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• Europe, Legislation, War on Drugs

  North Wales Chief Constable calls for legalisation of drugs

  10.15.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Richard Brunstrom, the Chief Constable for North Wales, says that a drugs policy based on prohibition has failed, in a presentation he made to North Wales Police Authority today.
  The Independent has covered his main points critical of drug prohibition, which are not new to critics of government drug policies but which have been welcomed [...]

• Europe, People, Studies

  Alcoholics beware

  08.23.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  As if you don’t have enough problems already you’re about to get another one. Yes that’s right Liver disease, pancreatitus, jail, loss of life, loved ones well of course I could go on and on. Be it a DUI or the myriad of other potential issues drinking to excess and on a regular or even daily basis may cause, you’re about to get tested by anyone who may have the authority to do so to see just how much you’ve had in the past few weeks.

• Europe, Latin America, War on Drugs

  Colombian government goes for a big visual bang aimed at cocaine users

  10.30.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  This week the government of Colombia is launching an advertising campaign in Europe to publicly tackle the demand side of the War on Drugs equation, no doubt hoping that it will be more effective than its war on supply.

  Going for a visual, as opposed to a literal, bang, it is planning to tie in the increasing consumption of cocaine by Europeans with the deleterious effects associated with its current production in the South American nation.

  The ads, which the Colombian government hopes European governments will pony up to fund their placement on billboards and in public transport systems, will feature such images as a European suit with “an over-sized nose – alluding to his cocaine habit – laying landmines in a field. Another shows him wielding a chainsaw on a charred, deforested hillside.”

• Europe, Smuggling

  £5m penalties for tobacco manufacturers who aid smuggling

  10.02.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  HM Revenue & Customs has issued a press release detailing the UK government’s plans to fine tobacco companies who don’t do enough to ensure that cigarettes and hand rolling tobacco are not smuggled into the country, depriving authorities of tax money.

  Tobacco companies will, amongst other things, be expected to know “their markets”, only supply them “in quantities that reflect legitimate demand”, “know their customers” and only supply “those who are legitimate and law-abiding”. I wonder if they will be issued with cool tax collector badges as well, not to mention expert lectures on how the market works.

• Europe, Legislation

  Tony Blair: “pre-birth” intervention required

  09.04.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has caught some flack recently for suggesting that the government should intervene early in the lives of problematic families and teenage mothers out of which children could grow up to be a “menace to society” and “a threat to themselves”, even if it means intervening “pre-birth”. 

  So far it is all a little vague, allowing veteran Laborite and former MP Tony Benn, to respond that “[t]his one about identifying troublesome children in the foetus – this is eugenics, the sort of thing Hitler talked about.” Well, the kind of talk Benn thinks he is hearing actually goes back a bit further than Hitler – see, for example, Edwin Black’s “War Against the Weak” – but until Blair clarifies what he is on about, the accusations will continue to fly. What we do know for now is that the guardians of potential troublemakers – by definition current troublemakers themselves, including those with troubles of a drug- and alcohol-related variety – could be forced to take some form of “help” before it is too late.

• Europe

  UK Students to Face Random Drug Tests

  08.29.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  In a battle of civil liberties and anti-drug fervour, students at certain schools in the UK are to face random drug tests from next term.

  The move was announced by the company being contracted to supply the testing kits – Preventx.

  The move has had predictable responses from predictable groups but the general argument remains the same.

  Civil libertarians point out that random drug tests impinge on the rights of students and also use the fact that drug use among teenagers has significantly decreased since the 1990s.  They also point out that testing may result in increased rates of truancy among students not wishing to be tested (or caught).

• Europe, Kids and Drugs, People

  Emma Kelly

  08.19.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Emma Kelly, a 31-year-old mother from East Sussex, England, has just been sentenced to nine years in prison for supplying heroin and crack to her son when he was between the ages of nine and 11, as well as on two counts of cruelty to a child.

  Her son – who for legal reasons has not been named – began using her drugs, which he found around the house. After she discovered what he was up to and didn’t take any steps to stop him, she proceeded to go ahead and supply them to him, even driving around Sussex and London with him to score.

• Europe, North America, People, Smuggling

  Giles Carlyle-Clarke given bail

  07.30.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Giles Carlyle-Clarke, an Englishman of aristocratic lineage who was recently extradited to the United States because of a marijuana smuggling charge dating back to the 1980s, has been granted bail set at $464,000 and will be monitored electronically while under house arrest.

  He will only be released from the Baldwin County Corrections Center, Alabama, once he has drummed up the finances for the bond and has found a place to live; his lawyer, Jeff Deen, offered to let him stay at his place but U.S. Magistrate Judge William Cassady rejected this option due to “potential conflicts”.

• Europe

  Stephen Soans-Wade

  07.28.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  An independent inquiry into what drove Stephen Soans-Wade, a mentally ill man and drug addict, to push Christophe Duclos under a train at a London underground station in September 2002 has concluded that mental health services had failed to assess the risk he posed to others in the weeks building up to the murder. However, the report also concluded that even if he had received the best care possible he still might have gone on to push the security guard from France onto the tracks of Mile End tube station.

• Asia, Europe, Smuggling

  An update on Badruddoza Chowdhury Momen

  07.17.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Last month I wrote about Badruddoza Chowdhury Momen, the Bangladeshi businessman who was arrested in May on charges of smuggling heroin into the United Kingdom and then denied bail.

  Well, it turns that he has since then confessed to police and a magistrate that he was involved in smuggling the drugs through ghost companies tied to BD Foods Limited, the food import company he is the chairman of. He has secured three months interim bail, although prosecutors have appealed this ruling.

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