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[Link] 2 Drug Companies Can Legally Start Selling Cocaine, Heroin, and MDMA
Read: 3/3/2023 www.vice.com
But it’s not clear under what circumstances the companies will be able to sell the drugs, and B.C. Premier David Eby said he was “astonished” to hear the announcement.
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[Link] A $200 Million Load of Fentanyl Was Just Seized in El Chapo’s Hometown
Read: 11/7/2022 www.vice.com
Authorities also found 555 kg of methamphetamine, 31 kg of cocaine, 7 kg of heroin, and over 71,000 kg of chemical precursors. Ten people were arrested in the bust, according to a Mexican army press release.
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[Link] Prisoners Suspected of Smuggling Drugs Inside a Baby That Ended Up Dead
Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY—A dead infant found in a trash can inside a notorious Mexican prison has fueled allegations that the child’s body may have been used to smuggle drugs into the facility.
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[Link] New Zealand Becomes First Country in the World To Fully Legalise Drug Checking
Read: 30/11/2021 www.vice.com
New Zealand has become the first country in the world to permanently legalise drug checking services, which will allow individuals to test the safety of illicit substances at festivals and other locations without the fear of legal repercussions.
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[Link] Tonga’s drug crisis: Why a tiny Pacific island is struggling with a meth epidemic
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
After more than four decades spent living in New Zealand, Ned Cook knew it was time to return to his home country of Tonga. His country was in the grip of a methamphetamine epidemic that was ripping families apart and overrunning the country’s hospitals and jails.
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[Link] Police presence at music festivals can lead to ‘panic overdoses’ of drugs
Read: 19/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Police presence at music festivals leads some people to “panic overdose” in their attempt to avoid getting caught, an Australian study has found, with experts calling for a change in policing culture at festivals.
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[Link] The US Just Put a $5 Million Bounty on El Chapo’s Brother
Read: 8/11/2021 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY—The U.S. government is beefing up its search for high ranking members of the Sinaloa cartel, including the brother of incarcerated kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera. The move comes as fentanyl overdoses in the U.S. continue to surge, and seizures in Mexico spike.
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[Link] Mac Miller’s Drug Supplier Admits to Distributing Fentanyl-Laced Pills
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Stephen Andrew Walter—one of three men charged in connection with Miller’s death—agreed to a plea deal Monday, according to court documents filed in federal court in the Central District of California.
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[Link] State of Emergency Declared Over Crime Spike and Cocaine Boom in Ecuador
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Lasso’s declaration comes amid spiraling violence in the country, and just 18 days after a confrontation in an Ecuadorian prison between rival criminal groups left 116 inmates dead, including six who were decapitated.
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[Link] Explosive Video Shows Police Wrapping Bag Around Suspect’s Head in Thailand. He Later Died.
Read: 25/8/2021 www.vice.com
Thailand has detained several police officers after a viral video showing the alleged torture and death of a man in custody, a gruesome scene that has shocked the country after it leaked online. Uproar spread across social media after the nearly 10-minute clip was first posted earlier this week.
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[Link] Johnson makes ‘unbelievably crass’ joke about Thatcher closing coal mines
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
On a visit to Scotland on Thursday, the prime minister made a number of provocative comments, stating that a second referendum on Scottish independence is “about as far from the top of my agenda as it is possible to be”.
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