A resident of the Primorye Territory in Russia’s Far East has been sentenced to eight years of imprisonment for trying...
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Pot shops cannot take American Express or deposit in banks
San Francisco-based Wells Fargo, the fourth-largest U.S. bank by assets, opted not to bank marijuana businesses in view of the...
UK: Home Office tour to study drug policies in 10 countries
A Home Office study of international drug laws is to get under way this week with a visit to Portugal...
Bolivia’s Morales seeks legitimate coca market
Bolivian President Evo Morales has tried to develop legitimate markets for his country’s thousands of acres of coca plants, despite...
Singapore: 169 arrested, drugs seized in anti-crime blitz
A series of Home Team operations in the first 10 days of May saw the arrests of 169 people, and...
Know your mafia! Russian mafia cards released in the US
A deck of cards has been produced in the US featuring the faces of key figures in the Russian mafia....
New Zealand: Drug smuggler Gary Read heading for prison
Gary Read now awaits sentencing after pleading guilty to Class A drug charges. The police are now looking to confiscate...
Tennessee hospital treats drug-dependent babies
In 2008, East Tennessee Children’s Hospital treated 33 infants at the hospital for drug dependence, known as neonatal abstinence syndrome....
Legalizing marijuana could reverse New Jersey progress on addiction
It seems obvious that more people will use a substance deemed legal and presumably safe by government, than they will...
Drugs secretly tested on East Germans
Western drug companies tested pharmaceuticals on more than 50,000 people in the former communist East Germany, often without the knowledge...