"I've done coke, heroin, ecstasy, LSD everything. I hate heroin because I've been fascinated with it. I'm not immune, but I won't do it now, at all."

A videotape that allegedly shows Angelina Jolie snorting and smoking heroin has been offered for sale - according to reports. via Cinema Blend News

Mercedes Corby "involved in vile drug trade" "Lied to public denying family drug involvement" In pictures: Schapelle's story so far JODIE Power has told a defamation jury she took drugs with former friend ... via News.com.au

Police busted nearly 400,000 people for carrying small amounts of pot in the last decade, making New York City the world leader in marijuana arrests, civil rights advocates said Tuesday while unveiling a study criticizing the war on drugs.

Police officials _ who have long argued that the low level drug arrests help drive down more serious crime _ countered by saying the report's data was flawed and its findings misleading.

The study by Queens College sociologist Harry G. Levine, titled 'Marijuana Arrest Crusade,' accused police of purposely singling out minorities during the 10-year crackdown. It said that data provided by stat Division of Criminal Justice Services showed that between 1997 and 2007, 52 percent of the suspects were black, 31 percent Hispanic and only 15 percent white. Read more

"The Mexicans (anti-drug authorities) considered that this individual was the one who moved the most drugs to Mexico."

Police killed one of Colombia's most-wanted drug lords in a shootout Tuesday after an informant led officers to a ranch hide-out, the defense minister said. The U.S. government had a US$5 million (euro3.2 million) reward out for the man.

Miguel Angel Mejia, one of two suspected drug-trafficking brothers known as 'The Twins,' was killed in a raid by 14 police officers at the La Union ranch in the northwestern state of Antioquia, Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos told a news conference.

Two members of Mejia's security unit also were killed and three of his men were arrested, Santos said. Mejia was killed wearing desert-style American military fatigues, he added. Read more

"Everything I saw was distorted as in a warped mirror"

Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery grew into a notorious "problem child", died yesterday aged 102. via The West Australian

A Merrimack, New Hampshire family called police to their home to report a fight and ended up being arrested on drug charges.

Police say they went to the Roehl family home on Monday after getting a call about a fight, possibly involving baseball bats. They say when 17-year-old Karl Roehl was showing them a large clock that had been damaged, they noticed two potted marijuana plants. Officers say Roehl was arrested when he tried to hide the plants and that his mother, Lee Ann Roehl was arrested after ripping a plant from its pot and throwing it into the yard. Read more

Gary Dourdan, a cast member on the television series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," was booked on drug charges after being found asleep in his car in Palm Springs, police reported on Tuesday.

An officer spotted a car parked on the wrong side of Sunny Dunes Road near Gene Autry Trail around 5:20 a.m. Sunday and spotted a man inside when he approached the vehicle, said Palm Springs police Sgt. Mitch Spike.

The actor, who has played crime scene investigator Warrick Brown on the

CBS series since 2000, was carrying a California driver's license, which lists his birth name of Gary Robert Durdin, according to police. Read more

"If the goal of the insurgents was to target ISAF troops operating in the area, they failed"

A suicide attack in eastern Afghanistan which killed 18 people and wounded 41 others on Tuesday targeted a government poppy eradication team, Afghanistan's Interior Ministry said. via CNN

Local group publishes pamphlet to warn fourth and fifth graders expose to drugs. via ClipSyndicate

"Learn the language, before your kids do."

- The Conservative government is spending $3.25 million on new anti-drug ads that urge parents to talk to their kids about narcotics.

Health Minister Tony Clement says all the recent talk about marijuana decriminalization has left kids confused about the dangers of drugs. "I can tell you that it is my fervent hope that fewer and fewer young people will get caught up in the maelstrom of drugs and addiction in the years ahead," Clement said.

"As minister of health but, perhaps more importantly as a father myself, I'm deeply troubled by the prevalence of drug use among our country's young people." Read more