April 19, 2008
Aids epidemic in Indonesian jails -Aljazeera (Youtube)
Indonesia's policy of sending drug users to prisons instead of rehabilitation centres has resulted in about 70 per cent of inmates reportedly dying of AIDS-related illness mainly spread through the sharing of dirty needles by drug users.
ASIA: A Cleaner Fix
NAIROBI, 26 March 2008 (IRIN Film & TV) - Across Indonesia there are an estimated 500,000 injecting drug users. As many as 70 percent of them are HIV positive.
Photo: David Gough/IRIN. Timotius Hadi (right) was a heroin addict for close to 10 years. Since testing positive for HIV in 2003, he turned his life around and now supplies clean syringes to injecting drug users for Karisma.
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October 23, 2007
A Comeback for Lebanon's Hashish Oct. 16, 2007 By NICHOLAS BLANFORD/BEKAA VALLEY
"Lebanese hashish is the best in the world, better than Turkey and Afghanistan," says Ali, a Bekaa farmer standing in his field of knee-high hashish plants, the spiky saw-toothed cannabis leaves swaying gently in the hot breeze. Ali and other hashish farmers interviewed by TIME requested their real names not be printed.
In Lebanon, a comeback for cannabis By Nicholas Blanford | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor from the October 16, 2007 edition
'Pot 2.0': Where Can I Get Some? By Paul Armentano, AlterNet. Posted October 20, 2007.
"We're no longer talking about the drug of the 1960s and 1970s," Drug Czar John Walters told Reuters News Wire. (The Czar failed to explain why if previous decades' pot was innocuous police still arrested you for it.) "This is Pot 2.0."
Prince of pot or dope of Vansterdam? SARAH HAMPSON From Monday's Globe and Mail October 22, 2007
"Mr. Emery, who is 50, is currently in the highest-stake fight of his activist life. In 2005, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration asked the Canadian government to extradite him and two of his Vancouver employees on charges of drug-trafficking because he exported marijuana seeds to American buyers."
Rapper's death leads teens to re-evaluate lifestyle By LESLIE CASIMIR Oct. 20, 2007
"In the streets of southeast Houston, where Big Moe helped give birth to the music that helped put this city on the hip-hop map, his fans and friends alike are now wondering whether cough syrup abuse may have been a factor that led to his death on Sunday. The 33-year-old rapper immortalized Purple Drank, Lean, Sizzurp — monikers for the cough suppressant containing promethazine and codeine — in songs and drank the stuff for years. "
PHENSEDYL COUGH LINCTUS
