The NHS should offer heroin to drug addicts and open "consumption rooms" where users can go to inject under medical supervision in order to cut crime and keep public spaces free from dirty needles, the head of Britain's biggest nursing union said today.

Dr Peter Carter, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), said providing heroin on the NHS would cut crime rates and help wean addicts off the drug.

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Marihuana gilt bei der Polizei schon lange nicht mehr als „weiche Droge“. Durch modernste Anbaumethoden (u. a. Bewässerungsanlagen, UV-Beleuchtung) ist der Wirkstoffgehalt in den Cannabis-Pflanzen in den vergangenen Jahren regelrecht explodiert. Tausende sind in Hamburg abhängig vom neuen Horror-Hasch!

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With the marijuana movement sparking these days, one of its seminal figures was just nearly snuffed out. Dennis Peron -- a longtime pot activist and the co-author of the 1996 medical marijuana ballot initiative, Prop. 215 -- on Sunday confirmed he'd suffered a stroke.

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Colorado acupuncturist and botanist Lacy Story knew where to go in Mendocino County when she wanted advice on finding local property to grow medical pot.

She stopped in at the indoor smoking lounge and organic foods kitchen at Area 101.

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Riverside County businessman Stewart Hauptman's latest venture gives new meaning to the term "recreational drugs." Until recently, he sold marijuana for medical use from a souped-up RV he parked outside a Norco clinic.

He refurbished a 1985 Pace Arrow motor home, installing display cases, a baked-goods section and other amenities. He named the operation the Lakeview Collective-on-Wheels and parked the converted RV in a lot outside the clinic, where people were being evaluated for medical marijuana use.

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