On April 2 it was announced that Benjamin Arellano-Felix, the former leader of the Tijuana Cartel/Arellano-Felix Organization (AFO) was sentenced...
Category: News Archive
Juarez drug cartel leader pleads guilty and is sentenced to life in prison
The Juarez Drug Cartel’s leader in Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico, pleaded guilty today in El Paso, Texas, and was sentenced...
New protocol proposed to address illicit trade in tobacco products
After four years of negotiations, the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB), with the participation of over 135 countries, agreed on a...
Drug use in 50- to 64-year-olds has increased 10-fold in England since 1993
New research published in the journal Age and Ageing has found that the lifetime use of cannabis, amphetamine, cocaine and...
Cocaine a factor in Whitney Houston’s death
Detectives found white powdery substances and a spoon with white residue in the hotel room where Whitney Houston died, according...
Drugs and death in the Netherlands
Holland Targets Its Drugs-and-Death Tourism
Levels of dangerous chemicals in tobacco products must be reported
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says tobacco companies will have to report levels of 20 dangerous chemicals found in...
New Zealand: More synthetic cannabinoids being banned
A further three synthetic cannabis substances found in products sold in some dairies are in the process of being banned...
Italian mafia thug arrested in Thailand
Vito Roberto Palazzolo. aka Robert von Palace Kolbatschenko, has been arrested in Thailand. Palazzolo is wanted in Italy for links...
Good news from El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua
Mauricio Funes of El Salvador, Porfirio Lobo of Honduras and Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua issued a joint statement after meeting...