“The disposable foot soldiers of crime” – Media, County Lines and Moral Panics
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‘We are cutting the head off the snake and taking down the kingpins behind these deadly supply lines…Drug abuse and…
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Talking Drugs Updates from Eastern Europe and Central Asia [December 2021]
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1. In November 2020, the Ministry of Health of Ukraine submitted a new draft law on medical cannabis for public…
TalkingDrugs News from Eastern Europe and Central Asia Region [September-October 2021]
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1. In Orenburg Russia, on October 15, representatives of the Russian Federal Security Service entered two Russian human rights defenders’…
Taliban and opium poppy: should we expect a ban on cultivation?
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In 2000, the Taliban were in power and due to the official ban on opium cultivation, the world market fell…
An Insight into Colombia’s Drug Policy
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This is the first article of Mauro Echeverria’s “The Great Colombia: A Drug Policy Profile of Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador”…
Zimbabwean Government On a War Path with Drug Lords
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The Zimbabwean government has approved a multi-disciplinary and multi-sectoral approach to address the rampant misuse of illicit drugs in the…
Drug Policy, Law Enforcement, and The Monetisation of State Violence in Brazil
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As copaganda thrives under prohibition, the different ways that the state apparatus of violence exercises its power and profits from…
The Uncovered Truth: How the opium poppy cultivation in Kyrgyzstan ended
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TalkingDrugs is excited to present to its readers an extract from Sputnik.kg on the origins of opium cultivation in Kyrgyzstan.…
Book: Dopeworld’s deep dive into Hydra and one of its Russian cyber queen-pins
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Niko Vorobyov has shared with TalkingDrugs an extract of his latest book, Dopeworld: Adventures in the Global Drug Trade. It…
World Executions for Drug Charges Fell Sharply Amid COVID. It’s Likely Temporary.
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As the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world last year, governments executed far fewer people for drug convictions than they did in…
Бразилия: “некрополитика” Президента Болсонару
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В декабре 2020 года, всего через несколько дней после того как Бразилия проголосовала “против” исключения каннабиса из списка особо опасных наркотиков…
Revealing Trends in Russia’s Dark-Web Drug Markets
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Heroin use became widespread in Russia in the late 1990s, amid the opening of international borders and social upheaval and…