Items tagged with drug markets
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| Swedish cannabis cultivation hits a high [10.07.2016] | Cannabis cultivation in Sweden has increased exponentially in recent years, to the degree that some parts of the country are now becoming self-suffic ... |
| Is the global cocaine trade in decline? [23.06.2016] | The latest United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 2016 World Drug Report presents a long-term analysis of cocaine production, seizures and ... |
| Time to put ‘skunk’ out of business [21.06.2016] | In the scientific literature, 'skunk' has come to mean something more specific: cannabis that contains a high percentage of Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC ... |
| The failed promise of legal pot [08.05.2016] | The risk is that, by itself, legalizing marijuana possession does not change the black market and that, even as legalization spreads, young black men ... |
| EU Drug Markets Report [04.04.2016] | The 2016 EU Drug Markets Report provides a unique insight into the operation of illicit drug markets in the EU. The report assesses the impact of the ... |
| What can be learned from Brazil’s “pacification” police model? [10.03.2016] | When national and local public safety personnel in Latin America want to turn away from “mano dura” approaches to the problem of alarmingly high rate ... |
| Mexican marijuana farmers see profits tumble as U.S. loosens laws [30.12.2015] | The loosening of marijuana laws across much of the United States has increased competition from growers north of the border, apparently enough to dri ... |
| Tramadol-spiked hashish comes at a high price in Cairo [16.09.2015] | Hash is easily available in many areas of Cairo, and widely used. But there is increasing evidence that much of the supply has been cut with more dan ... |
| Dabbing: the ‘cannabis crack’ that makes skunk seem weak [30.08.2015] | As soon as they find out what it is, the tabloids are going to freak out about dabbing. This new technique for getting stoned involves people heating ... |
| Young hands in Mexico feed growing U.S. demand for heroin [29.08.2015] | As heroin addiction soars in the United States, a boom is underway south of the border, reflecting the two nations’ troubled symbiosis. Officials fro ... |
| With marijuana price down 70%, Colombia growers are bailing [13.07.2015] | On a farm in the central Andean mountains of Colombia, workers are digging up marijuana bushes and replacing them with avocados. They’ll get no subsi ... |
| Teens are being used as guinea pigs in the synthetic drugs market [02.03.2015] | The low volume, high frequency internet drugs market makes it hard for police to target. And even harder for teenagers to know what they’re taking. A ... |
| Report illustrates dynamics of Colombia's domestic drug trade [25.02.2015] | A recent analysis on the relationship between local drug markets and violence and crime in Colombia illustrates the dynamics driving the domestic dru ... |
| Urban drug markets and zones of impunity in Colombia [25.02.2015] | The retail drug trade has been identified by the authorities as a strategic priority, under the hypothesis that it is one of the main triggers of vio ... |
| Mexican opium farmers expand plots to supply U.S. heroin boom [02.02.2015] | Red and purple blossoms with fat, opium-filled bulbs blanket the remote creek sides and gorges of the Filo Mayor mountains in the southern state of G ... |
| Seattle's legal marijuana euphoria over as industry undergoes growing pains [15.01.2015] | The legal marijuana market in the state of Washington opened last summer to a dearth of weed. Some stores periodically closed because they didn’t hav ... |
| Losing marijuana business, Mexican cartels push heroin and meth [11.01.2015] | Mexican traffickers are sending a flood of cheap heroin and methamphetamine across the U.S. border, the latest drug seizure statistics show, in a new ... |
| Myanmar returns to what sells: Heroin [03.01.2015] | A decade ago, Myanmar seemed on course to wipe out the opium fields and heroin jungle labs along its eastern border, the notorious Golden Triangle. T ... |
| Medical marijuana a challenge for legal pot states [02.01.2015] | A year into the experiments with legal, taxed marijuana sales, Washington and Colorado find themselves wrestling not with the federal interference ma ... |
| Fixing a broken system [28.12.2014] | Despite efforts by governments in Latin America, illicit drugs continue to provide one of the largest incomes for criminal organizations, enabling th ... |
| Cannabis farmers support calls to legalize lucrative crop [23.12.2014] | With the war in Syria stifling the economy and bringing in a flood of refugees in the Bekaa Valley, as well as the closure of smuggling roads and per ... |
| Making a mountain out of a molehill: myths on youth and crime in Saint Lucia [15.12.2014] | Caribbean states face challenges of youth involvement in crime, violence, gangs and other anti-social activities. It is not uncommonly heard the “dru ... |
| How powerful synthetic drugs will upend drug markets globally [01.12.2014] | Illicit drugs made from plants (e.g., cocaine, heroin) are being replaced in some national drug markets by those that are synthesized (e.g., methamph ... |
| Does tougher enforcement make drugs more expensive? [30.11.2014] | Although the fact of prohibition itself raises prices far above those likely to pertain in legal markets, there is little evidence that raising the r ... |
