Colombia’s military seized six tons of cocaine from a jungle laboratory run by ELN guerillas in the southwest of the country, Defense Minister Diego Molano said Tuesday. “I want to announce to the country the most important blow to the ELN drug trafficking this year, with the seizure of six tons of cocaine hydrochloride,” he […]
Drugs
US drug firms face jury over opioid addiction epidemic
US pharmaceutical firms accused of stoking a two-decade epidemic of opioid addiction that has seen 500,000 die from overdoses stood trial before a jury for the first time Tuesday. The suit launched by two counties in New York state charges the leading drugmakers and distributors with earning huge profits by pushing highly addictive prescription opioids […]
Increasing drugs culture in Pakistan
Over years, drug use in the younger generation has spiked up drastically in Pakistan. Hash, Dirty Hash, weed (different types of Marijuana) Ecstasy, Crystal, Cocaine, Ice…… are now available more easily and to a younger market. Oxygen is another relatively new addiction. It is a subject people will not want to discuss, to accept their […]
Myanmar torches over half-billion dollar drugs stash
Myanmar authorities torched over half a billion dollars worth of narcotics across the country Saturday, sending opium, heroin and methamphetamine up in smoke as experts warn smugglers have adapted to Covid-19 travel restrictions and are back in business. Sacks of green-brown cannabis were stacked high at a compound in the commercial capital Yangon, alongside bin-liner-sized […]
Cartel shootout leaves 18 dead in Mexico
A shootout between suspected drug cartels left 18 people dead Friday in Mexico, a government official said. The gunfight happened in a remote area of Zacatecas state in the country’s north, said Rocio Aguilar, a spokeswoman for the state government. Drug-related violence has claimed more than 300,000 lives in Mexico since 2006, when the government […]
Cocaine found in Poland banana shipment
Polish police on Friday announced the seizure of 160 kilograms (350 pounds) of cocaine hidden inside several shipments of bananas delivered to a branch of French retail chain Carrefour. Carrefour Polska said its employees had found “suspicious packages in a fresh delivery of bananas” on Thursday in central Warsaw. “They immediately notified the police, who […]
ANF, Pakistan Navy recover drugs worth billions of rupees from Pishukan
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Navy, in a joint counter-narcotics operation with Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF), seized more than 700kg of drugs worth Rs2 billion from Pishukan, village of Balochistan on Wednesday. The drugs were handed over to the ANF for further legal action. According to the Spokesperson of Pakistan Navy, seven-hundred kilograms narcotics worth over two billion […]
Drones, big money and cheap drugs: the Laos route spewing meth into Thailand
As dusk falls along the Mekong River, a nightly dance begins between Thai border security and Laos drug gangs now using drones, scouts and a pool of poor fishermen to shift record amounts of meth into Thailand. Landlocked, secretive and with ungovernable borders, Laos has become a sluice for transporting Made-In-Myanmar meth to the drug […]
Russian investigative journalist on drugs charges gets house arrest
A Russian investigative journalist facing what supporters call trumped up drugs charges was ordered to be held under house arrest Saturday after appearing before a judge in Moscow. Hundreds of people gathered outside cheered in support of Ivan Golunov, 36, in a case that has drawn international concern. Many of his supporters had feared that […]
5 foreigners accused of selling drugs in Bali
Indonesian authorities have arrested an American, two Spaniards and two Russians for selling cocaine and marijuana in Bali, police said Friday. The three men and two women were paraded at a police news conference in the Bali provincial capital, Denpasar, days after being arrested. They were arrested between May 20 and 24 in the tourist […]