AFGHAN OPIUM
- Afghani police seize 100s of kilos of drugs
- Massive upsurge in seizures on Afghani/Iran border
- Afghanistan/Iran: 1.5 tonnes of drugs seized in 6 months
- Uzbek custom agents seize 52k Afghani hash & opium
- Taliban commanders profit from opium
- Instagram opium harvest vid
- Opium farming ban: Afgani farmers are poor – Pakistani farmers make up for lost production
- Detecting Afgani poppy fields from space
- Drug warlords biggest threat to soldiers stationed in Afghanistan
- At least 800K of narcotics seized during September
PHILIPPINE DEATH SQUADS
- Nov 30 trial begins: “next major milestone” in case
- “Duterte fit to stand trial” – ICC
- Victims & families can participate – ICC
- Berlin Human Rights activists demand justice for Duterte victims
- Duterte trial gearing up, truncated testimony allowed
- Duterte’s Drug War still lingers
- Trump: “Resign!” ICC: “Yeah, no.”
- Trump’s attack on ICC undermines Justice for Duterte
- From 49 to 57 incidents in Duterte trial
- Duterte finally in court on drug war death squad charges
MEXICO VIOLENCE
- Mexican cartels: steal rentals & build war trucks
- Mexico cartel OKs attack on US border patrol
- US Ambassador warns Mexican Banks Re: Cartels
- Drone wars on US/Mexican border
- Pentagon vs. Sinaloa
- Mexico Prez gets nervous about US anti-cartel “cooperation”
- Trump gets tough on Mexican Elite/Cartel members
- Mexico busts cartel smuggling logistics guy
- Gov./Cartel symbiosis in Mexico
- Mexico rescues 8 from hidden cartel clinic
Softer and Grey Market Alternatives
Trump's Drug Wars
- Trump ready to turn boat strikes into land strikes
- Did Grok convince Trump to invade Venezuela?
- CNN deep dives Trump’s “Iran’s Drug Factory” claims
- Boat strikes ineffective. Trump: “CONTINUE!”
- Trump’s Iran/drug war: “Operation midnight hammer”
- Trump turns Iran war into drug war
- Trump’s drug war: pointless and growing
- Trump combines Nukes, the drug war and Iran
- Trump brags of his extrajudicial murders
- Brazil & Mexico resist joining “Shield Of The Americas”
PSYCHEDELICS
- Cacti grower/artist on Instagram
- LSD/Romance study (preprint)
- Erowid raising $: Shulgin drawings for donations
- Oct 25 Shulgin Foundation cacti workshop
- LSD extends the lifespan of worms
- Commercial shroom chocolate quality control
- Book Report: Haridy’s Trip Reports
- The fall of Vancouver’s “shroom house”
- Nature on psychedelics as treatment for coma
- What to expect from MDMA
Prohibition’s Causes and Consequences
- CBS calls ketamine and kratom “party drugs
- Iraq/Libya: 1.2M captagon pills intercepted
- Lebanon/Syria: 225K captagon pills intercepted
- Captagon – “flooding the middle east”
- “Jihad drug” – Syrian Speed – captagon
- Cocaine vs Meth – a head to head comparison
- DEA moves to prohibit synthetic kratom
- India feels threatened by Pakistani drug trade
- VPD make record cocaine seizure: 328 Kilos
- Drug fear mongering in Vancouver city election
Policy and Enforcement
- 235 murdered in boat strikes, zero proof
- US war on innocent fishing boats
- Columbia ramps up drug war
- Pentagon moves from boat strikes to ground troops
- Boat Strike kills four Oct 4th. “At Least” 235 total kills
- Will Hegseth move US troops from Europe to Americas?
- US forced to release boat strike rationale?
- “The Kid” – Australian/Iranian “kingpin” – busted
- Boat Strikes expand to Equador
- US Troops in Equador for drug war
Trending
- Vid: A short history of Ketamine
- Saudi Arabia seizes 51K captagon pills
- Yet another warning to not take datura
- Ketamine harm reduction: spit or swallow?
- The Independent on Trump’s Iran/nuke/drugs claim
- “We didn’t make drugs at nuke facilities” – Iran
- CNN deep dive on Kratom/Ole Miss deaths
- short vid: history of the discovery of cocaine
- Eli Lilly pays 3.8 billion for 5-MEO-DMT company
- Pharma-ACID for anxiety
CANNABIS
- Vid: Michigan rosin farm
- Booze sales down, pot sales up
- Study: pharmacist pot doesn’t help with insomnia
- 6 busted in multi-million dollar grow in E. Ontario
- Pot seized in Aegean Sea off coast of Turkey
- More stigma foisted on pot by Di Forti & Murray
- Why caged, helpless lab mice get paranoid on pot
- Michael Douglas, pot smuggler
- Rescheduling paused to consider GAO report
- Pot on ballot in Mass., Idaho & Houston Nov. 3
- A history of Paul McCartney weed busts
- Idaho senator a legalization blocker
- “NO PUFF PUFF PASS!” – DEA
- Manitoba weighs retail staff safety vs small business considerations
- Dem Senators oppose Mass. pot legalization repeal initiative
- Brittney Griner calls for statewide pot legalization
