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What's the rap on Iverson? Start with the rap sheet. In high school in Virginia, he served four months for his part in a fight (he was pardoned by the Governor, who was not named Clinton). As an NBA rookie, he was busted for having marijuana and a gun in his Mercedes-Benz (he got three years' probation for packing the piece). Let's move to the rap lyrics: preseason, the Answer, as he's known, released a vile, misogynist, gay-bashing CD. Stern summoned him to the principal's office. Iverson proclaimed the session constructive, and apologized...
...late September police helicopters swooped down on Enetbrugg fields to seize 70,000 top-grade marijuana plants. (Marijuana is a variety of hemp plant in which levels of the hallucinogen tetrahydrocannabinol--THC--are high enough to give smokers a buzz.) Machler spent 16 days in jail, along with the five other Enetbrugg founders, and puts the group's loss from the episode at $1.7 million. Yet, he says, "I don't blame the police. They're just doing their...
...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...
...marijuana business has, well, mushroomed as a result. Twenty hemp shops were in business across Switzerland in 1997, selling marijuana as "smell bags" and "dried flowers." Today there are as many as 300. Official figures show 600 acres of fields producing marijuana for some 600,000 occasional-to-regular consumers. "A lot of shops are making a lot of money because the margins are very high," says Francois Reusser, president of the Swiss Hemp Coordination, who also runs the Zurich hemp shop Chanf...
...findings were grim: 20-year-olds who?d had DARE classes were no less likely to have smoked marijuana or cigarettes, drunk alcohol, used "illicit" drugs like cocaine or heroin, or caved in to peer pressure than kids who?d never been exposed to DARE. But that wasn?t all. "Surprisingly," the article states, "DARE status in the sixth grade was negatively related to self-esteem at age 20, indicating that individuals who were exposed to DARE in the sixth grade had lower levels of self-esteem 10 years later." Another study, performed at the University of Illinois, suggests some...