

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan - Afghanistan produced record levels of opium in 2007 for the second straight year, led by a staggering 45 percent increase in the areas the US and Nato have the most concentration, Helmand Province, according to a new United Nations survey to be released Monday.

LOS ANGELES - In a city famous for showing that life's little problems can be resolved in a 30-minute sitcom, celebrity justice is sometimes just as swift.
Blink-and-you-miss-them sentences this week for Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Richie have resurrected the question of whether fame provides a soft landing for fallen stars.

COUNCIL HOLDS NOSE, PUTS POT ON NOV. BALLOT
Plan Would Make Small Amounts the 'Lowest' Priority
Voters will decide this fall on a ballot initiative that would make possession of small amounts of marijuana the "lowest law enforcement priority" of Denver police, the City Council decided Monday night.

It Is Legal for Him to Have Pot, but a Police Sergeant Says It Was Illegal for the Pot to Be in View of the Officer. Mark Gilliland wants his marijuana back.
The 32-year-old Walla Walla resident had about 24 grams of marijuana taken by police officers Friday night after he was pulled over for having expired tabs on his vehicle.

LONDON-The use of stronger varieties of cannabis can lead to psychosis, according to newly published findings in The Lancet medical journal.
Alternately, the use of cannabis can lead to the corridors of power, as evidenced by the recent admissions of past indulgences by at least 11 senior members of the new British government under Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Channel 4 has caused controversy after inviting journalists to take drugs and alcohol for a documentary.
The publicly-owned station, which is at the centre of the scandal about premium rate competitions, has asked an independent production company to develop the programme after a report in March listed alcohol as more harmful than cannabis and ecstasy.
The company, Ricochet, has written to prospective participants inviting them to spend a month in Holland where they would take drugs and drink alcohol "with no legal repercussions".

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Conclusion Ice Wars investigation:
This investigation started Xmas of 2004 when I received the Jason King books Cannabible 1&2. The section on hashish is what got my curiosity going. I had spent most of my adult life smoking, smuggling, selling hashish and pride myself in the many Hash producing countries I visited. I wrote a book about all of this and it’s called the King of Nepal.


LAZARO CARDENAS, Mexico - Soldiers trying to seize control of one Mexico's top drug-producing regions found the countryside teeming with a new hybrid marijuana plant that can be cultivated year-round and cannot be killed with herbicides.
Soldiers fanned out across some of the new fields Tuesday, pulling up plants by the root and burning them, as helicopter gunships clattered overhead to give them cover from a raging drug war in the western state of Michoacan. The plants' roots survive if they are doused with herbicide, said army Gen. Manuel Garcia.

Cannabis smoked today is ten or even 20 times stronger than when David Cameron was a teenager in the 1980s - hugely increasing the danger it poses.
The major difference is an increase in intensive indoor cultivation, rather than allowing the plant to grow naturally outdoors.