Canadian Police Warn About LSD-Laced Gummy Bears: "Drug smuggling has gone to new creative lengths when authorities in Canada found gummy bear candy laced with the drug LSD.
Police in Cranbrook, British Columbia, say that this new drug smuggling trend was discovered last spring when they found a suspicious bag of gummy bears during a drug raid, according to Canoe.ca . The candy was found in an odd place, which prodded officials to get the gummy bears tested.
CTV News reported that the bears were sent to a lab, and LSD, also known as Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, was confirmed to be present."
Canadian Police Warn About LSD-Laced Gummy Bears: "Drug smuggling has gone to new creative lengths when authorities in Canada found gummy bear candy laced with the drug LSD.
Police in Cranbrook, British Columbia, say that this new drug smuggling trend was discovered last spring when they found a suspicious bag of gummy bears during a drug raid, according to Canoe.ca . The candy was found in an odd place, which prodded officials to get the gummy bears tested.
CTV News reported that the bears were sent to a lab, and LSD, also known as Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, was confirmed to be present."
No evidence Buckfast ban would work, say police - Telegraph: "Chief Superintendent Bob Hamilton, of Strathclyde Police's territorial policing unit, said “people would drink something else” and the price and availability of cheap alcohol was the real problem.
Holyrood’s health committee also heard there was no evidence to support Labour’s claim that selling alcohol below cost would help tackle Scotland’s binge drinking epidemic. The two proposals were the central recommendations of Labour’s alcohol commission, which tried to provide alternatives to the SNP’s policy of minimum unit pricing, a move the party opposes.
The commission was supposedly independent but Professor Sally Brown, its chair, admitted its members had been picked by Labour and there was no proof a “floor” price would work."
Ricky Hatton admits cocaine addiction and will enter rehab this week - mirror.co.uk: "Ricky Hatton will check into a rehab clinic this week after tearfully confessing to a year-long cocaine addiction.
The former boxing world champ was caught on camera snorting “industrial” amounts of cocaine during a sordid drink-and-drugs binge a fortnight ago.
Hatton admitted being hooked on the Class A drug in an emotional heart-to-heart with fiancée Jennifer Dooley yesterday.
He told her: “I’ve been an idiot and I’m so sorry and ashamed. I need and want to sort myself out.”
She was horrified to discover Hatton, 31, had seven lines of cocaine during a night out in Manchester.
The bloated ex-boxer then admitted he had been taking the drug for almost a year – beginning shortly after his last fight, when he was knocked out in two rounds by Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao.
Hatton was caught on film taking out a wrap of cocaine hidden in his shoe before chopping up lines with a credit card in a hotel room."
AFP: Boxer Hatton to seek help after cocaine revelations: "Former two-weight world champion Ricky Hatton is to seek help after a newspaper published photos and video footage of the boxer allegedly snorting cocaine.
The News of the World secretly filmed Hatton, who has not fought since being knocked out in the second round of his May 2009 showdown with Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas, supposedly using 'industrial quantities' of the drug during a marathon 10-hour drinking session.
Hatton's spokesman Max Clifford told talkSPORT on Monday: 'The thing is now to sort out the problem, to get him to have treatment and hopefully win this battle.
'I think he'll be going today (Monday to get professional help) to talk to the people he needs to talk to. To talk to the people who are experts in these circumstances.
'I think the intention is that he's going to be looked after and hopefully will listen and find out what they tell him and what treatment they give him.
'He needs expert advice and help, as anyone in these circumstances does and, from the conversation I had with him yesterday, that will start today.
'I've spoken to his dad and Paul Speak (his agent) and they all speak with one voice, he needs help and we're all going to make sure that he gets the best help possible as quickly as possible.'"
British Troops' Afghan Heroin Smuggling Under Spotlight: "British troops' role in the smuggling of heroin from southern Afghanistan could no longer be kept under wraps. The British Defense Ministry on Sept. 12 confirmed there were allegations that soldiers were using military planes to smuggle drugs out of Afghanistan, but called them 'unsubstantiated.' However, they said they said they are investigating and taking precautions.
