Italy's Strict Drug Law Goes Up in Smoke

Italy's strict drug law goes up in smoke

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From the beginning, the law was criticised for equating "soft" drugs, such as cannabis, with hard ones, such as heroin or cocaine. Illicit substances were divided into two categories, and the quantity seized by police became one of the criteria to … Read more on Aljazeera.com

 

Drug Mules in Peru: Reid, McCollum, and Bartscher All Struggling to Find Way

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Yet, recent years have seen the rise of affluent, white Europeans taking dangerous risks and trying to sneak drugs into Europe and they have been getting caught. On Dec. 13, 2013, two U.K. women, Melissa Reid and Michaella McCollum, were sentenced to … Read more on Latin Post

 

When Senator Kefauver Inspired the Scripts

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“Mr. Zizek's daisy-chained improvisations amount to an argument on behalf of complexity and unseen depths and, like much academic writing, it risks monotony and becoming as reductive as it can be seductive,” Nicolas Rapold wrote in The Times in October … Read more on New York Times