Drugs

Spanish police seize record cocaine haul in banana shipment from Ecuador

Spanish police and customs officers have intercepted the largest known consignment of cocaine ever to reach the country, seizing more than 13 tonnes of the drug, hidden in a...

California drug bust yields enough fentanyl to kill quarter of state’s population

A routine traffic stop in California’s central valley turned into a major fentanyl bust when authorities seized enough...

California drug bust yields enough fentanyl to kill a quarter of the state’s population

A routine traffic stop in California’s central valley turned into a major fentanyl bust when authorities seized enough...

‘The UK is at the back of the race of turtles’: Sanofi’s boss on the need to develop new medicines

Paul Hudson, the Briton who leads the French drug firm Sanofi, is “immensely” proud to have carried the...

Philippines: Duterte to run as mayor despite inquiry into his drugs crackdown

The former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, whose anti-drugs crackdown is being investigated by theinternational criminal court as a...

Trip on psychedelics, save the planet: the offbeat solution to the climate crisis

Thousands gathered for New York City’s annual Climate Week last week to promote climate solutions, from the phaseout of fossil-fuel subsidies to nuclear energy...

Oregon: drug possession to be crime again as decriminalization law expires

Oregon’s first-in-the-nation experiment with decriminalizing drugs will expire on Sunday as a new law taking effect will once again make it a crime to...

Stray bullets and school closures: Rio’s schoolkids suffer as police crack down on gangs

Textbooks and marker pens are not all that science teacher Roberto Brandão, 54, takes with him each morning when he sets off for work...