Heute Nacht ist Hans Georg Behr verstorben wir alle kennen ihn als Autor des grossartigen Buches “von Hanf ist die Rede” oder auch von “Weltmacht Droge” und “unsere Unterwelten”. Desweiteren erarbeitete er fantastische Geschichtsromane wie “die Mogulin” oder “Söhne der Wüste”.

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Cost could drop to $38 per ounce if Proposition 19 passes, Rand Corp. researchers say. The tax implications and probable rise in consumption are impossible to predict, study finds.

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Two recently-released reports show that global drug policy is in the dark ages, and that the UN shares the blame for it.

One was the UN's own World Drug Report, an annual product of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), analyzing illicit drug use, production, and trafficking. One of the phenomena discussed by UNODC each year, of course, is cultivation of coca, the plant from which cocaine gets derived. Coca is grown in the Andean nations of Bolivia, Colombia and Peru.

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Alberta police shut down eight Edmonton-area marijuana grow operations in a Tuesday sweep of more than a dozen properties.

Police said the homes and commercial properties are associated with one "robust" criminal organization that has been based in the capital region for about 10 years.

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Er verpraßte das Millionenerbe seines Vaters und stürzte sich in die Abhängigkeit von Crack und Heroin. Zur Kontemplation arbeitete er als Nutte, 2000 ließ er sich kreuzigen. Über einen Mann, der auszog, ein Dandy zu sein.

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Some 75 tonnes of drugs are smuggled into Russia from Afghanistan via Central Asia every year, Russian drug control authority said Wednesday.

Around 30 percent of heroin originating from Afghanistan comes through Central Asia, which serves as a transit area for drug smugglers, said Oleg Safonov, deputy head of Russia’s Drug Control Service.

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