Category Archives: Cocaine

California, cannabis use, Cocaine, Heritage Foundation, Los Angeles, Meghan Markle, News, People, Prince Harry, Psilocybin, royal family, Spare, Visa

U.S. Conservative Group Calls for Prince Harry to be Deported Over Past Drug Use

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23
Mar

Prince Harry’s visa should be denied and he should be deported from the U.S., a conservative group is demanding. When Prince Harry detailed his history with pot and other drugs in his autobiography, he made heads roll, especially in conservative circles on both sides of the Atlantic. The Heritage Foundation—a conservative think tank in operation […]

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Antoine Vella, coca bush, Cocaine, coke, Colombia, COVID-19, drug market, drug trade, Drug Trafficking, Europe, News, UN, United Nations, UNODC, World

Cocaine Production Soars to Record Levels, UN Reports

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17
Mar

According to a report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), “The COVID-19 pandemic had a disruptive effect on drug markets. With international travel severely curtailed, producers struggled to get their product to market. Night clubs and bars were shut as officials ramped up their attempts to control the virus, causing demand to […]

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British Columbia, Canada, Cocaine, drug addiction, fentanyl overdoses, Health Canada, heroin, IPO, Lucy Scientific Discovery, News, Psychedelics, World

Lucy Files with Health Canada To Manufacture Cocaine, Heroin

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16
Feb

Forget ketamine- and MDMA-assisted therapies: A psychedelics manufacturing company is moving forward with cocaine and heroin—with an end goal to fight fentanyl overdoses and drug addiction. British Columbia-based Lucy Scientific Discovery, a psychedelics manufacturing company focused primarily on emerging psychotropics-based medicines, announced today in a press release that it has filed an amendment to its […]

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New Zealand Officials Seize Half a Billion Dollars Worth of Cocaine

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09
Feb

Officials in New Zealand announced this week that they have completed a massive seizure of cocaine at sea, calling it a “major financial blow” to producers and traffickers of the drug.  Authorities there said on Wednesday that the seizure was a part of “Operation Hyrdros,” with New Zealand Police working in partnership with both New […]

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Barrio 13, Cocaine, Colombia, Culture, Medellín, Narcos, Pablo Escobar, South America, television, tourism, Travel, World

My Coke-Free Visit to Escobar’s Home Turf

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31
Jan

“Do not go there!” Valentina, a 27-year-old designer living in Medellín, yelled when I told her that I planned on visiting the Casa Museo Pablo Escobar, a museum dedicated to the Colombian drug lord.  A quick Google search made me change my mind. The entrance fee to the museum is $30 – a hefty sum […]

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Alberto Fujimori, coca leaves, Cocaine, drug trade, Drug Trafficking, Lima, Medellín cartel, Pedro Castillo, People, Peru, Politics, The Imperfect Spy, Vladimiro Montesinos, World

The Life and Drug Trade of Vladimiro Montesinos: Peru’s Shadiest Drug Trafficker

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27
Dec

In December, Peru’s president, Pedro Castillo, tried to shut down congress to prevent its members from impeaching him. His orders were not obeyed, and hours later he was arrested on charges of rebellion and conspiracy. Awaiting trial, Castillo is believed to be held in a police prison in Lima – the same police prison that […]

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cannabis, Cocaine, Cops, Decriminalization, drug policy, England, Jason Harwin, Laws, News, NPCC, Police, possession, recreational drugs, U.K., United Kingdom, World

U.K. Police Chiefs Call for Decriminalization of First-Time Drug Offenses

Posted on by baldiesbuds
22
Dec

A group of police chiefs in the United Kingdom is developing a plan to effectively decriminalize the possession of drugs including cannabis and cocaine. If adopted by the government, the use and possession of small amounts of recreational drugs would be treated as a public health issue for first-time offenders, rather than a criminal offense […]

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Belgium, Cocaine, Europe, Europol, France, Netherlands, News, Operation Desert Light, Spain, super cartel, UAE, World

‘Super Cartel’ Controlling Third of Europe’s Cocaine Trade Sacked by Police

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29
Nov

Spanning across six countries in Europe and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Europol and multiple law enforcement agencies launched Operation Desert Light and took down one of the world’s largest suppliers of cocaine. According to a press release, Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, took out a 49-person “super cartel” and confiscated over 30 […]

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Antwerp, Belgium, Brussels, Cocaine, drug seizure, Francis Adyns, incinerator, News, World

Belgium Says It Needs Even More Incinerators To Destroy Seized Cocaine

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22
Nov

A record amount of cocaine seized by law enforcement in Belgium has the government in the market for some additional incinerators.  Agence France-Presse reports that authorities there have “seized so much cocaine from smugglers operating through the port of Antwerp that it needs more incinerator space to destroy it.”  “There’s a problem with incinerator capacity,” […]

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Arlington County, bodybuilding, Cocaine, Eric Welch, News, Pentagon, Virginia

Off-Duty Pentagon Police Officer Arrested With at Least 2.5 Kilos of Cocaine

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03
Nov

An undercover investigation in Virginia ended with the arrest of an off-duty Pentagon police officer by the Arlington County Police Department last Friday. The ACPD issued a press release on Halloween which said their detectives had been investigating Welch for possibly selling drugs based on evidence for which they did not offer specifics. The investigation […]

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