Die schiitische Hisbollah finanziert ihren Terror gegen Israel womöglich mit Drogengeschäften aus Europa. Für diesen Verdacht haben nach Informationen des SPIEGEL deutsche Fahnder jüngst bei Ermittlungen in der libanesischen Hauptstadt Beirut weitere Hinweise erhalten.

spiegel.de

Over the last decade, the advances in neuroscience that led doctors to view addiction as a disease, rather than a desire or personal failing, raised the natural question of whether or not addicts could be vaccinated against drug use as if it were a virus. While the theory remains valid, the recent clinical trial of one of those vaccines, called TA-CD, highlights the complexity of the issue.

popsci.com

Two men are to appear before Belfast Magistrates Court today on charges in connection with the discovery of a £5 million haul of cocaine.

irishtimes.com

Cocaine's a hell of a drug, and even more so when laced with another drug that's commonly used to deworm opossums. Federal agents have found that 69 percent of cocaine shipments seized entering the United States contain levamisole, a veterinary drug linked to serious weakening of the immune system in humans. Here's the real funny part: no one knows why.

popsci.com
mindhacks.com
A Common Cut in Cocaine May Prove Deadly

The number of foreign women detained for drug trafficking in Brazil in the past three years has soared. The BBC's Gary Duffy examines the increase and speaks to two British women who are currently in jail awaiting sentencing for smuggling cocaine.

bbc.co.uk

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.

heraldsun.com.au
news.com.au

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

Dozens of pubs and clubs in Aberdeen are warning revellers this weekend about the dangers of cocaine.

A total of 38 city venues are taking part, on Friday and Saturday, in the Scottish government campaign.

bbc.co.uk