The four crew of a Dutch fishing boat have been arrested

A Dutch registered fishing boat, with four crew on board, was intercepted by the Spanish customs authorities 120 miles off the Cádiz coast in international waters on Thursday afternoon. Permission for the action had been obtained from the Dutch authorities.

Once aboard, customs confirmed the vessel was transporting more than 20,000 kilos of hashish, and was escorted Friday into Cádiz port.

typicallyspanish.com
corkman.ie
680news.com

It was the happy snap that caught an Australian man out in a lie. Officers found this photograph of Adam Shane Anderson posing with his cannabis crop despite denying he had grown the drug before. But when Cairns police found this photo of Adam Shane Anderson on his digital camera, during a raid at his Edmonton home on his 21st birthday, it was the least of his problems. They were there to arrest him for threatening to kill a man's dog and harm his family for a $3000 drug debt.

cairns.com.au

900 plants were growing in the basement of a villa owned by a British man.

National Police have discovered a Marihuana plantation with as many as 900 plants in the basement of a luxury detached chalet, complete with swimming pool, in Calle Petunia, Benalmádena.

typicallyspanish.com

Anbei eine Berechnung zu Besteuerung von Cannabis.

encod.at

Legalisierung von Marihuana hatten die Kalifornier vergangene Woche abgelehnt

Der kalifornische Gouverneur Arnold Schwarzenegger steht Marihuana-Konsumenten tolerant gegenüber. "Es kümmert doch niemanden, ob du einen Joint rauchst oder nicht", sagte der ehemalige Hollywoodstar in einer US-Talkshow. Schwarzenegger hatte vor fünf Wochen einem Gesetz zugestimmt, demzufolge der Besitz von kleinen Mengen Marihuana nicht schärfer geahndet wird als ein Verkehrsdelikt.

derstandard.at
bild.de

Changes in the supply and use of established drugs and the emergence of a record number of new substances increasingly test Europe’s drug control models, says the EU drugs agency (EMCDDA). These challenges are described in the Annual report 2010: the state of the drugs problem in Europe, launched by the EMCDDA today in Lisbon. Among them: sophisticated cocaine smuggling techniques; changes in the stimulant market; widespread domestic cannabis production; and the continuous appearance of ‘legal highs’ designed to replace controlled substances.
Cocaine: sophisticated smuggling techniques and growing health concerns

Increasingly sophisticated techniques to conceal and smuggle cocaine into Europe are reviewed today in the Annual report. One such technique involves incorporating cocaine base or hydrochloride (HCI) into carrier materials (e.g. beeswax, plastic, clothing, fertiliser) before export, then extracting it in clandestine laboratories set up inside EU borders. Some 25 of these so-called ‘secondary extraction’ laboratories were uncovered in the EU in 2008 (in Spain). These perform a different function from laboratories in South America which first extract cocaine base or HCI from coca leaves or coca paste .

emcdda
2010 Annual report on the state of the drugs problem in Europe
whyprohibition.ca

Neben den aktuellen Entwicklungen werden heuer die Themen »Geschichte, Methoden und Implementierung von nationalen Behandlungsleitlinien« und »Kosten drogenbezogener Behandlung in Österreich« schwerpunktmäßig behandelt.

Zu den Erfahrungen mit Drogenkonsum in der Gesamtbevölkerung liegen für das Berichtsjahr keine neuen Daten vor. Detailliertere Auswertungen der bereits im Vorjahr berichteten Repräsentativstudie zu Drogenkonsum in der Allgemeinbevölkerung zeigen, dass Männer und Personen aus Städten mit mehr als 50.000 Einwohnerinnen und Einwohnern häufiger von Konsumerfahrungen (Lebenszeitprävalenz) mit illegalen Substanzen berichten. Die Konsumausstiegsrate ist bei allen illegalen Substanzen deutlich höher als bei Alkohol und Nikotin. Dies belegt, dass der Konsum von illegalen Substanzen meist ein zeitlich befristetes, vorübergehendes Phänomen darstellt.

goeg.at
Bericht zur Drogensituation 2010 [PDF-File, 1,5 MB]