Huumesodan tuloksiin kyllästytty monissa maissa

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Huumeet pitävät Freedomin käynnissä:

http://daily.jstor.org/americas-workfor ... timulants/

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http://www.hs.fi/ulkomaat/a1465093999366

Kolumbian kokaviljelmät vain laajenevat – kokatahnasta tullut paikallinen valuutta, jolla voi ostaa ruokaa

Yhdysvallat arvioi, että viime vuonna Kolumbiassa kokaviljelmien koko oli jo 159 000 hehtaaria.


Vaa’alla on noin neljän euron arvosta kokatahnaa, jolla viljelijä saa kalan, kanaa ja kananmunia.

Kolumbian hallitus on päässyt jonkinlaiseen sopuun vasemmistolaisen sissijärjestö Farcin kanssa rauhasta, mutta toinen vanha vihollinen näyttää vain voimistuvan. Kokaviljelmiin käytetty pinta-ala kasvaa voimakkaasti.

YK:n tilastojen mukaan kokapensaita viljeltiin vuonna 2014 Kolumbiassa 69 000 hehtaarilla, kun vielä edellisenä vuonna käytössä oli 48 000 hehtaaria. Uutistoimisto Reutersin mukaan Yhdysvallat arvioi, että viime vuonna Kolumbiassa kokaviljelmien koko oli jo 159 000 hehtaaria.

Kolumbian puolustusministeri Luis Carlos Villegas arvioi kokapensaisiin käytetyn viljelysalan kasvavan vuoteen 2018 – siitä huolimatta, että hän on määrännyt 7 000 sotilasta tuhoamaan kokaviljelmiä. Tällä yritetään kitkeä kokaiinikauppaa. Kokaiinia tehdään kokapensaiden lehdistä.


Poliisi valvoo tuhottavaksi määrättyä kokaviljelmää.

Sissijärjestö Farc on luvannut katkaista välinsä huumeiden salakuljettajiin sekä auttaa luvattomien viljelmien tuhoamisessa ja huumetuotannon kitkemisessä yleensäkin. Hallitus on kuitenkin syyttänyt järjestöä yhä jatkuvista kytköksistä huumekauppaan ja viljelijöiden innostamisesta vastarintaan kokaviljelmien tuhoamista vastaan.

Reutersin tuoreessa kuvareportaasissa näkyy, kuinka Guaviaren maakunnassa viljelijöiden tekemästä kokatahnasta on tullut jo vaihdon väline, käytännössä paikallinen valuutta, jolla he voivat ostaa esimerkiksi ruokaa.


Guaviaren maakunnassa kokatahnasta on tullut jo vaihdon väline, käytännössä paikallinen valuutta, jolla he voivat ostaa esimerkiksi ruokaa. Vaa’alla olevalla kokatahnamäärällä saa tämän verran elintarvikkeita.

Viljelijät sanovat ymmärtävänsä satonsa haitallisuuden. Heidän mukaansa vaihtoehtoja ei kuitenkaan ole.

He kertovat ansaitsevansa usein alle 1 000 euroa vuodessa.

”Hallitus ei halua ratkaista meidän isoja ongelmiamme”, Guaviaren alueen viljelijäjärjestön puheenjohtaja Orlando Castilla sanoo Reutersille.

”Vaikutamme rikkailta, miljonääreiltä niin kotimaisella kuin kansainvälisellä tasolla, mutta emme tule toimeen.”

Toisen viljelijäjärjestön edustaja Ferin Oviedo sanoi taas kokaviljelmien, toisin kuin hallituksen, auttavan paikallisväestöä ”elättämään perheensä”.


Paikalliset viljelijät asettuneena suojelemaan viljelmiä poliiseilta ja sotilailta, jotka ovat saapuneet tuhoamaan ne.


Pienellä tilalla kokalehtiä keränneet työläiset kantavat satoa paikkaan, jossa niistä tehdään tahnaa.


Kokalehtisatoa keräävä työntekijä on suojannut kätensä.

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http://www.theguardian.com/media/greens ... tion-drugs

The Times calls for decriminalisation of all illegal drugs

Newspaper breaks new ground by declaring itself in favour of treating drug use and possession as a health issue rather than a crime

The Times has boldly gone where few newspapers - and very, very few politicians - have ever dared to go before by declaring itself in favour of legalising drugs in Britain.

