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    • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
      News in-depthUS opioid epidemic
      ‘People rot from the inside out’: lethal xylazine deepens the US drug crisis

      Cartels are cutting fentanyl with the cheap sedative, driving a surge in overdoses in cities such as Philadelphia

    • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
      Italy
      Police arrest 150 in global crackdown on Italian mafia group

      ’Ndrangheta suspected of laundering drug money through hotels, restaurants and ice cream shops

    • Friday, 14 April, 2023
      Drug trafficking
      US charges sons of ‘El Chapo’ in sweeping fentanyl cartel case

      Prosecutors accuse ‘Chapitos’ along with defendants in China of building cross-border trafficking operation in deadly drug

    • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
      Germany
      Germany set to legalise personal use of cannabis

      Bill less ambitious than original plan, which envisaged free sale of drug in Dutch-styled coffee shops

    • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
      Mexico
      Mexico’s president seeks help from China’s Xi on deadly fentanyl imports

      Plea from Andrés Manuel López Obrador follows pressure from US lawmakers over trafficking of drug across border

    • Saturday, 25 March, 2023
      UK politics & policy
      Police draft new guidance to reduce criminalisation of sex workers

      NPCC advises officers to turn a blind eye to part of ‘blunt’ and ‘outdated’ prostitution laws in England and Wales

    • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
      Zurich to legalise consumption and sale of cannabis in trial scheme

      Experiment in Switzerland’s biggest city will assess benefits of regulating supply of the recreational drug

    • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
      Drug trafficking
      Mexico’s former security chief convicted in US of helping cartel smuggle drugs

      President hails verdict after jury hears how Genaro García Luna helped Sinaloa clan become ‘FedEx of cocaine’

    • Monday, 20 February, 2023
      The Big Read
      Fentanyl: America’s struggle to contain a deadly drug

      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

    • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
      US foreign policy
      US jury weighs fate of former Mexican official on trial for taking cartel bribes

      Case has exposed the failures of the drug war waged by the US and Mexico

    • Sunday, 22 January, 2023
      US opioid epidemic
      US warns overdose crisis will spread overseas without action from China

      White House drugs tsar says Beijing needs to tighten rules on supply of raw materials to make fentanyl

    • Saturday, 7 January, 2023
      Retail & Consumer industry
      New York’s legal cannabis market tries to avoid a bad comedown

      Can the city solve the problems that have plagued regulated sales of the drug in other states?

    • Thursday, 10 November, 2022
      Jemima Kelly
      Psychedelics and business could make for a bad trip

      Brash new investors are clashing with the pioneers of mind-altering drug therapies

    • Monday, 31 October, 2022
      Afghanistan
      Drug prices rise in Afghanistan after Taliban outlaws trade

      Cost of opium and methamphetamine soars despite little evidence the ban is being enforced

    • Wednesday, 26 October, 2022
      German politics
      Germany unveils plans to legalise cannabis

      Move would create the world’s largest regulated national market for the drug

    • Monday, 17 October, 2022
      Stephen Bush
      The drug wars don’t work, they just make it worse

      Social taboos and public health campaigns have been much more successful in this fight than law enforcement

    • Friday, 14 October, 2022
      LexCannabis industry
      Cannabis stocks: after years of hype it’s high time for profits  Premium content

      Legalisation is not the cure-all the sector hoped for

    • Thursday, 25 August, 2022
      Global InsightMichael Stott
      Booming cocaine trade now stains most of Latin America

      Drug violence reaches well beyond Mexico and Colombia into region’s quieter corners

    • Friday, 19 August, 2022
      Finland
      Finland prime minister takes drugs test after party video

      Sanna Marin says she has never used illegal narcotics and wants to dispel suggestions she took them

    • Monday, 4 July, 2022
      The inflation-proof economics of drug dealing

      Globalisation’s most indomitable success story

    • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
      InterviewOffice of National Drug Control Policy
      US pivots to ‘harm reduction’ after 107,000 overdose deaths last year

      White House drug tsar says marijuana legalisation and safe injection sites will also be reviewed

    • Tuesday, 14 June, 2022
      Drug trafficking
      Europe’s illegal drug market rebounds after Covid disruptions

      Supply and use rise sharply as organised crime gangs exploit digital communications and transport networks

    • Wednesday, 1 June, 2022
      Drugs research
      Indivior sees ‘huge opportunity’ for drug targeting cannabis misuse

      Biotech company hopes to win first US approval for medicine aimed at people addicted to marijuana

    • Monday, 28 February, 2022
      The Big Read
      How Brazil’s largest crime syndicate built a global drug empire

      A prison gang 30 years ago, the PCC has risen to become one of the world’s most powerful organised crime groups

    • Monday, 6 December, 2021
      UK politics & policy
      Boris Johnson seeks to tackle middle-class drug users

      Prime minister warns people could lose passports or driving licences as part of wider crackdown on narcotics

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