Drug policy for teachers likely to be a battle tonight Daily Mail - Charleston, WV - by Ry Rivard As teacher organizations and their lawyers make a final plea before heading to court over a plan to randomly drug test teachers, ...

Afghanistan drug production up 150% since 2001 RIA Novosti, Russia - Since the Taliban regime was overthrown in the 2001 US-led campaign, Afghanistan, with almost all its arable land being used to grow opium poppies remains ...

To hell with the bailouts, spread some of that drug money around Sacramento News & Review, CA - Whoever heard of a government-sponsored drug -eradication program that worked? The Taliban, which cut Afghan opium poppy production by more than 90 percent ...

MILITARY: 'Nothing won yet' in Afghanistan North County Times - Californian, CA - ... that in Iraq ---- convincing the population to turn away from the Taliban and the drug lords who rely on growing opium poppies to fund the insurgency. ...

THIRD COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTION OF OPTIONAL ... 7thSpace Interactive (press release), NY - The national drug control strategy had succeeded in reducing the amount of opium poppies harvested in Afghanistan. A document of the United Nations Office ...

The facts: heroin guardian.co.uk, UK - Ten per cent of the poppy latex (or sap) is composed of morphine, with codeine (thought to be the most popular medicinal drug in the world) making up ... In ' Poppies ,' an unusual quartet makes the voyage out BOOKS: What the Opium Wars wrought

Afghan governor torches drugs seized by police in Kandahar province The Canadian Press, Afghanistan - He says the drugs have burned his country and that's why he torched them. The drugs , which included 114 kilograms of heroin, one tonne of poppies and 10 ...

la estrella UN: High food prices help Afghans drop opium crop The Associated Press - ROME (AP) High food prices are encouraging many Afghan farmers to switch from opium poppies to wheat and other legal crops, a top UN official said Friday. ... World Briefs

Santa Cruz home-brewer gets drug diversion for making poppy beer San Jose Mercury News, USA - ... accused of manufacturing opium when he made home-brewed poppy beer pleaded no contest to possessing heroin and was sentenced Friday to drug diversion. ... Grad student sentenced over morphine-laced beer

Voice of America US Finds Significant Reduction in Afghan Poppy Crop Voice of America - After two straight years of record high opium production in Afghanistan, the US Office of National Drug Control Policy estimates the nation's poppy crop has ... Afghan opium production drops sharply Afghan opium production 'plunges' US: Opium output falls in Afghanistan -