war on drugs

Mexican citizens are taking it upon themselves to report gun battles between drug traffickers because the main stream media is not reporting them and local state officials claim that the situation is calm. The video above which was take on the morning of Saturday 27th of February and uploaded to YouTube shows the aftermath of gun battle that according to the person filming lasted for 6 hours

 Imagine this: a police force that makes its living on commissions alone, in other words, the more arrests they make the more money they earn. Violent offenders aren’t easy to catch red-handed and they usually are in possession of few items of value, whereas drug-related offenders (who are essentially either consumers or merchants) are easier to catch in the act and are often in possession of large sums of money, cars and/or contraband substances.

According to a news story published today on Miadhu News,  the Maldives has urged the United Nations to refocus its fight against illicit narcotics from security protection to enhanced public health. The Maldives made the statement today at the Social, Human rights and Cultural Committee of the General Assembly of the UN.

The country, which is a tropical paradise for tourists, is faced with the realities of a youth drug addiction that touches nearly every family, as UNICEF estimates that about 40% of the country's youth take hard drugs.

The month of august has seen Japanese pop icon Noriko Sakai transformed from a squeaky clean idol, whose hits have included “Blue bunny” and “Please your smile”, to a ‘junkie’ with ‘yakuza links’ over a miniscule amount of narcotics found in her Tokyo apartment.