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Vets get MDMA to treat their PTSD

...will mostly be veterans from Iraq or AFGHANISTAN, because longer duration of PTSD means more complicating factors," Dr. Mithoefer says, adding that he does anticipate enrolling 4 vets from earlier wars and is still accepting applications... 2010-09-03 17:18:46 jamesk

Germany's booming cannabis plantations

...now acted as suppliers, such as Morocco and AFGHANISTAN. Where hippies of the past swore by "black Afghan," today's pot smokers are quite willing to roll German hashish and marijuana in their joints. Hobby gardeners who grow a few plants in ... 2010-06-11 11:42:02 jamesk

US soldiers in Afghanistan and opium addiction

...year when the U.S. began surging troops into AFGHANISTAN. Army troop levels in Afghanistan went from 14,000 as of the end of 2004 to 46,400 as of the end of 2009. The Army did not break down the opiate-use data to show how many of the soldie... 2010-05-08 12:01:03 jamesk

Poppy plague hits Afghanistan

Poppy plants have been suffering from a mysterious disease which leaves them yellow and withered and slashes the yield of opium resin which is sold on and processed into heroin. The worst affected farmers have said the scale of the infection is u... 2010-05-07 11:28:50 jamesk

Interview with 'Exile Nation' author Charles Shaw

...tripled. Think that's bad? When we invaded AFGHANISTAN in 2001, the previous year's opium harvest was 134 metric tons. In 2009, it was 9000 metric tons, an increase of 7500%! Today, 90% of the world's heroin comes from US-occupied Afghanistan.... 2010-03-15 14:20:59 jamesk

US waves white flag in 'war on drugs'

...from narcotics battlefields from Colombia to AFGHANISTAN and beginning to coach them in the art of trumpeting victory and melting away into anonymous defeat. Not surprisingly, the new strategy is being gingerly aired in the media of the US estab... 2010-01-17 21:43:46 Psychotrophic

'Let's not stop at marijuana legalization'

...profits from illegal opium cultivation in AFGHANISTAN. Of course, none of this means that our rapidly growing marijuana legalization movement should slow down. And this is coming from the former police chief who had to step down in the... 2009-12-15 12:05:01 jamesk

'Not much between despair and ecstasy'

...and could have helped fund insurgents in AFGHANISTAN. If I may be so bold as to make a suggestion to the "CBP Port Director for the Area Port of Philadelphia," I might suggest that you SUCK ON AWESOME UNITED STATES NAVY HAWTNESS when it ... 2009-11-04 02:28:24 Scotto

The rough world of illegal drugs

...appears to continue unabated, and crackdowns in AFGHANISTAN are being made against its massive opium crops, new efforts are also being made worldwide in methods of enforcement and treatment of recovering addicts. ... 2009-10-21 13:27:45 tonx

Turkey did it. Can Afghanistan?

...a very reasonable solution to the problems of AFGHANISTAN. Turning the opium trade into a legitimate business, helping the economy and ending the nightmare of the Taliban. Today, it's Afghanistan. Ongoing attempts by the United States to obli... 2009-10-18 13:59:03 egnever

US Afghan operations dependent on drug dollars?

...former commander during the USSR's operations in AFGHANISTAN... 90 per cent of drugs from Afghanistan go to former Soviet republics. 80 per cent of the world’s drugs are produced in Afghanistan. They’ve outdone the South American countries, such ... 2009-08-30 17:16:20 Psychotrophic

Poppy eradication: 'least effective programme ever'

...past: Richard Holbrooke, American "envoy" to AFGHANISTAN, recently declared that our long-standing tradition of poppy eradication just flat out doesn't work, and it's time to try something else: Holbrooke, at a G8 meeting in Italy, said curre... 2009-07-03 23:27:37 Scotto

The great poppyseed caper

...proudly announced the biggest-ever drug bust in AFGHANISTAN: more than 101 tons of “narcotics,” whose seizure “severely disrupted one of the key militant and criminal operations and narcotics hubs in southern Afghanistan,” according to U.S. militar... 2009-06-22 13:50:18 jamesk

Gretchen Peters on The Daily Show

...talks to Jon Stewart about the opium state in AFGHANISTAN and Pakistan. ... 2009-06-09 12:36:28 jamesk

MSNBC examines prescription pill dependency in the military

...in order to keep American soldiers fighting in AFGHANISTAN and Iraq - "to conserve the fighting strength" - military doctors are increasingly relying on powerful prescription meds, and are subsequently faced with the messes such prescriptions can ... 2009-05-19 22:02:18 Scotto

Afghan drug crop to fall slightly this year

Drug cultivation is expected to fall slightly in AFGHANISTAN this year as lower opium prices and higher wheat prices encourage some farmers to switch crops, the United Nations said on Sunday. ... Last year Afghanistan produced more than 90 per... 2009-02-01 19:39:36 squid leader

CIA uses Viagra to bribe Afghan chiefs

...kind of clever: For some U.S. operatives in AFGHANISTAN, Western drugs such as Viagra were just one of a long list of enticements available for use in special cases. Two veteran officers familiar with such practices said Viagra was offered rare... 2008-12-26 14:04:42 Scotto

Biggest ever drug bust by volume

On June 9th, members of a joint team of Afghani and British commandos discovered what is claimed to be the world's largest ever drug bust: 236.8 tons of cannabis, estimated at a street value of £225 million. The stash was buried in a series ... 2008-06-12 11:03:20 NaFun

Freak weather destroys Afghan poppies

Faltering British efforts to tackle AFGHANISTAN's poppy crop have found an unlikely ally – in the weather. Freak weather linked to global warming is expected to reduce parts of the country's opium harvest drastically. Scientists believe freezing ... 2008-04-23 12:52:06 Psychotrophic

Iran to distribute condoms, needles from vending machines as public health measure

Heroin is big in Iran. Next door to AFGHANISTAN, producer of 93% of the world's opium, it is the main corridor for opium and heroin (and hashish, but that's another story) traveling to Africa and Europe. It's estimated that 700 of the 2500 tonnes ... 2008-04-17 09:29:27 NaFun
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