"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