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India’s High Demand For Drugs in Lockdown Is Making Dealers Take More Risks
Since the enforcement of lockdown, India’s drug busts are seeing higher quantities of opium and marijuana as dealers attempt to smuggle drugs through creative ways.
'Drugs Are a Vehicle to Look at Grief': Jeet Thayil on His New Book
We spoke to India's most famous drug novelist about "Low," his third novel.
In the 2010s, Getting High Became Even More Profitable and Terrifying
At the beginning of the decade, the online drug trade opened its floodgates. At the end, U.S. cities started decriminalizing magic mushrooms. This is how the last ten years turned the illegal drug industry upside down.
Three in Four Addicts in North India Start Abusing Drugs Before They're 20, New Study Finds
It also found that addicts spend up to Rs 2,000 on daily drug usage and pinpoints peer pressure, easy availability and unemployment as the main reasons behind the rampant addiction.
Gujarat Is the New ‘Favourite’ Route for Pakistani Cartels Smuggling Drugs to the West
“If a fisherman brings five kgs of heroin along with 500 kgs of fish in his boat, it is very difficult to catch him.”
Opium-Addicted Parrots Keep Raiding Poppy Farms in India
Poppy farmers are being forced to guard their crops against the drug-addled birds, who get high off the narcotic effects of the plant.
Lemon Poppyseed Bread Caused a New Mom to Fail a Drug Test
Because of the test results, Jamie Silakowski had to face visits from Child Protective Services and months of drug tests.
These Rogue Foreigners Ruled the Streets of 1930s Shanghai
Gambling, drugs, you name it. "There was so much money being made that there wasn't a need to kill a lot of people."
Why Is the Air Force Using Stealth Fighters to Blow Up Crude Drug Labs?
"The reality is we are fighting two wars, in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the F-22 has not performed a single mission in either theater."
Calgary border guards seized tennis balls packed with suspected opium
It’s the latest drug bust for cops in the province that’s been grappling with the opioid crisis