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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
Iván Duque targets recreational drug users who preach environmentalism but fuel deforestation
Incentivising abstinence can sometimes work when nothing else does
Drugs seizures — a proxy for production — have increased dramatically in south-east Asia this year with many pointing the finger of blame at the military takeover
Progress in healthcare and education was dogged by endemic corruption and insecurity
Number of those who died in 2020 increased for seventh year in a row to 1,339
It wants to monetise the trade in iboga, which is reputed to help people kick drug addictions
Shipping containers rather than human couriers used to smuggle narcotics into Europe
A semi-dramatised three-parter about the police’s attempts to halt the influx of drugs in ’90s Liverpool
Amphetamine pills are smuggled into the Gulf in industrial quantities
Effective new treatments will find a large market
Arrest of key suspect in Caribbean points to growing lure of European cocaine market
Gangs use long-established networks to export synthetic narcotics to the US
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