Coca cultivation is surging once again in this country’s remote tropical valleys, part of a major repositioning of the Andean drug trade that is making Peru a contender to surpass Colombia as the world’s largest exporter of cocaine.

nytimes.com

Ich liebe Alexander Shulgin. Ich habe ihn vom ersten Moment an geliebt, da ich über ihn las. Er ist mein Idol, mein Held, meine Sonne, mein O2. Ich liebe jede einzelne der 978 Seiten seines Phenethylamin-Magnum-Opus PiHKAL (Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved) und jedes Milligramm seines 1,13 Kilo schweren Tryptamin-Traktats TiHKAL (Tryptamines I Have Known and Loved). Über meinem Bett hängt ein großes Bild von Shulgin, auf dem er mit seiner Frau Ann kuschelt. Ich schlafe oft mit einer Kopie von PiHKAL, nicht unter meinem Kopfkissen, sondern als mein Kopfkissen. Er ist der Großvater von Ecstasy, der Molekularmagier, der atomare Konquistador. Im Laufe von 50 Jahren hat er mehr psychedelische Drogen geschaffen als der amazonische Dschungel Zeit seines Bestehens. Er hat mehr von einer mythologischen Kreatur, einem chemischem Centaur, denn von einer echten Person. Aber er existiert wirklich, wie ich im Folgenden bezeugen werde.

viceland.com

Promoting "change through laughter," and saying that marijuana laws are so ridiculous you have to laugh at them," Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong debated Ann Coulter on Geraldo at Large.

"That's what 'Up in Smoke' was all about!' says Chong. Geraldo suggests that they want to get the issue onto the front burner--so to speak. Cheech says he would like to have marijuana changed from Schedule 1 to Schedule II- available only by prescription. Coulter says there are already problems with alcohol, namely alcoholics, and this would be like letting a genie out of a bottle.

examiner.com

A Predator UAV climbed into the early morning Arizona sky June 1 and headed east to conduct the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's first surveillance flight along the U.S.-Mexican border in Texas.

..... Predators have proven valuable for patrolling the border in Arizona, New Mexico and California, where they have been operating since 2005. They are credited with contributing to the seizure of more than 25,000 pounds of marijuana and the arrest of more than 5,000 illegal immigrants. In 2006, a patrolling Predator crashed in the Arizona desert.

defensenews.com

Iran's eastern provinces border with the world's number one opium producer, Afghanistan, and the politically volatile Pakistan which have both turned into a safe haven for terrorists and drug traffickers who seek to smuggle their cargos into Iran or transit them to Europe.

farsnews.com

Uganda police are investigating after a marijuana plantation was uncovered in the garden of a convent.

A regional police chief told the BBC that plants covering one acre had been found and uprooted in the southern Masaka district.

bbc.co.uk

The indictment charges Sullivan City Police Chief Hernan Guerra with one count of conspiracy to distribute more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana and four counts of possession with intent to distribute between 100 kilograms and 1,000 kilograms.

thecwaustin.com

In Grönlands Hauptstadt Nuuk raucht derzeit der vermutlich größte "Joint" der Welt: Die Behörden verfeuern dort seit gestern (Donnerstag) auf einen Zeitraum von mehreren Tagen verteilt rund 118 Kilo beschlagnahmtes Cannabis. Der Chef des Drogendezernats der Polizei in Nuuk empfahl jenen Bürgern, die mitschnuppern wollen, vorher wegen der Windrichtung den Wetterbericht zu checken.

vol.at