Front gegen das NRW-Drogengesetz. Gegen den Plan der neuen Landesregierung, Rauschmittel stärker zu legalisieren, formiert sich starker Protest.

Nach der Polizeigewerkschaft und der CDU schlägt nun die Drogenbeauftragte der Bundesregierung Alarm.

Mechthild Dyckmans (FDP) zum EXPRESS: „Das ist ein falsches Zeichen. In der Drogenpolitik muss es unser gemeinsames Ziel sein, den Konsum zu verringern und insbesondere den Einstieg zu verhindern.

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"Die Drogen lagen mitten auf der Straße. Ich wollte sie gerade zur nächsten Polizeiinspektion bringen." Mit dieser Ausrede hat ein 40-jähriger Salzburger versucht, seiner Strafe zu entgehen. Bei einer Verkehrskontrolle in Itzling hatten die Beamten ein Kilo Haschisch unter dem Fahrersitz des Autos des Arbeitslosen entdeckt.

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Eine 82-jährige Niederländerin hat im großen Stil Marihuana angebaut und verkauft. Dafür muss sie nun für sechs Monate hinter Gitter, entschied ein Gericht in Maastricht.

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The California Chamber of Commerce and other groups representing employers are starting to line up to oppose the initiative to legalize marijuana, charging that Proposition 19 would allow pot smokers to light up on the job and operate dangerous equipment while stoned.

Stepping up the campaign on Thursday, the chamber released a five-page analysis that starts: "Imagine a workplace where employees show up to work high on marijuana and there is nothing you can do about it."

Allan Zaremberg, the chamber's chief executive, criticized the measure, saying it would set a high bar for employers to act against workers using marijuana by requiring proof that they were actually impaired. "Prop. 19 creates a new protected class of California citizens," he said.

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Walk down the streets almost anywhere in the District, and you won’t have to go far before you catch a whiff of a certain well-liked herb. Even before D.C.’s medical-marijuana law allows prescription pot, the scent of cannabis often drifts out of cars, hovers around the front of bars or wafts along sidewalks.

A federal study estimates 78,000 people in D.C. used pot in 2007, the last year for which statistics were available. That’s about 13 percent of the population at large; meanwhile, more than a quarter of 18-to-25-year-olds said they’d smoked in the last month alone.

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For the first time this year, we have a new strain in the top pot spot. Purps beat out Kush as July’s most submitted strain; the last time Purps recorded a first-place finish was in August 2009.

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Expectant mother Alanis Morissette will be giving up her marijuana habit while she's expecting her first child.

She explained, "I don't have a stance on it. I enjoy it...not while I'm pregnant, obviously."

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George Michael has been charged with possession of cannabis and being unfit to drive due to drink or drugs.

The charges relate to his arrest on July 4 in the Hampstead area of London, following a car crash. At the time, he was arrested on suspicion of being unfit to drive.

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