9 April 2009
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For the first time, Luis Posada Carriles has been indicted by the U.S. government in conjunction with the 1997 hotel and tourist site bombings in Cuba which killed Italian tourist Fabio di Celmo (pictured) and wounded many others.
By Brian Vastag, Scientific American, 7 April 2009
In the face of a growing number of deaths and cases of HIV linked to drug abuse, the Portuguese government in 2001 tried a new tack to get a handle on the problem—it decriminalized the use and possession of heroin, cocaine, marijuana, LSD and other illicit street drugs. The theory: focusing on treatment and prevention instead of jailing users would decrease the number of deaths and infections.
Five years later, the number of deaths from street drug overdoses dropped from around 400 to 290 annually, and the number of new HIV cases caused by using dirty needles to inject heroin, cocaine and other illegal substances plummeted from nearly 1,400 in 2000 to about 400 in 2006, according to a report released recently by the Cato Institute, a Washington, D.C, libertarian think tank.
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More dangerously scary speech liberated from the censors:
George Galloway on The Hour – Tearing the JDL a new one [30/03]
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