A single joint smoked by Amir Varick Amma cost him an additional 5 years in prison, and taxpayers roughly $250,000.

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An Australian man has gone on trial in Bali charged with drug offences that could see him jailed for up to 20 years.

Perth man Robert Paul McJannett, 48, was arrested at Denpasar airport on December 28 last year, after 1.7 grams of marijuana allegedly was found in his luggage.

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So you think you're a connoisseur, what with your cans of Beluga, Kobe steaks and stash of 1998 Dom Perignon? Think again if you haven't gotten your hands on cannabis caviar, a new kind of top-shelf marijuana popping up at Colorado dispensaries that sells for the astronomical price of $1,400 an ounce -- nearly four times the average price of other high-grade strains.

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The ad airing in the Bay Area and L.A. features a former L.A. County sheriff's deputy who says that the fight against the drug has led to drug cartels. An opponent calls the ad misleading.

The campaign to legalize marijuana in California kicked off this week, just days after the initiative made the ballot, with a radio ad saying many law enforcement professionals know marijuana laws have failed and calling the measure "a common sense solution."

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Die Drogenberaterin der britischen Regierung Dr. Polly Taylor ist zurückgetreten, da sie der Regierung nicht mehr traut und hat der BBC ihre Erklärung zum Rücktritt übermittelt. Da er sehr interessant ist und auch auf die hiesigen Verhältnisse anwendbar ist, machen wir hier den Volltext auf Deutsch.

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VIENNA -- Afghanistan is not only the world's largest supplier of opium, it also is the global leader in hashish production, the United Nations said Wednesday.

The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime said it estimates that 10,000 to 24,000 hectares (24,700 to 59,300 acres) of cannabis are grown in Afghanistan every year and that this is used to make an estimated 1,500 to 3,500 tons of hashish annually.

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Afghanistan, March, 2010 42 photo
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