In a leading article, “Breaking Good”, the paper has supported a call on the government by the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) to decriminalise both the possession and use of all illegal drugs.

Accepting that it “is radical advice”, the Times thought it “sound” and urged ministers to “give it serious consideration”.

Newspapers have usually shied away from adopting such a stance. In 1997, the Independent on Sunday, then edited by Rosie Boycott, came out in favour of decriminalising cannabis. The following year, thousands gathered in London’s Hyde Park in support of her campaign to change the law.

But 10 years later, long after Boycott had departed, the paper changed its mind. It argued that new strains of cannabis, notably skunk, were dangerous, causing disorders such as psychosis and schizophrenia.

Although the Observer and the Guardian have raised questions about potential changes of laws within countries that produce drugs neither have advocated decriminalisation in Britain.

The Observer noted in 2011 that the war on drugs had failed and argued that “when policies fail it is incumbent on our leaders to look for new ones.”

The Times has adopted the logic of that position. Even so, its initiative, especially going beyond cannabis to embrace all illegal drugs, is something of a first.

Its front page news story reported on the “landmark intervention” by the RSPH and the Faculty of Public Health as “the first leading medical organisations to come out in favour of radical drugs reform.”

Both bodies believe that addiction to all drugs – ranging from heroin and cocaine to cannabis and so-called legal highs – should be regarded as a health problem rather than a crime.

The Times’s editorial, while agreeing that decriminalisation would put Britain in the company of a small group of countries that have made such a policy switch, supported that change of direction.

It is not “to be taken lightly”, it said, “yet the logic behind it and evidence from elsewhere are persuasive”. It added:

“The government should be encouraged to think of decriminalisation not as an end in itself but as a first step towards legalising and regulating drugs as it already regulates alcohol and tobacco.”

It pointed to the situation in Portugal, where drug decriminalisation has existed for 15 years. Possession there “does not earn the user a criminal record” and “the country’s drug-related death rate was three per million citizens compared with 10 per million in the Netherlands and 44.6 in Britain.”

The Times said: “Recreational drug use [in Portugal] has not soared, as critics of decriminalisation had feared. HIV infection rates have fallen and the use of so-called legal highs is, according to a study last year, lower than in any other European country.”

It contended: “It may be politic not to rush discussion of full legalisation but that should still be the ultimate goal. In the long term it is not tenable to decriminalise possession of a substance while preserving the profit motive of the criminal gangs that supply it.”

And the paper concluded, again like the Observer, that international drug wars have “proved unwinnable”. Instead, it urged the government “to move gradually towards legalised supply chains such as those allowed for cannabis in Uruguay and a minority of US states.”

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Times oma juttu:
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/ ... -m89gp9p37

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http://www.hs.fi/talous/a1467166834584

Microsoft lähti kannabisbisnekseen – tarjoaa pilvipalveluja huumeteollisuuden valvontakäyttöön

Jättiyrityksen yhteistyö laillisen marihuanakaupan kasvuyrityksen kanssa voi olla ”ensimmäinen kaatuva dominopalikka”.

Yhdysvaltain kasvavassa laillisessa kannabisbisneksessä saavutettiin kesäkuun puolivälissä jonkinlainen rajapyykki, kun ohjelmistojätti Microsoft ilmoitti aloittavansa yhteistyön kannabisalan kasvuyrityksen Kindin kanssa.

Asiasta kertoi The New York Times kesäkuun puolivälissä.

Kannabisalan yritykset toivovat nyt, että Microsoftin ”kaapista tulo” voisi auttaa alaa muuntautumaan entistä salonkikelpoisemmaksi liiketoiminnaksi.

Kind on Kaliforniassa toimiva kannabisalan yritys, joka tarjoaa lailliselle kannabisteollisuudelle ohjelmistoja kannabiksen jakelun ja myynnin valvontaan. Yritys ei siis myy kannabista, vaan luo alalle valvontatyökaluja.

Myös Microsoft pysyttelee erossa huumausaineeksi luokitellun kasvin myynnistä, Sen sijaan ohjelmistojätti tarjoaa Kindin valvontaohjelmistojen alustaksi pilvipalveluaan Azurea.

Vaikka Microsoft ei osallistu varsinaiseen kannabiksen myyntiin tai jakeluun, ohjelmistojätin mukaantuloa on pidetty alalla rajapyykkinä.

