Cannabis News on 22nd March, 2006

• Dutch coffee shops introduce fingerprint ID
  Jan Libbenga, The Register
  

  Some Dutch coffee shops, which sell marijuana in small quantities for personal use, are introducing fingerprinting technology to check the age of customers.

• Parsa Is Paradise for Nepal Drug Traffickers
  OhmyNews International - South Korea
  

  Although the growing and selling of hemp was prohibited three decades ago, it is still being cultivated both commonly and commercially in thousands of hectares of land in various districts of Nepal. 

• Blowing Smoke
  Ryan Grim, Slate
  

  Drug testing of the American public has been steadily broadening over the past 20 years, from soldiers to grocery baggers to high-school and middle-school students. In its 2007 budget, the Bush administration asks for $15 million to fund random drug testing of students - if approved, a 50 percent increase over 2006. Officials from the federal drug czar’s office are crisscrossing the country to sell the testing to school districts.