Wiktor Iwanow, Russlands oberster Drogenbekämpfer und Vertrauter Putins, über den drastischen Anstieg von Heroin-Toten und die Verantwortung von Nato und Bundeswehr

welt.de

Obamas Überraschungsbesuch vom 28. März in Kabul, wo er Präsident Karzai der „Korruption“ bezichtigte, aber mit keinem Wort den Opiumhandel zur Sprache brachte, leitete eine neue Entwicklung ein. Bei der gleichzeitigen Ausweitung des Terrors in Russland, durch anglo-saudisch unterstützte „Tschetschenische“ Kräfte, finanziert und logistisch unterstützt mit afghanischem Drogengeld, hat die Weigerung der U.S.A. mit Russland im Kampf gegen den Drogenhandel zusammen zu arbeiten, Moskau sehr aufgebracht.

eirna.com

The war of words between the former deputy head of the UN mission to Afghanistan and the country's president escalated last night when Peter Galbraith suggested that Hamid Karzai's "mental stability" was in question and that he has a substance abuse problem.

Galbraith, the US diplomat who worked for the UN in Kabul until last year, made his remarks live on US television. His comments come as the White House considers withdrawing an invitation for Karzai to meet Barack Obama in Washington next month.

guardian.co.uk

The Obama administration is to step up efforts to bypass Hamid Karzai after a series of controversial remarks by the Afghan president over recent days renewed concern about his reliability as an ally.

With relations between Washington and Kabul at a new low, the former UN envoy to Kabul Peter Galbraith said Karzai's comments raised questions about his mental stability and blamed them on alleged drug use.

guardian.co.uk
blueridgenow.com

A ban on mephedrone and other so-called "legal highs" has been backed by MPs.

The drug was linked to several deaths and those breaching the ban could face up to 14 years in jail, Junior Home Office minister Alan Campbell said

The ban was backed by the Tories and the Lib Dems and comes after the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs said it should be a Class B drug.

bbc.co.uk
Mephedrone

A Mexican magazine that published an interview with a Sinaloa drug cartel leader says its distribution in the area has been hampered by intimidation.

bbc.co.uk
old zack

To greet the news about California's ballot initiative to legalize and tax marijuana this November, which proponents say could raise as much as $1.4 billion a year, the New York Times ran a story with comments from the president of the California Peace Officer's Association, John Standish. "We just don't think anything good will come of this," he said. "It's not going to better society. It's going to denigrate it."

esquire.com

As reports of my arrest showed up online on Monday night, Marc Emery noted that "It wasn't about postering. It was a warrant for production & trafficking."

Well, I was arrested while putting up posters, just not for putting up posters, as some have suggested...

I was out for two hours that night, with my ladder, bucket of wood glue and water, a paint brush, and my bag of posters.

While I was standing on the ladder at Yonge & College, glueing the posters high enough so that they stay up longer (as David Malmo-Levine always advises), a Toronto Police Officer standing beside me demanded my ID and told me to come down.

cannabisculture.com