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Quick dude, hide your advil! |
| December 9, 2003
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A Louisiana high school with a "zero-tolerance" policy on drugs has suspended a tenth-grade student for a full year after she was caught with ibuprofen headache pills her purse. This would be really funny if it wasn't so pathetic.
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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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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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Pod Seller Busted On eBay |
| February 4, 2003
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Federal drug agents have arrested a California man for allegedly selling opium poppy pods on eBay. Krsna Lev-Twombly, 30, was arrested at his home by Drug Enforcement Administration agents, who say they bought hundreds of pods from him last year.
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T&M Debacle Caused by Nosey Customs Agent |
| July 11, 2001
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As you may already know, Thompson & Morgan has stopped selling seeds of opium poppies to its U.S. customers. It's the latest skirmish in the opium poppy war, in which U.S. gardeners who grow these cottage garden favorites are committing a federal crime.
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Herbal Mixtures Classed as Drugs in USA |
| June 24, 2001
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A US Federal judge has blocked the sale of so-called "legal high" herbal mixtures, saying that the herbal products should be considered unapproved new drugs, and that their labeling as "dietary supplements" constitutes a veiled attempt to circumvent federal anti-drug laws.
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Glowsticks Considered "Drug Paraphernalia" |
| June 22, 2001
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File this one under the "What the Fuck?" files. An injunction handed down against a group of New Orleans party promoters last Wednesday charges that glowsticks -- along with pacifiers, Vicks VapoRub and dust masks -- are "drug paraphernalia," and their presence on a dance floor is a sign that illegal drug activity is taking place.
It's bafflingly backward logic, but then again, the federal government's war on drugs hasn't always made sense.
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War on Drugs or War on US? |
| May 4, 2001
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In this article, reprinted from "The Black World Today", one columnist makes some very interesting comments about the folley we all know as the "War on Drugs".
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More Newspapers are Catching On To the T&M Debacle |
| April 5, 2001
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The Tacoma News Tribune has published another story about the Thompson and Morgan Debacle, and it looks as though some Law Enforcement agencies still just don't have anything better to do with their time or budgets.
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Bagel Man Charged in Taiwan |
| January 5, 2001
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In a truly bizzarre scenario, the Taiwanese police have indicted a Taipei baker on Narcotic Posession charges, after he imported 20 kilos of poppyseed from Australia to use in making bagels.
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The Poppy Paradox |
| December 19, 2000
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This is an older (1998) article from the San Luis Obispo County NewTimes, about some pro-marijuana advocates who were busted for growing poppies in their backyard. This is pretty much required reading for any poppy enthusiast.
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Poppies.org Makes the News |
| November 13, 2000
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Well, I guess it was bound to happen eventually. Someone in the mainstream media finally caught on to the Thompson and Morgan debacle with the DEA. In the article, poppies.org is mentioned briefly.
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