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Community groups, health researchers, and academics are calling for a national debate on drug laws. It comes as Ireland prepares its position on drug prohibition ahead of a special session on the issue by the UN General Assembly in early 2016. [Read More] 22/05/13

A deadly new drug, dubbed “cocaine of the poor”, which burns the internal organs of users and has a cheap street value, has alarmed health authorities in Greece. [Read More] 21/05/13

After Afghan President Hamid Karzai thanked India for help in rebuilding Afghanistan, Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal embarrassed him by stating that heroin was coming from Afghanistan to Punjab and the state was fighting hard to deal with drug [Read More] 21/05/13

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"The European Monitoring Centre logged in 60 new compounds last year and there's been a similar rate this year. That's one a week. They list some 200 different psychoactive chemicals that lie outside the legal scope of our existing regulations. [Read More] 17/05/13

Eighty kilograms of presumed heroin has been found packed in plastic bottles aboard a train traveling from the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, to Moscow, raising new Russian worries about the train route. The Interior Ministry said two Tajik train conductors hav [Read More] 16/05/13

Chinese police have busted two gangs involved in the production and sale of counterfeit medicines and health products, respectively, the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) announced Tuesday [Read More] 15/05/13

A high-ranking Mexican drug cartel chief was jailed for 35 years on Monday for plotting to smuggle vast quantities of cocaine and marijuana into the United States, justice officials said. Aurelio Cano Flores, described by the Justice Department as a seni [Read More] 14/05/13

A Home Office study of international drug laws is to get under way this week with a visit to Portugal to look at the long-term impact of its policy of limited decriminalisation. [Read More] 13/05/13