Tag: drugs

• 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 ›

• Guns, Drugs and Viral Content: Welcome to Cartel TikTok

  November 29, 2020

  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 ›

• Gram by gram

  September 6, 2020

  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 ›

• Special Report: Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexico’s cell tower repairmen

  July 21, 2020

  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 ›

• Penetrating Every Stage of Afghan Opium Chain, Taliban Become a Cartel

  May 26, 2020

  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 ›

• Unmasked Ball

  May 17, 2020

  “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 ›