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Opium Trading in India |
| October 19, 2003
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As one of the top producers of opium alkaloids, and the world's only supplier of licit raw opium gum, papaver somniferum is a booming industy in India. Here is an interesting overview of the current state of the opium industry in India -- profiling both the legitimate trade and the black market.
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| October 18, 2003
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I've cleared out all of the names from the News Updates email list. If you're unsubscribing and you get an error about not being on the list, it's because you've already been removed.So if you want to continue receiving the email updates to the main-page news, you'll have to re-add your address using the form on the left sidebar.
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Major Upgrades |
| October 17, 2003
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I'm sure many of you have noticed some "stability" issues with the site over the last little while. To improve the situation (read: solve it), I've been working over the past couple of weeks on patching, tuning, and upgrading most of the core backend software for the site. Check the announcement in the forums for all the gory details.
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Iowa U Students Busted for Pods |
| April 6, 2003
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Two Iowa students face 30 years in jail and up to $34,000 in fines after members from the Central Iowa Drug Task Force discovered seven storage bins containing growing mushrooms and more than 100 opium poppy pods in their apartment.
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The Death of the Golden Triangle? |
| March 9, 2003
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Pao Yu Chan, leader of the United Wa State Army, told a documentary film crew he has ordered replacement of all opium by the end of 2005. Experts in the region estimate Burmese opium production has fallen from a peak of 2,500 tonnes in 1995 to 880 tonnes in the latest harvest.
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INCB to Australia: Safe Injection Rooms Must Go |
| February 26, 2003
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The US-backed "War on Drugs" puppet organization, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), has called for Austalia to dismantle it's safe-injection room program. Comparing the program with the Opium Dens of the previous centruy, former INCB president Hamid Ghodse had such powerful insights as: "It is illegal. If you decriminalise crime, then there is no crime and no prisons. Can you say it is a success because there's no prisons?... Uh sure, that makes sense...
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UN: Afghanistan Number One |
| February 26, 2003
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A United Nations-funded anti-narcotics agency says Afghanistan has again become the world largest producer of opium with a significant upsurge in 2002. The agency is urging the world community to do more to help eradicate poppy cultivation in Afghanistan.
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Tasmanian Alkaloids Announces 50% Crop Cut |
| February 10, 2003
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Australian poppy growers are facing a drop in income of as much as $20 million next season after Tasmanian Alkaloids yesterday announced a 50 per cent cut in the crop.
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