turned in by January 15. Backers of I 28
will hold a press conference in the media room of the State Capitol at 11:00 am Monday January 11 before chief petitioners turn the signatures in to the Secretary of State's office at 11:30am.
These are the first signatures turned in under the new election law.

Just a few months after the public became aware of the legal sale of synthetic marijuana in Kansas, state lawmakers have a plan to snuff it out.

Rep. Rob Olson, an Olathe Republican, has legislation that would outlaw synthetic cannabinoids like K2, which are designed to mimic the chemical - but not legal - effects of marijuana.

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A retired academic who once called for cannabis to be legalised was appointed yesterday as the Government’s new adviser on the harm caused by drugs.

Les Iversen, a former pharmacology professor at the University of Oxford, was made interim chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. He replaces Professor David Nutt, who was sacked for criticising the Government’s decision to reclassify cannabis as a Class B substance.

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