[Link] Congress Suddenly Wants to Know If US Taxpayers Were Helping El Chapo

Read: 4/3/2023 www.vice.com

The DEA and FBI face questions about whether they tolerated high-level Mexican corruption as US tax dollars flowed to fight the drug war.

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[Link] A Loophole in Japan’s Weed Laws Is Getting Tens of Thousands High

Read: 4/7/2022 www.vice.com

The straw-colored drug, sold in sleek vape cases, looks strikingly similar to the cannabis oil Hiro has tried abroad. When it’s smoked, he said the difference is even harder to tell. 

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[Link] Las Patronas: The Rise of Female Drug Bosses in Latin America

Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com

VICE World News brings you exclusive reporting from Latin America’s criminal underworld on the boss women you’ve never heard of. MEXICO CITY, Mexico — She told me her name was Brenda. When I met her, she had been in the Pavón prison on the outskirts of Guatemala City for 20 years.

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[Link] First China, Now India: How Drug Cartels Get Chemicals for Meth and Fentanyl

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

Restrictions in China have pushed drug traffickers to source the chemical “precursors” they need in India. Shopping for the chemical ingredients used to make fentanyl, methamphetamine, and other illicit synthetic drugs is still easy—if you know where to look.

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