| Legal pot in the U.S. may be undercutting Mexican marijuana [30.11.2014] | Made-in-America marijuana is on a roll. More than half the states have now voted to permit pot for recreational or medical use, most recently Oregon ... |
| Left to flourish, cannabis farms see profits fall [16.11.2014] | For the second year in a row, cannabis farmers in the Bekaa Valley have been able to reap their harvests without being harassed or prosecuted by the ... |
| Marijuana farmers in the Bekaa struggling to survive as profits decline [12.09.2014] | Farmers in the Bekaa Valley are not ashamed of growing marijuana. It is neither a disgrace nor a mistake, “We grow it to survive” they say candidly. ... |
| Cannabis farmers to resist state’s decision to destroy crops [08.07.2014] | The government's decision to begin destroying cannabis farms in the Bekaa Valley has angered impoverished farmers whose livelihoods rely heavily on d ... |
| Greece on crossroads of international heroin trade [23.06.2014] | Greece is a central hub on the route connecting the main country where heroin is produced, Afghanistan, and its biggest markets in Western Europe, an ... |
| Albania cracks down on marijuana production in key southern village [18.06.2014] | With the fruits of its labor turning up in Italy, Greece and, last year, Germany, Albania has come under increasing pressure from the European Union ... |
| West Africa should decriminalise drugs - Obasanjo commission [12.06.2014] | The West Africa Commission on Drugs says drug cartels are undermining the region by using it to transit cocaine. The commission, headed by former Nig ... |
| Bekaa farmers push against eradicating marijuana growth in Lebanon [02.06.2014] | The growth of cannabis is gradually increasing in the fields in the Bekaa valley. This is mainly due to policies adopted by successive governments th ... |
| Civil war turns Syria into major amphetamines hub [11.01.2014] | Syria has become a major amphetamines exporter and consumer as the trauma of the country's brutal civil war fuels demand and the breakdown in order c ... |
| Eyes Wide Shut: Corruption and Drug-Related Violence in Rosario [30.12.2013] | In Rosario, Argentina, the presence of criminal organisations involved in drug trafficking was a low priority for the government until New Year’s day ... |
| Legal cannabis market 'would be worth £1.25bn a year to government' [14.09.2013] | Legalising and taxing cannabis could be worth as much as £1.25bn a year to the government, a study suggests. The report Licensing and regulation of t ... |
| Outcast: Egypt's growing addiction problem [26.06.2013] | Assistant professor of psychology at the American University in Cairo (AUC) Mona Amer says that a number of factors lead to drug abuse in Egypt. Thes ... |
| Greek addicts turn to deadly shisha drug as economic crisis deepens [15.05.2013] | Nobody knows which came first: the economic crisis tearing Greece apart or shisha, the drug now known as the "cocaine of the poor". What everyone doe ... |
| 114 milliards de DH sur la route du kif, deux fois plus que le tourisme! [05.10.2012] | Dans de nombreux douars des provinces «réputées» abriter des sites de culture de cannabis, des familles entières vivent de cette activité. Enclavées ... |
| Cannabis production and markets in Europe [26.06.2012] | This study brings together available evidence to provide a comprehensive analysis of cannabis production and markets across the EU. It combines infor ... |
| Christiania's resurgent cannabis trade marred by violence and intimidation [06.06.2012] | Almost a decade after extensive police raids in 2004 that were intended to clear out the drug dealers in Christiania, police estimate that the trade ... |
| UK police find 20 cannabis farms a day [29.04.2012] | Police discovered more than 20 cannabis farms and factories in the UK every day last year, seizing drugs worth up to £100 million, according to a rep ... |
| Chewing over Khat prohibition [10.01.2012] | In the context of a fast changing and well documented market in legal highs, the case of khat (Catha edulis) provides an interesting anomaly. It is f ... |
| Cocaine in Europe: a battle against trafficking or consumption? [27.05.2011] | The Group of Eight major industrialized economies want to stop the cocaine industry dead in its tracks. But experts say they may be focusing too much ... |
| Dry spell: Hashish prices skyrocket, users fret amid shortage [31.03.2010] | For the past two months local drug consumers in Egypt – which the most conservative estimates place at around 7 million – have been in the throes of ... |
| The ATS Boom in Southeast Asia [15.01.2009] | In the 1990s, Southeast Asia experienced a boom in the production and consumption of amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS), in particular methamphetamine ... |
| Withdrawal Symptoms in the Golden Triangle [09.01.2009] | Drug control agencies have called the significant decline in opium production in Southeast Asia over the past decade a 'success story'. The latest re ... |
| Characteristics of the cannabis market in Belgium [01.01.2007] | The number of cannabis plantations uncovered by the Belgian judiciary has been rising steadily, and the relocation of cannabis production to the Low ... |
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