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AP

Researchers have figured out how to give an entire community a drug test using just a teaspoon of wastewater from a city's sewer plant and get a good snapshot of what people are taking.

News Link • Global Reported By Chip Saunders
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Consortiumnews

George W. Bush's strategy of countering Venezuela's leftist president Hugo Chavez by strengthening ties to Colombia's rightest government has been undercut by fresh evidence of high-level drug corruption and human rights violations

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How's the War on Drugs working for you? Has Bush stopped $130 billion in drugs crossing our borders annually? Do you feel better for having shelled out $70 billion annually during his time in office? Try this reality check.

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AP

Federal agents raided 10 marijuana clinics, the same day city leaders introduced a measure calling for an end to the crackdown on the dispensaries allowed under state law. The bust netted 5 arrests, large quantities of marijuana and cash, and was the

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The Agitator

Federal courts may have to revisit several drug cases in the Cleveland area after a paid government informant has admitted to lying under oath in several cases. One woman has already been released from a ten-year prison term, and charges against two

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AP

Afghanistan's heroin-producing poppy crop set another record this season, despite intensified eradication efforts, the American ambassador said. Afghan farmers harvested 457,135 acres of opium poppies, compared to 407,715 acres last year. The gro

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PC World

Judge Winifred Smith of the Alameda County Superior Court indicated she would nullify the defeat of a medical marijuana proposal in Berkeley in 2004 and order the measure put back on the ballot in a later election. The case points to the dangers of e

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Redding

The nation's top anti-drug official said people need to overcome their "reefer blindness" and see that illicit marijuana gardens are a terrorist threat to the public's health and safety, as well as to the environment.

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Cato at Liberty

Mandy Martinson - 15 years for helping her boyfriend count his drug-dealing money. Dejarion Echols - 20 years for selling a small amount of crack and owning a gun, causing Reagen-appointed federal judge Walter S. Smith, Jr. to say, "This is one

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