Drug PolicyDrug TraffickingDrugs & RaceDrugs & WomenPersonal StoriesDope Men: How We Went From Alcohol Prohibition to AnotherNiko Vorobyov.Sep 19, 2023Just past midnight on April 7th 1933, a truck pulled up to the White House filled with beer. President Roosevelt…
Drug PolicyIs What’s Happening in the Philippines a Genocide?Niko Vorobyov.Aug 27, 2020Just over two years ago, I found myself upstairs of a seedy karaoke bar on the northeast outskirts of Manila.…
Drug PolicyDrugs & WomenOpioidsPersonal StoriesHell and Back Again: Life, Death and Heroin in RussiaNiko Vorobyov.Mar 10, 2020While small amounts of drugs in theory are decriminalised in Russia, in practise lack of treatment; crooked or overeager cops;…
CannabisCoca & CocaineDrug PolicyDrug TraffickingDrug War ImperialismNiko Vorobyov.Aug 29, 2019In August 1978, guerrilla fighters from the Sandinista National Liberation Front stormed the National Palace in Nicaragua. Nicaragua had been…