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1 UK: Teen Died After Five Bags Of Ecstasy 'Exploded' In HerTue, 05 Sep 2017
Source:New York Post (NY)          Area:United Kingdom Lines:117 Added:09/09/2017

A teenage law student from Britain died while on holiday in Ibiza after five bags of ecstasy exploded in her stomach, an inquest heard.

Rebecca Brock, 18, was discovered with a pool of blood next to her head in a hotel room after traveling to the party island for a friend's birthday.

Nottingham Coroners' Court heard staff found the "academically gifted" student unresponsive in her room at the Hotel Marco Polo on Sept. 28, 2015.

Spanish police began an investigation after the amount of the class-A drug in her system was "double the level" of a normal fatal dose.

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2 UK: Ecstasy Being Studied As Treatment For AlcoholismMon, 03 Jul 2017
Source:New York Post (NY) Author:McDermott, Nick Area:United Kingdom Lines:81 Added:07/05/2017

Taking party drug ecstasy may help boozers break their addiction to alcohol.

Scientists are set to carry out the first ever trial to see whether the controlled substance can help treat heavy drinkers.

A group of patients from England will be given two doses of MDMA -- another name for ecstasy -- over the course of two months.

The trial has just received approval from regulators in the United Kingdom.

It is the first in the world to use ecstasy to treat alcohol addiction.

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3 UK: 'Elsa From Frozen' Telling Meth Addicts To 'Let It Go' Is TheTue, 17 Jan 2017
Source:Mirror, The (UK)          Area:United Kingdom Lines:62 Added:01/17/2017

Meth is not good -- and a community in Montana, US, used a young woman who looked oddly like Elsa from Frozen to remind its citizens.

An anti-drug campaign called the Montana Meth Project (MMP) erected some billboards and signs calling on people to "just let it go" -- "it" being meth, an illegal substance that causes misery around the world.

On the boards was a blonde girl, visibly blighted by drug abuse, with a tired face and jumbled hair. She was shackled, too, apparently caught for possession by police.

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4 UK: Duterte Tells Civilians 'Don't Get Yourselves Kidnapped'Mon, 16 Jan 2017
Source:Daily Mail (UK) Author:Summers, Chris Area:United Kingdom Lines:140 Added:01/16/2017

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Duterte tells civilians 'don't get yourselves kidnapped' as he orders troops to BOMB hostage-takers and threatens to declare martial law as part of Philippines' drug war

* President Rodrigo Duterte say kidnap victims may become 'collateral damage'

* Abu Sayyaf, which is linked to al-Qaeda, earns millions kidnapping for ransom

* Duterte also threatened to bring in martial law in his campaign against drugs

* His government also acted at the weekend to ban Filipinos watching Pornhub

President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the military to 'blast' Islamist militants who have been on a kidnap-for-ransom spree in the Philippines, even if hostages would also be killed.

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5 UK: President Duterte's Bloody War On Drugs Has Claimed 6k Lives InTue, 03 Jan 2017
Source:Daily Mail (UK) Author:Newton, Jennifer Area:United Kingdom Lines:212 Added:01/07/2017

I've only just started! Filipino President Duterte's bloody war on drugs has claimed 6,000 lives and seen 900,000 addicts surrender in just six months -- as he claims his country is now safer for normal people

* The Philippines government has claimed it is winning the war on drugs after a brutal crackdown on dealing

* 6,000 people have been killed by police or vigilantes in a six month campaign ordered by President Duterte

* The Filipino government has said that thanks to the crackdown, the country is now a safer place for residents

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6 UK: Duterte's Drug War In The Philippines Is Out Of Control, HeThu, 05 Jan 2017
Source:Guardian, The (UK) Author:Muggah, Robert Area:United Kingdom Lines:142 Added:01/06/2017

Foreign governments are keeping noticeably quiet as the Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte is leading one of the world's bloodiest anti-drug campaigns

[photo] Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte salutes with other military officers during an anniversary celebration of the Armed Forces. Photograph: Erik de Castro/Reuters

Even the most adamant supporters of the war on drugs agree that it is failing. At a major UN summit on drug policy earlier this year, many member states argued forcefully for a more balanced and humane approach. But there's one anti-drug crusader who refuses to face the facts. For the past six months Rodrigo Duterte, president of the Philippines has waged one of the world's most vicious counter-narcotics campaigns.

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7 UK: The 3D Interactive Marijuana 'Galaxy' Researchers Hope To Use ToTue, 27 Dec 2016
Source:Daily Mail (UK) Author:Macdonald, Cheyenne Area:United Kingdom Lines:128 Added:12/27/2016

* Phylos Bioscience is attempting to map the genetic data for every marijuana strain in the world

* The team has so far sequenced over a thousand different kinds, which they plot on the interactive 'Galaxy'

* Genetic report reveals a strain's closest relatives, clonal relationships, its uniqueness, origin, and more

* The researchers say this could one day help scientists to achieve 'unthinkable' strains of marijuana

Scientists may soon be able to achieve 'unthinkable' strains of marijuana thanks to new efforts in DNA sequencing.

