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  • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
    InterviewOffice of National Drug Control Policy
    US pivots to ‘harm reduction’ after 107,000 overdose deaths last year

    White House drug tsar says marijuana legalisation and safe injection sites will also be reviewed

  • Tuesday, 14 June, 2022
    Drug trafficking
    Europe’s illegal drug market rebounds after Covid disruptions

    Supply and use rise sharply as organised crime gangs exploit digital communications and transport networks

  • Wednesday, 1 June, 2022
    Drugs research
    Indivior sees ‘huge opportunity’ for drug targeting cannabis misuse

    Biotech company hopes to win first US approval for medicine aimed at people addicted to marijuana

  • Monday, 28 February, 2022
    The Big Read
    How Brazil’s largest crime syndicate built a global drug empire

    A prison gang 30 years ago, the PCC has risen to become one of the world’s most powerful organised crime groups

  • Monday, 6 December, 2021
    UK politics & policy
    Boris Johnson seeks to tackle middle-class drug users

    Prime minister warns people could lose passports or driving licences as part of wider crackdown on narcotics

  • Friday, 5 November, 2021
    InterviewColombia
    Colombia’s president says cocaine users culpable in Amazon destruction

    Iván Duque targets recreational drug users who preach environmentalism but fuel deforestation

  • Monday, 1 November, 2021
    Patti Waldmeir
    Rewarding recovery: how California will pay addicts to give up drugs

    Incentivising abstinence can sometimes work when nothing else does

  • Sunday, 22 August, 2021
    The Big Read
    How Myanmar coup fuelled rise in illegal drugs trade

    Drugs seizures — a proxy for production — have increased dramatically in south-east Asia this year with many pointing the finger of blame at the military takeover

  • Sunday, 22 August, 2021
    News in-depthAfghanistan
    The Afghan economy in charts: what has changed in two decades?

    Progress in healthcare and education was dogged by endemic corruption and insecurity

  • Friday, 30 July, 2021
    Scotland’s drug deaths soar to record level

    Number of those who died in 2020 increased for seventh year in a row to 1,339

  • Wednesday, 28 July, 2021
    David Pilling
    Gabon’s government is tripping for a psychedelic plant

    It wants to monetise the trade in iboga, which is reputed to help people kick drug addictions

  • Wednesday, 9 June, 2021
    Drug trafficking
    Drug traffickers change tactics to avoid Covid-19 travel curbs

    Shipping containers rather than human couriers used to smuggle narcotics into Europe

  • Friday, 28 May, 2021
    ReviewTelevision
    Liverpool Narcos on Sky Documentaries tells the story of Operation Rainman

    A semi-dramatised three-parter about the police’s attempts to halt the influx of drugs in ’90s Liverpool

  • Sunday, 9 May, 2021
    Saudi Arabia drugs haul exposes Syria and Lebanon’s booming illicit trade

    Amphetamine pills are smuggled into the Gulf in industrial quantities

  • Sunday, 2 May, 2021
    LexPharmaceuticals sector
    Mental health/psychedelic drugs: mushrooming investor interest fuels research Premium content

    Effective new treatments will find a large market

  • Wednesday, 28 April, 2021
    Special ReportIllicit Goods and Services
    Latin American drug cartels in lucrative tie-up with ’Ndrangheta

    Arrest of key suspect in Caribbean points to growing lure of European cocaine market

  • Wednesday, 28 April, 2021
    Special ReportIllicit Goods and Services
    Mexican drug cartels see big profits in fentanyl

    Gangs use long-established networks to export synthetic narcotics to the US

  • Sunday, 4 April, 2021
    News in-depthCannabis industry
    Cannabis reignites corporate interest as it edges towards mainstream

    Hopes for further liberalisation in the US and beyond spur flurry of dealmaking

  • Wednesday, 31 March, 2021
    Cannabis industry
    New York legalises cannabis after years of debate

    State becomes the 16th in the US to allow marijuana sales after lawmakers broker agreement

  • Monday, 22 March, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Mexico’s passing high

    Case for legalising marijuana is not as straightforward as its advocates say

  • Tuesday, 16 March, 2021
    Cecilia Farfán Méndez
    Women make good crime bosses too

    From Mexico and Somalia to Japan, the perception that they don’t can make women ideal illegal partners

  • Monday, 15 March, 2021
    Biotech
    Insitro raises $400m for machine learning drug discovery push

    Start-up run by former Stanford professor uses AI to analyse human genetics and work out where to target drugs

  • Tuesday, 9 March, 2021
    Cannabis industry
    Curaleaf bets on more liberal Europe with $300m deal for cannabis producer

    World’s largest marijuana retailer says relaxed attitudes are ‘taking hold’ across continent

  • Tuesday, 2 March, 2021
    A psychedelic guide to wellbeing
    Microdosing study shows placebo effect of taking psychedelics

    UK research into LSD consumption reveals expectation of improved wellbeing drives transformation

  • Friday, 26 February, 2021
    ETF HubLatest news on ETFs
    Red flags raised over cannabis ETF ‘hype’

    Analysis shows 43 out of 59 companies in major marijuana funds were lossmaking

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