Police arrested two men in Mumbai, India on Dec. 25 for allegedly pretending to be drug law enforcers and extorting money from an actress at a hotel rave. The suspects kept harassing and threatening the actress, police said, and she was found dead at her home three days later, allegedly from suicide. Police have yet
In the back of the truck was enough methamphetamine to get more than 65 million people high—but the driver said he didn’t know anything about that. As far as he was concerned, the 22-year-old would later claim, he was just transporting crates of empty beer bottles through Bokeo Province, a hilly region in the northwestern
Parrots in Australia are getting wasted on fermented fruit – and, in some cases, dying as a result of their drunken behaviour. The end of the mango season in Western Australia’s Kimberley region means a lot of fallen produce, which subsequently rots and ferments in the sun, generating ethanol. This process of fermentation is similar
MEXICO CITY—The U.S. government just offered a $5 million reward to anyone with information that could lead to the capture of each of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera’s sons. Commonly known as Los Chapitos, the men are infamous for their brash and ostentatious behavior and displays on social media. One of them—Ovidio Guzmán López—was captured
In April, Carey Turnbull released a statement on behalf of his non-profit, Freedom to Operate (FTO), in which he described research underway to “establish what I know to be true: there can be no patent on psilocybin as a substance, nor on the known methods for making it or using it medically.” Psilocybin is the
San Francisco—a city with one of the highest rates of overdose in the U.S.—is doubling down on the war on drugs by significantly beefing up policing and surveillance in its poorest neighborhood, Mayor London Breed announced in a press conference Tuesday. But drug policy experts told VICE News the new measures won’t drive down drug
San Francisco—a city with one of the highest rates of overdose in the U.S.—is doubling down on the war on drugs by significantly beefing up policing and surveillance in its poorest neighborhood, Mayor London Breed announced in a press conference Tuesday. But drug policy experts told VICE News the new measures won’t drive down drug
MEXICO CITY—A teen girl celebrated her 15th birthday in Mexico by posing for a photo in front of the house that belonged to a group of drug dealing, Satan-worshipping serial killers from the 80s. Dubbed the “Narcosatanist House” in Mexican media, the now-abandoned home in the border city of Matamoros was connected to more than
As the holidays approach and the prospect of taking a long rest becomes real, I find myself wanting to completely dissociate. The past two years have been a cruel and relentless slog. It feels both like too much has happened and like nothing at all has happened. I just want to sleep for a long
The world’s largest annual drug survey has ranked Australia as the drunkest country on the planet, with Australians getting shitfaced almost twice as frequently as the global average. The Global Drug Survey’s 2021 report found that on average, respondents from around the world said they got drunk – that is, “having drunk so much that