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Entries Tagged as 'Drugs'

Some Signs Your Neighbor is Running a Marijuana Grow Operation

January 17th, 2007 · 4 Comments

This is provided for informational purposes only. While grow operations are appearing on a regular basis in residential neighborhoods they are also usually connected to organized crime. Do not take it upon yourself to investigate a suspected grow operation. Contact the police.
Below are the common indicators that there may be […]

Tags: Drugs · Marijuana · Uncategorized

Bush and His Crew Lead the Way as the Top Crime Stories From Reddit and Digg

December 24th, 2006 · No Comments

When you start searching for the Top Crime Stories on Reddit and Digg, you keep coming across stories about Bush and his Crew. I am not interested in doing a post called the Top Ten Bush Stories so I have reviewed Digg and Reddit and picked the following based on a combination of Votes, […]

Tags: Drugs · Marijuana

Study Finds that Smoking Youth More likely to Use Illegal Drugs than Non-Smokers

December 22nd, 2006 · No Comments

The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse conducted a survey to determine what tobacco use by 15-19 year olds indicates about their use of alcohol, cannabis, and other illicit drugs such as amphetamine and ecstasy.
Although the study stops short of calling tobacco a “gateway drug” the study concluded that “tobacco use among youth aged 15-19 […]

Tags: Addiction · Cocaine · Drugs · Marijuana

Smoking Marijuana Before Driving More Popular

December 21st, 2006 · No Comments

The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse published a study on December 19, 2006 that found that driving under the influence of marijuana and hashish has doubled since 1989 and that males drive under the influence of marijuana as often as they do under the influence of alcohol. It seems that those that consume marijuana […]

Tags: Drugs · Drunk Drivers · Marijuana

Drug Crime In America, its Rate and Comparison to Other Types of Offences

December 20th, 2006 · No Comments

As they say a picture is worth a thousand words. I have already plugged Swivel which is a site that allows the users to create all kinds of comparisons. The first graph from Swivel demonstrates the increase in the number of prisoners in U.S. State Prisons serving drug sentences. The second shows the […]

Tags: Drugs · Murder