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US to loosen marijuana rules in major shift for $47 billion industryThe United States Department of Justice is easing rules on certain marijuana items. The drug will be reclassified as less dangerous. This s...- Drug use starts as early as 11, says new 10-city survey that exposes a growing crisis in schoolsA new survey reveals Indian children are starting drug use at an alarming average age of 12.9, with one in seven students experimenting wit...
- Keep tobacco and alcohol ads and their proxies off IPL, Health ministry tells cricket boardThe health ministry has urged the IPL and cricket board to ban all tobacco and alcohol advertising at matches and related events, and on na...
- Cactus-based drug smuggled in toffees gaining popularity in Delhi partiesDelhi authorities discovered a consignment of mescaline, a psychoactive drug from the peyote cactus, used in underground parties. The raid,...
- UN says drastic rise in meth trade in Afghanistan after opiate banAfghanistan's Taliban rulers have clamped down on the decades-old, lucrative trade in poppy tar - the psychoactive substance in heroin -sin...
- Laughing Gas set to become illegal substance by year's end, possession to result in jail timeThe UK government has taken a resolute measure to reclassify nitrous oxide or laughing gas as a class C drug, rendering its possession unla...
- Significant increase in seizures of drugs in India over past five years: UN narcotics watchdogIn the period 2017-2022, heroin seizures increased from 2,146 kg in 2017 to 7,282 kg in 2021. There has also been an increase of more than ...
- Air Traffic Controller tests positive for psychoactive substance; DGCA removes personnel from dutyThis is the first instance of an air traffic controller (ATC) testing positive for psychoactive substance after the rules for testing of fl...
- AAI Junior Executive Recruitment: Notification issued; key points to noteA notification issued by the AAI confirms that it is now accepting applications for different posts. For those planning to apply, here are ...
- Arunachal Group A, B officers to mandatorily take a course on drug abuse preventionArunachal CM Pema Khandu launched the online certificate course on drug abuse prevention.
- In a first, flight crew, air traffic controllers to be tested for drugs like cannabis, cocaine"The worldwide spread of use of psychoactive substances, their general availability and the ever-increasing number of addicted users is a s...
- Aviation employees to be tested for drugs such as cannabis, cocaine, ecstasy: Draft DGCA rulesAirlines and air navigation service providers will have to carry out random drug-testing of at least five per cent of the flight crew membe...
- Civilisation & intoxication: When, where and why did humans start experimenting with alcohol & drugsToday, humans use thousands of psychoactive compounds to alter our experience of the world.
- DGCA introduces tests to check pilots for psychoactive substancesCurrently, aviation staff have to go through breath-analyser (BA) checks that detects just the alcohol content in the body and not other dr...
- India to set up SAARC centre against drugs abuse menace: Hasmukh AdhiaThe proposed regional forum called the South Asian Regional Intelligence and Coordination Centre on Transnational Organised Crime was moote...
- Drug abuse causing alarm in some parts of the country: Rajnath SinghHome Minister Rajnath Singh today said drug abuse in some parts of the country is causing an alarm and youths should be protected from it.
- Delhi Police so far unsuccessful in tracking party drug 'Meow Meow'Police has failed to seize a single consignment of popular party drug 'Meow Meow', despite its "rampant use" in the national capital.
- Made-in-India drug ‘legal highs’ flooding Europe: ReportThe Europe Drug Report 2015 says new psychoactive substances were detected in the EU last year at the rate of around two per week.
- UK minister warns against 'dangerous' Indian medicinesA British minister has sought action against scientists in India and China who are allegedly producing dangerous new medicines called "lega...
- Synthetic drug use rapidly rising in Europe: ReportNew synthetic psychoactive substances are making their way into Europe where the Internet is becoming a big challenge in the fight against ...
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