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South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg said Sunday that he would be willing to send U.S. troops to Mexico as a “last resort” to fight drug cartels.

Sadiq Khan has signalled that he is open to decriminalising cannabis possession, calling for an “evidence-based conversation” about the drug.

The U.S. Coast Guard announced that it seized 19 tons of illegal drugs worth millions in international waters.

Hundreds of people attended a protest in Tel Aviv on Saturday evening, calling for the release of an Israeli woman imprisoned in Russia on drug charges, as a simultaneous rally was held in New York outside the Russian consulate.

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Nearly half of the adults in the United States claim substance abuse has caused problems within their families, according to a Gallup poll.

An Arkansas woman who was arrested for allegedly having drug paraphernalia inside her car claimed her brother fed her a “meth sandwich.”

A Missouri couple whose unborn baby tested positive for amphetamines recently discovered that their dream home used to be a meth lab.

Dutch lawyer Derk Wiersum was shot dead on the streets of Amsterdam this week, with some believing the shooting was tied to a major Moroccan mafia drug case.

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Combating drug addiction is a personal matter for several members of the Trump administration, said Drug Czar Jim Carroll.

The Pentagon has told Congress that it will build 11 sections of the southern border wall with $3.6 billion in funds allocated by Congress to other construction projects.

Authorities have arrested 35 suspects and seized enough fentanyl to kill 14 million people during a huge three-state drug bust, reports said. 

The Trump administration announced on Monday that it will approve more marijuana growers for both medical and scientific research.

Five men have been indicted after French police in the city of Angers made a record seizure of cannabis in the city from a drugs network operating out of local shisha bars. The arrests of the five men occurred in

TEL AVIV – An American-Israeli woman has been in a Russian jail for four months after airport authorities found nine grams of cannabis in her checked luggage while she was in Moscow for a stopover on her way home to Israel. 

Two people in Louisiana have been arrested on Tuesday after they allegedly sent a five-year-old kindergarten student to school with cocaine.

Eric Glaze was arrested Tuesday after his alleged drugged captive escaped the freezer where he stashed her.

The U.S. is engaged in talks with senior socialist party official and alleged “drug kingpin” Diosdado Cabello about the possibility of removing Nicolás Maduro from power in exchange for future immunity, according to a report from the Associated Press.

New Zealand police said Friday they had arrested two British men after finding a huge stash of methamphetamine in an Auckland apartment that would have been worth tens of millions of dollars if sold on the street.

A Somali migrant granted the right to stay in the United Kingdom despite 33 previous convictions has been imprisoned for drug dealing just weeks later.

British prime minister Boris Johnson has hired a policy adviser from the Centre for Medicinal Cannabis who wants to legalise the drug for recreational use.

The public University of Michigan is scheduled to host a symposium on the effects of psychedelic drugs this fall.

A video has surfaced showing Rep. Elijah Cummings calling his own Baltimore district a “drug-infested” area. This follows days of left-wing backlash against President Trump, who called Cummings’ district a “very dangerous and filthy place.”

Italian carabinieri conducted a large scale raid at a migrant reception centre and found at least six migrants using the centre as a base to sell drugs.

Locals in the Swedish city of Gothenburg claim the centre of the city had greatly deteriorated as violence, robberies, and drugs have become more common.

Diverting border security resources to address the “humanitarian need” of migrants is leading to record-high levels of illicit drug smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border, said James W. Carroll, director of the U.S. Office of Drug Control Policy.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. overdose deaths finally stopped climbing last year. And they apparently fell a little — the first such decline in nearly three decades.

Drugmakers and distributors dispensed 76 billion pills to commercial pharmacies over the past seven years, according to an analysis of federal data released Wednesday.

The mother of Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman pleaded with Trump for a “Christian and humanitarian act” ahead of his sentencing.

A Tennessee police department asked residents this weekend not to flush drugs down their toilets to avoid turning alligators into “meth-gators.”

Five African migrants have been arrested in Rome this week after turning a local church into a headquarters for trafficking and hiding large amounts of heroin.

A London bus driver has been sentenced for crashing one of the city’s iconic red double-deckers into a depot after smoking crack cocaine, injuring several people.

Authorities arrested a Florida man Wednesday for drugging and sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl before posting videos of her online, police said.

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden missed his father’s big campaign launch rally despite having planned to be there in Philadelphia for it because of a Breitbart News investigation published the day before on police documents that named him as a suspect in narcotics probe in Arizona, the New Yorker reports.

Dutch police say they have made Europe’s biggest ever seizure of methamphetamine after discovering 2.5 tons of the drug stashed behind a wall in a building in the port city of Rotterdam.