Items tagged with cocaine

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As the mayor of Amsterdam, I can see the Netherlands risks becoming a narco-state [05.01.2024] In the Netherlands, we used to look on the international “war on drugs” with a certain amount of disdain. Its solutions were prohibition, criminalisa ...
Swiss capital Bern considers legal cocaine project [20.12.2023] Switzerland's capital is examining a pilot project to allow the sale of cocaine for recreational use - a radical approach to the war on drugs that is ...
DULF organizers arrested for operating safe drug compassion club [26.10.2023] Vancouver police have arrested drug policy activists Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum after executing search warrants on the Drug User Liberation Front of ...
Sydney has a cocaine problem. Is decriminalisation the solution? [27.08.2023] Delays in introducing reform is fuelling drug consumption and crime in NSW, experts have warned, calling for the government to implement decriminalis ...
Instant fines for drug possession in Belgium: €1,000 for cocaine [06.08.2023] More than a thousand immediate fines were levied in Belgium for possession of drugs during July alone, mainly at festivals, according to Justice Mini ...
Swiss cities test controlled cannabis distribution [23.07.2023] Swiss drug policy is shifting. Some pharmacies and social clubs in major cities are making cannabis available for recreational purposes under scienti ...
If you care about the climate crisis, fight to legalize drugs [07.07.2023] On June 26, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime released its annual report on the illicit drug trade. The headline is that despite millions ...
Swiss capital city wants to test controlled sale of cocaine [02.06.2023] Switzerland's capital city, Bern, has signalled its intent to conduct a scientific pilot trial of controlled cocaine sales. With 43 votes to 18, the ...
Canadian province experiments with decriminalising hard drugs [31.01.2023] Adults can possess up to 2.5g of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, fentanyl and morphine. Canada's federal government granted the request by the west ...
Legalising cocaine would stem drug violence, Belgian criminologist suggests [21.01.2023] After an 11-year-old girl died recently due to a shooting incident in Merksem, politicians have stressed that tackling narco-terror is a top priority ...
Record 100 tonnes of cocaine seized in Port of Antwerp last year [10.01.2023] Last year, Belgian customs intercepted just under 110 tonnes of cocaine in the Port of Antwerp, a new record, as it marks the first time the 100-tonn ...
This guy plans to open a store that sells heroin, meth, and crack [06.01.2023] A Vancouver man is planning to open what would be Canada’s first store that sells heroin, cocaine, meth, MDMA, and other drugs as a way to reduce the ...
Why Colombia should fully legalize cocaine [15.11.2022] Colombia’s war on drugs dominated the headlines of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s October visit to Bogotá. Michael Crowley, a diplomatic co ...
Can drug users lives be saved by giving them uncontaminated heroin and cocaine? [23.10.2022] Canada remains in the grips of a deadly toxic drug crisis that has claimed the lives of tens of thousands. It’s a crisis that has been blamed on a wa ...
Over a quarter of cocaine seized in Latin American ports destined for Antwerp [22.10.2022] This year, an estimated 200 tonnes of cocaine destined for overseas have already been seized in Latin American Ports, 65 tonnes of which were destine ...
ACT becomes first Australian jurisdiction to decriminalise illicit drugs in small quantities [20.10.2022] The Australian Capital Territory has become the first Australian jurisdiction to decriminalise illicit drugs in small quantities. Laws passed in the ...
Booming cocaine production suggests the war on drugs has failed [13.10.2022] There is no shortage of people willing to plant and harvest coca; and there is no shortage of cocaine. According to the United Nations Office on Drug ...
Amsterdam mayor wants Europe to decriminalize cocaine: “War on drugs isn’t working [07.10.2022] Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema believes that Europe should decriminalize the sale of cocaine, like various countries already allow the sale of cannabi ...
Colombia, largest cocaine supplier to U.S., considers decriminalizing [20.08.2022] Colombia is the largest producer of cocaine in the world, the source of more than 90 percent of the drug seized in the United States. It’s home to th ...
Prohibited Plants [18.08.2022] Across the world, the state of environmental stress is unprecedented. As scholarship and activism on ‘environmental justice’ points out, poorer and m ...
Colombia’s first leftist president says war on drugs has failed [08.08.2022] Colombia’s first leftist president has been sworn into office, promising to fight inequality and bring peace to a country long haunted by bloody feud ...
Legalise ecstasy and cannabis to combat drugs crime: think tank [23.06.2022] Dutch drugs criminality could be tackled by legalising ecstasy and cannabis and by a taking a much tougher approach to cocaine smuggling, an independ ...
Dutch police busted fewer cannabis plantations, drug labs last year [04.04.2022] The police busted and dismantled fewer synthetic drug labs and cannabis plantations last year, latest figures show. The number of discovered drug lab ...
How the Netherlands became a global cocaine hub [23.03.2022] While the scale of the discovery was shocking, the fact of it was not. The number of cocaine seizures in Europe has been rising steadily, quadrupling ...
Rotterdam port cocaine seizures hit new high, total street value over €5bn [10.01.2022] Customs officials based at Rotterdam port seized cocaine with a street value of over €5bn last year, or a total of over 70 tonnes of the class A drug ...
The ‘cocaine collectors’ retrieving smuggled drugs in Rotterdam [26.11.2021] As the volume of cocaine trafficked into the Netherlands through the port city of Rotterdam increases, so too does the number of young men employed b ...
