Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. A man was sentenced to death in Singapore for drug trafficking offenses. In a country that has zero tolerance for illicit drugs, that’s nothing new, but in a first for the city-state, the sentence was delivered remotely, via Zoom. Punithan Genasan, a
The boat looked like any other Dutch barge, sitting idly in the port of Moerdijk in West Brabant, southern Holland. But last May, during a routine search of the vessel, police found it contained a large floating crystal meth lab, and seized methamphetamine oil with a street value of more than €4.5m ($4.86m). As night
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In February, Japanese actress Erika Sawajiri was convicted of possessing a small amount of MDMA powder and liquid LSD. She was given an 18-month suspended prison sentence, in which she had to abide by strict rules or risk going to prison. But Tokyo is not L.A., and Sawajiri’s true punishment was meted out in public.
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Kelly is from Ohio and has been selling cocaine, MDMA and cannabis since he was a teenager. Hey, you around? I’m always around, available for business. Money never sleeps. If you got the fucking paper, I’m going to answer your phone call. It’s like that. What do you sell and where? I sell coke, THC,