The US has lost confidence in the Mexican army's ability to win the country's drugs war, branding it slow, clumsy and no match for "sophisticated" narco-traffickers.

Classified diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks also reveal a growing sense of alarm within Mexico's government that time is running out in the battle against organised crime and that it could "lose" entire regions.

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These are The Breaks: Hip-Hop pioneer Kurtis Blow was busted with less than an ounce of marijuana at LAX after one of those invasive new TSA body scanners detected "an anomaly" in his pants.

Celebrity gossip sites are reporting that the legendary rapper received a misdemeanor citation and had his weed confiscated after attempting to board a plane leaving Los Angeles.

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A club which allows its members to smoke marijuana has opened in Paracuellos de Jarama, in Madrid, on the premise that consumption of marijuana is legally allowed in Spain if it is in private. The ‘Private Cannabis Club’, which opened last month, is run by a private association and is only open to its members. No members of the general public are allowed to enter the premises.

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Unüberlegter Rückzug: Auf der Flucht vor der Polizei ist ein Marihuana-Konsument in Berlin auf ein U-Bahn-Gleis gesprungen. Nur mit Mühe konnten die Beamten den Mann davon überzeugen, die gefährlichen Schienen zu verlassen.

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Die Bundesregierung behauptet zwar einerseits, das generelle Verkehrsverbot für Cannabis zu medizinischen Zwecken aufheben zu wollen, ein Eigen(bedarfs)anbau von Privatpersonen wird aber nach wie vor nicht zugelassen, bzw. strafrechtlich geahndet.

So antwortet Gesundheits-Staatssekretär Daniel Bahr (FDP) auf eine parlamentarische Anfrage der Links-Fraktion.

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28 years ago a Florida patient began receiving prerolled and packaged cannabis cigarettes from a United States federal government program run by the FDA. The cigarettes, produced for the government at the University of Mississippi are supplied to Irv Rosenfeld at a dosage of seven cured ounces every 25 days.

“Without therapeutic cannabis to alleviate my medical condition I would not be a productive member of society; with my medicine I am a able husband, good neighbor, working stockbroker and volunteer at Shake-A-Leg, a sailing therapy agency for the handicapped.”

Irv and three other federal patients were thoroughly examined by medical professionals in 2001 over a three day period and found in excellent condition for their age and ailment.

Irv is positive the cannabis is his salvation. He should know.

On November 24, 2010 Irv smoked his 120,000th medical cannabis cigarette.

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Der afghanische Präsident Hamid Karsai hat laut den von Wikileaks veröffentlichten US-Geheimdokumenten die Freilassung zahlreicher gefährlicher Krimineller und Drogenhändler angeordnet. Die Straftäter seien von den internationalen Truppen in Afghanistan festgenommen und von Karsai ohne Prozess wieder freigelassen worden, heißt es in den am Dienstag von der Enthüllungsplattform veröffentlichten Dokumenten.

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Internet whistleblower WikiLeaks has begun releasing a quarter of a million confidential US diplomatic cables, detailing embarrassing and inflammatory episodes in what the White House called a “reckless and dangerous action”.

In the August 2009 cable, American officials said that since 2007, 150 of the 629 detainees transferred from coalition to Afghan custody had been released without trial.

It said Karzai had pardoned five border policemen in April 2009 who were caught with 124 kilograms (273 pounds) of heroin in their police vehicle and had been sentenced to terms of 16 to 18 years in prison.

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