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How The “Cocaine Of The Poor” Is Spreading Across Crisis-Ridden Greece

Known as sisa, this Greek methamphetamine-based concoction is spreading across the streets of Athens — the latest sign of the side effects of the economic crisis plaguing Greece.

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Geopolitics

Australia’s Biggest Meth Bust Ever Nets Half-Ton Haul

HERALD SUN (Australia), SKY NEWS (UK) Worldcrunch SYDNEY –Australian police have seized 585 kilograms of pure methamphetamine in Sydney bound to flush the major Australian cities. The haul was estimated at $438 million in street value, in what is largest seizure ever of methamphetamine down under. Police had been tipped off in September about “suspicious […]

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Geopolitics

Colombia Bill To Decriminalize Use Of Ecstasy, Other Synthetic Drugs

EL TIEMPO, SEMANA (Colombia) MILENIO (Mexico) Worldcrunch BOGOTÁ– Colombia’s Justice Minister announced a government proposal to decriminalize personal use of synthetic drugs such as ecstasy and methamphetamines. If the proposal, as laid out by Justice Minister Ruth Stella Correa this week, passes Congress, it will authorize the carrying and consumption of what are known to […]

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Future

Silk Road: Deep Inside The Internet Hides A Booming Market For Any Kind Of Drug

Behind codes of encryption, the so-called “Deep Web” hosts a vast network of people trading in illegal sales of all sorts, most notably any drug imaginable.

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Society

How Methamphetamines Replaced Heroin As China’s New Drug Of Choice

Smuggled in from Burma and North Korea, meth is flooding Chinese mean streets.

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