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By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Ringed by an endless stream of pilgrims at an ancient temple in Kathmandu, Hindu holy man Mahant Ramnaresh Giri sat naked and puffed on a pipe filled with cannabis, his body smeared with ash as he took part in Nepal's biggest annual religious event. Giri was one of more than a hundred such naked ascetics at the ancient Shivaratri festival, which brings an ... View the full article

POLICE have issued a warning about a bad batch of LSD imprinted with an image of pop icon Psy - after five teenagers were hospitalised at the weekend. View the full article

POLICE have issued a warning about LSD imprinted with an image of pop icon Psy after five teenagers were taken to hospital. View the full article

CANNABIS should be approved for medical purposes including pain relief, a NSW parliamentary committee has been told. View the full article

CANNABIS should be approved for medical purposes including pain relief, a NSW parliamentary committee has been told. View the full article

Millions of dollars worth of drugs flowing into Brisbane. View the full article

The stolen phone was linked with victim's Facebook account to post photos. View the full article

For anyone who's paid any attention whatsoever to expert opinion on the issue, the Australia 21 report on illicit drug policy is profoundly unsurprising. Prohibition has failed, and imposes massive human and financial costs on all of us. View the full article

SINCE being granted clemency, friends say Schapelle Corby is a totally new woman who has finally begun to find inner peace. View the full article

On a sunny Tuesday morning last November, a cargo ship from Vietnam arrived in Brisbane. View the full article

Three former heads of state are urging the US to engage in a serious discussion of drug legalisation, saying its counter-narcotics policies are becoming untenable in the wake of voter approval last northern autumn of measures that legalised the recreational use of marijuana in Washington state and Colorado. View the full article

Nepalese police have arrested more than 60 pilgrims for smoking cannabis at a major religious festival. View the full article

TWO real estate agents involved in a drug ring used rental properties they were managing to grow thousands of marijuana plants. View the full article

Synthetic drugs and the "mainstreaming" of illicit substances are causing serious concern among those at the pointy end of the drugs battle. View the full article

A 17-year-old girl has been left brain damaged, blind and paralysed after smoking synthetic marijuana and suffering a series of strokes. View the full article A 17-year-old girl has been left brain damaged, blind and paralysed after smoking synthetic marijuana and suffering a series of strokes. Emily Bauer, from Cypress in Texas, was left severely disabled after smoking a product that she purchased from a local petrol station. Ms Bauer purchased the substance last December with friends, but around 15 minutes after smoking it, told her boyfriend she had a migraine and needed to lie down. She subsequently suffered a series of strokes that left her uri…