Illegal drugs can be harmless, report says

Illegal drugs can be "harmless" and should no longer be "demonised", a wide-ranging two-year study concluded today.

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Walgreens Marks Up Generic Drugs By 975%!

At Walgreens, 90 tablets of generic prozac costs $117. At Costco, it is $12. That is not a typo. Click on the link and find out how badly these stores are screwing people over on generic drug prices.

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Sea Urchin Eggs Plus Marijuana Equal Amazing New Drugs

Chemists have created a collection of molecules that may have effects superior to marijuana.

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Drug smugglers use submarines

A secret boatyard has been discovered in a South American swamp where drug barons were building submarines with the aim of landing tons of cocaine on to American beaches.

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Drug smugglers use submarines

A secret boatyard has been discovered in a South American swamp where drug barons were building submarines with the aim of landing tons of cocaine on to American beaches.

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The Most Dangerous Drug in the World

Scopolamine is a colorless, tasteless, odorless drug. It is also known as hyoscine and is classified as a tropane alkaloid. The drug can be obtained from plants in the Solanacea (nightshade) family. Most scopolamine comes from jimsome weed, or as in Columbia, borrachero trees. The plants it can be derived from are many, and abundantly available.

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Admit war on drugs has been a failure

Since it started in 1970, American law enforcement has arrested 38 million people for nonviolent drug offenses, nearly 2 million last year alone. The number of people jailed for violent crimes has risen 300 percent, but the prison population of nonviolent drug offenders has soared 2,558 percent.

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Most Americans Oppose Use of SWAT-Style Tactics in Drug Raids

A year ago this week, 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston was gunned down by Atlanta narcotics officers when she opened fire on them as they kicked down her door in a "no-knock" drug raid. The killing has had immense reverberations in the Atlanta area, especially since it opened a window on corrupt and questionable police practices in the drug squad.

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Caffeine Facts

What is America’s favorite drug? You guessed it - caffeine. We use more caffeine than all other drugs - legal or illegal - combined. Want to know what the stuff is doing to you? Here’s a quick overview

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NH Cop To McCain: Drug War Blows

Police officer tells John McCain: "We should help people who are addicted to drugs, not spend $69 billion a year to put people in jail."

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New AIDS drug shows 'phenomenal' results

AIDS researchers said a new drug shows promise for inhibiting the HIV virus in patients new to treatment or those currently taking a drug cocktail. Clinical studies of the drug, called an integrase inhibitor, showed that, when combined with two existing drugs, it reduced the virus to undetectable levels in nearly 100% of HIV patients

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Canadiens re-declare war on drugs, marijuana arrests up 20-50%

Health Minister Tony Clement will announce the Conservative government's anti-drug strategy this week with a stark warning: "The party's over" for illicit drug users. For too long, Clement argues, governments in Canada have been sending the wrong message about drug use. It's time, he says, to take a tougher approach to dealing with the problem.

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Marijuana convictions: Kicked out of school but welcomed into Iraq

In what's being called the "Drug War Draft," President Bush's policies deny financial aid to students with drug convictions but make it easy for them to enlist in the military. A group of college students made this video that points out the hypocrisy of the Drug War Draft.

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Is The US Winning The War On Drugs? [VIDEO]

Should drugs like marijuana, heroin, and cocaine be legal? Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, clashes with David Murray, chief scientist at the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy.

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Spiders on drugs

These are pictures of webs of spiders that were given drugs, the diffrent drugs are - LSD, mescaline, hashish, and the worst caffeine

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