In Northern Ireland the Criminal Justice Act 2003, effective 18 April 2005, makes certain " qualifying offence " ( including murder, rape, kidnapping, specified sexual acts with young children, specified drug offences, defined acts of terrorism, as well as in certain cases attempts or conspiracies to commit the foregoing ) subject to retrial after acquittal ( including acquittals obtained before passage of the Act ) if there is a finding by the Court of Appeals that there is " new and compelling evidence.

On 27 November 2003, the Dutch Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner announced that his government was considering rules under which coffeeshops would only be allowed to sell soft drugs to Dutch residents in order to satisfy both European neighbors ' concerns about the influx of drugs from the Netherlands, as well as those of Netherlands border town residents unhappy with the influx of " drug tourists " from elsewhere in Europe.

In 2003, journalists Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada investigated the company's role in a drug sports scandal later referred to as the BALCO Affair.

Pursuant to the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, " Medicare + Choice " plans were made more attractive to Medicare beneficiaries by the addition of prescription drug coverage and became known as " Medicare Advantage " ( MA ) plans.

In the 1990s, αMT resurfaced as a drug of recreational use courtesy of easy access on the Internet, leading to its placement, along with 5-MeO-DiPT, as a schedule I substance in the Controlled Substances Act of the United States on April 4, 2003.

In the United States, more than 2, 000 women became pregnant while taking the drug between 1982 and 2003, with most pregnancies ending in abortion or miscarriage.

At a meeting of the 19-member Rio group in May 2003, Toledo proposed developing a joint strategy to deal with drug trafficking, but pressure from Washington, which preferred bilateral efforts, helped kill the notion.

* In 2003, a gay interior designer and former television host, David McNee, was killed by a homeless drug user and part-time prostitute, Phillip Layton Edwards.

This decision received a lot of protest since Dino was sentenced in 2003 to eight year imprisonment for arms and drug trafficking.

Drye was hired by the Borough in 2003 before his past weapons, drug, and theft charges were recgonized.

Nevertheless, since the neoliberal centre-right government of Fernando Henrique Cardoso ( 1994 – 2002 ), position strengthened in the so-called Era Lula ( 2003 – 2010 ), individual marijuana use by adults started to have no major importance to police and government instances – though not, ironically ( since the country has major crime problems with drug dealers ), its domestic cultivation for own consumption.

Possession of cannabis is an arrestable offense and, in 2003, 53 per cent of all drug confiscations and 70 per cent of all drug-related prosecutions were for cannabis.

The Criminal Justice Act 2003 amended the Bail Act 1976 restricting the right to bail for adults who tested positive for a Class A drug and refused to be assessed or refused to participate in recommended treatment.

He was arrested January 2003 in New Orleans on drug charges.

Brandon Carl Vedas ( April 21, 1981 – January 12, 2003 ), also known by his nickname ripper on IRC, of Phoenix, Arizona, United States, was a computer enthusiast, recreational drug user and member of the Shroomery. org community who died of an overdose of prescription drugs while discussing what he was doing via chat and webcam.

Studies have shown that individuals given propranolol immediately after a traumatic experience show less severe symptoms of PTSD compared to their respective control groups that did not receive the drug ( Vaiva et al., 2003 ).

In her 2003 Kenneth Myer Lecture at the National Library of Australia she talked about " modernity's paradox " in which increasing wealth and opportunity has also resulted in increased social differences and more problems for children and youth, including increases in asthma, obesity, diabetes, child abuse, binge-drinking, drug abuse and mental health problems.

An article published in Science in 2002 on the neurotoxicity of the drug MDMA (" ecstasy ") caused some controversy when a mix-up of vials caused the paper to be retracted in 2003 ( see Retracted article on dopaminergic neurotoxicity of MDMA ).

One of the first missions of Los Zetas was to eradicate Los Chachos, a group of drug traffickers under the orders of the Milenio Cartel, who disputed the drug corridors of Tamaulipas with the Gulf Cartel in 2003.

In the 2003 film I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, he played a straight married man who rapes a young drug dealer to " teach him a lesson ".

