In France, Santo Daime won a court case allowing them to use the tea in early 2005 ; however, they were not allowed an exception for religious purposes, but rather for the simple reason that they did not perform chemical extractions to end up with pure DMT and harmala and the plants used were not scheduled.

After the Congressional hearings in early 2005, and with the scrutiny of the sports and national media upon this issue, Selig put forth a proposal for a stricter performance-enhancing drug testing regime to replace the current system.

This was the situation in Germany in 2005 when Angela Merkel became Chancellor: in early elections, the CDU / CSU did not garner enough votes to form a majority coalition with the FDP ; similarly the SPD and Greens did not have enough votes to continue on with their formerly ruling coalition.

Solaris 10, released in early 2005, includes both CDE and the GNOME-based Java Desktop System.

The case was re-investigated in early 2005, when the new law came into effect, and his case was referred to the Court of Appeal in November 2005 for permission for a new trial, which was granted.

A biological survey conducted in early 2005 indicated erosional effects of the tsunami wave on Diego Garcia and other islands of the Chagos Archipelago.

Parton released Those Were The Days ( 2005 ), her interpretation of hits from the folk-rock era of the late 1960s through the early 1970s.

The corruption evident in these maneuvers finally led Quito's middle classes to seek the ousting of Gutiérrez in early 2005.

Another summit was convened in Sharm El Sheik in early 2005, which was attended by Egypt, Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Jordan.

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In early 2005, likely in an effort to increase foreign capital reserves, the Eritrean government decreed that all transactions in Eritrea must be conducted in nakfa.

* Piece by Piece ( 2005 ), a feature-length documentary on the history of San Francisco graffiti from the early 1980s until the present day.

In early October 2005, Guatemala was devastated by Hurricane Stan, a relatively weak storm that triggered a flooding disaster that left at least 1, 500 people dead.

Brooks took a brief break from retirement early in 2005 to perform for several charity causes.

Although Greenpeace had stated that efficiency was its primary concern, as early as 2001, statements from March and April 2005 also continued to express concern over human health and environmental safety Greenpeace has opposed releasing golden rice to fields as opposed to farming in greenhouses, which according to golden rice developer Ingo Potrykus, limits the amount of material needed for human safety testing.

In early 2005, the Greens were the target of the German Visa Affair 2005, instigated in the media by the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ).

In the early 2005 federal election the party incurred very small losses and achieved 8. 1 % of the vote and 51 seats.

Despite multiple parliamentary questions from as early as 2005, where it was stated that there was no proof that this was happening, Minister Ahern announced a ban on all handguns in November 2008.

In early December 2005 the 2005 Hemel Hempstead fuel depot explosions occurred at the Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal.

In 2005, a controversial amusement park scheme at the site was abandoned when builders unearthed many archaeological artifacts during the early stages of construction work.

In late 2004 and early 2005, regular sabotage of plants and pipelines reduced export and domestic distribution of oil, particularly to Baghdad.

In the early 2000s, there had been speculation that the United Nations might signal a takeover of ICANN, followed by a negative reaction from the US government and worries about a division of the Internet the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia in November 2005 agreed not to get involved in the day-to-day and technical operations of ICANN.

In October 2008, Pepsi announced that it would be redesigning its logo and re-branding many of its products by early 2009.

He spent most of his time locked in his room listening to records, often with Zappa, into the early hours in the morning, eating leftover food from his father's Helms bread truck and demanding that his mother bring him a Pepsi.

In early September 2010, original band members Harold Brown, Lee Oskar Levitin, HoLowriderd Scott, and Morris Dickerson, as well as Laurian Miller, daughter of original band member Charles Miller, collectively sued Pepsi Co. for more than $ 10 million.

In the early years of diet soft drinks, Pepsi became the first major soda manufacturer to give its diet product the same name as its flagship product.

Coca-Cola Vanilla is the limited relaunch of the formerly produced Vanilla Coke soft drink from the early 2000s to compete with Pepsi Vanilla.

The changeover in distribution became official in late January and early February 2009, with the Pepsi bottlers taking over the Crush rights in those areas and the bottling rights to Hawaiian Punch ( which the Pepsi bottlers in those areas had handled prior to 2009 ) going to the bottlers of Dr Pepper and 7 Up.

American sales did not live up to early expectations mainly due to customer disinterest in a mid-calorie soda, and partly due to the success of Coca Cola Zero, a zero-calorie version of Coca Cola ; however, Coca Cola said the brand would remain in its lineup, even while Pepsi discontinued its equivalent product, Pepsi Edge, in late 2005, just one year after its introduction.

As well as this, Pepsi Max was introduced into Brazil, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and the UAE during early 2007.

In early 1989, Madonna signed an endorsement deal with Pepsi, who introduced her new single " Like a Prayer " in the lavish " Make A Wish " commercial — the first time a pop single had debuted in an advertisement and the first time such a commercial was given a worldwide satellite premiere.

The initial formulation of Diet Pepsi was sweetened with the artificial sweetener saccharin ; though concerns over saccharin emerged in the early 1980s, prompting a shift to an alternative sweetener, aspartame, which was marketed as the brand NutraSweet, in 1983.

In October, 2008, PepsiCo announced it would be redesigning its logo and re-branding many of its products, including Diet Pepsi, although the drink continued to use the 2007-2008 logo until very early 2010.

During the early 1990s, R & B singer Ray Charles was featured in a series of Diet Pepsi ads featuring the brand's then-current tagline, " You got the right one, baby!

** To celebrate the debut of Pepsi Throwback, Gordon drove in a replica of Waltrip's 1983 " Pepsi Challenger " at the 2009 Aaron's 499, which was involved in an early crash on lap 8.

) In the early 1960s the company product line expanded with the creation of Diet Pepsi and purchase of Mountain Dew.

A longtime purveyor in Pepsi products, St-Hubert switched to Coca-Cola products in the early 2000s ( decade ).

Coke ," These words, with Pepsi and Coke in reverse order, were originally spoken and immortalized by John Belushi in, " Olympia Cafe ," an early Saturday Night Live sketch that was inspired by the tavern.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, she was " the Pepsi Girl " in a series of Pepsi commercials.

The label ' independent soda ' or simply ' indie soda ' was arguably started in the early 1970s in response to Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola's mass media campaigns for the edge in the beverage market.

Following that race, Hamlin finished 43rd in the Pepsi 400 at Daytona International Speedway after being involved in a wreck early on in the event.

Since then, he has attempted to qualify for the Coca Cola 600 but failed to make the race after a qualyifing crash, his next appearance was at the Pepsi 400 at Daytona where he made the show but fell out early and finished 43rd.