This is a developing story. Please refresh for updates. Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera became infamous for daring jailbreaks in Mexico only to end up serving life in prison in the United States. Now his wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro, has managed to avoid a similar fate. The 32-year-old Coronel was sentenced Tuesday
New Zealand has become the first country in the world to permanently legalise drug checking services, which will allow individuals to test the safety of illicit substances at festivals and other locations without the fear of legal repercussions. The new legislation replaces a previous law, introduced on a trial basis 12 months earlier, that legalised
On Wednesday night, the Twitter account for Afghanistan’s Ministry of Interior Affairs (MOI) announced that a foreign company was investing $450 million into setting up a hashish processing factory within the country. The factory – due to launch soon, according to the Twitter account – would manufacture hashish-based medicines and creams and give job opportunities to hundreds
For years, law enforcement has been claiming that dealers are lacing weed with fentanyl, the scariest possibility as synthetic opioids flood the illicit drug supply. Then last week, a public health alert reported a "lab confirmed" case. The problem is the evidence is weak and anecdotal but can still be used to justify the ongoing war
Srinagar, KASHMIR – Javed has been looking over his shoulder more often than he'd like. A 100-strong anti-narcotics police task force was formed in his conflict-ridden state last year. Since then, drug peddlers like him have been busted seemingly every week. But they haven’t arrested Javed yet. Since he was a teenager, he has been
When Vun Pui “Connie” Chong and her daughter, San Yan Melanie Lim, imported 25 kilograms of brown ginger tea into Australia this year, they intended to sell it at a marked-up rate. The beverage is a well-known remedy for period pain in the women’s home country of Malaysia. All going to plan, they stood to
MEXICO CITY—Mexican authorities announced the arrest Tuesday of Rosalinda González Valencia, charged with laundering money for the hyper-violent Jalisco New Generation Cartel, which is led by her husband, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias El Mencho. The founder and leader of the cartel, known by its Spanish acronym CJNG, El Mencho currently has a $10 million bounty
Drug experts say it’s unlikely that an Astroworld Festival attendee began mass-stabbing people with syringes filled with a mystery drug—a theory bolstered by Houston police, seemingly without evidence. Eight people, including a 14-year-old boy, died Friday at the festival in Houston, which was organized by rapper Travis Scott; Scott was performing as people in the
Something happened to Tucker Carlson Monday morning that caused him to get emergency back surgery later in the week. It was, he said, according to a recording obtained by Motherboard, “one of the most traumatic things that’s ever happened to me in my whole life, ever.” What exactly was so traumatic isn’t clear; a Fox
For nearly five years, Daniel Garrett made two-hour round trips, sometimes twice a day, from Martin to Jackson, Tennessee, so he could buy heroin, anywhere from half a gram to a gram each time. The rides, along a highway that passed through a string of small towns, often took place at night, which was dangerous