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...walked across the stage to the back room. In response to the cheers from all the audience members who recognized him, he rolled up his sleeve and making motions to the veins in his arm, said he would be right back because he needed to go shoot up some heroin. For the next ten minutes, I stared at the stage, empty except for a lone stool holding an iMac laptop, wondering what kind of show this would...
...examine the severed head of a local "bandit," he explained. The visit did not explain who was really hiding there. It is obviously a haven for Chechen fighters and bandits, and senior European diplomats say it is an increasingly significant staging post for the manufacture and export of heroin from Afghanistan. But the U.S. government believes that on any one day between 10 and 80 international terrorists with links to al-Qaeda are in the Gorge. Most are from Saudi Arabia or Jordan, with possibly some Algerians. Washington will not say what al-Qaeda is doing there, but stresses they...
Hemp Isn't Heroin...
Many European countries are now drafting softer laws on softer drugs and squaring up to the social implications of criminalizing the harder ones. It's an agenda Switzerland has been pioneering for years: a government-supervised heroin-prescription program in 13 cities and one prison has shown dramatic improvements in the crime rates, social inclusion and health of users. A law allowing the cultivation, sale and use of marijuana is awaiting final approval by Parliament, probably next year. In Lausanne as a result, turf wars among the city's heroin dealers - most of them refugees from Albania and the former...
...note firing the band?s first drummer. Publishing sources describe the diaries as an intimate look at an artist who cherished his privacy. Says one, "I got a sense of him as a businessman, as a writer. His personality came through powerfully." Several passages reflect Cobain?s well-documented heroin addiction and bouts of depression (he committed suicide in 1994). Others - like a huffy list of band rules - reveal the surprising ambition of an artist who popularized a genre - grunge - that scorned popular success...