”Me kaikki liikeyritykset, jotka toimimme kannabiksen ympärillä, olemme kovaan ääneen vaatineet hyväksyntää”, sanoi Kindin toimitusjohtaja David Dinenberg The New York Timesille.

”Haluaisin ajatella, että tämä on ensimmäinen monista kaatuvista dominopalikoista.”

Lääkekannabikseen sekä kannabiksen viihdekäyttöön liittyvä liiketoiminta on ollut Yhdysvalloissa viime vuosina voimakkaassa kasvussa. Uusia markkinoita on syntynyt sitä mukaa, kun osavaltio toisensa jälkeen on laillistanut kannabiksen lääke- tai viihdekäytön.

Jo 25 osavaltiota Yhdysvalloissa on jossakin muodossa laillistanut kannabiksen. Suurimmat liiketoimintamahdollisuudet liittyvät kuitenkin kannabiksen viihdekäyttöön, mikä on laillista Coloradossa, Oregonissa ja Washingtonissa.

Tulevana syksynä vielä viisi Yhdysvaltain osavaltiota äänestää kannabiksen laillistamisesta. Kaliforniassa kannabiksen viihdekäyttöä puolustavan lakialoitteen oli viranomaisten mukaan allekirjoittanut tiistaihin mennessä noin 366 000 osavaltion asukasta.

Kannabisala on pysynyt silti kiistanalaisena liiketoimintana. Suurin ongelma liittyy siihen, että liittovaltiotasolla kannabis on yhä luokiteltu laittomaksi huumausaineeksi. Niinpä esimerkiksi pankit ovat olleet vastahakoisia avaamaan tilejä yrityksille, jotka myyvät tai kasvattavat kannabista.

Laillistamisaallon myötä alan toimijoilla ja viranomaisilla on ollut pulaa valvontaohjelmistoista, joilla pystyttäisiin pitämään kirjaa kannabiksen kasvatuksesta ja myynnistä, mikä on laillistettunakin tiukkaan säänneltyä.

Microsoftin pilvipalvelussa toimivan Kindin ohjelmiston on tarkoitus auttaa osavaltion ja muiden valtioiden viranomaisia valvomaan kannabiskauppaa kasvin siemenistä ja kasvatuksesta aina myyntitapahtumaan asti.

Kind ja Microsoft ovat jo tehneet sopimuksen Puerto Ricon kanssa valvontaohjelmiston luomisesta, Dinenberg sanoi The Guardianille. Puerto Rico laillisti kannabiksen lääkekäytön aiemmin tänä vuonna

Myös Microsoft on puhunut kumppanuudesta Kindin kanssa avoimesti.

”Kind tuli siihen tulokseen, että Azure Government on ainoa pilvialusta, joka on suunniteltu täyttämään hallituksen määräykset tarkoin säännellyistä kannabiksen valvontaohjelmista”, Microsoftin julkiselle sektorille palveluja tarjoavan yksikön johtaja Kimberly Nelson sanoi tiedotteessa.

”Teemme yhteistyötä auttaaksemme hallitusasiakkaitamme käynnistämään sääntelyohjelmia menestyneesti.”

Kannabisalalla Microsoftin mukaantuloa on pidetty merkittävänä askeleena ”ulos kaapista”.

”Aiemmin oikeastaan kukaan ei ole tullut ulos kaapista”, sanoi kannabisalalta tietoa ja analyysejä tarjoavan Green Wave Advisorsin perustaja Matthew A. Karnes The New York Timesille. Hän viittasi siihen, että suuryritykset ovat toistaiseksi vältelleet lähtemistä mukaan kannabisteollisuuteen.

”On kuvaavaa, että tämän kaliiperin yritys ottaa riskin tulemalla julkisuuteen ja ryhtymällä yhteistyöhön yhtiön kanssa, joka on keskittynyt kannabisbisnekseen.”

Microsoftin mukaantulo voi kertoa siitä, että ohjelmistojätti haistaa kannabisalalla kasvumahdollisuuksia.

Karnersin mukaan Yhdysvaltain laillisten kannabismarkkinoiden uskotaan kasvavan tänä vuonna noin 6,5 miljardiin dollariin (noin 6 miljardiin euroon) viime vuoden 4,8 miljardista dollarista (4 miljardia euroa).

