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    • Seattle-based Coast Guard cutter busts cocaine sub

      Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times

      The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Midgett, home-ported in Seattle, helped bust cocaine smugglers off the coast of Guatemala on Wednesday. Service members seized 295 bales of cocaine, worth more than $196 million, from a self-propelled, semi-submersible vessel 400 miles south of the Mexico border.

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    • Cocaine Vaccine In the Works

      Posted by Jeff from Slashdot

      Researchers at the Baylor College of Medicine are performing clinical trials of a vaccine that teaches the immune system to attack cocaine, preventing it from giving a high. The vaccine is made by attaching inactivated cocaine molecules to the outside of inactivated cholera proteins. When the immune system attacks the cholera proteins, it also 'learns' the cocaine molecules as well.

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      Cocaine energy drink pulled from shelves

      Posted by Jeff from CNN

      The FDA cited as evidence the drink's labeling and Web site, which included the statements "Speed in a Can," "Liquid Cocaine" and "Cocaine -- Instant Rush." The company says Cocaine contains no drugs and is marketed as an energy drink. It has been sold since last August in at least a dozen states.

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      Aid cutbacks leave bitter taste in war on cocaine

      Posted by Billbar from The Standard

      As part of the US strategy to win over coca growers, almost 20 percent of annual assistance is devoted to nonmilitary social programs and development projects. Managing this "soft side" of diplomacy is USAID, whose mission in Colombia is its biggest in the hemisphere. But under the agency's new five-year US$350 million plan for development projects, Caqueta and four other Amazonian states where coca production is rising won't receive a penny. "It makes no sense for residents of a historical guerrilla stronghold to be subjected to a strategy of all stick and no carrot - combats, mass arrests, searches and fumigation, but no aid," said Adam Isacson, an analyst at the Washington-based Center for International Policy.

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    Seattle-based Coast Guard cutter busts cocaine sub

    for that kind of money they could probably buy a real sub

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    1:11 am 9/21/08
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