Teens pass out on pills
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- Teens pass out on pills
- Drunk drivers with children appal police
- The Harder They Come: All-singing, all-dancing, no drama
- Nigeria: JTF Arrests Fake Army
- Bill Clinton Fields Tough Questions For mtvU’s First ‘Editoria…
Teens pass out on pills
Stuff.co.nz – Mar 17, 2008
The Government's move to make the previously R18 pills an illegal class C drug, like cannabis, from April 1 was warmly approved by Palmerston North Street Van co- ordinator and drug rehabilitation worker Lew Findlay. "I think they've finally done something good here," he said. Party pills, mixed with alcohol or cannabis, could be lethal. The High Court at Palmerston North heard this month that 20-year-old Ashley Arnopp had consumed a toxic mix of all three before the murder of Stanley Waipouri in 2006. Arnopp went to jail for 15 years, convicted of murder. Restricting sales to people over 18 had not worked. Mr Findlay knew of 14-year-old regular users, and said 16- and 17-year-olds parked up by the Centennial Lagoon and held competitions to see who could take the most before passing out.
Drunk drivers with children appal police
Stuff.co.nz – Mar 17, 2008
In addition, a 28-year-old man was arrested after he failed to supply a blood sample when requested to do so by a police officer. His evidential breath test gave a reading of nearly twice the legal limit. When police searched his car they found an unspecified quantity of cannabis. Then, a short time after his arrest, his partner arrived at the police station to report he had assaulted her earlier in the evening. "He was subsequently held in custody and has appeared in the Palmerston North District Court on a variety of traffic and violence charges," Mr Calkin said. "It appears that the drink-driving message is simply not getting through to some people. "During the first checkpoint on Milson Line, police stopped and breath tested about 80 drivers and found four to be over the limit.
The Harder They Come: All-singing, all-dancing, no drama
Telegraph.co.uk – Mar 17, 2008
A very simple story takes almost three hours to unfold, and it feels a great deal longer than that. There is remarkably little dramatic incident, the characters are sketchily drawn and the Jamaican patois is often dauntingly impenetrable.
Nigeria: JTF Arrests Fake Army
AllAfrica.com – Mar 17, 2008
It also arrested a truck load of weeds suspected to be Indian hemp and 11 suspects with assorted and sophisticated arms and ammunitions. GA_googleFillSlot(“AllAfrica_Story_Inset”); Parading six suspected illegal bunkerers and their seven tankers at their headquarters in Warri, the JTF PRO, Major Omale Ochagwuba, stated that the arrests were effected by the JTF and men of the NDLEA at Abbi, Kwale. Major Ochagwuba who represented the JTF Commander further said they apprehended 3 suspected armed robbers in army uniform at Agbor and handed them over to the Divisional Police Officer in charge of the area.
Bill Clinton Fields Tough Questions For mtvU’s First ‘Editoria…
MTV.com – Mar 17, 2008
“And I think that I never begrudged it. The issue of drug use was also broached. Clinton famously remarked in the ’90s that he had experimented with marijuana but “never inhaled,” and Obama has also admitted to trying cocaine as a youth. Clinton was asked whether voters might be swayed by such things from a candidate’s past. “It was also an issue when President Bush ran for the first time, because he didn’t answer the cocaine question, right?.