Peru Relatives of American missionaries whose plane was mistakenly shot down by Peruvian drug interdiction forces said the aircraft received clearance to land just moments before the Peruvian air force fired on it without warning. The goal is to keep drug tourists from flooding coffee shops that offer marijuana in residential areas. Netherlands Just as they have learned to live with marijuana, officials in the Netherlands have largely learned to live with the use of the popular drug Ecstasy by people who make it their intoxicant of choice. The government even offers users a testing service to determine purity. Australia Australia's Prime Minister, John Howard, confirmed that several advocates of drug law reform have been dumped from his advisory body on illicit drugs, sparking accusations that it will become a mouthpiece for prohibitionist sentiments.
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