Por BETH SANO
Británico encarcelado por cuatro años en Dubai después de costumbres encuentra cáñamos el pesar de menos que un grano del azúcar debajo de su zapato
A padre--tres de quién fue encontrada con una mota microscópica del cáñamo pegado al fondo de uno de sus zapatos se ha condenado a cuatro años en una prisión de Dubai.
Marrón de Keith, una juventud del consejo […]

Las revisiones a la ley de la sol del estado no serán consideradas hasta que la legislatura de estado convoca este mes, pero Tennesseans puede mirar adelante a una ayuda más inmediata con respecto a los expedientes abiertos del estado. Se ha creado una oficina nueva del ombudsman. Bajo expedientes públicos actúa, todo el estado, condado y los expedientes municipales son estar disponibles para la inspección por cualesquiera […]

A senior British police chief has come under attack for claiming the illicit drug ecstasy is safer to take than aspirin.
North Wales police chief constable Richard Brunstrom has sparked outrage by making the controversial claim and calling for the legalisation of all drugs, including heroin and cocaine, within a decade.
Brunstrom says he believes ecstasy is […]

British police have granted a nine-year-old boy a shotgun licence in a decision that has horrified anti-gun campaigners.
The boy can legally shoot live game after Norfolk Police deemed him “responsible enough” to own the deadly weapon.
The licence was issued in 2006, but has only just been reported after a journalist sought the information under freedom […]

By Kevin Johnson
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors are targeting a rising number of law enforcement officers for alleged brutality, Justice Department statistics show. The heightened prosecutions come as the nation’s largest police union fears that agencies are dropping standards to fill thousands of vacancies and “scrimping” on training.
Cases in which police, prison guards and other law […]

By Janet Daley
What is the BBC for? You might think that there was a pretty straightforward answer to that question, or at least that the answer provided by Lord Reith (”to inform, educate and entertain”) could scarcely be bettered for simplicity and felicitousness. But, oh dear, no - this is a more complex world than […]

Thomas Munro
Proposed rules for medical marijuana providers could open the door to private nonprofit or for-profit producers in New Mexico.
Since the state’s medical marijuana registry was created July 1, patients have had three ways to obtain marijuana: by growing it themselves; by contracting with “designated caregivers,” who grow or otherwise obtain the plant and are […]

After Thirty-Five Years and $500 Billion, Drugs Are as Cheap and Plentiful as Ever: An Anatomy of a Failure
 Ben Wallace-Wells
1. AFTER PABLO On the day of his death, December 2nd, 1993, the Colombian billionaire drug kingpin Pablo Escobar was on the run and living in a small, tiled-roof house in a middle-class neighborhood of Medellín, […]

Hemp helps with green movement
Lucas Coppes
As environmental consciousness increases, a plant with great potential to accommodate our generation’s awareness has re-emerged, but its negative associations leave some obstacles to overcome.
Hemp, which is too often associated with marijuana, does come from the same family of plants, but yields a fraction of the active ingredient, THC.
Hemp has […]

It’s time for my annual rant on the stupidity of marijuana eradication and although it goes on nationally, in no place is it better illustrated than California where they’ve just completed their yearly attack on harmless plants.
[T]he annual Campaign Against Marijuana Planting had uprooted some 3 million plants, wiping out an estimated $11.6 billion worth […]

Marijuana compound shows promise in fighting breast cancer
Machines Like Us
A compound found in cannabis may prove to be effective at helping stop the spread of breast cancer cells throughout the body. That’s the finding of a new study published in the latest issue of the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics.
The study, by scientists at the California […]

98 Percent Of All Domestically Eradicated Marijuana Is “Ditchweed,” DEA Admits
More than 98 percent of all of the marijuana plants seized by law enforcement in the United States is feral hemp not cultivated cannabis, according to newly released data by the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Program and the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice […]

Tell the truth about cannabis and maybe we’ll get somewhere
Is there any wonder at all that everything which surrounds cannabis information-wise, is mixed up and confused?
To illustrate this lets take a look at some news published this week through the worlds press.
Cannabis far more toxic to the adolescent brain
Just yesterday, a report was published by […]

Police in Lincolnshire refused to investigate one in six crimes last year, it has been revealed.
Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act show 9,003 crimes were “screened out” as unsolvable within hours of being reported to Lincolnshire Police.
Last year 55,277 crimes were reported to the county’s force, meaning 16 per cent - or one […]

The Vatican has published secret archive documents about the trial of the Knights Templar, including a long-lost parchment that shows that Pope Clement V initially absolved the medieval Christian order from accusations of heresy, officials said Friday.
The 300-page volume recently came out in a limited edition — 799 copies — each priced at $8,377, said […]