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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] Police Shut Down ‘Hydra,’ One of the Largest Dark Web Marketplaces
Read: 6/4/2022 www.vice.com
On Tuesday, Germany’s Central Office for Combating Cybercrime (ZIT) and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) announced the operation in a press release where they called Hydra “the world’s largest illegal darknet marketplace,” according to a Google translation of the announcement.
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[Link] Do Pirate IPTV Customers “Support Human Trafficking & Arms Trading”?
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
Over the years there have been frequent claims by entertainment companies that by using pirate services, users are helping to finance other crimes.
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[Link] Why So Much Fentanyl Is Being Seized at the Border
Read: 1/12/2021 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY—Fentanyl seizures at the United States-Mexico border more than doubled in 2021 to surpass heroin for the first time ever. But experts say the COVID-19 border shutdown may explain the record numbers because it gave agents more time to inspect fewer vehicles. U.S.
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[Link] Hardcore Bitcoiners Turn on Ross Ulbricht for Selling an NFT From Prison
Read: 1/12/2021 www.vice.com
Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the online drug marketplace the Silk Road that helped put Bitcoin on the map in its earliest days, is minting an NFT.
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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] We Spoke to the Unlucky Company With the Same Name as the Investor of Taliban’s Marijuana Center
Read: 25/11/2021 www.vice.com
On Wednesday night, the Twitter account for Afghanistan’s Ministry of Interior Affairs (MOI) announced that a foreign company was investing $450 million into setting up a hashish processing factory within the country.
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[Link] Inside a Booming Black Market for Heroin in the Shadow of the Himalayas
Read: 19/11/2021 www.vice.com
We spoke to a dealer who dodges Indian soldiers and checkpoints to sell drugs in the world’s most militarised zone. Srinagar, KASHMIR – Javed has been looking over his shoulder more often than he'd like.
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[Link] Medical Marijuana Is Legal in Thailand, but People Are Sticking With the Black Market
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Five years ago, long before medical cannabis became legal in Thailand, Ladda was desperate to ease her son's seizures. The longer the epilepsy episode, the more it damaged Dino’s brain and slowed his mental and physical development, she explained. Ladda gave her son a one-drop dose.
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