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...separate raids, Spanish authorities last week seized 15 tons of pure hashish and nabbed two of the world's biggest drug smugglers. Acting on tips from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency in Miami, police detained British-born, Oxford-educated Dennis Howard Marks, whose alias is Marco Polo. U.S. officials believe Marks has been responsible for importing nearly 15% of America's marijuana over the past several years. Until his arrest, the drug lord lived quietly on Majorca -- "to escape British taxes," he explained...
...unrelated case, police discovered Europe's largest-ever stash of hash in a cave near the Costa Brava resort of Lloret de Mar. Air-conditioners and humidifiers maintained the hashish's high quality, and refrigerated trucks took the product to market in France, Britain and West Germany. The operation, police said, was run by Jacques Cannavaggio, a French citizen...
...spends nine months each year sailing off the Turkish coast with his wife. "It used to be an absolute backwater. Midnight Express was the only thing that people knew about the place." (Turkey does have stringent drug laws, and travelers caught with even one gram of hashish risk a heavy jail term...
...house. Clawing through the contents with rubber gloves, officers uncovered a rich nest of drug-related paraphernalia: razor blades, straws containing cocaine residue, and phone bills listing calls to people with drug records. Based on this evidence, the police obtained a warrant to search the house, found cocaine and hashish inside, and arrested Greenwood. He protested the original warrantless investigation of his trash bags, claiming it violated the Fourth Amendment ban against unreasonable searches and seizures. Two California courts agreed with Greenwood, but last week the highest court resoundingly rejected his argument...
...seniors by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. There was a drop from 6.2% to 4.3% in the proportion who said they had used cocaine in the previous month, and the percentage who have tried cocaine in the past year went down, 12.7% to 10.3%. Marijuana and hashish smoking also declined, continuing a nine-year downward trend. Yet 57% of seniors admitted having tried illicit drugs...