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8 UK: High Time This HappenedMon, 26 Dec 2016
Source:Daily Mail (UK) Author:Stern, Carly Area:United Kingdom Lines:102 Added:12/27/2016

A California company is selling a MARIJUANA monthly subscription box packed with curated cannabis products

* San Diego-based Club M requires a California medical marijuana license to join and delivers boxes each month for $97

* The packages include marijuana, edibles, vapes, and other 'gear' for using

* Each box is worth about $200 and can be purchased without a subscription, except for the new limited-edition boxes for $1,000 each

There seems to be a subscription box service for everything these days, from cosmetics to snacks to alcohol -- so really, it was only a matter of time for the medical marijuana community got in on the monthly shipment craze.

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9 UK: Make Heroin Available On Prescription, Official UK Drug AdvisersMon, 12 Dec 2016
Source:Guardian, The (UK)          Area:United Kingdom Lines:80 Added:12/14/2016

Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs also suggests supervised injecting rooms to combat rising number of drug deaths

Heroin on prescription and supervised injecting rooms are among a range of measures that the government's drug advisers have suggested to reverse the UK's soaring numbers of drug deaths.

Responding to a sharp rise in the number of heroin-related deaths in recent years, the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs said maintenance of drug treatment programmes was essential to prevent further increases.

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10 UK: OPED: Why I, As an Undercover Cop, Believe It's Time toSun, 28 Aug 2016
Source:Mail on Sunday, The (UK) Author:Woods, Neil Area:United Kingdom Lines:206 Added:08/29/2016

THE narcotics trade provides the financial basis for almost every other form of organised criminality in this country and abroad. The scale is staggering: the global drugs market is worth UKP375 billion every year, and an estimated UKP7 billion a year in Britain alone. Britain spends a further UKP7 billion policing the drugs problem - and that's without the associated costs of imprisonment and public health and everything else.

It might not seem visible to the majority of ordinary, law abiding citizens, yet drugs and the gangsters who deal in them blight our towns and cities and dominate our criminal system. More than half the inmates in British prisons are there for drug-related offences.

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11 UK: Column: Look Out! They're Sneaking Up on You With aSun, 28 Aug 2016
Source:Mail on Sunday, The (UK) Author:Hitchens, Peter Area:United Kingdom Lines:79 Added:08/28/2016

THE most sinister thing I have heard all year was this week's revelation that British government doctors secretly sought to drug troublesome teenagers in the 1960s and we have only just found out. One of the pills they wanted to use was called Haloperidol. Its side effects include incurable lifelong twitching, delirium and rigid muscles.

This plan was stopped, but another worrying substance, Beclamide, was given to boys at a Yorkshire 'Approved School' (a state-inspected home for troubled teens). Neither the boys nor their parents were told of this experiment.

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12UK: Need Drugs In Jail? Try Using A DroneSun, 28 Aug 2016
Source:San Diego Union Tribune (CA)          Area:United Kingdom Lines:Excerpt Added:08/28/2016

LONDON - While Amazon and the British government are looking into how to use drones to deliver parcels to customers, criminals are already exploiting the technology to send drugs to accomplices in prison.

Police on Monday said they recovered two drones carrying mobile phones and drugs near London's Pentonville prison and have set up a special task force - Operation Airborne - to catch offenders trying to get contraband into the jail.

In the early hours of Aug. 17, police saw a man acting suspiciously near the prison. He ran away, dropping two bags containing drugs and mobile phones and managed to evade arrest, according to a police statement.

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13 UK: Secret Garden Party Praised After Pioneering Drug TestingMon, 25 Jul 2016
Source:Cambridge Evening News (UK) Author:White, Charles Area:United Kingdom Lines:62 Added:07/26/2016

Music festival Secret Garden Party allowed people carrying illegal narcotics to test the quality and strength of the drugs over the weekend.

The pioneering scheme had the support of local police, and was run by the drugs charity The Loop. Thought to be the first of its kind in the UK, the project appears to have been a success.

Festival-goers were able to have their stash tested without handing over the rest. It was reported that over 200 people had their drugs tested. Finding over 80 suspect substances, over a quarter was disposed of after testing. The Transform Drugs Policy Foundation, who assisted in the scheme, claimed that it was an attempt to "undo the damage the War on Drugs had done."

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14 UK: PUB LTE: Peace In Colombia And The Cocaine TradeSat, 23 Jul 2016
Source:Guardian, The (UK) Author:Morris, Keith Area:United Kingdom Lines:28 Added:07/23/2016

The progress towards a peace deal between the Colombian government and the Farc guerrillas is greatly to be welcomed (Editorial, 21 July). The terms are inevitably controversial and many who have suffered at the Farc's hands will find it hard to see them pass directly into politics. But that is the price of peace. The cocaine trade has fuelled this conflict over the last 35 years or so. You are absolutely right to propose that governments which wish to support peace in Colombia should consider backing President Juan Manuel Santos's efforts to reform the UN system of drugs prohibition and open the door to experiments in regulated markets in drugs like cocaine, just as is already happening with cannabis.