British troops moved into the southern province of Helmand in 2005 at the time the opium explosion in that province began. It was during the British troops' presence in the province that the Taliban took overall control there. Under the watchful eyes of some 9,000 British troops, opium production in Helmand rose from 1,500 tons to 4,200 tons.
Last year, Britain's Sunday Times reported one drug dealer telling the newspaper that members of the military were the second largest buyers of heroin after foreign drug lords. The newspaper was told: 'The soldiers whose term of duty is about to finish, they give an order to our boss. They are carrying these drugs in the military airlines and they can't be reached because they are military. They can take it to the U.S.A. or England.' A team of detectives from Britain's Ministry of Defence's special investigations branch is believed to be heading the investigation into the claims.
Throughout this period when the British troops were smuggling drugs, London kept attacking Afghan President Hamid Karzai's brother as the main drug lord in the area, with the aim to create an anti-Karzai lobby among policymakers and legislators in Washington."
DND: Heroin claims unfounded - Brantford Expositor - Ontario, CA: "Neither British nor Canadian troops are under investigation for having allegedly smuggled heroin out of Afghanistan, despite 'unfounded' media reports suggesting they are, according to a senior Canadian defence department official.
In fact, there aren't even substantiated allegations that such a heroin smuggling ring even exists, the official said.
The Sunday Times in Britain reported over the weekend that Canadian troops at Kandahar airport and British troops in Helmand province's Camp Bastion were allegedly involved in a large heroin-smuggling operation.
The report suggested there are allegations troops were using military aircraft to smuggle large quantities of heroin out of Afghanistan.
'Media reports this past weekend suggesting that Canadian Forces personnel have been implicated in a British-led investigation into heroin smuggling by military personnel in Afghanistan are unfounded,' said Col. Tim Grubb, Canadian Forces provost marshal, in a statement released Monday. 'The Canadian Forces Military Police have confirmed with Britain's Royal Military Police that no such investigation is underway and that no such allegations have been made against either British or Canadian personnel.'"
Heroin - It's cheap. it's deadly, and teens think it's no big deal - News & Views - Cover Story - Gambit - New Orleans: "I've spent 11 months of the last two years in jail,' says Arun Rahman, who dropped out of one of the area's most expensive private schools two years ago, in his senior year, to try to kick a heroin addiction. It didn't work.
Rahman, 20, talked to Gambit in late August, just four days out of a seven-month, court-ordered stay at the Narconon rehabilitation center in Baton Rouge. It cost his parents $36,000 to send the former National Merit Scholarship finalist there. Meanwhile, his older sister just graduated from Yale and is on a graduate placement in Paris. Rahman used to feel impatient — that he was missing out on many things because of his addiction. Rehab has helped him accept that he must move at his own pace, he says.
Rahman left Benjamin Franklin High School after he was caught selling marijuana in the parking lot. 'They (school officials) said they had the right to expel him, but 'because we know he can make a new beginning, we're not going to put it on his record,'' says Rahman's mother, Zeenat Rasheed. 'It was in the middle of exams, so they let him finish his exams and said, 'Please just take him away.''
Rahman's family did just that. He applied and was admitted to a private school, but his family did not tell the school of his drug history. His academic record earned him a scholarship, but the school had no inkling of Rahman's drug problem. His mother admits they withheld that information from the school, which has a policy of expelling students who use or deal drugs on campus.
No doubt that school would not have admitted Rahman had it known of his drug problems."
Taliban Deface Koran to Sell Heroin - Washington Times: "The Taliban are using pages torn from the Koran to package heroin sold on the streets by kids. ISAF forces operating in Souther Afghanistan found children with 'pockets of heroin and wads of cash' according to USA Today's Gregg Zoroya. The heroin was packaged in ripped up pages from Islam's most holy document. The story also details how the Islamic radicals are using children, aged three and up, as human shields or to plant roadside bombs, as well as peddling drugs to help fund the insurgency. Perhaps the State Department could explain to the Taliban that desecrating the Koran is un-American"
NWI facing return of laced heroin, ODs :: Local News :: Post-Tribune: "Fentanyl-laced heroin appears to have returned to Northwest Indiana, leading to an increase in drug overdoses and deaths, according to Porter-Starke Services.