Markkinat voivat kasvaa Karnersin mukaan jopa 25 miljardiin dollariin (22,5 miljardia euroa), jos Kalifornian osavaltio sallii syksyn kansanäänestyksessä kannabiksen viihdekäytön, mitä on pidetty todennäköisenä.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... rafficking

Iran under pressure to abolish death penalty for drug trafficking

Several European countries cut off financial contributions to republic’s counter-narcotics campaign


Confiscated opium on display following anti-narcotics manoeuvres in Zahedan, Iran.

Iran is under pressure to end its use of death penalty against drug traffickers after facing a serious shortfall in the international funding of the country’s counter-narcotics campaign.

An increasing number of European countries have decided to cut off contributions even though the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) last year approved a five-year country partnership programme for Iran that was aimed at providing about $20m (then £14.4m).

The agency’s latest annual appeal document, obtained by the human rights group Reprieve, which works for the abolition of death penalty, shows that Tehran has received no money in funding for 2016. The UK has confirmed in writing that it is no longer contributing. Similar indications have come from Italy, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Ireland and Norway.

Two senior Iranian officials have recently complained about the lack of international support. Last week, Iran’s prosecutor general, Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, blamed “imperialist” powers for young people’s addiction to drugs. In April, the Tehran Times quoted the interior minister as saying that Europeans were uncooperative.

Iran is a neighbour to Afghanistan, a leading producer and supplier of the world’s drugs, and faces big challenges at home with a young population susceptible to a variety of cheap and abundant addictive drugs. Critics, however, say Iran’s use of death penalty in this regard has done little, if anything, to address the issue.

“It is increasingly untenable for abolitionist states to contribute to the funding of law enforcement-led counter-narcotics programmes in Iran due to skyrocketing drug-related executions in Iran,” Maya Foa, director of Reprieve’s death penalty team, told the Guardian on the sidelines of the sixth World Congress Against the Death Penalty in Oslo.

Iran executed nearly 1,000 people last year, of which more than half were for drug offences. It is difficult to gauge public attitude to executions in Iran but Iranians increasingly favour forgiveness in cases involving murder. The number of Iranian convicts whose lives were saved last year after being pardoned outnumbered those who were known to have been put to death for murder.

There has been a considerable drop in the number of executions in Iran since the beginning of this year (around 200 executions) but activists said it was too early to say if that amounted to a change in policy.

The UNODC did comment on the cooperation of the Europeans. “The programme received funding in 2015 and there are pledges for 2016 from countries. It would therefore be premature to make any judgment on funding levels for the programme, especially as we are only halfway through the year,” said David Dadge, UNODC’s spokesperson.

UNODC’s deputy executive director, Aldo Lale-Demoz, recently said: “You’ll never be able to control the world drug problem just by investing in law enforcement and repression.”

Iran has hinted that it wants to end drug-related executions. In December, more than 70 MPs introduced a bill to end such executions and officials have since signalled that Iran is pursing the matter. Iran’s chief prosecutor said last week that “we are not in favour of death penalty and we don’t think it’s appropriate”.

Madyar Samienejad, an Oslo-based human rights defender, said comments by the Iranian judicial authorities over abolishing the death penalty for drug-related offences appeared to be serious, showing there was a will to tackle the issue. “I think this is the direct result of good campaigning. Executions have contributed to a great degree in how Iran is viewed from the outside world and the Iranian authorities seem to have begun acknowledging this, at least in their words,” he said.

Executions in Iran take place at the hands of the hardline judiciary, which acts independently of the moderate administration of Hassan Rouhani. But critics say the government has failed in preventing such executions take place in public and providing enough funding for lawyers defending convicts.

Asked by the Guardian, the Norwegian foreign minister, Børge Brende, said last week: “We have been very clear regarding our funding towards the UN, and that we will not be a part of funding Iran’s programs which is related to this inhumane practice.” The French foreign minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, however, said: “The fight against drug trafficking is one thing, the fight against the death penalty is another.” He did not say whether France was still contributing.

• The Guardian travelled to Oslo for 6th World Congress Against the Death Penalty on an invitation by its organiser, the French NGO Ensemble Contre la Peine de Mort (ECPM), which paid for its flight, accommodation and food.

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Filippiinien presidentti on ilmeisesti narkannut ja huorannut sen verran, ettei ole kyllästynyt huumesotaan vaan haluaa dumpata 100K ruumista Manilanlahteen.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... ug-addicts

Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte urges people to kill drug addicts

Duterte, 71, won power in a landslide after a campaign dominated by threats to kill tens of thousands in a war on crime


President Rodrigo Duterte has urged urged Filipinos to kill drug addicts.

