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The Calgary Sun, 06 Sep 2010 – The past successes of a provincial policing group in fighting organized crime are proof unified efforts can bring gangs to their knees, says a Calgary alderman. Ald. Diane Colley-Urquhart, who sits on the board of the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT), said the co-ordinated policing model is [...]

Santa Cruz Sentinel, 06 Sep 2010 – SANTA CRUZ — Jon Castaline, a middle-aged disabled handyman, was looking for a place to store his tools and his medicinal marijuana plants. The rental units Jill Escher oversees on Beach Hill were perfect. While the one-car garage below a motel-turned-apartment complex didn’t have electricity or water, Castaline [...]

Miami Herald, 04 Sep 2010 – MEXICO CITY — Here’s an interesting detail about the much-publicized recent arrest of Mexico’s top drug baron Edgar Valdez Villarreal, better known as "La Barbie" — he was caught with a U.S.-made M-16 semiautomatic rifle and other sophisticated arms that Mexican officials suspect were smuggled from the United States. [...]

Yakima Herald-Republic, 06 Sep 2010 – YAKIMA, Wash. — A graduate of Perry Technical Institute’s instrumentation program can land a job at an oil refinery earning as much $92,000 a year with overtime. But with such pay comes tremendous responsibility. One small mistake in calibrating pressure or temperature can cost lives, said Tony Nirk, who [...]

Jackson County Floridan, 05 Sep 2010 – But There Is No Monitoring, No Regulation Marianna resident Beverly Conrad opened her newspaper last Sunday to discover one of her rental properties on the front page. The night before, a shake and bake methamphetamine lab exploded in the front bedroom of the house on 4368 Lee Road, [...]

The Observer, 05 Sep 2010 – We Can’t Know the Potential Benefits of Innovations Like Portugal’s Unless We Research Them, Says Alex Stevens For years, the UK government has consistently used a myth to stave off any bold innovations in our failing drug policy. It has predicted that liberalisation would inevitably lead to higher rates [...]

The Age, 06 Sep 2010 – Huge Profits Ensure That New Traffickers Are Always Ready to Fill Any Gaps. THE report by The Age and Four Corners on a major drugs bust (code-named Operation Hoffman) by state police forces under the direction of the Australian Crime Commission was a cracking story. A fascinating cast of [...]

South Oakland Eccentric, 06 Sep 2010 – FERNDALE – Nine defendants charged in last month’s medical marijuana bust in Ferndale will face a pre-exam conference at 1 p.m. Monday, Sept. 20, before Judge Joseph Longo, according to a spokeswoman in 43rd District Court in Ferndale. The exam set for last Thursday was adjourned. The co-owners [...]

Flint Journal, 06 Sep 2010 – HOLLY, Michigan — The village of Holly is considering a zoning ordinance for medical marijuana facilities. The measure would allow businesses to seek permits from the village allowing them to produce and dispense medical marijuana.

AlterNet, 06 Sep 2010 – Prohibition has failed — again. Drug prohibition has proven remarkably ineffective, costly and counter-productive. 500,000 people are behind bars today for violating a drug law – and hundreds of thousands more are incarcerated for other prohibition-related violations. There is a smarter approach usually called harm reduction. Reducing the number of [...]

Los Angeles Times, 06 Sep 2010 – DRUG CARTELS CRIPPLE OIL OPERATIONS The Kidnappings of 35 Terrorize the State Firm Pemex, Stopping Work in Areas of One Major Petroleum Basin The meandering network of pipes, wells and tankers belonging to the gigantic state oil company Pemex have long been an easy target of crooks and [...]

The Peninsula Clarion, 05 Sep 2010 – Rain muddied the driveway leading to the property of Dean Scroggins, weeks after the Brendan McGee shooting. Rain filled wheel marks scarred the dirt path amid the remnants of a shattered gate. Rain pattered down on the junked cars strewn about the lot. Tires had been laid out [...]

Daily Comet, 05 Sep 2010 – BATON ROUGE – More than 17 years ago, the St. Martin Sheriff’s Office found a substantial amount of cocaine underneath the house of a candidate in the 3rd Congressional District race. But Jeff Landry says that’s only half the story. Landry, a businessman and attorney from New Iberia, said [...]

Albany Democrat-Herald, 05 Sep 2010 – BROWNSVILLE – While Scio students sign up for the first time for random drug testing, the Central Linn School District is continuing its own student testing policy, now in its 13th year. A Democrat-Herald story last week incorrectly named Scio as the first district in Linn County to start [...]

Our friends at the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, in honor of Overdose Awareness Day (August 31), have produced a new video, " Take Home Naloxone — The Right to Survive Overdoses ." There are many legal, political and attitudinal barriers that currently stand in the way of getting this life-saving medication to the people who need it, when [...]