Lil Wayne is one of the biggest names in hip-hop right now. Actually, he's one of the biggest names in music right now (he had the biggest-selling album of 2008). He's also geared to genre-jump by releasing a rock album in February. Besides that, we also know that the pint-size rapper has been unapologetically open about his drugs of choice which are of syrup and marijuana, but now marijuana is preventing the Louisiana native's Miami apartment from being sold for the listing price of $520,000. Potential buyers are turned off simply because it smells like marijuana.

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nypost.com

Mexican cartels are increasingly going "old school" to keep supplying America with methamphetamine despite an ingredient squeeze.

Some gangs have responded to a Mexican crackdown on their meth chemical of choice - pseudoephedrine - by reviving a production method so old, it was used by U.S. motorcycle gangs and bathtub chemists in the 1970s and '80s, recent seizures show.

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AUSTRALIA will have a white Christmas - we are now the world's most profitable market for cocaine cartels.

A confidential Australian Federal Police report reveals a "generational shift" towards cocaine has pushed demand for the drug to unprecedented levels, with prices to match.

In the US a kilo of cocaine is worth about $35,000, but here the street price is a staggering $190,000 a kilo.

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A gang caught trying to smuggle cocaine worth £10 million into Britain on a yacht were facing jail last night.

Customs officials swooped just 15 miles off the Cornish coast as the smugglers prepared to complete a transatlantic crossing.

Southwark Crown Court heard the boat had been tracked after being bought in Trinidad and loaded with 200lbs of cocaine in South America.

telegraph.co.uk

If you had asked me 10 years ago whether the United States will ever change its interdiction-focused counter-narcotics policies -- and perhaps even decriminalize marijuana consumption at home -- I would have told you, "never."

Today, I say, "perhaps."

Earlier this week, in a tacit admission that current U.S. anti-drug policies are not working, the House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill to create an independent commission to review whether the U.S. anti-drug policies of the past three decades in Latin America are producing positive results.

The bill now goes to the Senate, where supporters say it has a good chance to pass, given its bipartisan support in the House. The 10-member panel, modelled after the 9/11 Commission that made recommendations to Congress and the White House after the 2001 terrorist attacks, would have to issue its report in 12 months.

winnipegfreepress.com

Police answering a 911 call about a home invasion in East Vancouver Wednesday found no break-in suspects when they arrived but did discover 107,000 ecstasy tablets, some imprinted with the Olympic rings symbol.

cbc.ca

A man from Massachusetts is in the Henry County Jail on drug charges, accused of transporting psychedelic mushrooms in a motor home.

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