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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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- Weight Loss drug battle royal: Alli vs. supplements
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  GlaxoSmithKline, marketers of the over-the-counter weight-loss drug alli, which we profiled in last month's issue, is asking the FDA to force weight-loss supplement sellers to conduct clinical trials on their products. With fewer supplements on the market, GSK would face significantly less competition for its product, which the company hopes to turn into profit
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- Steven Tyler admits he entered rehab for drug addiction | NME.COM
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  Steven Tyler has admitted that he entered rehab last month to recover from drug addiction.
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- America s Chemically Modified 21st Century Soldiers | AlterNet
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  Amphetamines and the military first met somewhere in the fog of WWII, when axis and allied forces alike were issued speed tablets to head off fatigue on the battlefield. More than 60 years later, the U.S. Air Force still doles out dextro-amphetamine to pilots whose duties do not afford them the luxury of sleep.
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- Russian state TV suggests USA involved in drug-trafficking from Afghanistan - RAWA News
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  Russian state-controlled Channel One TV has broadcast a report containing allegations that US forces are involved in drug-trafficking from Afghanistan to Europe. It also highlighted the problem of drug abuse in the British army.
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- Medication Under a Microscope
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  A series of surprising findings about some of the most widely accepted assumptions in medicine has renewed debate about how aggressively doctors use drugs to prevent and treat some of the nation's leading health problems.
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- Politics | ACLU, Rick Steves launch marijuana campaign
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Steves, the Edmonds-based travel guru who five years ago openly acknowledged that he uses marijuana while visiting Europe, says he's not "pro-marijuana," but in favor of discussing the laws that affect the 830,000 Americans who are arrested annually under existing marijuana laws. About 90 percent of the arrests are for possession.
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mandmweb3 comments on:
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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