Controversy about singer’s anti-war politics and cannabis smoking put aside as Dylan receives Legion d’Honneur. Bob Dylan will on Wednesday...
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Afghanistan opium crop cultivation rises 36 per cent, production up 49 per cent
Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan rose 36 per cent in 2013, a record high, according to the 2013 Afghanistan Opium...
Pot problems in Colorado schools increase with legalization
In two years of work as an undercover officer with a drug task force, Mike Dillon encountered plenty of drugs....
Former U.S. border cops who made smugglers eat pot get 2 years in prison
Two ex-U.S. Border Patrol agents who forced a group of suspected drug smugglers to chew handfuls of marijuana and flee...
New Zealand: Early drug tips for cops
Green-fingered cannabis growers are already being dobbed in early this season by concerned members of the public via the Crimestoppers...
Study probes heroin addiction’s effect on the brain
Long-term heroin use changes how genes are activated in the brain, which leads to changes in brain function, according to...
Jamaica’s drugs scandals are merely ‘the tip of an iceberg’, says senior tester
Jamaica’s most senior drug tester has sent further shock waves through athletics by claiming that the country’s recent rash of...
Hard to fight war on drugs when we are the ones fuelling it
The hunt for the Mr Big behind the drug trade is over at last. We have found him. It is...
BBC condemned for ‘outrageous’ drug broadcast
The criticism follows David Nutt’s appearance on the BBC’s flagship current affairs programme on Monday morning in which he discussed...
Ireland: Seven arrests as gardaí swoop on cannabis grow houses in Wexford
GardaÍ targeting drugs gangs have arrested a total of six men and one in woman after a number of separate...