Order of the High Court of Rajasthan in the matter of Suo Motu Vs Union of India & Others dated 11/06/2021 regarding poppy cultivation in Rajasthan. It was brought to the attention of the court that the notification issued by the Central Government (No.1055(E) of October, 19, 2001) does no …
The Australian government's advisory group on drugs has defended a graphic new television campaign about the drug crystal methamphetamine or ice. It shows an office worker unable to sleep after smoking the drug; a man flying into a psychotic rage in a hospital and smashing a window; a young woman …
Afghanistan is once again under pressure from the us government to implement a controversial counter-narcotics plan for eradication of its poppy fields. As per the us plan, Afghanistan should spray poppy fields with a crop-killing herbicide, much as is done with coca in Colombia, and develop new sources of income …
Switzerland's agriculture ministry has warned the country's farmers that it will prosecute them unless they stop feeding their cattle cannabis. The move follows several recent advertisements promoting hemp as cattle fodder. Hemp belongs to the cannabis sativa family and is a cousin of marijuana and hashish. In the Alpine countries …
Afghanistan's opium harvest this year has reached the highest levels recorded, showing an increase of 49 per cent from last year. The un office on Drugs and Crime (unodc) has described the figures as "alarming' and "very bad news' for the Afghan government and other international donors, who have poured …
The Baltic Sea is threatened by a major environmental crisis unless the Russian-German gas pipeline, planned to carry Russian gas to Europe along its seabed, is re-directed to pass overland, said Swedish prime minister Goran Persson at a recent meeting on the Baltic island of Gotland. Persson warned that the …
The street children in Brazil's capital city of Rio De Janeiro fought hunger with shoe glue; its narcotic properties suppressed hunger. Children sniffing glue from plastic bottles were a common sight in the crime-infested city. But the sale of the glue has been banned now. "Shoe glue is an extremely …
In its prolonged fight against the drug Mafia, Colombia has launched a political offensive in Washington to request us $500m anti-narcotics aid over the next two years. If approved the aid would deepen the us government's gradual involvement in Colombia's 35-year war with rebel groups and would significantly increase the …
india will launch three projects to control drug abuse, said Asha Das, secretary, ministry of social justice and empowerment. She stated that accurate statistics of abusers and the demand for illicit drugs is necessary and would also be of great help for the government in formulating effective drug control policies. …
Despite a multi-million campaign against opium growers in Pakistan, production of the 1998 opium crop is expected to be all time high. According to estimates, opium poppies have been planted on about 1,250 hectares, which is four times higher than the last year. The failure of the eradication campaign would …
Africa remains a major supplier of cannabis and cannabis resin to rapi-dly-growing domestic markets and to Europe and North America, despite some eradication efforts and significant seizures in some countries of the continent. A statement released recently in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, by the United Nations (un) Infor-mation Centre (unic) …
drugs containing narcotics and psychotropic substances can now be easily imported, thanks to a new set of guidelines being issued by the World Health Organization (who). The new rules aim to simplify the procedures for the international movement of drugs containing these substances for emergency purposes. They would allow selected …
chocolate could actually be a drug in disguise. Scientists at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, a privately supported, non-profit laboratory in the us, report that chocolate contains three chemicals which could mimic the actions of marijuana. This could be the reason behind the well-being expressed by people who have …
it is a known fact that smoking is injurious to health, but it is only recently that nicotine, the neuroactive compound in tobacco, has been proved to be addictive. Nicotine was often thought of as a weak reinforcer when compared to other drugs like cocaine and heroin and was therefore …
GET high on marijuana and remain low in cognition. Impairment in mental flexibility and abstraction are some of the long-term effects of the drug that otherwise gives what the addicts term as a pleasureable kick. Immensely popular with a section of the youth, marijuana has remained low on the priority …
McNeil Consumer Products of Fort Washington, US, has come out with Nictrol NS, aDasal spray containing 100 mg of pure nicotine to 'wean off people &om; smoking. The Food and Drug Administration has approved the product on the condition that it will be sold by prescription to adults who want …
ANGERED by the dangerous inflow of narcotics into Germany due to lopsided policies of the Netherlands government, the Germans have demanded a change in the Dutch drug policy in no uncertain terms. Eduard Linter, a parliamentary secretary of state in the German interior ministry, said on January 4 that Germany …
LIVEWIRE anti-drug lobbyists in the US have always suggested a simple solution to the menace of drug trafficking and peddling -- the electric chair. And a penitentiary for "junkies". Former president Ronald Reagan's more "practical" administration initiated a multi-million-dollar international crusade against drugs, which involved international intelligence activity, Sting-type gang-busting, …
