[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] Indian police charge local Amazon executives over marijuana trade

Read: 22/11/2021 www.abc.net.au

Police in the central state of Madhya Pradesh arrested two men with 20 kilograms of marijuana on November 14 and found they were using the Amazon India website to order and further smuggle the substance in the guise of stevia leaves, a natural sweetener, to other Indian states.

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[Link] Colombia: Coca farmers release 180 soldiers from hostage

Read: 4/11/2021 www.dw.com

Almost 200 Colombian soldiers were released on Thursday after being held hostage by coca farmers with sticks and machetes, a government official said.

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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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[Link] Why Thailand Just Decriminalized a Plant That the US Has Tried To Ban

Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com

In a move that may indicate easing drug policies, Thailand has decriminalized a plant used to relieve pain, a decision expected to lessen crowding in prisons and impact thousands of people facing charges for its use or possession.

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