Items tagged with drug markets
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| Illegal cannabis getting even cheaper, as legal gets costlier, StatsCan says [10.07.2019] | Statistics Canada's quarterly report on cannabis prices suggests the cost chasm between legal and illegal versions of the drug is wide, and getting w ... |
| From the Philippines to Indonesia and Afghanistan, Asia’s brutal drug policies have failed [20.02.2019] | The so-called “war on drugs” has persisted without an honest assessment by governments of its effectiveness, nor its impacts, despite UN reports show ... |
| Why Europe has dodged America's fentanyl crisis [07.02.2019] | A perfect storm of conditions over the last decade led to the current fentanyl epidemic in the US. It began with rising social deprivation and excess ... |
| Fears grow that Ketamine use by young is on the rise in England [04.02.2019] | Public Health England has expressed concern that increasing numbers of young people are using ketamine as a Guardian analysis of government data show ... |
| Why legal cannabis growers can’t compete with the black market — yet [01.02.2019] | Despite the persistent media buzz, there are no cannabis supply shortages in Canada, pot industry expert Michael Armstrong explains. “There’s all kin ... |
| After legalization: Four things to know about cannabis in Quebec [17.01.2019] | In Quebec — where the product is sold by the government-run Société Québécoise du Cannabis (SQDC) — legalization has highlighted the province’s thirs ... |
| 'We're dealing with a black market': is taking pills becoming more dangerous? [15.01.2019] | Prof Alison Ritter, a public health academic from the University of New South Wales, agreed that there had been an “explosion” in new types of substa ... |
| Canada legalized pot in October. But its black market is still going strong [05.01.2019] | The legal cannabis stores that opened here last fall still look pristine. Curious customers file in, but the shelves they peruse are often bare. Supp ... |
| Cannabis strength doubles across Europe in 11 years [30.12.2018] | Cannabis potency has doubled across Europe in the past decade, according to the first study to track changes in the drug across the continent. The st ... |
| New gangs 'Uberise' Europe's cocaine supply and bring more violence [14.12.2018] | A surge in the supply of pure cocaine to Europe has led to a rise in drug-related murders as new criminal gangs muscle into a market previously domin ... |
| We from the police advise: more money and powers for the police [07.09.2018] | The study 'The Netherlands and synthetic drugs: An inconvenient truth' by the Dutch police academy on the role of the Netherlands in the production o ... |
| The Chitta economy: How the business of drugs works in Punjab [01.09.2018] | In the last few years, while the business and economy in the state kept sliding, the drugs trade flourished. With addicts turning peddlers and severa ... |
| Netherlands ‘market leader’ in production and trade synthetic drugs [27.08.2018] | The Netherlands is world leader in the production and trading of synthetic drugs such as ecstasy and amphetamines, with total turnover up to 2017 est ... |
| Poppy husk smuggling up in Barmer, but no excise case registered in 10 years [12.07.2018] | Smuggling of doda post (lanced poppy husk) is on the rise in Barmer district after government supply of the narcotic was banned from April 2016, but ... |
| Harsher drug prohibition won’t stop violence, but regulation might, law enforcers say [02.05.2018] | After a spate of violent crime, the UK Home Office released its Serious Violence Strategy. Amber Rudd, former home secretary, said, perhaps inevitabl ... |
| Unfazed by Brazil's army, Rio drug gangs willing to wait out occupation [24.04.2018] | Leaders of Rio de Janeiro's heavily armed drug gangs agree on at least one thing with the head of Brazil's army: An ongoing military intervention can ... |
| Narcopisos: Spain's 'drug flats' give focus for fight against heroin threat [12.03.2018] | Empty properties in El Raval (Barcelona), many of which are owned by banks and investment funds following Spain’s property crash, serve as distributi ... |
| Poppies, opium, and heroin [01.03.2018] | Poppy cultivation in Mexico and Colombia is part of a local economy geared almost exclusively toward the illegal market abroad: it is driven by deman ... |
| High-strength cannabis now dominates illegal market, study finds [27.02.2018] | Almost all cannabis seized by police now comprises high-strength varieties, with outdoor-grown herbal strains and hashish barely found, according to ... |
| Trump sees ‘carnage’ from America’s drug boom. But major cities are getting safer [28.01.2018] | The president and his attorney general have blamed the drug boom for “American carnage,” but the latest crime statistics suggest that the relationshi ... |
| Morocco’s cannabis farmers are radically overhauling their grow methods [04.01.2018] | On a recent visit to the Rif region of Northern Morocco, we observed a dramatic and widespread evolution in cannabis cultivation techniques. We have ... |
| Israeli pot dealers boost business with high tech smokescreen [23.12.2017] | Telegrass, an Israeli platform for drug-dealing, has won praise from its users but sparked alarm among drug counselors and police. Amos Dov Silver, a ... |
| Opioid tramadol destabilizes, fuels terror in parts of Africa, UN warns [15.12.2017] | The illegal trade and growing abuse of tramadol, a synthetic opioid, are destabilizing parts of West Africa, especially in the Sahel region, where it ... |
| The legal marijuana market is exploding — it'll hit almost $10 billion sales in this year [08.12.2017] | The market for legal marijuana is heating up in a big way. Legal marijuana sales are predicted to hit $9.7 billion in North America in 2017, accordin ... |
| Blowing up: Britain’s cocaine glut [07.12.2017] | “It's as easy as buying a drink from an off-licence.” That is how Ellen Romans, a recovering drug addict, describes picking up cocaine near where she ... |
