“The Fort Collins City Council will discuss placing a 10-month moratorium on issuing new permits for medical marijuana dispensaries within the city limits at its Nov. 17 meeting.” http://www.ncbr.com/article.asp?id=102990

“Melbourne, November 15 (ANI): A new drug called Mephedrone or MM-Cat, which is said to be “a cross between cocaine and ecstasy,” is being sold through the web,has emerged.” http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/designer-drug-billed-as-cross-between-cocaine-and-ecstasy-hit-online_100275069.html

“About 130,000 people in Iran become addicted to drugs each year, the Iranian police chief said, acknowledging the scale of the problem for a country on a key heroin trafficking route.” http://www.reuters.com/article/asiaCrisis/idUSDAH544630

“West Africa is among the world’s poorest, least developed and most politically unstable regions. This patchwork of coastal nation-states has long been exploited by international profiteers, from the slave traders who fed off it for centuries to the European colonizers who later tried to sculpt tropical replicas of France, England and Portugal.Today it is buffeted…

“The RCMP has launched a new national anti-drug campaign that features the story of a young B.C. woman who died last year after overdosing on illegal synthetic drugs.” http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20091113/bc_ecstasy_awareness_091112/20091113/?hub=BritishColumbiaHome

by Rob Poindexter “In the past few months we’ve seen police sieze a pound and a half of cocaine in Augusta, and nearly 3000 marijuana plants in Washington County.Drug related arrests have risen steadily in Maine the past 10 years. In 1998 there were less than 4000 drug arrests, compared to nearly 6000 in 2008.”…

“A 59-year-old woman and her three sons are among nine people accused of running marijuana from New York to a Pennsylvania university campus, Pennsylvania authorities said Monday.” http://www.lohud.com/article/2009911100322

By Luis Andres Henao “As members of the Escobar family, we have to accept responsibility for what happened and ask for forgiveness for everything Colombia suffered because of my father’s crimes,” Marroquin told Reuters.Marroquin, 32, said he decided to throw off the veil of anonymity in an effort to bring reconciliation to his homeland, where…

By John M. Annese “Ms. Katz is accused of providing the other members of the group with the stolen prescription forms — she worked at a doctor’s office on Richmond Avenue in Bulls Head, and swiped the sheets while working there, said William J. Smith, Donovan’s spokesman. In January and February of 2009, the four…

Reported by: Antonio Castelan “Drug cartels are using the media strategy to impact the public,” says Octavio Rodriguez. As a lecturer at the University of San Diego, he has followed the drug cartels for many years. He sees the cartels amping up their ways of murder. “This is propaganda to make people fear them and…