Authoritarian firebrand Rodrigo Duterte was sworn in as the Philippines’ president on Thursday, extending an olive branch to the country’s elites in his official speech, only to later vow to wipe out drug traffickers and urge the population to kill addicts.

Duterte, 71, won last month’s election in a landslide after a campaign dominated by threats to kill tens of thousands of criminals in a relentless war on crime, and tirades against the nation’s elite that cast him as an incendiary, anti-establishment hero.

Following a measured speech after taking his oath before a small audience inside the presidential palace, the outspoken leader paid an evening visit to a Manila slum and unleashed profanity-laden threats against drug traffickers in front of a crowd of about 500 people

“These sons of whores are destroying our children. I warn you, don’t go into that, even if you’re a policeman, because I will really kill you,” the head of state told the audience.

“If you know of any addicts, go ahead and kill them yourself as getting their parents to do it would be too painful.”

Duterte has previously alleged some police officers were engaged in drug trafficking.

Repeating a favourite campaign refrain, the new president also said it would make good business sense to set up funeral parlours.

“I assure you you won’t go bankrupt. If your business slows I will tell the police, ‘Do it faster to help the people earn money’.”

In his speech earlier at the Malacanang presidential palace, as he took over from Benigno Aquino, Duterte had given notice there would be dark days during his six years in office.

“The ride will be rough but come join me just the same,” Duterte said in his remarks, which opened with familiar themes about the need to instil discipline in a graft-infested society.

“The problems that bedevil our country today which need to be addressed with urgency are corruption, both in the high and low echelons in government, criminality in the streets and the rampant sale of illegal drugs in all strata of Philippine society and the breakdown of law and order.”

Duterte, a lawyer who earned a reputation as an authoritarian figure as mayor of the southern city of Davao over most of the past two decades, said these problems were symptoms of eroding Filipino faith in their leaders.

He had previously outlined a vision for his anti-crime program that included reintroducing the death penalty, with hanging his preferred method of execution.

He said he would issue shoot-to-kill orders to the security services and offer them bounties for the bodies of drug dealers. He also urged ordinary Filipinos to kill suspected criminals.

During the campaign, Duterte said 100,000 people would die in his crackdown, with so many dead bodies dumped in Manila Bay that fish there would grow fat from feeding on them.

He has been accused of links to vigilante death squads in Davao, which rights groups say have killed more than 1,000 people.

Such groups are concerned that extrajudicial killings could spread across the Philippines under him, with a police crackdown following his election already leaving dozens of people dead.

During the election campaign, Duterte picked fights with the envoys of key allies the US and Australia after they criticised his joke about wanting to rape a “beautiful” Australian missionary who was sexually assaulted and killed in a Davao prison riot.

After his election win, Duterte also launched a seemingly unprovoked attack against the United Nations.

“Fuck you UN, you can’t even solve the Middle East carnage ... couldn’t even lift a finger in Africa [with the] butchering [of] the black people. Shut up all of you,” he said.

On Thursday, Duterte offered a muted message of friendship to the international community.

“On the international front and community of nations, let me reiterate that the Republic of the Philippines will honour treaties and international obligations,” he said.

Agence France-Presse contributed to this report

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Tää on kyllä kunnon itikoitten jalkojen nyppimis-asteelle jääneen oloinen sekopää. Onnea Filippiinit.

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Semmosta puhdistusta sika/filthien kuolemanpartiot duunaa Filippiineillä.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... er-duterte

Philippines police boast of 30 drug killings under 'punisher' Duterte

Hardline president’s ascension to office is followed by wave of shootings, prompting outcry over ‘serial summary executions of users and petty drug lords’


Rodrigo Duterte, showing appointing the Philippines’ new police chief, Ronald Dela Rosa, has pledge to take brutal measures against drug traffickers.

Thirty “drug dealers” have been killed since Rodrigo Duterte was sworn in as Philippine president on Thursday, police said, announcing the seizure of nearly US$20m (£15m) worth of narcotics but sparking anger from a lawyers’ group.

Duterte won the election in May on a platform of crushing crime, but his incendiary rhetoric and advocacy of extrajudicial killings have alarmed many who hear echoes of the country’s authoritarian past.

