"This is old Dutch skunk…it gets you medium stoned."

Jason den Enting, the general manager of the Dampkring chain of coffee shops in Amsterdam, is giving me his sales patter.

"It's a little bit physical, makes you relaxed…"

His enthusiasm is obvious, but beneath it he is worried.

bbc.co.uk

San Francisco wheatpaste project—documented from start to finish—aiming to encourage California residents to go out and vote Yes on Prop 19 this Tuesday, November 2nd.

Credits: The Gentleman's Smoking Club.

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A dozen of cases where discovered by police in October alone

The economic recession has led many in Spain to start growing their own marihuana, with the Police describing what is going on as a ‘boom’.

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Es ist einer der größten Drogenfunde in der Geschichte des Landes: Die australische Polizei hat in einer Ladung Holztüren knapp 170 Kilo Heroin entdeckt. Der Marktwert liegt bei 290 Millionen Euro.

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Under pressure to combat endemic corruption and the rich trade in illicit drugs, Afghanistan announced on Monday it had jailed 11 government officials including a senior policeman for links with the narcotics trade.

Afghanistan has long been the producer of about 90 percent of the world's opium, a thick paste harvested from poppies to produce heroin. U.S. and Afghan officials worry that profits from the industry are used to fuel Afghanistan's raging insurgency.

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The National Police in Madrid have arrested a 74 year old woman and her two sons, aged 46 and 42, for selling cocaine from their home in the Hortaleza district of the capital and from a small moped.

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