Drugs

Remedying Consumer Trust – Pharma Execs Unite

An elite gathering of the leading Pharmaceutical Executives will be meeting to discuss how they plan to rebuild consumer trust ahead of the NGP EU summit hosted by GDS International It has been no secret that consumer trust in the pharmaceutical industry (...)

25 Feb. 2010 | 1 comment | Emma Naylor

Modane - a French town that shares its name with a laxative

It’s winter here in Europe, just to state the obvious. And of course that means snow and enough of it hopefully for French ski resorts and surrounding towns to do a booming business in tourism. But one small town in the département of Savoie (...)

28 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | Johnny Summerton

Richard Gasquet innocent in doping case kiss

Good news for Richard Gasquet, the former French number one men’s tennis player. He has been cleared of any claims of doping by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). While "justice has been done" as far as Gasquet is concerned, (...)

21 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

Doc Goes "Up in Smoke" for Selling and Partaking in Medical Marijuana with "Patients"

Imagine, if you can, walking into your doctor’s office, jumping up onto the paper lined table and the following dialogue occuring : DOCTOR : "[Coughing] Whew. That’s Kush stuff. That’s OG Kush. Whew, that’s some great potent (...)

1er oct. 2009 | | Bioethics.net

Targeting the Taliban’s drug dealers

I’m agnostic as to the operational and legal merits of putting drug dealers who work for, or pay protection money to, the Taliban on the military target list. Of course a lot depends on how accurate the intelligence is. What I’m sure of is (...)

10 Aug. 2009 | | Mark Kleiman

Morocco: The Fight Against the Spread of Hashish is Not Yet Over

Mamadou, L’Bob, Larbi, Z’roki, Sh’homat, Rasta, Drori, Selham, L’hadj, Mi Zina, Nouass, Marquize ... All these are names, or let us say nicknames of some drug dealers in the city of Casablanca, the economic capital of Morocco (...)

5 Aug. 2009 | | Morocco Times

Taxing cannabis in California

The California Board of Equalization, whose responsibilities include estimating the revenue impacts of proposed legislation, has "scored" the Ammiano pot-legalization bill, with its $50-per-ounce tax on cannabis, at $1.4 billion per year. The (...)

20 Jul. 2009 | | Mark Kleiman

Afghan heroin trails in Central Asia

The problem of afghan drug trafficking ( heroin and opium) through Central Asia to Russia and Europe has become one of the most serious and difficult tasks for the Governments of Central Asian States for 17 years since the dissolution of the USSR with (...)

3 Jun. 2009 | | Ryskeldi Satke

Scientology’s Hubbard Convicted of Fraud in France, 1978

As yet another fraud trial opens for Scientology in France this week, it seems an appropriate time to to review the cult’s legal problems in that country over the years. Few people know that its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, was conviced of fraud there (...)

25 May. 2009 | 1 comment | Lilly von Marcab

Schwarzenegger : California Should Talk About Legalizing Marijuana

I think his motivations are less a pragmatic realization that the current prohibition isn’t working than a desire to a) distract from the financial disaster that is the state’s budget and b) create more tax revenue from taxing weed in order to (...)

6 mai. 2009 | | Rob Port

Emerging Neo-Progressive Issues : Drug Policy

Taylor and I wrote a piece on what we termed neo-progressivism in last September’s Literary Review of Canada. Since then we’ve keep our eye out for other discussions where we think neo-progressives are gaining traction in the public discourse. (...)

6 mai. 2009 | 1 comment | David Eaves

Barack Obama’s drug policy : time for change

A failed "war on drugs" in a "narcotised" hemisphere makes a new and cooperative approach urgent. By Juan Gabriel Tokatlian. The United States president has prepared for the fifth Summit of the Americas in Trinidad & Tobago on 17-19 April 2009 by (...)

16 avr. 2009 | | openDemocracy

List of fallen American heroes getting longer

One week after Michael Phelps’ "bong photo" infuriates millions, baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez admits steroid abuse. Who will be the next hero to disappoint?

10 Feb. 2009 | | Chris Hugo

"Father of LSD" Albert Hofmann dies

5 May. 2008 | | Chris Hugo

On The Mexico/Texas Border - 720 Drug Related Murders So Far This Year

And it’s not even April yet. Mexico is not only in a war with the drug gangs, its in what could turn out to a war for its existence as a democracy : CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Brazen Mexican drug gangs are escalating their war with the (...)

27 mar. 2008 | 2 comments | Rob Port

Warning : contains FDA approved drug

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) doesn’t want Americans to buy legal pharmaceutical products from Canada where the identical drug is considerably cheaper because the imported drug might not be safe. Those unreliable Canadians. Better to pay (...)

21 fév. 2008 | 1 comment | Effect Measure

Life - Whose Is It?

Millions of people are starving in Third World countries, and billions others don’t have enough to eat or even clean drinking water. Their lives are so much harder than Westerners’ lives that it’s a wonder that they even endure. (...)

16 Jan. 2008 | | Bnei Baruch

Drug War Optimism

To try to bolster Brad Plumer’s modest optimism that we really might adopt more sensible drug policy options, let me note that the best available alternative to the "war on drugs" mentality is actually pretty "tough." The main (...)

4 déc. 2007 | | Matthew Yglesias

What Are We On ?

Two recent studies have shed some light on drug use and its consequences in Canada. The first one revealed that Canadians’ use of marijuana is now four times the global average, thus putting Canadians at the very top of the pothead league. A second (...)

2 aoû. 2007 | | Werner Patels

Scientology Volunteer Ministers Asian Goodwill Tour Targets Illiteracy and Drug Abuse in the Philippines

David Pomeranz announced the grand opening of the Volunteer Ministers Goodwill Tour at a press conference this week in the Philippines. The Scientology Volunteer Ministers Asian Goodwill Tour announced their arrival in the Philippines this week with a (...)

6 Jul. 2007 | | lbwieland

Three Supreme Court Justices Support Legalizing Marijuana ?

It seems that way, according to this passage from Justice Stevens’ dissent (in which he was joined by Justices Souter and Ginsberg) in the “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” case : ...just as prohibition in the 1920 ?s and early 1930 ?s was secretly (...)

28 jui. 2007 | | Rob Port

Drug Awareness Week in West Bengal, India

To take effective measures to stem the increase in drug use and all its attendant problems in the region, Scientologists from West Bengal have teamed up this week with the Foundation for a Drug Free World and the Kolkata Police Department and the Kolkata (...)

27 Jun. 2007 | | lbwieland

How to End Drug Marketing Trials

The Sunday edition of the New York Times carries a well-executed investigation of the drug industry’s use of suspect physicians for marketing and testing new drugs. By cross-referencing Minnesota’s database of drug company payments to doctors (...)

7 jui. 2007 | | Merrill Goozner