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Cartels are cutting fentanyl with the cheap sedative, driving a surge in overdoses in cities such as Philadelphia
’Ndrangheta suspected of laundering drug money through hotels, restaurants and ice cream shops
Prosecutors accuse ‘Chapitos’ along with defendants in China of building cross-border trafficking operation in deadly drug
Bill less ambitious than original plan, which envisaged free sale of drug in Dutch-styled coffee shops
Plea from Andrés Manuel López Obrador follows pressure from US lawmakers over trafficking of drug across border
NPCC advises officers to turn a blind eye to part of ‘blunt’ and ‘outdated’ prostitution laws in England and Wales
Experiment in Switzerland’s biggest city will assess benefits of regulating supply of the recreational drug
President hails verdict after jury hears how Genaro García Luna helped Sinaloa clan become ‘FedEx of cocaine’
The potent synthetic opioid is claiming lives in the US at an alarming rate. Campaigners say it is time to call it what it is: a weapon of mass destruction
Case has exposed the failures of the drug war waged by the US and Mexico
White House drugs tsar says Beijing needs to tighten rules on supply of raw materials to make fentanyl
Can the city solve the problems that have plagued regulated sales of the drug in other states?
Brash new investors are clashing with the pioneers of mind-altering drug therapies
Cost of opium and methamphetamine soars despite little evidence the ban is being enforced
Move would create the world’s largest regulated national market for the drug
Social taboos and public health campaigns have been much more successful in this fight than law enforcement
Legalisation is not the cure-all the sector hoped for
Drug violence reaches well beyond Mexico and Colombia into region’s quieter corners
Sanna Marin says she has never used illegal narcotics and wants to dispel suggestions she took them
Globalisation’s most indomitable success story
White House drug tsar says marijuana legalisation and safe injection sites will also be reviewed
Supply and use rise sharply as organised crime gangs exploit digital communications and transport networks
Biotech company hopes to win first US approval for medicine aimed at people addicted to marijuana
A prison gang 30 years ago, the PCC has risen to become one of the world’s most powerful organised crime groups
Prime minister warns people could lose passports or driving licences as part of wider crackdown on narcotics
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