Tag: drugs
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Mexico is set to shatter another murder record, but that grim reality is nowhere to be seen on the TikTok videos that go viral by showcasing drug cartel culture. “It’s… more ›
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Meet the next generation of digital black markets for illegal drugs: fully decentralized, pay-by-crypto, and end-to-end encrypted bazaars. When Israel decriminalized recreational marijuana use in 2017, Silver and a team… more ›
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The young technician shut off the electricity at a cellular tower in rural Mexico to begin some routine maintenance. Within 10 minutes, he had company: three… more ›
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ZARANJ, Afghanistan — Shortly after sunrise, an Afghan special operations helicopter descended on two vehicles racing through the empty deserts of southern Afghanistan, traversing what has become a superhighway for… more ›
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“Password?” a six-foot-tall bouncer asked from underneath the light-blue mask he wore. All around, the streets of downtown Manhattan were deserted—the new normal for New York City nights. https://airmail.news/issues/2020-5-16/unmasked-ball more ›
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Delfino was handpicked twice. At 18, he was chosen by the Mexican army to join its elite unit, the airborne special forces group known by its Spanish acronym, Gafe, where… more ›
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One of the defining characteristics in an industrial revolution is the fundamental shift from a bespoke, artisan process to an industrialized, engineerable, repeatable one. https://a16z.com/2019/11/19/ai-industrializing-discovery-biology-healthcare/ more ›
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Martin Kok had already dodged death once that day. As the 49-year-old Dutch convict turned successful crime blogger left a late lunch at an Amsterdam hotel in December 2016, a… more ›
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The Netherlands is starting to resemble a narco-state with the police unable to combat the emergence of a parallel criminal economy, a report from the Dutch police association has warned.… more ›
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Names marked with an asterisk* have been changed to protect identities. It is usually quiet, cut off from the bustle of the commercial and cultural hub. https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/fun-street-drug-afghanistan-190721101125139.html more ›