Tagged: drugs

12:00pm

Thu June 28, 2012
Cops & Courts

Dispatches from the Inside: A prisoner's take on the War on Drugs

Credit California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Richard Gilliam is incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison. 

May 25, 2012

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3:26pm

Wed May 2, 2012
Health, Science, Environment

Life after addiction in Zanzibar

In the last twenty years, the Eastern African islands Zanzibar have become a top destination for tourists. They come for the beautiful beaches, the food, the history and the architecture.  But in the last two decades another economy has developed:  the drug trade.

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1:32pm

Wed February 8, 2012
Afternoon News Roundup

Connecting the Dots: afternoon edition for Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Last night, in San Francisco's Ingleside neighborhood, a woman and a boy were sent to the hospital due to a mysterious explosion allegedly caused by drug manufacturing. The situation is undergoing investigation; it has not been released what drug was being made or what the relationship of the two were. Police plan to arrest the 33-year-old woman…

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