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22. Oktober 2018 | International

UN drugs board slams Canada cannabis legalization

UN drugs board slams Canada cannabis legalization After recreational marijuana became legal in Canada, the Vienna-based International Narcotics Control Board slammed the decision in a statement calling the step incompatible with UN international dr…

22. Oktober 2018 | International

USA. Feds charge 5 New York doctors with prescribing 8.5 million opioid pills

USA. Feds charge 5 New York doctors with prescribing 8.5 million opioid pills Federal authorities indicted five New York City-area doctors Thursday for writing more than 8.5 million allegedly unnecessary opioid prescriptions. (NBC News, USA, 12.10…

06. Oktober 2018 | International

USA. New FBI Report: Every 20 seconds, someone is arrested for a drug law violation in the U.S.

USA. New FBI Report: Every 20 seconds, someone is arrested for a drug law violation in the U.S. According to the FBI’s latest Uniform Crime Report, released today, law enforcement agencies in the U.S. made 1.63 million arrests for drug…

17. September 2018 | International

USA. Court rejects murder conviction for dealer in overdose death

USA. Court rejects murder conviction for dealer in overdose death A Mississippi appeals court has rejected a test case of whether drug dealers can be prosecuted for murder under state law when a drug user dies. (The State, USA, 08.09.2018) https:/…

13. September 2018 | International

USA. Florida ‘Pill Mill’ Doctor, Staff Sentenced After 1.2 Million Doses

USA. Florida ‘Pill Mill’ Doctor, Staff Sentenced After 1.2 Million Doses A South Florida doctor was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for conspiring to prescribe more than a million doses of addictive opioid-based painkillers…

07. September 2018 | International

Kolumbien. Colombia plans to rewind liberal drug possession laws

Kolumbien. Colombia plans to rewind liberal drug possession laws Colombian president Ivan Duque on Sunday announced measures that will see police be given the powers to confiscate minimum doses of drugs that were previously legalized for personal u…

29. August 2018 | International

USA. California lawmakers vote to wipe out old pot convictions

USA. California lawmakers vote to wipe out old pot convictions When California voters approved Proposition 64 in November 2016, they OK'd more than the legalization of recreational marijuana. They authorized allowing people to petition the judicial…

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