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Mexicans Tighten Grip on Drugs Across Continent
 Frank Jack Daniel
From the lush mountain valleys of Peru to America's toughest streets, ruthless Mexican gangs are grabbing control of the multi-billion dollar cocaine and crystal meth smuggling trade.
How We Get Addicted
 Michael D. Lemonick
By the time I reached my late 20s, I'd poured down as much alcohol as normal people consume in a lifetime and plenty of drugs - mostly pot - as well. I was, by any reasonable measure, an active alcoholic. Fortunately, with a lot of help, I was able to stop.
As US Meth Production Falls, Mexican Suppliers Meet Demand
 Bill Poovey
Thanks to tougher U.S. laws, fewer people are cooking up batches of meth in dangerous homemade labs, but that doesn't mean the supply has dried up. Eighty percent or more of America's methamphetamine habit now comes from Mexico, law enforcement officials say.
Calderon Unveils Anti-Drug Plan
 Dudley Althaus & Marion Lloyd
Mexican President Felipe Calderon launched a new phase of his anti-narcotics crusade that will include the drug testing of students in more than 8,000 schools nationwide.
Mexico Sees No End to Drug Violence Despite Lull
 Reuters
Mexico's government sees no quick end to a drug war that has killed almost 1,400 people this year despite a lull in the violence, the attorney general said on Tuesday.
Mexico May Begin Drug Testing in Schools
 Associated Press
President Felipe Calderon proposed Monday that Mexico test thousands of students in public schools for drugs as part of the nation's fight against drug trafficking.
Drug Use in Mexico Rises Due to Greater Vulnerability of Young People
 People's Daily Online
Drug use in Mexico has risen in part because Mexican youths are more vulnerable to drug abuse than their United States counterparts, the nation's Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora told Mexican press.
Deadly $2 Heroin Targets US Teens
 Tracy Sabo
A cheap, highly addictive drug known as "cheese heroin" has killed 21 teenagers in the Dallas area over the past two years, and authorities say they are hoping they can stop the fad before it spreads across the nation.
Ex-Meth Users Warn Others
 Keriann Lynch
Because of its toxicity and potency, prolonged meth abuse can lead to an array of health problems, including heart and skin complications and psychosis, conditions Tilano Montoya is familiar with.
Meth Lab Mexican Style
 Leslie Millin
Most who pass through Toluca see it as a dreary industrial satellite of Mexico City, an obstacle on their way to far more beautiful places, but its very dreariness as well as other attributes have made it a place where a new and alarming approach to the international drug trade is quietly fermenting.
Mexican Alliance Drives Drug Flow in U.S.
 Alfredo Corchado
The heroin showing up in Dallas schools as "cheese" is the end product of a dangerous new trafficking alliance that is funneling increasing amounts of the drug through the El Paso-Juαrez area en route to new U.S. markets, law enforcement officials on both sides of the border say.
Drug Dealers Peddling New Kid Friendly Meth
 Associated Press
In their quest to lure new, younger clientele, drug dealers are mixing their wares with over-the-counter pain remedies and other familiar products even candy and peddling them under non-threatening names.
Mexican Ice Replaces Home Cooked Meth in U.S.
 Howard Berkes
The nation's war on drugs has at least one successful battle: State and federal laws limiting access to cold medicines containing ephedrine and pseudoephedrine have dramatically curtailed small "mom and pop" meth labs.
Meth Production Flourishes in Mexico
 Laurence Iliff
The anti-drug operation was in the works for months. And the news would be big, officials said. But when Mexican police burst into a plush home in the capital's exclusive Lomas de Chapultepec neighborhood last month, guided in part by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, they were taken aback.
US Marijuana Laws Were Founded in Bigotry
 Roshan Bliss
Marijuana prohibition is a policy founded on hate, ignorance and distortion that is doing Americans no good. The rational and responsible response to these glaring inadequacies in our county's policies is change - change that will stop injuring innocent people, burdening our justice system and wasting valuable resources.
Mexico Follows Drug Trafficking Trail to China and Beyond
 The Herald Mexico
The federal Attorney General (PGR) says that the US$205 million in cash seized from a Las Lomas home in Mexico City last month was going to be used to start up a huge methamphetamine laboratory in Toluca.
Mexican Alliance Drives Drug Flow
 Alfredo Corchado
The heroin showing up in Dallas schools as "cheese" is the end product of a dangerous new trafficking alliance that is funneling increasing amounts of the drug through the El Paso-Juarez area en route to new U.S. markets, law enforcement officials on both sides of the border say.
Smokers More Likely to Have Girls - Study
 Reuters
Couples who smoke when they conceive their child are almost twice as likely to get a baby girl, according to new research which suggests tobacco "kills" boy foetuses.
