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Canadian officials seized three pumpkins from a passenger's bag at the airport. And boy were they stuffed, they say, with 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) of cocaine. Border agency officers at the Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport found the pumpkins while searching the luggage of a female traveler, according to a news release.

An unidentified man died Friday night while taking a soak in a hot tub at Club Pittsburgh "whose website refers to nudity and private booths for its male-only clientele" as reported by WTAE. In January 2008 police discovered the dead body of 31-year-old Cleophus Pettway in one of the club's rented rooms, and an autopsy found cocaine and ethyl chloride inhalants in his system as reported by WTAE. Club Pittsburgh is owned by gay philanthropists and Democrat fundraisers Peter Karlovich and Steven Herforth as reported by Jerome L. Sherman for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

38 year old child movie star Corey Haim was found dead today in his apartment, known for movies like 1986's feel good movie Lucas, also starring Winona Ryder and Charlie Sheen, and 1987's Horror/thriller The Lost Boys and with Keifer Sutherland and lifelong friend Corey Feldman ...

Amy Winehouse could struggle to catch her breath and hit high notes as a result of suffering emphysema, a lung expert has said. The singer's father spoke out at the weekend about his worries that Winehouse could lose her life unless she kicks her drug habit. In an interview with the Sunday Mirror, Mitch Winehouse said his daughter - who was rushed to hospital recently after collapsing - had developed the chronic lung disease emphysema, possibly brought on by smoking crack cocaine.

VANCOUVER (CP) - If Health Canada agrees, Vancouver crack addicts could have a safe place to inhale their drugs within the city's pioneer safe injection site. Vancouver Mayor Larry Campbell told reporters Tuesday he wants to make an application to the federal Health Ministry "as soon as possible" to allow for a crack cocaine safe smoking site. "It makes perfect sense," he told reporters, adding that European cities already have similar programs in place. His remarks came near the one year anniversary the city's safe injection pilot project, the first of its kind in North America. Based on a harm...

<! == DROP DOWN MENU TABS =========== > COCAINE: Alluring, All-Consuming, Deadlyby: Harry J. Felch MOST PEOPLE who use cocaine are fortunate and escape death, but thousands per year do not. As for the rest, some just don't find her alluring and never develop a relationship. For others, there develops a relationship that will become the script for a horror film. They will be stripped of their self-respect. They will eventually sell their soul for a few more fleeting seconds of "feeling normal" before they are cast back into the claws of addiction. They will lose their spouses, their...

OSLO, Norway -- A smuggler swallowed 3.5 pounds of cocaine to avoid detection but was caught in southern Norway nevertheless, the customs service said today. Per Emil Wikoeren, head the Customs Region Southern Norway, said the man, posing as an asylum seeker, had swallowed the cocaine in 160 small packages. "That is a Norwegian record and we have found nothing in our databases to indicate that anywhere in this world has anyone swallowed 1.6 kilograms (3.5 pounds)," he told state radio network NRK. The man, originally from Nigeria and in his 20s, arrived from Madrid at the small airport near...

MEXICO CITY -- Julio Cesar Mondragon started smoking crack cocaine on the streets of his working-class Mexico City neighborhood when he was 15. Minimum-wage jobs didn't pay enough to support his habit, so he took to carjacking and mugging with an armed gang. "I was so strung out, I couldn't see what I was doing and how I was hurting people, particularly my own family," said Mondragon, a burly 25-year-old who has been clean for a year. Mexicans once considered cocaine addiction a U.S. problem. Drug analysts even had a saying: "The Colombians produce it, the Mexicans traffic it and...

<p>The leader of a major drug trafficking organization in Mexico has been indicted in a smuggling operation that delivered nearly $50 million in cocaine to buyers in New York, New Jersey, Chicago and California during a 10-month period, Attorney General John Ashcroft said yesterday.</p>

NEW YORK (AP) — Chelsea Clinton will start a six-figure consulting job after she receives a master's degree from Oxford University later this year, Newsweek magazine reports on its Web site. The daughter of former President Clinton will work in the New York office of London-based McKinsey & Company, newsweek.com reported Friday. Clinton, 23, accepted the position Friday after she reportedly turned down McKinsey's offer of $100,000 a year to work at its London headquarters, according to the Web site. A spokesman for McKinsey did not immediately return a call for comment Saturday, nor did Bill Clinton's office. Clinton, who...