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Newsbrief:
Mass
Arrests
of
Drug
Users
in
Iran
1/21/05
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/371/iran.shtml
Iranian police have arrested
more than 50,000 people for drug use in Greater Teheran alone in the past
nine months, according to the head of the Office to Combat Narcotics in
the city. Thousands more have been arrested in the city of Mashad,
he said in an interview with a state-run news agency last week.
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International Anti-Drugs Day activity in Tehran, Iran, 2001
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"A large proportion of those
in custody, who comprise people from different sectors of society, are
between 25 and 30 years of age," said the anti-drug official, Major Ghodratollah
Mahmoudi. "These individuals were arrested in different districts
in Tehran and the majority of them used opium, cannabis, and heroin and
only a small percentage used cocaine, morphine, and other narcotics," he
said. Mahmoudi added that cannabis use was increasingly popular among
people between the ages of 18 and 35.
Mahmoudi said the amount
of illicit drugs seized from users in the last nine months in Teheran was
more than 1,500 pounds. He added that this figure was separate from
the much larger amount of drugs "discovered in the hands of drug lords."
With a long history of opium use, Iran is a key transit point for opium
and heroin flooding out of Afghanistan, as well as a final destination
for some of it.
According to Mahmoudi, citing
government figures, the number of illicit drug users in Iran totals some
seven million out of a population of slightly more than 70 million.
While there have been some indications in recent years that Iranian
authorities are seeking alternative means of dealing with drug use,
such as forced drug treatment, Mahmoudi's announcement clearly indicates
that the Iranian war on drugs and drug users grinds on.
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Issue #371
-- 1/21/05
Editorial:
Unfortunate
Bedfellows
|
Following
Oklahoma's
Lead,
States
Target
Cold
Remedies
in
Fight
Against
Methamphetamine
|
Mexican
Stand-Off:
Government
Sends
in
Tanks,
Soldiers
in
Effort
to
Retake
Prisons
from
Narcos
|
Blogging:
A
Stunning
Admission
by
Baltimore
Police
Officials,
and
More
|
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
|
Newsbrief:
German
Supreme
Court
Rejects
"Zero
Tolerance"
Drugged
Driving
Law
in
Cannabis
Case |
Newsbrief:
Mass
Arrests
of
Drug
Users
in
Iran
|
Newsbrief:
Marijuana
Bills
Filed
--
Medical
Marijuana
in
New
Jersey,
Decriminalization
in
New
Hampshire
|
Newsbrief:
Resistance
to
Methadone
Clinics
Rears
Head
in
Virginia,
Washington
State
|
Newsbrief:
King
County
Bar
Association
(Seattle)
Calls
for
Legal,
Regulated
Drug
Markets
|
Newsbrief:
Texas
Bill
Would
Ban
Drug
Offenders
from
Entering
Certain
San
Antonio
Neighborhoods
|
Newsbrief:
Last
Week's
Supreme
Court
Ruling
Pays
Off
for
New
York
Woman
|
Newsbrief:
Martha
Stewart,
Prisoner
Advocate
|
Newsbrief:
MPP
Assists
Poor
Montana
Medical
Marijuana
Patients
|
Newsbrief:
Maine
Activist
Providing
Medical
Marijuana
Indicted
for
Trafficking
and
Cultivation
|
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Week
in
History
|
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Reformer's
Calendar
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