Oscar Albayalde, police chief for the Manila region, said five drug dealers were killed on Sunday in a gun battle with police in a shanty town near a mosque near the presidential palace.

“My men were about to serve arrest warrants when shots rang out from one of the houses in the area,” Albayalde told reporters, saying police returned fire and killed five men.

Four guns and 200 grams of crystal methamphetamine were recovered. Three other people were killed in other areas in Manila on Sunday and 22 were killed in four areas outside the capital.

More than 100 people have died – said to have been mostly suspected drug dealers, rapists and car thieves – in stepped up anti-crime police operations since the election on 9 May.

Edre Olalia, secretary general of the National Union of People’s Lawyers, said the killings must be halted.

“The drug menace must stop … Yet the apparent serial summary executions of alleged street drug users or petty drug lords which appear sudden, too contrived and predictable must also stop,” he said in a statement. “The two are not incompatible.“

In the north of the main island of Luzon, drug enforcement agents and police seized a shipment of 180kg (400lb) of “shabu” (methamphetamine) worth about 900m pesos ($19.23m) from either China or Taiwan, said national police chief Ronald dela Rosa said.

The shipment was unloaded at sea and brought to shore by small fishing boats before delivery to Manila’s Chinatown, he said.

On Sunday the Maoist-led New People’s Army rebels issued a statement supporting Duterte’s all-out war against drugs, saying it might conduct its own drug operations against soldiers, police and local officials.

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On Sunday the Maoist-led New People’s Army rebels issued a statement supporting Duterte’s all-out war against drugs, saying it might conduct its own drug operations against soldiers, police and local officials.

Kunnon sisällissodan ainekset kasassa, armeija ja poliisi jotka jakautuneet huumeita myyviin ja niitä myyviä ampuviin + kaiken maailman rosvoparonit kun ampuu takas + maolaiset sissit.

RIP Filippiinit?

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... l-drug-war

Philippines: nine suspects killed in wake of Rodrigo Duterte's drug war

More than 100 suspects have been killed in the seven weeks since Duterte’s election as president

Nine people were killed in the Philippines, authorities said Saturday, as police and suspected anti-drug vigilantes pushed ahead with President Rodrigo Duterte’s controversial war on crime.

Duterte won the 9 May election by landslide largely on a pledge to kill tens of thousands of drug dealers and other criminals, and has urged the police and civilians to help in the killings.

More than 100 suspects have been killed in the seven weeks since Duterte’s election.

One pre-dawn raid in the town of Matalam, about 900km south of Manila, left eight “drug personalities” dead Saturday, including a woman, regional police spokesman Superintendent Romeo Galgo told reporters.

One other person was arrested on suspicion of drug offences, Galgo said, adding that three pistols and four grenades were found on the dead suspects.

In Manila, police said they found a yet to be identified dead man, his entire head wrapped in tape, on a poorly lit road.

His torso was covered with a cardboard sign reading: “I Am A Pusher”.

Civil rights campaigners including two legislators called for an enquiry into recent months’ police operations amid concerns at least some of the dead suspects could have been summarily executed by the lawmen.

Police said they operated within the boundaries of the law in killing 103 suspects between 10 May and 7 July.

The Manila newspaper Philippine Daily Inquirer’s own “kill list” of suspected criminals showed 119 victims of suspected summary killings up until 7 July, including 13 unidentified ones, since the elections.

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Noni, nythän on helppo sit listiä ihmisiä joista et pidä.
Käyt vaan piilottamassa henkilön asuntoon mitä vaan huumeita satut omistaan, ja sit voitki suorilta ampua sen henkilön.
Ja sanoo et toimit ihan lain puitteissa. Varmaan toimii myös jos vaan sit pistät taskuun vaikka pussin kokkelia ku oot jo ampunu sen henkilön.
Tää ei oo ollenkaan tuttu kaava.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... n-new-york

More than 30 people fall ill in apparent mass drug overdose in New York

Police called to Bedford-Stuyvesant neighbourhood of Brooklyn after reports of victims lying on the sidewalk shaking

At least 33 people were hospitalized on Tuesday from an apparent mass drug overdose of synthetic marijuana, in an area of New York City where the drug is said to be used at “epidemic” levels.

Authorities said they began receiving calls at around 9.30am of people collapsing near an intersection in Brooklyn that the news website DNAinfo said was known as the “epicenter” for synthetic marijuana – or K2 – use.

