With unprecedented access to undercover footage, Explorer reveals the inner workings of a sting operation designed to bring down one of the world's most prolific and untouchable criminals, international arms dealer Monzer al-Kassar. Through the eyes of Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agents and their undercover informants, we'll see how an elite team risked their lives to catch Kassar in the act of selling deadly weapons illegally.

nationalgeographic.com

A funny British documentary interviewing various cannabis users (hilarious to see grandmas talking about being arrested for growing etc!)

More people smoke cannabis in Britain than ever before, 10 Million of us have confessed to trying it, and over 2 million spark up every month.

Stoned In Suburbia is a social history film, examining the change in people’s opinions to cannabis over the past 50 years.

imdb.com

Penn and Teller - Bullshit - War On Drugs Subtitle: Croatian

pennandteller.com
Penn & Teller [Wiki]
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! [Wiki]

A drug smuggler has been jailed for 20 years for the manslaughter of a taxi driver who died after drinking pure liquid cocaine from a rum bottle.

Lascell Malcolm, 63, was given the bottle of Bounty Rum by a friend who had no idea of its lethal contents.

bbc.co.uk
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In a new policy brief by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Ambassador Marc Grossman, former U.S. Undersecretary for State for Political Affairs, argues that the U.S. should try converting opium into biofuel and transform Afghanistan’s destructive cash crop into a renewable energy source. Afghanistan’s massive and ever-growing poppy fields, if processed as fuel, can help Afghanistan cover its own growing energy needs.

dirt.asla.org

Drogen lassen sich nicht nicht nur schlucken, rauchen oder spritzen, sondern auch hören. Im Internet lassen sich nach Angaben der Pariser Neuropsychologin Brigitte Forgeot Musikdateien herunterladen, die auf den Zuhörer wie die Drogen LSD oder Kokain wirken. Dabei werden in beide Ohren Tonpaare übertragen, die zwar ähnlich sind, deren Frequenz sich aber unterscheidet.

ngz-online.de
tagesspiegel.de
nzz.ch
i-doser.com

Have this generation's crop of hippy-dippy indie artists found a new drug to match their music? Devendra Banhart, the Bees and Klaxons have in recent weeks namechecked ayahuasca, a so-called "plant medicine" taken in the Peruvian rainforest over intense 10-day periods. Klaxons' Jamie Reynolds even went so far as to cite the experience as a key factor in helping his band finally follow up their debut album. But before you rush out to guzzle down this herbal brew, it's perhaps best to know what you're letting yourself in for.

guardian.co.uk
nationalgeographic.com
ayahuasca.com
biopark.org
ayahuasca-info.com
wiki

NRW-Justizminister Thomas Kutschaty (SPD) will die "Eigenbedarfsgrenzen" für Haschisch erhöhen, die es ins Ermessen der Staatsanwaltschaft stellen, ob ein Strafverfahren eröffnet wird. Zoll und Polizei kritisieren die Pläne als "ein falsches Signal", Drogenberater begrüßen sie.

rp-online.de
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