Tag: drugs

• Derrière la guerre entre “Yoda” et “DZ Mafia”, “le nouveau monde” du narcobanditisme marseillais

  August 17, 2023

  Derrière la flambée de violence qui ensanglante Marseille cet été, c’est toujours la guerre entre “Yoda” et “DZ Mafia”, deux gangs rivaux, qui est à l’oeuvre, explique la Préfète de… more ›

• Nayarit and the Making of a Narco State

  August 7, 2023

  Nayarit rarely makes the headlines in Mexico, far less in the rest of the world. But this fall, the arrest of Mexico’s former secretary of defense, General Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda,… more ›

• Gram by gram

  August 7, 2023

  In February 2019, Amos Dov Silver, a slight man in his mid-30s who often wears his shoulder-length hair in a bun, received a Telegram message inviting him to a wedding… more ›

• Peruvian police seize cocaine bricks wrapped in Nazi insignia

  May 26, 2023

  Peru’s anti-narcotics police have seized 58kg (127 pounds) of cocaine headed for Belgium in packages bearing Nazi symbols and imprinted with the name of Germany’s war-time leader Hitler. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/26/peruvian-police-seize-cocaine-bricks-wrapped-in-nazi-insignia more ›

• AI is dreaming up drugs that no one has ever seen. Now we’ve got to see if they work.

  February 19, 2023

  There are now hundreds of startups exploring the use of machine learning in the pharmaceutical industry, says Nathan Benaich at Air Street Capital, a VC firm that invests in biotech… more ›

• Syria seizes hummus bowls made out of crushed Captagon pills

  September 6, 2022

  Captagon was the trade name of a drug initially patented in Germany in the early 1960s. It contained an amphetamine-type stimulant called fenethylline, used to treat attention deficit and narcolepsy,… more ›

• Amazon wild west: where drugs, fish and logging are big money but life is cheap

  July 1, 2022

  Near a sharp bend on the Itaquaí River, perched on a steep muddy bank, a lone wooden structure marks the last outpost of a fragile resistance. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/01/amazon-brazil-drugs-fish-logging-dom-phillips-bruno-pereira more ›

• The Brave New World of Legalized Psychedelics Is Already Here

  March 27, 2022

  If a single line endures from the psychedelic carnival of the 1960s, it’s probably Harvard psychologist and psychedelic cheerleader Timothy Leary’s catchphrase “Turn on, tune in, drop out.” A call… more ›

• ‘A dirty business’: how one drug is turning Syria into a narco-state

  May 7, 2021

  In the summer of 2015 a businessman in the Syrian province of Latakia was approached by a powerful security chief, seeking a favour. The official wanted the merchant, an importer… more ›

• Nayarit and the Making of a Narco State

  November 29, 2020

  Nayarit rarely makes the headlines in Mexico, far less in the rest of the world. But this fall, the arrest of Mexico’s former secretary of defense, General Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda,… more ›