drug war
How the IRS Screws Legal Weed Businesses
The IRS targets legal cannabis businesses. Now the industry is fighting back.
A Mother, Serving 15 Years for Marijuana, Makes Last-Minute Plea for Freedom
Crystal Munoz is nine years into a 15-year sentence for possession of marijuana, a crime she says she never committed. With President Obama's time in office coming to an end, she fears this is her last chance for clemency—and her last chance to reunite...
Philippine President Walks Back on Comment That He Once Threw Someone from a Helicopter
"If you are corrupt, I will fetch you using a helicopter to Manila and I will throw you out," Duterte said in Filipino during a speech about typhoon-relief efforts. "I’ve done it before; why can’t I do it again?"
Inside Rodrigo Duterte's brutal drug war in the Philippines
VICE News spoke with two people who claim they're hired by a police officer to kill drug dealers in the streets.
Duterte drops f-bomb on EU over criticism of Philippines drug war
President Rodrigo Duterte wagged his middle finger in the air and said, "Fuck you" to the European Union over a request to halt the killing of drug suspects.
How Two American Teens Became Assassins for a Mexican Cartel
'Wolf Boys,' a new book by Dan Slater, details the bloody rise and fall of two Texas teenagers who became contract killers for the Zetas, the most violent drug cartel in Mexico, killing dozens of people in the process.
Philippine president regrets calling Obama a 'son of a bitch'
The spat began on Monday when a reporter asked how he planned to explain to Obama his support for more than 2,000 extrajudicial killings of drug suspects.
Taking down Zetas cartel leaders has triggered more violence in Mexico
When the government eliminated the bosses of one of the bloodiest cartels, those who were left began fighting — and civilians are paying a high price in blood.