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President Evo Morales has announced he is suspending "indefinitely" the operations of the US Drug Enforcement Administration in Bolivia.Mr Morales accused the agency of having encouraged anti-government protests in the country in September. He did not say whether its staff would be asked to leave the country, as coca- growers have been pressing him to do. Bolivia's first indigenous president once served as the leader of the country's union of coca-growers.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Heavily armed Mexican police, backed by helicopters, locked down the capital's most notorious neighborhood on Tuesday as part of the latest offensive against rampant drug trafficking. Hundreds of officers with assault rifles lined the Tepito neighborhood's main artery, searching passing motorists. Police had stormed the district, a warren of scruffy homes and market stalls, last week and seized a tenement complex known as "The Fortress" -- reputedly a major cocaine and marijuana distribution center. President Felipe Calderon has sent thousands of troops to fight drug gangs in their strongholds along the Pacific coast and near the...

MEXICO CITY - The Mexican government will expand its anti-drug raids to two states across the border from Texas, deploying more than 3,000 soldiers, sailors and federal police, officials said Sunday. The raids will cover Nuevo Laredo, a town across the border from Laredo, Texas, that has been bloodied by turf wars between drug gangs in recent years. Officials also said that in the two months since intensive raids began in central and western Mexico, they have destroyed almost as many opium fields as plots of marijuana, long Mexico's principal drug crop. "We have begun a frontal struggle against organized...

MEXICO CITY - Mexico's government said Thursday it would send troops and police to root out drug smugglers in several states, expanding an offensive that began this week in one violence-plagued state where soldiers clashed with traffickers trying to protect a marijuana field. Attorney General Eduardo Medina said raids could take place simultaneously in various states, apparently to prevent traffickers from fleeing between regions. He declined to name the states. "The operational design in each state will be different," he said. "The war against drug trafficking is very complicated, but it is a winnable war." He said the idea was...

The Bush administration is taking its fight against illegal drugs to YouTube, the trendy internet video service that already features clips of wacky, drug-induced behaviour and step-by-step instructions for growing marijuana plants. The decision to distribute anti-drug, public service announcements and other videos over YouTube represents the first concerted effort by the US government to influence customers of the popular service, which shows more than 100 million videos per day. The administration was expected to announce the decision formally today. It said it was not paying any money to load its previously produced videos onto YouTube's service, so the program...

"In the United States, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants are advertised directly to consumers [1]. These highly successful direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) campaigns have largely revolved around the claim that SSRIs correct a chemical imbalance caused by a lack of serotonin."

I remember reading several months ago about some drug they developed from a tree or plant in africa. When people take it they go through this introspective journey and meet with some sort of spiritual being that sets them straight...? No I dont buy it but a "friend" wanted to read it. Thanks

Current and former officials, anti-drug activists, and other concerned Americans will come together in Washington, D.C. on October 28, Thursday, to expose and oppose the George Soros “retreat and defeat” agenda in the war on drugs. Through a loophole in the campaign finance law, Soros is spending tens of millions of dollars to defeat President Bush, who opposes drug legalization. The event, to be held at the Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2203, 10:00 a.m., kicks off an all-day summit on the drug problem. It is designed to draw attention to how Soros intends to subvert our nation’s anti-drug policy...

June 6, 2003) — Monroe County’s top police executives Thursday revealed the existence of a year-old task force to disrupt the illegal drug trade among mid- to upper-level dealers. The Greater Rochester Area Narcotics Enforcement Team -- or GRANET -- was formed 13 months ago. But the police chiefs waited to announce the team’s formation until it had accumulated a year’s worth of arrests and seizures, said Brockport Police Chief Dan Varrenti, an administrator of the team. “These arrests were made based on lengthy investigations and a collaborative effort,” Varrenti said at a news conference at the Monroe Community College...