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38 Arrested in Drug Sting in Northern Virginia
13 hours ago ago from Anti-BVBL
Almost 40 people were arrested the past week from age 18 to 54 for dealing heroin and perscription narcotics. Many of these people allegedly sold large amounts of heroin and presecription narcotics to high school students and young adults in Prince William County and western Fairfax County . Law enforcement noted how easy it was for young people to score drugs, often in retail store restroom, gyms, grocery stores, pharmacies and people's ...
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5 hours ago ago from Voice of Toronto
OTTAWA The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, today unveiled the youth component of Canada's National Anti-Drug Strategy, which aims to educate young people on the dangers of illicit drugs and to turn their backs on drugs. Youth between the ages of 13 and 15 are the most likely to try illicit drugs for the first time, said Minister Aglukkaq, speaking with a class of Grade 9 students from Ottawa's Mother Teresa High School. ...
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17 hours ago ago from Pacific Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times - Progressive opinion, dissident news
Decriminalization or Legalization of Drugs by Diane Walsh T o any rational person, the consequences on society of bad drug policy are obvious. Writing in the Toronto Star’s June 3, 2009, issue, Victoria police officer David Bratzer cites “public disorder, backlogged courts, high property crime rates, organized crime and gang violence over control of the drug trade” to try to awake the public to realize that “these costs are not worth an ...
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1 day ago ago from Drug WarRant
We've had some good (and some volatile) discussions in comments recently, particularly over what constitutes drug policy reform and its end goals. This is quite healthy (as long as we avoid the name-calling). We have a number of people who frequent this site with different views both of our destination and our route to get there (and even how we should publicly describe our route to get there). I'm going to inject LEAP's Norm Stamper ...
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