Drugs
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Spice – the synthetic drug gaining a grip on Russia
20 Oct 2014: Cannabis substitute smoked in a pipe appears to be a soft drug, but it is addictive and can be lethal
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22 Oct 2014: Peter Bradshaw – Notebook: The London mayor and wannabe PM sugars the pill on his non-drugs past. What a relief, as cokeheads are always the bad guys
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17 Oct 2014: Andrea Moore: Children the system fails often become adults involved with what they once despised: addiction, incarceration, neglect and abuse
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20 Oct 2014:
Team health officials say edible cannabis confections can confuse consumers and are ‘naturally attractive to children’
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20 Oct 2014: Cannabis substitute smoked in a pipe appears to be a soft drug, but it is addictive and can be lethal
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18 Oct 2014:
Six months after the death of his daughter Peaches, Bob Geldof is still raw and angry. He talks to Miranda Sawyer about addiction, intrusion and why he’s back in his snakeskin suit
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17 Oct 2014: Remix of the 2001 No 1 song promotes medical benefits and crime-reduction claims before drug-legalisation votes in several US states
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16 Oct 2014:
In music, performance or lyrics, it’s time to cross the line and truly define what is flamboyant, superfluous and OTT, says Peter Kimpton -
16 Oct 2014:
Two men arrested after police raid in Portadown, Armagh, prompted by escaping hemp smell
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16 Oct 2014:
Sir Bob Geldof speaks about his daughter Peaches, who died aged 25 of a heroin overdose in April
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14 Oct 2014: Victorian study finds no increase in crystal methamphetamine use, despite politicians’ claims of an ‘epidemic’
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13 Oct 2014:
A review of 20 years of cannabis studies has resulted in apocalyptic headlines about the harm caused by the drug. Is it really more dangerous than previously thought? Luisa Dillner reports
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12 Oct 2014: They were young people for whom teaching was the only way out of poverty. But when they demonstrated over hiring practices, the drug cartels and police showed no mercy
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10 Oct 2014:
With war raging against Islamic State (Isis) in Syria and Iraq, illegal marijuana plantations are thriving in neighbouring Lebanon
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9 Oct 2014:
Arrest of Carrillo Fuentes, better known as ‘The Viceroy’ or ‘The General’, was the second recent capture of major drug lord
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9 Oct 2014:
German police have found 330kg of heroin hidden in jars in a truck in Essen, west Germany, they announced on Thursday
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9 Oct 2014: Two Rivers detention centre, which bid for Guantánamo detainees and fell for a conman, becomes rehab-like facility
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9 Oct 2014:
A state crackdown leading to several arrests is aimed at removing actors who ‘corrupt the social atmosphere’ , writes Ben Child
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