Rocco Schiralli said in a letter to the Post-Tribune that the lethal mix has helped kill six people in Porter County in the last two months, along with more than 20 near-fatal overdoses."
Identifying the Worst Effects Among Heroin Abusers: "Heroin is a highly addictive drug semi-synthetic opioid drug. This central nervous system depressant is one of the highly abused illegal drugs in United States. According to a survey by NSDUH (National Survey on Drug Use and Health) in 2008, there was an increase in Heroin abuse in teenagers from 153,000 in 2007 to 213,000 in 2008. Around 114,000 aged 12 or older used Heroin for the first time in 2008. These statistics clearly state that many people are getting addicted to this harmful drug which has numerous negative effects on the abusers.
Many harmful effects such as miscarriages, heart infections, death from overdose, HIV/AIDS and hepatitis etc., are associated with Heroin abuse. Following are the worst effects among Heroin abusers:
Ugly features in appearance
Heroin abusers will have very ugly physical appearance. They appear skinny, unkempt and less hygienic. The person's veins will be collapsed, will have keloids, pus discharge from the scars all over the body due to regular injection of the drug.
Droopy stance
Heroin addicts appear drowsy or very much relaxed. They have trouble sitting, standing or changing positions. They appear lost in their own world. They have to drag themselves to walk, as they feel some heaviness in their legs and arms."
Crystal meth, cocaine, ammunition discovered during traffic stop | stop, ammunition, traffic - Top Story - Brownsville Herald: "nervousness that Hector Castillo, 21, of Brownsville, and Fernando Gonzalez Alvarez, 31, of Matamoros, displayed indicated to the officers that this was not going to be any routine traffic stop for a mere traffic violation, said Brownsville police spokesman Eddie Garcia on Tuesday.
The traffic stop happened at 6:30 p.m. at the 400 block of FM 802 on Monday.
“The individuals were very nervous and that was very suspicious as far as their actions. The investigation lead to the discovery of cocaine inside,” Garcia said. “It was luck that the officer came across this.”
A search of the 2007 Nissan Altima lead to the confiscation of a powerful drug – nearly 26 pound of crystal meth - that is not commonly found in Brownsville, police said.
Authorities also confiscated 46.23 pounds of cocaine. Police later went to a nearby storage shed where they seized some 584 assault rifle magazines and more than 300 rounds of ammunition."
George Clooney galpal caught in cocaine scandal? - BostonHerald.com: "Elisabetta Canalis, the Italian model who has been dating Hollywood hunk George Clooney for the past year, has been implicated in a cocaine scandal that led to the arrest of five people in her home country.
According to Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, two years ago, authorities began investigating two Milan nightclubs that were allegedly running an escort-and-prostitution ring fueled by alcohol and cocaine. The clubs, Hollywood and The Club, were regularly frequented by celebrities.
French model Karima Menad, 26, has testified that she “had done cocaine” with Canalis in both Milan hot spots."
West Australian police fear a lethal batch of heroin may have hit Perth's streets after three fatal drug overdoses were reported within 24 hours.
Since 4pm (WST) on Thursday, three men have died due to heroin overdoses, including a 54-year-old businessman who was found dead at his West Perth office, police said.
A 40-year-old was found dead on a freeway overpass in the Perth CBD at about 9pm, while a 31-year-old overdosed in his home at about 10am (WST) on Friday in the northeast Perth suburb of Ashfield.
Police are carrying out toxicology tests as part of the post mortems to determine whether the deaths resulted from a bad batch of heroin cut with other substances to bulk up the quantity, Detective Inspector Alan Morton said.
