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Spanish police raid drug hypermarket

Last week Spanish police conducted a raid on what they described as a “hypermarket” for illicit drugs in a suburb of Madrid. The police sources stated that when they conducted the raid there were 120 people in the process of buying or consuming illicit substances. The compound which was run by a group known as “The Fatties” had designated areas for all the illegal activities that were taking place there with a specific area for consuming the drugs that had just been purchased.

    Racial bias, prisoners and the American Census for 2010

    The upcoming census in United States has created a big controversy as rural and urban areas battle to hold prison inmates as their own.

    The problem lies in the way that the Census considers residence for people who are incarcerated. Even though the Census uses the residence rule which consistently results in counting people at their homes, prisoners are not given that right and are instead considered as residents of the community that contains the prison.

      Can America be Cured of a Prison Addiction?

       

      Give me your BLACK, your SPANISH, your poor,

      Your INCARCERATED masses yearning to breathe free,

      I lift my lamp beside the PRISON door

      - The Statue of Liberty 

      "Gimme some more!" you can hear her screaming from across the atlantic, "just a few more... I need more convicts! please, I am begging you..." 

        Student to Obama: Legalize Drugs, Prostitution to Stimulate the Economy

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        A student suggests to Obama the legalization of drugs and non-violent crimes like new way to stimulate the economy.

          Survival sex amongst homeless American teenagers

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            A story for Estonia: on happiness and HIV

            Tom's story is a story like many others. He told his to Convictus Estonia, an NGO which offers psychological help for HIV-positive and drug addicts. Tom's story is telling of a reality in which gender, drugs and HIV are entangled in one human experience. Talking Drugs is commited to exploring such stories and to reproducing them in order to trigger a debate on how sex, gender, family, drugs and HIV shape specific private and public worlds: in this case, Tom's life.

            'Hello! My name is Tom. I am 33 year old now.

              UK: Drug users cost families £1.8 billion a year

              The UK Drug Policy Commission, an independent body providing objective analysis of UK drug policy, has just published a press release informing about the hidden cost of Britain's drug problem to the families of users.

              According to the UKPDC's study, at least 1.5 million UK people, caring for relatives with drug problems, are bearing a huge hidden burden valued at at least £1.8 billion pounds a year.

                Drugs in the water

                A vast array of pharmaceuticals -- including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones - have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.

                To be sure, the concentrations of these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in quantities of parts per billion or trillion, far below the levels of a medical dose. Also, utilities insist their water is safe.

                  The night that won't end

                  Let me start by saying that I have had experiences with nearly every kind of drug used recreationally in America these days. LSD, pot, hash, coke, crack, opium, heroin, speed (pills), shrooms, K, G and all the different pills you can name. I'm 30 yrs old and 1st smoked pot at 11. I did crack and coke by age 14. It was like whoopdie do. This is what's destroying America? It never seemed to get a hold on me. I saw what it did to others. I've seen some real horror stories unfold.

                    Maldives Urges UN to refocus fight on drugs

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                    According to a news story published today on Miadhu News,  the Maldives has urged the United Nations to refocus its fight against illicit narcotics from security protection to enhanced public health. The Maldives made the statement today at the Social, Human rights and Cultural Committee of the General Assembly of the UN.

                    The country, which is a tropical paradise for tourists, is faced with the realities of a youth drug addiction that touches nearly every family, as UNICEF estimates that about 40% of the country's youth take hard drugs.

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