Drugs
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Kamala Harris Calls For Marijuana To Be Rescheduled ‘As Quickly As Possible’
Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday called on the federal government to move “as quickly as possible” to change the way it…
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Can a War on Crime Bring Relief to Ecuador?
In this Q&A, Crisis Group expert Glaeldys González explains how the South American country arrived at this point and the…
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How Ecuador went from an ‘island of peace’ to one of the world’s most violent countries
These words were repeated ten years later by President Gustavo Noboa Bejarano in his 2002 Report to the Nation. Maria Fernanda…
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Partners in Crime: The Rise of Women in Mexico’s Illegal Groups
To arrest this trend, and to help offenders leave these groups, authorities should cooperate with civil society to provide alternative…
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Legalising cannabis will send ‘wrong signal’ to Australian public, peak medical body says
The peak medical body in Australia says it does not support the Greens bill to legalise cannabis because of the…
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Are Fentanyl Trafficking Routes Shifting on the US-Mexico Border?
Over the last eight months, US officials have seized more illicit fentanyl at Arizona’s ports of entry than anywhere else…
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Myanmar opium production surges since coup, UN finds
Production of opium has flourished in Myanmar since the military’s seizure of power, with the cultivation of poppies up by a third…
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Home Office contractors removed for trying to sell drugs at Manston asylum centre
Home Office contractors have been disciplined after trying to sell illegal drugs to asylum seekers at the crisis-hit processing centre…
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Turkish Bananas: The Cocaine Road to Russia and the Persian Gulf
He’s not a cop or a criminal. Alessandro Ford InSight Crime Ahmet is a banana importer in Turkey. “This is…
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Turkey: Cocaine Hub Between Europe and the Middle East
Turkish and foreign law enforcement have seized record quantities of cocaine heading from South America to Turkey, revealing the expanding…
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On the Front Lines of the Hot Land: Mexico’s Incessant Conflict
Mexico’s crime wars are hottest in the hinterland. In this photo essay, part of a larger project on deadly violence…
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TikTok videos humanise Colombia’s cocaine workers
Viral social media videos in Colombia reveal how the people on the lowest rung of the cocaine industry work and…
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The mothers digging for the disappeared
It’s fallen to families to pick up a shovel and dig for their dead. Catherine Scott Foreign Correspondent & ABC…
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Fish hooked on meth – the consequences of freshwater pollution
Around 269 million people worldwide use drugs each year. Authors The Conversation Often forgotten in this story is a problem…
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Former AFP agent, solicitor David Healey warns against withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
A former federal agent says it would be an “absolute travesty” for Australia and the United States to withdraw troops…
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Deeply Rooted: Coca Eradication and Violence in Colombia
Bogotá and Washington should abandon their heavy-handed elimination efforts and help growers find alternatives to the hardy plant. ICG What’s…
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