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Transportation Of IV Equipment And Police Stop And Search Procedure

I am writing this article because, I am extemely concerened about the practice of police in relation to stop and search procedures and the transportation of safe injecting equipment from needle exchanges to home, or other place of use.

I myself was recently searched whilst travelling in a car, along with two other passengers. A small amount of cannabis resin, about 1.75 gm's was found on one person. I myself was not carrying any controled substances, but I was carrying a packet of injecting equipment, obtained from a needle exchange.

Snitchville, USA

Imagine this: a police force that makes its living on commissions alone, in other words, the more arrests they make the more money they earn. Violent offenders aren’t easy to catch red-handed and they usually are in possession of few items of value, whereas drug-related offenders (who are essentially either consumers or merchants) are easier to catch in the act and are often in possession of large sums of money, cars and/or contraband substances.

A drug mule is busted at Gatwick airport

‘The time is 10.25 and you are placed under arrest’.

Politicians take drugs too

Politicians’ new willingness to admit drug use highlights not only the hypocrisy of current drug law, but also the reality of an unjust society where some individuals are punished for using illicit drugs while others can use them with relative impunity.

The dangers of ecstasy - "Today Tonight" report from Australia

Submitted by annabloch on Wed, 16/09/2009 - 14:45

Australian news report shows police raid a festival to prevent th revellers from taking Ecstacy which creates it's own kind of 'living death' and 'permanentely rewires brains.'

Security Guard Smoking Weed

This guy is supposed to be protecting the public but he wants to get high instead.

New ‘tactics’ for drug policy

The UK Drug Policy has suggested that new measures are need to access the impact of police approaches to tackling drugs. They are needed so that operations are judged on real benefits to communities, not simply arrests and seizures.

Drugs as a tool for political repressions: Artem Loscutov`s case

On May 15, the young contemporary artist Artem Loskutov was arrested in his native Novisibirsk and charged with possession of a narcotic substance (marijuana) by the local branch of the Interior Ministry’s notorious Center for Extremism Prevention (Center “E”). Loskutov and his supporters claim that the police planted the marijuana in his bag in order to incriminate him.

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Children drinking alcohol

Children get hold of drugs and alcohol despite the law. We obviously need to protect children. The availability of drugs and alcohol to school age children indicates we are not doing a very good job of it.

Surely better education would be better than heavy use of the law. Giving a criminal record to somebody starting out in life for a small quantity of cannabis or something similar, seems to be a crazy thing for a society to do.

The Difference Between Quitting and Not Quitting Drugs

One night in April of 2006, I was bathing with a friend at the bathhouse on a major street in Beijing. As I was resting in the big hall, suddenly many policemen rushed in, running straight for us in a very bad temper. They dragged us to their office, and didn’t even let us dress ourselves before we had to go.

Policeman: “Just finished shooting up, huh?”

This time I said, emboldened: “I’ve quit for a long time!”

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