Behelmte Polizisten nehmen mit Maschinenpistolen im Anschlag Stellung, als 3750 Päckchen Heroin angeliefert werden. Auf acht gußeiserne Kesselbecken wird das Rauschgift verteilt und in Brand gesteckt. Der Staatssender CCTV übertrug diese dramatische Inszenierung anlässlich des internationalen Tages gegen Drogenmissbrauch am Wochenende live vom Lin-Zexu-Museum der Stadt Humen in der Provinz Guangdong.

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Wie sieht eine optimale Behandlung für Suchtkranke aus? Die Psychiaterin Gabriele Fischer diskutiert mit dem Leiter der Wiener Drogenambulanz Hans Haltmayer

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Repressive Maßnahmen durch Polizei und Justiz verschärfen laut Experten das Problem für Drogensüchtige und damit auch die Bekämpfung von Aids. Sie fordern deshalb nun in einem internationalen Aufruf - der "Wiener Deklaration" - das Ende von kontraproduktiven "Drogenkriegen".

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Rihanna was said to be caught red-handed after puffing on some marijuana at a high class hotel in Barbados recently.

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Editor's note: The author is the co-author of the book, "Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink?"(Chelsea Green, 2009). He will be discussing his book at the John F. Kennedy Library, Joseph Room, 505 Santa Clara Street, today at noon.

Speaking privately with Richard Nixon in 1971, the late Art Linkletter offered this view on the use of marijuana versus alcohol. "When people smoke marijuana, they smoke it to get high. In every case, when most people drink, they drink to be sociable."

"That's right, that's right," Nixon agreed. "A person does not drink to get drunk ... A person drinks to have fun."

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The Sheriff's Department eradicated more than 19,000 marijuana plants at an illegal grow site in the Angeles National Forest southwest of Lancaster, deputies said in a statement Saturday.

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As spiritual events go, it was an unusual request.

"If there's anybody here who's a member of law enforcement, you don't have to identify yourself, just please leave," the Rev. Timothy Tipton told a crowd at Denver's Oriental Theater. "This is a private event."

Thus went a stop on the Cannabis Church Revival Tour, a three-event swing along the Front Range last week promoting the religious use of marijuana and its potential as a legal defense against pot prosecution. The tour was organized by the Rev. Roger Christie, founder of The Hawaii Cannabis Ministry, as a way to spread awareness about his church and its affiliates. But Christie said his visit to Colorado had, in part, a more specific purpose: to reach out to people disgruntled by new state medical-marijuana laws they think are too restrictive.

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