Showing posts with label drugs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drugs. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Rolling Stone has a lenghty excerpt from the upcoming book "The Fort Bragg Cartel"

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Grim details about ex-cops and soldiers, and active cops and soldiers selling drugs and weapons: One day in 2018, a pair of FBI agents show...
Sunday, April 27, 2025

Packaging for "Tokin Chews" kosher edibles

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Saturday, April 26, 2025

"At smoke shops, one finds the least legal legal things, the most legal illegal things, and the illegal things most likely to be legalized in the next five years"

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From a blog post about Galaxy Gas .
Sunday, November 10, 2024

Gunmen opened fire on a bar in "one of the safer cities in Mexico" and shot 17 people

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CBS : Spiraling violence, much of it linked to drug trafficking and gangs, has seen more than 450,000 people murdered in Mexico since 2006 F...
Monday, October 7, 2024

"Mexican mayor killed less than a week after taking office"

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CNN :  Chilpancingo is the capital of Guerrero, a state with a reputation for violent crime which is also home to the tourist hot spot Acapu...
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

"Gen Z and millennials are obsessed with nicotine pouch Zyn’s lucrative rewards program"

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Fortune  this week: “The ZYN Rewards program was modeled after loyalty programs for consumer products and services offered across a variety ...
Monday, March 11, 2024

Ohio has to hire new drug-sniffing dogs that don't alert to marijuana

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AP : Nearly 400 police dogs in Ohio trained in the detection of marijuana will need to be retired because they cannot be reliably retrained....
Thursday, February 22, 2024

"How drug gangs took over Antwerp’s port"

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" Antwerp authorities have seized so much cocaine that they are struggling to dispose of it"
Saturday, February 17, 2024

The 19-year-old son of Youtube's former CEO died due to a suspected drug overdose

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Freshman math major at Berkeley .
Friday, February 9, 2024

"Cops Stole 20 Kilos of Coke From a Cartel, and Now They’re Being Hunted"

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" at least six police officers have been killed"
Thursday, January 18, 2024

The LA Times goes "Inside the world of the ultra-wealthy Mexicans who own exotic animals"

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An article by Kate Linthicum (much of the article focuses on a veterinarian who never asks the owners what they do for a living): They wal...
Wednesday, December 13, 2023

"Police find one of Europe's most wanted drug smugglers...in a luxury pad with drugs, guns and the ex-wife of a top government aide in Bosnia"

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Vice : they were not expecting to also find ... the ex-wife of ... a top Bosnian judicial official and a key advisor to Milad Dodik, preside...
Thursday, August 10, 2023

Tampa's mayor was on a fishing trip with family in the Florida Keys when they found 70 pounds of cocaine

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Tampa Bay Times with the colorful write-up: There was something in the water, black and bobbing. The package adrift in the Atlantic caught ...
Friday, July 28, 2023

Explosions at homeless camp in Seattle believed to be bombs placed in ongoing war over the drug trade

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KomoNews : An explosion at a homeless encampment outside Harborview Medical Center in Seattle was the result of "multiple explosive dev...
Thursday, July 27, 2023

Professional scuba diver's body discovered in suspected case of "parasite smuggling"

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Vice (reminds me of the type of caper Garreth would have pulled off in William Gibson's novels): The wetsuit-clad, unconscious form of ...
Tuesday, July 18, 2023

ABC news has a follow up: "Officers were not suffering side effects from meth exposure, LAPD now says"

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" LAPD initially told us on Friday the officers were in distress, but now say that was not the case."
Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Mexican police reportedly killed after being lured into driving down a bomb-laden road

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ABC : For years, police have been unable to locate the more than 110,000 missing people in Mexico, but they accompany volunteer search group...
Friday, May 26, 2023

"An infectious pathogen inside California’s pot farms is attacking cannabis plants"

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SF Gate : Hop-latent viroid, or HLVd, shrivels pot plants and reduce how much weight they produce by as much as 30%. It also destroys the am...
Saturday, April 29, 2023

Fired NYPD police officer blames positive drug test on use of hemp soap

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He's appealing his firing. Don't worry Hemp contains no THC and makes up about 2% of the soap, crucial to smooth after feel. U ...
Thursday, April 6, 2023

Former Michigan House speaker and three others charged in a bribery scandal related to marijuana licensing

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Detroit News : All four have reached plea agreements with the government and are cooperating with the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office ......