Brooklyn resident Brian Arthur broadcast live on Facebook from the scene, saying it looked like “zombieland” as he panned to images of incapacitated and agitated people being attended to by emergency responders. “I just came home from work and I’m seeing this, like, what the hell?” Arthur said. “Every freaking step they laid out.”

One man who was barely able to stand up wandered into the street as emergency medical staff attempted to help him. Close by, another man was frozen like a statue until he started falling slowly forward, only upright because he was leaning into a fire hydrant.

Other witnesses described people falling to the ground, lying crumpled on the pavement and immobilized against walls and poles. “I saw two people smoking for maybe 15 minutes. Then they fell to the floor,” Rafael Perez, who works in the neighborhood, told DNAinfo.

The city health department said it was investigating and monitoring emergency rooms across the city.

“We remind New Yorkers that K2 is extremely dangerous,” the agency said in a statement. “The city’s public awareness efforts and aggressive enforcement actions over the past year have contributed to a significant decline in of ER visits related to K2.”



The mayor’s office announced in May that there had been an 85% decline in emergency room visits tied to the drug since July 2015. In that period, the city seized more than 10,000 packets of K2, sold under names like Spice, Mr Bad Guy and Red Giant.

There have been more than 6,000 synthetic cannabinoid-related emergency room visits in 2015 and at least two confirmed deaths related to the drug, according to New York’s health department.

The agency said those visits were mostly by males, with a median age of 37, who “are disproportionately residents of shelters and individuals with a psychiatric illness”.

Because the chemical mixture of K2 changes packet by packet, it has an unpredictable impact on consumers. Some of the known health effects of K2 include extreme anxiety, vomiting, seizures, hallucinations, reduced blood supply to the heart and kidney failure.

It is illegal to possess, sell or manufacture the drug in New York City, but high use of the drug has been reported on the border of Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant and Bushwick neighborhoods around the intersection of Myrtle Avenue and Broadway, where some residents have posted hand-painted signs that say “no smoking K2”.

The NYPD has been conducting raids on shops suspected of selling K2 as part of a citywide crackdown on the drug. Authorities also canvassed homeless shelters and drug treatment clinics to warn about the reactions to this batch of K2 on Tuesday.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... ystal-meth

US police mistake icing from Krispy Kreme doughnuts for crystal meth

Daniel Rushing had been eating the snack in his car when pulled over by Orlando officers who believed icing from the doughnuts were drugs

Daniel Rushing probably won’t be eating Krispy Kreme doughnuts in his car any more.

The 64-year-old was arrested on drug charges when Orlando police officers spotted four tiny flakes of glaze on his floorboard and thought they were pieces of crystal methamphetamine, The Orlando Sentinel reports.

Cpl. Shelby Riggs-Hopkins wrote in an arrest report that during a traffic stop on 11 December she noticed the flakes on the floorboard. Two roadside drug tests were positive for the illegal substance and Rushing was arrested. But a state crime laboratory test cleared him several weeks later.

“It was incredible,” Rushing said. “It feels scary when you haven’t done anything wrong and get arrested ... It’s just a terrible feeling.”

It started on a Friday afternoon when Rushing dropped off a neighbor at a hospital for a weekly chemotherapy session. Then, he drove to a convenience store to pick up a friend who needed a ride home.

Riggs-Hopkins said she was staking out the area for drug activity. Rushing told her he had a concealed weapons permit, according to an arrest report. She asked him to step out of his car and noticed a “rock like substance” on the floorboard.

“I recognized through my eleven years of training and experience as a law enforcement officer the substance to be some sort of narcotic,” she wrote.

Rushing agreed to a vehicle search. “I didn’t have anything to hide,” he said. “I’ll never let anyone search my car again.”

Riggs-Hopkins and other officers spotted three other pieces of the substance.

“I kept telling them, ‘That’s ... glaze from a doughnut,” Rushing said.

He was charged with possession of methamphetamine with a firearm and spent 10 hours in jail before being released on bond.

The Florida’s law enforcement department told the newspaper that an analyst in its Orlando crime lab did not try to identify what police found in the car, only to determine whether it was an illegal drug. They determined it was not and three days after Rushing’s arrest the state attorney’s office dropped the charges.

Rushing, who retired after 25 years as an Orlando parks department employee, told the newspaper he had hired a lawyer and plans to sue the city because he was arrested “for no reason at all”.

Orlando police said in a statement that the arrest was lawful.