Dec 3 Drug Headlines

COCAINE - UK
Just say no to a white Christmas - The UK Times
We’re the biggest consumers of coke in Europe. Cosmo Landesman has given up on moral grounds but can he persuade his right-on mates to quit too

METH - US
The meth menace - New York Daily News
Easy & addictive drug is creeping up social ladder. Methamphetamine - once considered the drug of choice in the backwoods - is moving up in society.

METH - US
Law tightens controls on meth chemicals - Kalamazoo Gazette
Pfizer Inc., Perrigo Co. and other drug companies have until Monday to comment on a new law designed to keep chemicals used to make cold medicines out of the hands of criminals who would use them to make methamphetamine.

METH - US
Good and bad news on meth - The Leaf-Chronicle
Which do you want first — the good news or the bad news concerning methamphetamines in Tennessee? Under the good news, the number of meth labs in the state has decreased. The work of the 7-year-old Tennessee Methamphetamine Task Force and laws restricting the sale of nonprescription drugs with ingredients used to make meth has put a dent in the ability of meth labs to do their thing here.

METH - US
State awards nearly half million to Humboldt to fight meth
The Governor's Office of Emergency Services will begin distributing $29 million in grant funds to combat methamphetamine distribution and sales -- nearly half a million going to Humboldt County.

OPIUM - AFGHAN
Afghan Opium Crop Climbs to Record High Production - The National Ledger
The Afghan opium crop is now churning out a record high production according to the Bush administration. Opium production in Afghanistan has soared and the country's crop that provides more than 90 percent of the world's heroin, broke all records in 2006.