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PHE has today set out the challenge and vision for the health and wellbeing of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex
with men (MSM) | PHE, UK
A man has died after taking ketamine at Glastonbury Festival. The music fan was taken into hospital after taking the drug
and police said he was in a critical condition on Thursday evening | Independent, UK
That cannabis and schizophrenia are linked is widely accepted. Several studies suggest the drug can set off short-term
psychotic episodes in those already suffering from the condition | Economist, UK
Two pals will be jailed after being caught with a huge haul of 6,000 illegal tablets | Greenock Telegraph, UK
A 20 year old man was arrested for possession of khat, Britain's latest illegal drug in the Channel Tunnel | Folkestone
Herald, UK
The Local Government Association (LGA) has predicted a widening funding gap as the cost of elderly care takes up a growing
share of council budgets | BBC, UK
European Commission Survey on European young people's opinions on drugs | European Commission, EU
“I’m gonna smoke’a de ganja until I go blind,” sang Bob Marley. “You know I smoke’a de ganja all a de time.” Jamaicans who
share his devotion to cannabis have long risked arrest. But this month the government said it intended to decriminalise
possession of small amounts of the drug | Economist, UK
Today the supporters of an Oregon initiative aimed at legalizing marijuana for recreational use submitted signatures from
145,710 voters—"more than enough," according to the campaign, to qualify the measure for the ballot this November |
Reason.com | USA
Yesterday, Salisbury, UK-based GW Pharmaceuticals plc announced the closing of its public offering of 1.7 million American
Depositary Shares on the NASDAQ Global Market. When taken together with the full exercise of options for another 255,000
ADSs by the underwriters at $86.83/ADS, the offering totaled $169.8 million | Forbes, USA
Next year will mark 20 years of Erowid.org providing deep, broad and comprehensive information about psychoactive
substances, legal and illegal | Public Address: a community of blogs, New Zealand
West Africa has become a major drugs route but a new approach can stop it being scarred by the carnage elsewhere |
Guardian, UK
Myanmar and Thailand incinerated some $400 million-worth of narcotics on Thursday to mark World Drugs Day, but the UN
warned opium production was on the rise in the region | The News, Myanmar
Prince Harry has met recovering crack addicts in a notorious area of Sao Paulo where the authorities have begun a
controversial plan to get them off drugs | Independent, UK
More than 80 suspected vigilantes have been arrested in Mexico for battling drug cartels | Independent, UK
And finally...
A herd of hippopotamuses once owned by the late Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar has been taking over the countryside
near his former ranch - and no-one quite knows what to do with them | BBC, UK