| Legalization of marijuana unlikely to kill Canada’s black market right away [04.12.2017] | From texting a local dealer to dropping into a neighbourhood dispensary or ordering online, Canada’s black market for recreational marijuana has seen ... |
| Danish police use drone in operation against Christiania cannabis trade [30.11.2017] | A special unit of the Copenhagen police force has been operating in and around the ‘free city’ of Christiania and on its notorious Pusher Street in a ... |
| Heroin is driving a sinister trend in Afghanistan [30.10.2017] | Afghanistan has long been one of the world's biggest producers of opium and the Taliban has made a lucrative business from taxing and providing secur ... |
| High taxes on legal pot in California could mean black market will thrive [30.10.2017] | State and local taxes on marijuana could surpass 45% in some parts of California, jeopardizing efforts to bring all growers and sellers into a state- ... |
| Britain is developing a weed café culture under the radar [02.10.2017] | There is bipartisan support for cannabis legalisation among MP’s in the UK. However, the only pro-legalisation party, the Liberal Democrats, failed t ... |
| Jeff Sessions’s evidence-free crime strategy [20.09.2017] | Over the last thirty years researchers, law enforcement leaders and communities have pushed for smarter, better violence prevention — spurred in larg ... |
| End the gang war by setting cannabis free [14.09.2017] | Until the early 2000s, Copenhagen’s cannabis trade was centred in Christiania, an autonomous enclave of the city featuring around two dozen stalls wh ... |
| How legalization caused the price of marijuana to collapse [05.09.2017] | All the diverse effects of legalizing recreational marijuana may not be clear for a number of years, but one consequence has become evident almost im ... |
| Is Canada ready for legal marijuana? [24.08.2017] | The Canadian government is expected to legalize recreational marijuana by July 2018, in large part to put an end to the extensive and enduring black ... |
| Rodrigo Duterte pushing Philippines' drugs market to Indonesia, anti-narcotics chief says [26.07.2017] | Indonesia's anti-narcotics chief has declared Indonesia to have the "biggest" illicit drugs market in the world, revealing 72 international drug synd ... |
| Roosendaal and Limburg have most drugs-related problems: CBS [24.07.2017] | People living in the south of the Netherlands experience most problems with drugs and dealers, according to new research by national statistics offic ... |
| Albania cracks down on cannabis trade ahead of hoped-for EU talks [21.07.2017] | Thousands of small producers have made Albania, Europe’s second-poorest country, its biggest open-air producer of cannabis, exported mainly to wester ... |
| Death toll mounts in Rio de Janeiro as police lose control of the city – and of themselves [17.07.2017] | Even in Brazil, where homicides are really common, Rio de Janeiro’s crime rate is stunning. It is now impossible not to notice that the city’s Police ... |
| Illegal drug market is booming, says UN watchdog [22.06.2017] | The world’s illicit drug economy is “thriving” owing to large increases in the production of heroin and cocaine and a wider spectrum of synthetic sub ... |
| Is Spain becoming Europe's cannabis garden? [12.06.2017] | Cannabis production in Spain has grown significantly in recent years with more than 300,000 plants seized in 2015. Marijuana labs are believed to be ... |
| Proportion of UK drug users using dark net to buy drugs 'doubles in three years' [25.05.2017] | There has been a huge rise in the number of UK drug users using the dark internet to buy illegal substances, a new survey has revealed. The Global Dr ... |
| Early marijuana sales ‘unbelievably high’ after legalization: U.S. consultant [30.04.2017] | A U.S. consultant hired by Ottawa to assess Canada’s eventual recreational pot market says jurisdictions that regulate cannabis should expect “unbeli ... |
| Drug controls are 'absolutely pathetic,' activist says regulation will save lives [25.04.2017] | A Vancouver based drug policy researcher has been working for decades to get the federal government to regulate illegal drugs like heroin and cocaine ... |
| Are police too skint to control Britain's weed growing industry? [17.04.2017] | Six years ago police were busting more than 20 cannabis farms a day. Local newspapers were filled with images of officers wading through illegal grow ... |
| Trafficked and enslaved: the teenagers tending UK cannabis farms [25.03.2017] | An international network of traffickers brings teenage boys from Vietnam to become enslaved gardeners in British suburbs. Yet every few weeks, anothe ... |
| Trend for ‘home grown’ cannabis in Austria [20.02.2017] | When it comes to drugs, Austrians are increasingly turning to cannabis and buying from ‘home growers’ based in Austria, according to a public prosecu ... |
| Delays in Uruguay marijuana law leave door ajar for drug trafficking [23.01.2017] | Three years after Uruguay became the first South American country to create a legal market for marijuana, seven out of every ten cannabis consumers s ... |
| Gangs less involved in cannabis compared with other drugs: Statscan [23.01.2017] | Canada’s organized crime groups and gangs are much less likely to produce and traffic marijuana than they are other illicit drugs such as cocaine and ... |
| Pills that kill: why are thousands dying from fentanyl abuse? [10.12.2016] | Fentanyl is the latest and most disturbing twist in the epidemic of opioid addiction that has crept across the United States over the past two decade ... |
| Europe's outdoor cannabis capital [01.12.2016] | Albania has become the largest producer of outdoor-grown cannabis in Europe. The potent plant has been described as "green gold" for struggling farme ... |
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