Drug Harm ReductionDrug TraffickingКак закрытие “Гидры” повлияет на российский наркорынокAnastasia Bezverkha.Apr 25, 20225 апреля стало известно, что немецкие силовики остановили работу «Гидры» — самого известного русскоязычного даркнет-магазина по продаже наркотиков. Они выключили его…
Drug PolicyDrug TraffickingDrugs & DevelopmentIn Honduras, Drug Policy is Also Climate PolicyKendra McSweeney.Apr 21, 2022Late last month, I got word via WhatsApp that six old friends were in the custody of Mexican immigration authorities.…
Drug PolicyDrug TraffickingIn Brazil, 80,000 Incarcerations in One Year is What the UNODC Calls ‘Excellent’Felipe Neis Araujo.Mar 31, 2022Early last year, TalkingDrugs reported on the partnerships between UN agencies and the Brazilian government in an attempt to breathe…
Drug PolicyDrug TraffickingStaring into the Abyss: Examining Venezuela’s Drug PoliciesMauro Echeverría.Mar 1, 2022
Drug PolicyDrug Trafficking“The disposable foot soldiers of crime” – Media, County Lines and Moral PanicsEllie Harding.Feb 2, 2022‘We are cutting the head off the snake and taking down the kingpins behind these deadly supply lines…Drug abuse and…
Drug Harm ReductionDrug PolicyDrug TraffickingDrugs & GenderTalking Drugs Updates from Eastern Europe and Central Asia [December 2021]Anastasia Bezverkha.Jan 18, 20221. In November 2020, the Ministry of Health of Ukraine submitted a new draft law on medical cannabis for public…
CannabisDrug PolicyDrug TraffickingDrugs & GenderTalkingDrugs News from Eastern Europe and Central Asia Region [September-October 2021]Anastasia Bezverkha.Nov 17, 20211. In Orenburg Russia, on October 15, representatives of the Russian Federal Security Service entered two Russian human rights defenders’…
Drug TraffickingDrugs & DevelopmentOpioidsTaliban and opium poppy: should we expect a ban on cultivation?Anastasia Bezverkha.Oct 26, 2021In 2000, the Taliban were in power and due to the official ban on opium cultivation, the world market fell…
CannabisDrug PolicyDrug TraffickingDrugs & DevelopmentAn Insight into Colombia’s Drug PolicyMauro Echeverría.Oct 22, 2021This is the first article of Mauro Echeverria’s “The Great Colombia: A Drug Policy Profile of Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador”…
Drug PolicyDrug TraffickingZimbabwean Government On a War Path with Drug LordsLawrence Paganga.Oct 21, 2021The Zimbabwean government has approved a multi-disciplinary and multi-sectoral approach to address the rampant misuse of illicit drugs in the…
Drug PolicyDrug TraffickingDrug Policy, Law Enforcement, and The Monetisation of State Violence in BrazilFelipe Neis Araujo.Oct 13, 2021As copaganda thrives under prohibition, the different ways that the state apparatus of violence exercises its power and profits from…
Drug TraffickingDrugs & DevelopmentOpioidsThe Uncovered Truth: How the opium poppy cultivation in Kyrgyzstan endedMirbek Sakenov & Karina Rozetdinova.Oct 8, 2021TalkingDrugs is excited to present to its readers an extract from Sputnik.kg on the origins of opium cultivation in Kyrgyzstan.…