Seized Cocaine Mexico-Bound, U.S. Says
 Chris Kraul
Twenty tons of cocaine seized off the Pacific coast of Panama over the weekend were believed headed to a Mexican port for delivery to the notorious Sinaloa cartel, U.S. officials said Tuesday. The seizure Sunday of drugs valued at more than $275 million wholesale was described by the officials as the largest recorded maritime cocaine bust.
Mexico: Living with Drugs
 Sergio Aguayo Quezada
Mexicans, willingly or not, have been living with organised crime for many years. Now, for the first time in this long period, it seems possible that its advance might be contained.
Calderon: Threats Won't End Drug Crackdown
 Associated Press
Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Saturday that drug traffickers' threats against his government would not stop a military crackdown against them, and he demanded that the United States do more to fight the sale and consumption of drugs domestically.
7 Chicagoans Accused of Selling Deadly Fentanyl-Laced Heroin
 Associated Press
Seven alleged gang members procured a powerful painkiller produced at an illegal lab in Mexico, mixed it with heroin and sold it in Chicago public housing complexes - killing five people, according to newly unsealed indictments.
Mexican Drug Gains U.S. Following
 Julie Masis
Native Americans have known about the therapeutic powers of "divine sage" for centuries, and it is still legal in most parts of the United States. But there are moves afoot to outlaw what some describe as a mind-altering drug similar to LSD.
'Cheese' Using, Abusing Youths
 Jason Trahan
Law enforcement experts say high school kids some of whom are gang members appear to make up the loosely organized packagers and sellers of "cheese," the latest incarnation of heroin making its way into mostly Hispanic schools in northwest Dallas.
Meth Trade Not Gone, Just Evolving
 News Tribune
Meth use is still very much a crisis more than 92 percent of local law-enforcement officials on the West Coast consider it their No. 1 drug threat. But how the drug ends up on the streets has changed in some significant ways.
Mexico Moves to Decriminalize Drug Possession - So It Can Concentrate on Drug Traffickers
 Drug War Chronicle
Legislators have introduced a bill in the Mexican Senate that would decriminalize the possession of small amounts of drugs for "addicts." An even stronger drug reform bill that included higher personal drug possession limits and would have applied to all drug consumers passed both the Mexican Senate and Congress, only to be vetoed by then President Vicente Fox after strong objections from Washington.
Anaheim Bust Breaks Brown Heroin Record
 Cindy Carcamo, Erik Ortiz, Denisse Salazar & Madia Javid-Yazdi
Drug enforcement officials say the seizure is the largest of its kind in California history. Six suspects, four from Mexico, are arrested.
10 Billion 'Excess' U.S. Dollars in Mexico Tied to Drugs
 David E. Kaplan
America's drug habit the world's largest is making Mexican and Canadian dope dealers rich. Filthy rich, according to the latest data from U.S. counternarcotics analysts.
Controversial Drug Bill Resurrected
 El Universal
If approved, a new version of a controversial legislative initiative would allow first-time drug offenders with small amounts of narcotics off the hook - but any subsequent arrests would result in charges being filed.
Peace: Before the War on Drugs
 American Heritage
In turn-of-the century America, opium, morphine, heroin, cocaine, and marijuana were subject to few restrictions. Careful analysis of that era - when the very drugs that we most fear were sidely and cheaply available throughout the country - provides a telling antidote to our nightmare legalization scenarios.
Pseudophedrine Restrictions a Boon to Mexican Cartels
 Bridget Johnson
The Combat Methamphetamine Act of 2005 made stores move their cold medicines containing the decongestant pseudoephedrine behind the counter. While lawmakers have focused on regulating sniffling customers at drugstore counters, Mexican cartels have monopolized the gaps left in the meth market.
Mexico's Gangs Take Over U.S. Meth Trade
 Chris Hawley
Mexican drug-trafficking organizations, being the entrepreneurs they are, decided they could produce large amounts of meth in Mexico, then smuggle it across the Southwest border using the same drug routes they've used for generations.
Dark Days Follow Hard-Hitting Career in NFL
 Alan Schwarz
Ted Johnson helped the New England Patriots win three of the past five Super Bowls before retiring in 2005. Now, he says, he forgets peoples names, misses appointments and, because of an addiction to amphetamines, can become so terrified of the outside world that he locks himself alone inside his apartment in bed with the blinds drawn for days at a time.
Can Mexico Fight its National Nicotine Craving?
 Edward M. Gomez
Observant travelers know that Mexico, France, Italy, Japan and China are some of the most (cough!) smoke-filled countries on the planet (choke!). In recent years, the Paris subway system has banned smoking in its stations, and, starting tomorrow, French workplaces, hospitals, schools and stores will prohibit smoking.
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