Ottawa must act fast on safe drug supply as tainted-drug deaths continue daily: advocates [11.10.2021] Downtown Eastside residents at high risk of overdose now have Vancouver’s support to get untainted drugs, but the federal government has the final sa ...
Cocaine, heroin and meth buyers' club gets Vancouver's approval to secure a safe supply [07.10.2021] The City of Vancouver voted unanimously in favour of supporting a peer-led program that would help get a safe supply of drugs to individuals at high ...
Graft, drug trafficking threaten Albania's chances of joining EU [04.10.2021] Researcher Fatjona Mejdini states that the drug problem had its roots in 1991, when Albania went from an isolated communist dictatorship straight to ...
Serotonin helps curb cocaine addiction [10.09.2021] The team has revealed a brain mechanism specific to cocaine which triggers a massive increase in serotonin (the ‘happy’ hormone) in addition to the i ...
Antwerp and Rotterdam are new epicentre of European cocaine trade [09.09.2021] The increased use of shipping containers to conceal drugs has made the high volume ports of Antwerp, Rotterdam and Hamburg the new epicentre of the E ...
‘Movie-plot’ cocaine case highlights shipping industry drug problem [28.06.2021] On June 17, 2019, US law enforcement agents boarded a shipping vessel in Philadelphia and seized 19.75 tons of cocaine with a street value of over $1 ...
Drug use steady despite lockdowns: EU agency [09.06.2021] The severe restrictions on movement and activities during the coronavirus pandemic had little effect on Europeans' appetite for illegal drugs in 2020 ...
Colombia’s cartels target Europe with cocaine, corruption and torture [11.04.2021] At 5am on a chilly Tuesday morning last month, 1,600 police officers and balaclava-wearing special forces, bristling with arms and battering rams, we ...
Doctors call for safer cocaine supply [03.03.2021] As drug toxicity deaths and overdoses in Canada continue to soar to unprecedented levels due to the increasingly volatile illicit market, advocates a ...
Norway seeks to decriminalise recreational drug use [19.02.2021] Norway's government proposed a bill aimed at decriminalising the possession and use of small amounts of narcotics, saying users should be offered tre ...
Government urged to sell cocaine and ecstasy in pharmacies [19.10.2020] Cocaine, ecstasy and amphetamines should be “nationalised” and sold legally in government-run pharmacies to undermine global drug-related crime, the ...
Legalising cocaine is ‘something to consider,’ says Antwerp mayor [10.10.2020] Legalising cocaine is “an option that people need to dare to consider,” according to the mayor of Antwerp, Bart De Wever (N-VA). De Wever, whose port ...
Colombia lawmakers seek to take control of cocaine market. It’s a long shot [21.09.2020] Legislators weary of Colombia’s whack-a-mole anti-narcotics efforts propose to stop the often violent trafficking of cocaine that has plagued the cou ...
Why the Drug User Liberation Front gave out free, checked drugs in Vancouver [11.08.2020] The Drug User Liberation Front, a Vancouver-based activist group, made a serious statement on June 23. During a protest in the city’s Downtown Eastsi ...
Amount of cocaine intercepted by Dutch customs doubled in first half of 2020 [16.07.2020] Customs officers seized twice as much cocaine in the first six months of 2020 than in the same period last year. More than 25,000 kilograms of the dr ...
Drug users call for safe supply of heroin and cocaine, and show how it’s done [23.06.2020] A new drug-user advocacy group in Vancouver says the safe supply of prescription narcotics must include pharmaceutical-grade heroin and cocaine and — ...
Coca leaf: Myths and Reality [16.06.2020] Many myths surround coca. Every day press accounts around the world use the word coca in their headlines, when they refer in fact to cocaine. TNI's D ...
The coronavirus has gutted the price of coca. It could reshape the cocaine trade [09.06.2020] As a farmer eking out a living in Peru’s central jungle, Rubén Leiva grew one cash crop that seemed immune from global cycles of booms and busts. But ...
What lockdown? World’s cocaine traffickers sniff at movement restrictions [20.05.2020] The world’s cocaine industry — which produces close to 2,000 metric tons a year and makes tens of billions of dollars — has adapted better than many ...
Peruvian coca farmers to Paris pushers, coronavirus upends global narcotics trade [22.04.2020] The coronavirus outbreak has upended industries across the globe. The international narcotics trade has not been spared. From the cartel badlands alo ...
Honduras goes from transit nation to cocaine producer [19.03.2020] Over the last decade, Honduras has seen a proliferation of laboratories capable of transforming coca leaf into cocaine hydrochloride. This means that ...
Glyphosate and cocaine: Colombia's next drug war? [09.03.2020] Pedro Arenas is afraid that they'll take flight again. "I expect it could be within the next months," he says. Since the end of last year, nine AT-80 ...
Swiss cannabis market worth up to half a billion francs annually [23.01.2020] Cannabis remains by far the most widespread drug enjoyed in Switzerland, even if the value of the market is much lower than that for cocaine. A study ...
Danish parties want to decriminalise hard drugs [14.01.2020] A new report in Denmark revealed that more young Danes are consuming cocaine. Now several Danish parties want to change the law on the drugs to allow ...

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