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Society & Culture News tagged with drugs

In Mexican City, Drug War Ills Slip Into Shadows
Society & Culture  (tags: society, Mexico City, crime, corruption, drugs, violence, police, law, safety )

Dee
- 20 days ago - nytimes.com
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico-The reminders of Nuevo Laredo's violent days still mar its streets, bullet holes and the impacts of grenades where drug traffickers once flaunted their power, boarded-up buildings of merchants who fled the lawlessness, and- - -
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Immigrants Become Hostages as Gangs Prey on Mexicans
Society & Culture  (tags: society, Mexico, drugs, gangs, smuggling, kidnapping, immigrants, violence, crime, corruption )

Dee
- 24 days ago - online.wsj.com
A whispered 911 call from a cellphone early one January morning brought police to a home on West Columbine Drive in this Phoenix suburb. Inside, they found more than 30 half-naked and shivering men prisoners, police say, of a gang that had smuggled--
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Will Obama End the War on Drugs?
Society & Culture  (tags: drugs, war on drugs, justice, incarceration )

Jillyanne
- 46 days ago - alternet.org
Is Obama really committed to a fundamental shift in America's approach to drug policy or is this about serving up a kinder, gentler drug war? When it comes to addressing America's disastrous war on drugs, the Obama administration appears to be moving
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Ramirez Suspended 50 Games for Drug Violation
Society & Culture  (tags: society, baseball, Ramirez, suspended, drugs, crime, dishonesty )

Dee
- 57 days ago - news.yahoo.com
LOS ANGELES - Manny Ramirez joined a growing lineup of All-Stars linked to drugs Thursday, with the dreadlocked slugger banished for 50 games by a sport that cannot shake free from scandal.
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Hotline Helps Police Catch Abuser
Society & Culture  (tags: society, police, hotline, sexual predator, crime, children, guns, drugs )

Dee
- 58 days ago - capitalnews9.com
COLUMBIA COUNTY, N.Y. -- New York's child abuse hotline has helped State Police nab a 62-year-old man they say is a sexual predator.
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Drugs: To Legalize or Not
Society & Culture  (tags: health, drugs, legalization, addictions, prevention, risks, study, research )

Dee
- 68 days ago - online.wsj.com
Progress in Colombia provides clear evidence that the war on drugs is winnable, while history repeatedly shows that relaxed restrictions lead to more abuse and addiction.
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420: Thoughts on Pot Vs. Alcohol From a Former Police Chief
Society & Culture  (tags: world, violence, mexico, america, economy, marijuana, obama, law, government, drug war, narco-terrorism, freedom, culture, crime, rights, corruption, politics, war, medicine, drugs, consumers, civil rights, health )

Tom
- 74 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
Hundreds of alcohol overdose deaths occur annually. There has never been a single recorded marijuana OD fatality. There have been no documented cases of lung cancer in a marijuana-only smoker, nor has pot been scientifically linked to any type of cancer.
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Sign Petition: Decriminalize Marijuana!
Society & Culture  (tags: marijuana, pot, drugs, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', government, usa, safety, medicine, health, freedoms, ethics, law, politics, society, crime, culture )

Tom
- 98 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Millions of Americans a year are arrested for exercising their right to smoke marijuana, a harmless substance that can even be harvested to help the sick. It's time Texas joined Cali. and Mass. to right the wrongs of the past by reforming marijuana laws.
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New York Moves Toward Lighter Sentences for Potheads
Society & Culture  (tags: pot, marijuana, drugs, laws, New York, Rockefeller, war on drugs, prohibition, smoking, joint, society, police, government, humans, freedoms, culture, americans, rights )

Tom
- 114 days ago - nbcnewyork.com
The state Assembly has struck a blow for the state's stoners by voting to repeal the Rockefeller drug laws that have threatened so many tokers with the wrong kind of joint. Drug policy will be based on the premise that drug addiction is a health problem.
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Mexico Drug Cartel Violence Soaring
Society & Culture  (tags: violence, world, drugs, government, crime, corruption, society )

Cal
- 142 days ago - cbsnews.com
CBS Evening News: Mexican Drug Cartel Fighting Breeds Brutal Gun Battles, Rampant Killings
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Fact Sheet: Project Safe Childhood
Society & Culture  (tags: abuse, children, death, drugs, ethics, health, prevention, protection, safety, risks, crime, dishonesty, education, family, murder, police, sadness, safety, Project Safe Childhood, sexual exploitation crimes against child, soliciting children, child )

Kelli
- 231 days ago - media-newswire.com
Project Safe Childhood (PSC) is a Department of Justice initiative launched in 2006 that aims to combat the proliferation of technology-facilitated sexual exploitation crimes against children. The threat of sexual predators soliciting children for physica
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A Potent Hallucinogenic Herb - to Ban It or Not?
Society & Culture  (tags: Salvia divinorum, herbs, ban, drugs, Mazatec Garden, hallucinogenic herb )


- 283 days ago - superpastime.com
The use of Salvia divinorum, a potent hallucinogenic herb, was once limited to revelation seekers in Mexico. Now, the drug is available legally across the U.S.
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Baby Boomers - WE Are the Biggest Druggies
Society & Culture  (tags: baby boomers, pot, drugs, demographics, substance abuse, addiction )

RC
- 301 days ago - ajc.com
A US government survey released this week reports that illicit drug use by people between the ages of 55 and 59 rocketed up 116% in the past five years. Whoa, dude!
98 comments
Methadone Overdose Kills Girl, 3, After Junkie Mother Gives Her Drug 'to Make Her Sleep'
Society & Culture  (tags: humans, drugs, child, death, society, news, sadness, abuse )

Cathryne
- 477 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
A three-year-old girl died from a methadone overdose her junkie mother may have given her to make her sleep, an inquest heard. The shocking details were revealed at the double inquest into the deaths of Donna Gill and her daughter Trae-Bleu Layne.
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Woman Accused of Using Children to Smuggle Cocaine Into UK
Society & Culture  (tags: children, corruption, drugs, crime, dishonesty, abuse, law, police, society, safety, sadness, transportation )

Ginger
- 478 days ago - wavy.com
LONDON (AP) - A Mexican woman is accused of trying to smuggle cocaine into Britain by strapping more than 30 pounds of the drug to the legs of 2 children.
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