Hingis admits positive drug test

tbl · 11-02-2007, 07:34 AM

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Martina Hingis has retired from tennis after revealing she tested positive for cocaine at this year's Wimbledon.

The Swiss star denied ever taking drugs and said the accusations against her were "horrendous and monstrous".

"I have tested positive, but I have never taken drugs and I feel 100% innocent," said the 27-year-old former world number one in a statement.

"The reason I have come out with this is because I do not want to have a fight with anti-doping authorities."

cont. BBC SPORT | Tennis | Hingis admits positive drug test

She tested positive, but it would appear that she is claiming that it was a false positive. Do we believe her?

waltky · 11-22-2007, 04:38 PM

Granny says, "Is why dey don't support the war on terror - deys too high to fight!"

Cocaine use in Europe hits record high
Thursday 22nd November, 2007 - A record high 4.5 million Europeans are likely to have used cocaine this year, making it the continent's second most commonly used illicit drug after cannabis, according to a report published in Brussels Thursday.

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Once confined to the most affluent fringes of society, cocaine has now become a much more popular drug, overtaking ecstasy and amphetamines in the number one choice of drugs after cannabis. The 2007 annual report on drug use by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) estimates that cannabis and heroin use in Europe may be stabilizing after posting steady increases during the 1980s and 1990s. Previous cocaine estimates suggested a figure of 3.5 million users.

Overall, around 12 million Europeans say that they have tried cocaine at some stage, while cocaine seizures have risen by 45 percent to 107 tonnes between 2004 and 2005. The spread of cocaine is reflected on public health data. In 2005, 33,027 people required cocaine-related treatment in Europe, compared with 12,633 in 1999. Cocaine is particularly popular in Britain, Spain and the Netherlands, but its use is also on the rise in Italy and Denmark. Cannabis remains by far the most popular drug in Europe.

Around 70 million people, or nearly a quarter of all adults in the EU, say they have tried cannabis at some stage in their lives while 23 million of them say they have used it in the last year. Around three million, or one percent of all European adults, say they use cannabis on a daily basis. Overall, between 7,000 and 8,000 drug-related deaths were reported in the EU and Norway in 2005.

Cocaine use in Europe hits record high

waltky · 08-09-2008, 07:05 PM

Aussies seize awesome haul...

Australian police claim 'world's largest seizure of ecstasy'
Fri Aug 8,`08 - Australian Customs and police said Friday they had seized 4.4 tonnes of ecstasy tablets worth nearly 400 million dollars, describing it as the biggest haul of the illicit drug anywhere in the world.

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Police said the seizure of the drugs, which were concealed in tins of tomato shipped to Australia from Italy, had resulted in the arrests of 21 people across the country beginning in pre-dawn raids. Authorities had worked for more than a year to track the syndicate behind the drugs after Customs discovered the ecstasy hidden inside some 3,000 tins, each weighing about 1.5 kilograms (3.3 pounds), in June 2007.

Customs officials replaced the ecstasy with an inert substance and monitored the consignment but the arrests were brought closer two weeks ago when a coffee bean shipment carrying 150 kilograms of cocaine was detected in Melbourne. Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty said the drugs were part of a global syndicate and the seizures would be "a major disruption to transnational organised crime, both in this country and abroad."

The ecstasy haul, estimated to be worth at least 440 million dollars (394 million US) had been kept secret until now to allow the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Customs to carry out their investigations. "There have been 185,000 telephone intercepts in this operation, there have been 400 members of the AFP deployed to this operation, there have been 10,000 hours of surveillance deployed to this operation to find the perpetrators of this world's largest seizure and importation into our country," Keelty said.

Keelty said Australian and European police were attempting to stop the syndicate from trafficking and that search warrants had already been issued in Belgium and the Netherlands. "It is classic organised crime and we have done our best to shut down the syndicate," he told reporters. Keelty said the syndicate was allegedly still able to traffic drugs even though it had lost the massive 4.4 tonne shipment, underlining the apparent demand for illicit substances in Australia.

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