Mayor Larry Campbell ( now a Liberal senator ), delivered on a campaign promise in 2003 to open North America's first safe-injection site for intravenous drug users in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

In 2003, Julian Jones made a documentary about Page Three girls, The Curse of Page 3, which examined the negative aspects of some Page Three models ' lives, including drug addiction and involvement in abusive relationships.

A UN report said " the global drug trade generated an estimated US $ 321. 6 billion in 2003.

NIOT returned for further investigation in the Gulf from October 2002 to January 2003.

* Sandnes, Berit ( 2003 ) From Starafjall to Starling Hill: An investigation of the formation and development of Old Norse place-names in Orkney.

Soviet documents declassified in March 2003 showed that the KGB had conducted their own investigation of the accident, in addition to one government and two military investigations.

According to the BBC ( 2003 ), " The cost of ink has been the subject of an Office of Fair Trading investigation.

In September 2003 the City of London police reopened their investigation as a murder inquiry.

After a fresh investigation concluded in 2003, the Polish Institute of National Remembrance stated the crime was committed by Polish inhabitants of the town, with the complicity of Nazi German Ordnungspolizei.

On June 30, 2003, prosecutor Radosław J. Ignatiew announced that the investigation of " the mass murder of at least 340 Polish citizens of Jewish nationality in Jedwabne on July 10, 1941 " had discovered no living suspected perpetrators in the Jedwabne atrocity who had not already been brought to justice, and hence the IPN investigation was now closed.

Families Against Cancer and Toxics ( FACT ) was formed in Southern Arizona in 2003 when parents of children with cancer gathered to encourage continued investigation into the possible causes of childhood leukemia.

After further investigation of New Rome's history of misconduct, the Ohio Attorney General, on the recommendation of the Ohio State Auditor, concluded that it should be dissolved, though its residents had voted against dissolution in 2003.

In 2003, the investigation was reopened, with former President Lee ( now expelled from the KMT and the " spiritual leader " of the pro-independence Taiwan Solidarity Union ) testifying against Soong in court.

When the state attorney general issued his report entitled Child Sexual Abuse in the Archdiocese of Boston ( July 23, 2003 ) he severely criticized Law but did not allege that Law had tried to evade investigation and he did state that Law had not broken any laws.

The success of the boycott led to a Federal Trade Commission anti-trust investigation being initiated under the Clinton administration, targeting gun dealers and gun rights groups, which was subsequently dropped in 2003.

In 2003, the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission submitted a report to Congress detailing plans to launch an investigation into the anti-competitive practices of credit rating agencies and issues including conflicts of interest.

On May 27, 2003, the Committee to Protect Journalists ( CPJ ) published a report of their investigation into the tank shelling of the Palestine Hotel on April 8, 2003.

The police investigation into the leak concluded on 19 December 2003 that Mrs. Jäätteenmäki should be prosecuted for aiding or abetting Manninen in revealing state secrets in contravention of the law.

In early 2003, the Boston Globe launched an investigation into Bechtel's role in massive cost overruns and accounting irregularities in Boston's Big Dig project totaling over $ 1 billion.

He was Republican Party ( GOP ) House Majority Leader from 2003 to 2005, when he resigned because of money laundering charges in connection with a campaign finance investigation.

Finally, it should also not be confused with the appointment in 2003 of Patrick Fitzgerald (" United States Department of Justice Office of the Special Counsel ") regarding the investigation into the public naming of CIA spy Valerie Plame.

In August 2008, after a three-year investigation by California's Attorney General Citibank was ordered to repay the $ 14 million ( close to $ 18 million including interest and penalties ) that was removed from 53, 000 customers accounts over an 11-year period from 1992 to 2003.

In 2003, Frontline and The New York Times joined forces on " A Dangerous Business ", an investigation into the cast iron pipe making industry and worker safety.

An investigation into this group in early 2003 failed miserably: only a few arrests were made and the defendants were quickly released due to lack of evidence.

To enable a full investigation on these charges, the Bundestag lifted his parliamentary immunity on 5 June 2003 at 12: 28, 22 minutes before his death.