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                        Nigeria, Ghana explore partnership to fight illicit trade
                        04 Nov 2025 06:07 GMT
                        
 …  forging a partnership to combat illicit trade by strengthening border control … ’s customs administrations to perpetrate illicit trade, necessitating concerted efforts to …  drugs into the Netherlands, which is seen as a gateway into Europe …
                       
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                        From ‘joy-giver’ to antidote: Cannabis consumption in India
                        04 Nov 2025 01:55 GMT
                        
                           …  cannabis has been associated with Shiva and his devotees.
                          Opium smokers … 1755 imagines a scene of European sea captains seated around  … as considerable a medicine in drugs, as any that is  … . While the possession of cannabis is illegal in India, the preparation …
                        
                       
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                        Two years since the ACT decriminalised drugs – here’s what we’ve learnt
                        03 Nov 2025 07:56 GMT
                        
                           … stable life after years of addiction. Photo: Mitch Lamb,  …  decriminalise small amounts of illicit drugs, including cocaine, heroin, ice and MDMA. …  a drug that’s illegal is, in some way … Howard.
                          Since then, several European countries, including Switzerland and  …
                        
                       
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                        ‘This drug is evil’: The addictive and deadly substance ruining lives in Africa – and made from ingredients shipped from UK
                        02 Nov 2025 09:12 GMT
                        
                           … risk for the import of illicit substances fuelling the drug  … the Gambia. It is highly addictive, ever-evolving and affordable.
                           … rolled in a joint like marijuana and are extremely dangerous. Samples …  from countries in Asia and Europe, likely including the UK. …
                        
                       
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                        Soccer, emeralds and cocaine: The ‘new’ Colombian drug lords with ties to Spain
                        02 Nov 2025 04:14 GMT
                        
 …  cartel considered the largest cocaine exporter in Colombian history. … flooding the United States with drugs. However, Petro maintains  … ” and operating legal and illegal businesses around the world. …  organization’s link with European mafias. Another key figure …
                       
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                        This is how drugs arrive in the United States
                        02 Nov 2025 00:30 GMT
                        
                           … producers—growing and processing cocaine—while Mexican cartels  …  the U.S. and Europe. (For readers unfamiliar:  …  trafficking networks.)
                          Different drugs, different routes
                          Smuggling  … American countries.
                          Methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana each follow their  …
                        
                       
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                        Belgium's descent into a narco state: How cartels have taken control, with machine-gun street battles killing kids as young as 11 and so much cocaine flowing that police incinerators can't destroy it all
                        02 Nov 2025 00:07 GMT
                        
                           … cocaine through the port of Antwerp - the drugs gateway of Europe …  for gangs smuggling cocaine into Europe, with its steady … large volumes of Latin American cocaine headed to Europe.
                          A $210,000  … and information between the EU and United States, ' …
                        
                       
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                        Anti-Narcotics Agency Intercepts Major Cannabis Haul Near Accra Mosque
                        01 Nov 2025 18:22 GMT
                        
                           … and distribution of narcotic drugs, though specific details  … transit point for cannabis destined for European markets.
                          Deputy  … that anyone planting cannabis engages in illegal activity and will … with some individuals viewing illicit narcotics as quick income …
                        
                       
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                        Fishing boat linked to £100,000,000 cocaine smuggling plot into UK up for auction
                        01 Nov 2025 16:53 GMT
                        
                           …  it was busted laden with drugs packages (Picture: Wilsons Auctions  … £100 million worth of drugs off the coast of  … cocaine from hitting the streets of the UK and wider Europe … illegal parcels were delivered to neighbour by mistake
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                        Even when unthinkable things were happening to me, my first instinct was to work. Am I addicted?
                        01 Nov 2025 17:09 GMT
                        
 …  like a heroin addict? Could I really be addicted to work? … rely on stimulant drugs from caffeine to cocaine and methamphetamine,  … markets in the morning, Europe during the day and … words “workaholism” and “work addiction” interchangeably, Griffiths draws a …