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[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] San Francisco Just Decriminalized Shrooms
Read: 8/9/2022 www.vice.com
San Francisco has become the latest U.S. city to decriminalize psychedelics like magic mushrooms and ayahuasca.
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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] ‘It’s total terror’: Colombian cartel retaliates over kingpin’s arrest
Read: 9/5/2022 www.theguardian.com
Jorge, a community activist from Colombia’s conflict-ridden Chocó province, was already traveling to the city of Medellín when he heard news that made him turn back towards home.
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[Link] A 13-Year-Old Died of a Fentanyl Overdose. Experts Say the Response was ‘Theater.’
Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com
Last Thursday, a 13-year-old student from the Sport and Medical Sciences Academy in Hartford, Connecticut, overdosed on fentanyl at the school and died two days later.
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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] The Pacific is in danger of becoming a semi-narco region
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Four years ago I stood in front of a top level security conference and warned that we have just a few years to get on top of the problem of drugs being trafficked through the Pacific region or it could turn into a semi-narco region, controlled by criminal syndicates.
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[Link] Drug Kingpin El Mencho's Wife Was Just Arrested in Mexico
Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY—Mexican authorities announced the arrest Tuesday of Rosalinda González Valencia, charged with laundering money for the hyper-violent Jalisco New Generation Cartel, which is led by her husband, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias El Mencho.
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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] Tucker Carlson Pumped Full of Fentanyl, Emerges With New Understanding of the Opioid Crisis
Read: 4/11/2021 www.vice.com
Something happened to Tucker Carlson Monday morning that caused him to get emergency back surgery later in the week. It was, he said, according to recording obtained by Motherboard, “one of the most traumatic things that’s ever happened to me in my whole life, ever.”
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[Link] A Drug Cartel Sent a Severed Head to Tijuana’s New Police Chief on His First Day
Read: 12/10/2021 www.vice.com
The next night, two more messages were reportedly found at different points in the city, repeating the same threat of bloodshed, but this time accompanied by what is believed to be animal meat.
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[Link] Crack and Powder Cocaine Sentences May Finally Stop Being Racist
Read: 1/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. But on Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives moved to turn that around by passing a bill to end the sentencing disparity once and for all at the federal level.
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[Link] This Guy Is Cumming Out of His Ass
Read: 22/9/2021 www.vice.com
A rare complication from a catheter might have made this man ejaculate through his anus for two years. A man spent two years nutting out of his butthole before seeking help, in a case that perplexed and impressed researchers.
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[Link] Amazon Is Lobbying the Federal Government to Legalize Weed
Read: 22/9/2021 www.vice.com
Amazon announced on Tuesday that it is lobbying the federal government to pass a bill that would deschedule and tax weed, making it federally legal in states that have already legalized cannabis.
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[Link] Turns Out Your DNA Sticks to MDMA Caps. That Could Help Police Track Down Drug Dealers.
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Forensic scientists have found a way to recover human DNA from the surface of pills and capsules – a breakthrough that they hope will help law enforcement agencies nail down criminals and expose illegal drug syndicates.
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[Link] People Are Stealing Water in California at Record Rates for Illegal Weed Farms
Read: 28/7/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
Cannabis needs water to grow, but water is scarce in California right now. The state is experiencing a record-breaking megadrought which has been exacerbated by this summer’s extreme heat. Some weed growers are resorting to stealing water to make sure they have enough to tend to their farms.
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