Source: Psychiatry Source Date: November 16 2007 Cannabis and smoking gene links to schizophrenia unfounded

Berne Stalenkrantz the chairman of The Swedish Drug Users Union->http://www.svenskabrukarforeningen.com] (SDUU) and Damon Barett, Human Rights Analyst at IHRA have made a joint submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The Committee is currently reviewing Sweden’s compliance with its human rights obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural […]

RAT TRAP source: http://www.walrusmagazine.com, 15 november 2007 Why Canada’s Drug Policy Won’t Check Addiction. “Canada’s anti-drug strategy a failure, study suggests,” read the headline of a brief cbc story that circulated through a handful of news outlets before dying out early this year. The British Columbia Centre for Excellence in hiv/aids had just published a […]

Source: Earth Times Date: November 7 2007

Barry Hess, a former Ansett executive and general manager of Bali’s collapsed airline Air Paradise, was arrested last month after police allegedly found 14.4 grams of hashish and 2.7 grams of marijuana in his Kuta home

WEST AFRICA: More funds needed to tackle drug use, NGOs say Source: [IRIN – humanitarian news and analysis UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs->http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=75164] 5 November 2007

Research on characteristics of Cannabis Users Who Have Never Smoked Tobacco Source Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2007;161(11):1042-1047. J. C. Suris, MD, PhD; Christina Akre, MA; André Berchtold, PhD; André Jeannin, MA; Pierre-André Michaud, MD

The War on Poppy Succeeds, but Cannabis Thrives in an Afghan Province. Source: [New York Times  >http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/world/asia/04cannabis.html] Date: November 4 2007

Source: The Argus, Worthing Date: October 31 2007 Author: Miles Godfrey