The heroin could also have been of a much higher purity than usual, he said.
Det Insp Morton said the men did not know each other, and each death was a separate case.
Drug users should be cautioned, he said.
"There's nothing significant about the three of these that set it apart from any other heroin users, so if drug users are thinking they can outsmart or use safely, they can think again," he said on Friday.
"They are playing Russian roulette with their lives."
Det Insp Morton said there was nothing to suggest an increase in heroin use or a spike in the amount of the opiate hitting Perth streets.
Last year police attended 30 suspected deaths due to drug overdoses.
So far this year police have attended 15 deaths.
Eric Dillon from the Drug and Alcohol Office said many users had no idea what was in the heroin they were buying, and the deaths overnight highlighted just how deadly the drug was.
"The reality is that people just don't know what they are getting," he said.
"If people do get into difficulty, they should call an ambulance without delay."
WOMAN charged with trying to extort almost $800,000 from John Stamos says she had a photo of the actor snorting cocaine in 2004 in Florida, where he was unwinding after a separation from his supermodel wife.
Allison Coss, 24, testified in the Federal Court in Michigan yesterday, where she and co-defendant Scott Sippola, 31, are accused of demanding money from Stamos and threatening to sell photos to magazines of him with strippers and cocaine.
Defence lawyers have argued it isn't a crime to make a business deal, but prosecutors say it's a ruse and the photos don't exist.
Coss admitted she lied in emails to Stamos to try to get him to pay.
new legal highs had flooded the market since mephedrone and naphyrone were banned this year.Chairman Professor Les Iverson said it was difficult for these to be policed.
Naphyrone, which is sold as NRG1, was legal until being reclassified as a Class B drug after research from the ACMD showed it could be 10 times more potent than cocaine.Responding to the BBC investigation into the online mephedrone trade, Professor Iverson said: "At the moment we're floundering. We haven't got adequate mechanisms to combat the internet crime. And it is internet crime if you're selling a banned substance."
Experts say it is now impossible to know what you are taking because as soon as one compound is outlawed, another slightly different one takes its place.
The ACMD has suggested a blanket ban on all chemicals similar to mephedrone and naphyrone.
Bob Probert, Renowed Hockey Brawler, Dies at 45 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com: "Bob Probert, a strapping forward for the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks who became one of hockey’s most accomplished brawlers but struggled with drug and alcohol abuse, died Monday in Windsor, Ontario. He was 45."
‘Prisons are awash with drugs’ - Inside Time Newspaper: "£100 million worth of drugs are smuggled into prisons every year but there is a worrying lack of knowledge about how they get there
It is an open secret that our prisons are awash with drugs. The evidence points to the fact that the bulk of drug dealing, as well as the smuggling of mobile phones, into prisons is highly organised and involves the collusion of around 1000 corrupt members of prison staff – an average of seven for every prison in England and Wales."
Australian arrested in Bali over cocaine: "Angus McCaskill, 57, a New Zealand-born Melbourne investment adviser, at a news conference yesterday, during which he covered his head to hide his face.
Mr McCaskill had been living in Seminyak, an upmarket district north of Kuta Beach, when police arrested him last Wednesday after allegedly receiving information from a local.
As he was led into the conference, Mr McCaskill told reporters he had made a ''silly mistake'' and told police he had used the drug for the first time the day before he was arrested.
''I'm very, very sorry,'' he said.
He told reporters he had been watching the World Cup and had drunk a lot. ''I was very, very drunk.'
Police said they caught Mr McCaskill with six packets of cocaine in his wallet after they watched him walk into a supermarket in Tuban, near the international airport at the southern end of the island.
Police said they then took sniffer dogs to his villa but did not find any more drugs. They said a urine test confirmed that he had been using the drug.
Police said Mr McCaskill had been living on a tourist visa for several months at Bobo Villa, near the resort area Ku De Ta.
But the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said he was a long-term resident of Bali. It said it was providing consular assistance to Mr McCaskill and his family, who live in New Zealand."
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