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...bust--and Machler's reaction to it--highlights the legal ambiguity of Switzerland's cannabis economy. Technically, growing or selling the plant is legal unless it's to be used as a hallucinogen. Proving that seized marijuana was intended for that purpose is a job for the police and the courts. "If you said you were selling it to treat epilepsy, the police would have to follow buyers home to see what they did with it," says Thomas Zeltner, head of the Federal Office of Public Health...
...kids creative ways to say "no" to drugs, while simultaneously bolstering their self-esteem (which DARE founders insist is related to lower rates of drug use). It's apparently not a bad way of educating five-year-olds about the dangers of drinking cleaning fluid. But it's a bust at keeping teenagers from smoking...
...philanthropist David Rockefeller Jr., former chairman of Rockefeller & Company, and Steven C. Rockefeller, chairman of the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation. Not to mention Agnes Gund, a philanthropist whose family owns stakes in many companies. Warren Buffett, the zillionaire investor who's newly revered these days for weathering the tech bubble-bust with his zillions intact, didn't sign - but only because the petition didn't go far enough...
...member states pledged to coordinate refugee policies to reduce the number of people falsely claiming asylum and staying in Europe illegally. That followed the announcement by the British and Italian governments that both countries would send their own immigration and police officials to the Balkans to help bust human trafficking rings, which are responsible for 10% of the illegal migration into Europe. On Friday Britain and France agreed to dispatch immigration officers to root out asylum seekers trying to slip across the Channel on the Eurostar. Meanwhile Britain's Home Secretary Jack Straw pressed for a tougher line against asylum...
...while Selsby gives the assurance that "we bust plenty" in the Yard, resident tutors report that there is a general lack of policy violations in the Houses requiring their attention...