Vice
| May 22, 2013
Sisa, a cheap version of crystal meth cut with toxic fillers, has become the drug of choice for those at the very bottom of Greece's collapsing economy. Vice Magazine takes a look at what even its users call "the worst drug in the world."
Telegraph.co.uk
| Apr 26, 2013
Video footage shows a group called Young Anti-Drugs Special Forces, an offshoot of the Kremlin-backed Young Russia movement, attacking suspected drug dealers.
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 18, 2013
Nigerian drug lords have been importing South American experts to build the country's first known large-scale methamphetamine labs, Al Jazeera reports. The country has long been a transit hub for illegal drugs but anti-drug agencies say the manufa...
NTDTV
| Feb 21, 2013
Mexican security forces were behind the abduction and murder of scores of people during Felipe Calderon's administration, according to a new Human Rights Watch report. The report cites 149 cases of "enforced disappearances" and labels Calderon's a...
Journeyman Pictures
| Feb 11, 2013
They were designed to save lives, but precious antiretrovirals given to fight AIDS in South Africa's townships are being stolen by street gangs to produce nyaope, also known as whoonga, a highly addictive and destructive new drug. "I have smoked o...
Al Jazeera English
| Feb 10, 2013
Two of El Salvador's largest gangs have signed a peace deal with each other. They've promised to stop all criminal activity in Sonsonate, which is an area known for murder and drug trafficking. A previous truce made last spring between El Salvador...
Mother Jones
| Feb 7, 2013
This video made using Google Earth shows how industrial-scale marijuana growing has ravaged remote forested areas of California's Humboldt County. Its creator and narrator, an environmental sociologist, says legalization and regulation would help ...
NTDTV
| Feb 4, 2013
Outraged at relentless drug-related extortion, kidnapping, and theft, residents in Mexico's mountainous southern state of Guerrero are taking the law into their own hands by forming "community police" forces to fight the cartels. With official Mex...
Telegraph.co.uk
| Jan 12, 2013
Pay de Limon, a dog whose legs were allegedly amputated by drug traffickers in Mexico City, has been given a new lease of life thanks to prosthetic limbs. Members of a drug gang used Limon's paws to practice cutting fingers off kidnapped people.
Al Jazeera English
| Dec 29, 2012
An unprecedented number of children from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras are migrating to the US. It is a harrowing, dangerous journey, but what is making them flee their home countries and what awaits them if they make it to the US?
— May 1 at 09:11 am
...and ecstasy tablets. Several thousand dollars of Canadian and United States currency were also recovered. A vehicle used by one of the accused t...
— Feb 20 at 04:39 pm
...are incomplete. The UN says drug trade has increased in Guinea-Bissau since the April 2012 coup Gilberto Gerra is chief of drug prevention and h...
The illegal drug trade is a global black market, dedicated to cultivation, manufacturing, distribution, and sale of drugs, which are subject to drug prohibition laws. Most jurisdictions prohibit trade, except under license, of many types of drugs by drug prohibition laws.
A UN report said "the global drug trade generated an estimated US$321.6 billion in 2003." With a world GDP of US$36 trillion in the same year, the illegal drug trade may be estimated as slightly less than 1% of total global output. Consumption of illegal drugs is widespread globally.
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