Keith Morris

British ambassador to Colombia 1990-94

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15 UK: Puff JusticeFri, 22 Jul 2016
Source:Daily Record (UK) Author:Stewart, Stephen Area:United Kingdom Lines:132 Added:07/22/2016

Amputee's Plea to Legalise Medical Marijuana

A WAR hero who lost both legs in an Afghan bomb blast is forced to break the law to get cannabis to ease his pain.

Lance Corporal Callum Brown is now leading calls to legalise the drug for medical use. He wants to see cannabis made available to patients like him who suffer agonising pain 24 hours a day.

Callum, 28, also shattered his pelvis in the huge explosion after he stepped on a boobytrap bomb while on patrol in Helmand five years ago. Speaking exclusively to the Record, he said: "As well as my other injuries, I have no skin on my backside it's just thin scar tissue so the nerve damage and the phantom pains are the main reason for smoking.

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16 UK: War on Drugs Has Failed and Use Should Be DecriminalisedThu, 16 Jun 2016
Source:Yorkshire Post (UK)          Area:United Kingdom Lines:39 Added:06/16/2016

THE 'WAR on drugs" has failed in terms of public health and drug use should be decriminalised, two leading organisations have said.

The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) and the Faculty of Public Health (FPH) said the personal possession and use of all illegal drugs should no longer be considered a criminal offence.

While the bodies still support criminal charges for people who deal drugs, they said users should instead be referred for treatment and help.

The recommendation is made in a new UK-wide report, Taking a New Line on Drugs, which has the backing of several charities and law enforcement officials.

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17 UK: Decriminalise Drug Use, Say Health ProfessionalsThu, 16 Jun 2016
Source:Guardian, The (UK) Author:Boseley, Sarah Area:United Kingdom Lines:29 Added:06/16/2016

Britain's two leading public health bodies, representing thousands of doctors and other professionals, are making an unprecedented call for the personal possession and use of drugs to be decriminalised.

The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) and the Faculty of Public Health say the war on drugs has done more harm than good. They believe drug misuse should be a health issue and not a matter for the courts and prisons.

"We have taken the view that it is time for endorsing a different approach," said Shirley Cramer, chief executive of the RSPH. "We have gone to our stakeholders and asked the public, and tried to gain some consensus from our community and the public." The RSPH commissioned a poll of more than 2,000 British adults and found 56% agreed drug users in their local area should be referred for treatment, rather than charged with an offence. Fewer than a quarter (23%) disagreed.

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18 UK: Legalise All DrugsThu, 16 Jun 2016
Source:Mirror, The (UK) Author:Gregory, Andrew Area:United Kingdom Lines:36 Added:06/16/2016

Experts: Jail Bad for Addicts

PERSONAL possession and use of all drugs should be decriminalised, public health experts will say today.

Users need help not punishment, they say, and 56% of adults in a poll of 2,000 agree.

Drug use has fallen in the last decade but related harm including death continues to rise.

Jailing users makes things worse, says a report by the Faculty of Public Health and Royal Society for Public Health.

But both groups insist dealers must still be prosecuted. Shirley Cramer, of RSPH, said: "The war on drugs has failed... It's time for a new approach, where we recognise those who misuse drugs are in need of treatment not criminals in need of punishment." The report was "very much welcomed" by Parliament's Drug Policy Reform group. Prof David Nutt, of Imperial College London, backed it and Prof Peter Anderson, of Newcastle University, said: "It's the way to go." The Home Office said we must "support people dependent on drugs" and also "tackle organised crime behind the drugs trade".

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19 UK: 'Make Cannabis Legal for Medicinal Purposes,' SaysThu, 09 Jun 2016
Source:Evening Chronicle (UK) Author:Hill, Laura Area:United Kingdom Lines:96 Added:06/10/2016

Ron Hogg Said the War on Drugs Has Failed and the UK's Drug Policy Is 'Unsustainable' As He Called on Colleagues to Back His Views

Cannabis should be made legal and used for medicinal purposes, Durham's Police and Crime Commissioner has said.

In a letter to the country's 40 PCCs, Ron Hogg said the "war on drugs" has failed and the UK's present approach is "unsustainable".

Mr Hogg highlighted the "genuine body of evidence" that cannabis brings pain and symptom relief to sufferers of various conditions.

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20 UK: Ban Will Not Stop Supply, Drugs Adviser WarnsWed, 08 Jun 2016
Source:Guardian, The (UK) Author:Gayle, Damien Area:United Kingdom Lines:41 Added:06/09/2016

The ban on legal highs will not lead to the disappearance of spice and other synthetic cannabis-like drugs because they are so profitable to dealers, a senior government drugs adviser has warned.

Prof Harry Sumnall, a member of the Home Office's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, said the economics of producing the substances - often collectively dubbed "spice" - versus that of growing traditional cannabis made them an appealing proposition.

Sumnall said the ingredients were easily available online. "We were making some in the lab the other day. Very, very easy to do, pretty much shake and bake. Really easy to make, highly profitable, these drugs aren't going anywhere."

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