Drugs

Paris’s local government is looking into opening “shooting rooms” for the city’s estimated 5,000 crack cocaine addicts.

Judges have once again thwarted deportation efforts by Priti Patel’s Home Office, blocking the removal of a convicted drug dealer from Nigeria.

PARIS (AP) — Dozens of people attacked a police station outside Paris early Sunday with blasts of fireworks and damaged several police cars, officials said. No-one was injured.

India’s Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) is conducting a high-profile investigation into a drug ring that allegedly includes some top “Bollywood” entertainers and wealthy socialites as its customers.

A team of British sailors and Royal Marines, joined by USCG personnel have interdicted 358kg (790lbs) of cocaine in the Caribbean.

A drone dropped hundreds of little baggies of free marijuana over Tel Aviv’s central Rabin Square on Thursday in an unusual move to promote the legalization of the drug, generating a flurry of activity as passersby rushed to scoop up the offerings.

A Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) K-9 located more than 900 MDMA ( Molly/Ecstasy) pills Friday during a traffic stop in Hernando County. 

A man caught transporting £5.7m in cocaine bricks hidden in a van with secret compartments has been imprisoned. 

British-born Grime Rapper Ceon Broughton had his manslaughter conviction overturned by the High Court on Tuesday, as the court found his providing a lethal dose of a hallucinogenic drug to his former girlfriend and his failure to seek medical attention

The Guardian Angels met with residents of the Upper West Side neighborhood in the wake of thousands of homeless being placed in NYC hotels.

San Francisco police officers made two arrests after the discovery of a meth lab inside a hotel designated as a pandemic shelter.

Canadian citizen Xu Weihong was sentenced to death in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou on Thursday after being vaguely charged with “making drugs.”

Police in Gloucestershire Constabulary shut down an illegal rave early Sunday morning in the Forest of Dean, arresting two of the partygoers on drug charges.

A group of alleged drug addicts recently took over an area of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, according to the New York Post.

The Philippine Senate has called for an investigation into the reported deaths of at least nine high-profile prison inmates, including drug lords, amid claims their deaths — allegedly due to coronavirus — were faked so they could escape custody, the Philippine Star reported on Tuesday.

The government of Italy announced on Wednesday it had seized 14 tons of an amphetamine labeled “captagon” en route to Europe from Syria. Italian officials reportedly believe Islamic State terrorists had produced the drug and introduced it to the market.

British authorities have arrested 746 suspects, seized tens of millions in cash, dozens of firearms and high-value cars, 2 tonnes of drugs, and even grenades in the country’s “biggest ever law enforcement operation”.

Criminal gangs are funding illegal quarantine raves to sell drugs to young Britons during the national lockdown, police in the United Kingdom say.

Police in Manchester, England said that it was “unachievable” to safely shut down an illegal ‘quarantine rave’, where two people were subsequently shot dead. In the early hours of Sunday, two men, a 36-year-old and a 21-year-old were gunned down

At two so-called ‘Quarantine Raves’ in Greater Manchester, England, which saw some 6,000 people attend, a woman was raped, a man died of a suspected drug overdose, and three people were stabbed.

Restoring American generic drug manufacturing would create “hundreds of thousands of good-paying STEM jobs,” explained Rosemary Gibson, author of “China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine,” on Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour.

Frank Capraro and Desmond McDay dumped almost one million dollars on a Merced County road while trying to evade police on Friday, according to authorities.

Three French youths arrested with a large number of illegal drugs told investigators they were stocking up before the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

The Supreme Court voted 5:4 against immigration lawyers who argued their legal immigrant client should not be deported after a conviction on drug charges. 

The United States is suffering a shortage of crucial drugs to help fight the coronavirus in American patients because they are predominately imported from China and India.

The Swedish Medicines Agency has approved the use of anaesthetics usually used for animals for severe Wuhan coronavirus patients, as supplies of traditional drugs run low.

Beirut — Lebanon’s security forces said Friday they had made their largest cannabis seizure in history last month, unearthing 25 tonnes of the drug intended for Africa.

An Iowa woman was arrested after allegedly asking the cops to check her stash of narcotics for traces of the coronavirus.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben said Tuesday the Trump administration and the coronavirus task force are together working every day to stop the pandemic. He is confident they are making good progress to that end, including the development of medication to treat the virus that could change the trajectory of its spread in the coming weeks.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) called on the United States to rebuild its domestic pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity in order to end China’s monopoly on the drugs Americans rely on.