DS Daily - 13th August 2010 |
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Man arrested over Reading 'heroin death'
A man has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with the death of a man suspected of using contaminated heroin [BBC, UK]
Pharmacist's sell drugs safely
As the issue of drug regulation becomes increasingly prominent among policy makers and activists not just in the UK, but in Latin America and the United States, it is worth looking at how such a system could be managed in the UK [Talking Drugs]
Cameron clashes with party over alcohol pricing policy
The SNP claimed yesterday that David Cameron had pulled the rug from under the Scottish Conservative Party, after the Prime Minister appeared to give his backing to a minimum price for alcohol [The Herald, Scotland, UK]
Cameron backs crackdown on cheap alcohol
The plan would affect all pubs, supermarkets and off-licences in the Greater Manchester area [Channel 4, UK]
State OK’s tool to detect prescription drug abuse
State health regulators yesterday unanimously approved the new detection system designed to stop “doctor shopping’’ by addicted patients who try to dupe doctors into prescribing narcotics [Boston.com, USA]
Has the time come to legalize drugs?
Legalization of drugs - long an issue championed mainly by fringe groups - is rapidly moving to the mainstream in Latin America [Miami Herald, USA]
Thinking the unthinkable
Amid drug-war weariness, Felipe Calderón calls for a debate on legalisation [The Economist]
A war on drugs? No, this is a war on the Mexican people
29,000 dead, human rights leaders murdered, the constitution violated – the price of President Calderón's popularity bid [Guardian, UK]
Narco-blogger beats Mexico drug war news blackout
An anonymous, twentysomething blogger is giving Mexicans what they can't get elsewhere - an inside view of their country's raging drug war [Washington Post, USA]
The Cannabis Magazine They Tried To Ban - Is Back!
Cannabis law reform magazine Norml News, which both Police and Internal Affairs recently tried to ban, has just released its Winter/Spring 2010 issue, including revelations about how and why the magazine nearly got permanently suppressed [Scoop, New Zealand]