Im niederländischen Wahlkampf haben angesehene Alt-Politiker und Wissenschaftler gefordert, alle Drogen zu legalisieren. In einem öffentlichen Brief sprachen sie sich dafür aus, den Drogenmarkt staatlich zu regulieren. Der überwachte Handel mit Kokain und Heroin soll Steuer-Millionen in die Staatskassen spülen.

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krone.at

Bundesinnenminister Thomas de Maizière hat heute die Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik (PKS) 2009 vorgestellt. Entgegen den Trends hat die Zahl der verfolgten Cannabiskonsumenten zugenommen.

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Der Politiker wollte offenbar zwei Kilo Kokain in seinem Körper von Nigeria nach Deutschland bringen. Er wurde am Flughafen in Lagos festgenommen. Er wollte sich mit dem Schmuggel seinen Wahlkampf finanzieren.

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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency said Monday it arrested 52-year-old Eme Zuru Ayortor at Lagos' Murtala Mohammed International Airport. The agency says the pharmacist-turned-politician was trying to board a flight to Germany when a scanning machine detected an abnormality in his stomach.

newser.com

The International Harm Reduction Association released a study on the death penalty for drug offences today on the opening day of the 19th session of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, taking place in Vienna. The report, titled ‘The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: Global Overview 2010’, finds that hundreds of people are executed for drug offences each year around the world, a figure that very likely exceeds one thousand when taking into account those countries that keep their death penalty statistics secret.

The report is the first detailed country by country overview of the death penalty for drugs, monitoring both national legislation and state practice of enforcement. Of the states worldwide that retain the death penalty, 32 jurisdictions maintain laws that prescribe the death penalty for drug offences. The study also found that in some states, drug offenders make up a significant portion – if not the outright majority – of those sentenced to death and/or executed each year.

Click here to download the report [PDF:2.42MB]

Wegen Drogendelikten werden einem Bericht zufolge weltweit jedes Jahr Hunderte Straftäter hingerichtet. Weil viele Staaten keine Angaben zu verhängten Todesurteilen machten, seien es tatsächlich vermutlich mehr als 1.000, heißt es in einem heute veröffentlichten Bericht der International Harm Reduction Association (Internationale Vereinigung zur Schadenreduzierung).

orf.at

The commanding general in charge of all U.S. Marines in Afghanistan said Friday that U.S. forces have dealt a blow to the Taliban's multimillion-dollar opium business by securing deals that will take half of all poppy-producing land in the country's central area.

Afghanistan supplies 90 percent of the world's opium, the main ingredient in heroin.

Maj. Gen. Richard Mills said during a video conference call at Camp Pendleton in San Diego County that farmers who own half of such land in Helmand Province, the center of Afghanistan's poppy production, have pledged to not reseed next year.

napavalleyregister.com

A peaceful protest held today (May 14) in North Vancouver in support of freeing marijuana activist Marc Emery had a wider effect than expected.

A group of 15 activists intended to occupy the constituency office of Conservative MP Andrew Saxton in protest of Emery’s pending extradition to the United States. However, when the activists arrived at 10:30 a.m., they found the office locked and empty.

straight.com