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Indeed, the restrictions on hemp production were lifted in 1990 and re-regulated by the Turkish parliament to make it even more liberal in September 2016. Today, it is already legal to grow hemp in 19 cities, but you need government permits. The updated 2016 legislation relaxes the permission process for …

Over the past year alone, nearly 15% of the adult population in Nigeria (around 14.3 million people) reported  a “considerable level” of use of psychoactive drug substances—it’s a rate much higher than the 2016 global average of 5.6% among adults. In this picture taken on July 17, 2015 an addict …

captagon tablets seized in the Middle East appear to contain mainly amphetamine, and it follows that captagon may be described as amphetamine in tablet form. Most of the information available on the approaches to production of amphetamine, in bulk and tablet form, relates to the modi operandi of European-based synthetic …

The trial of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera has exposed just how powerful Mexico’s cartels really are. The trial has now run for two months. On Jan. 15, a Colombian drug trafficker who worked for Guzmán’s Sinaloa Cartel from 2007 to 2013 testified that Guzmán paid former Mexican …

The use of stimulant drugs, especially amphetamine, by military personnel or combatants in conflicts has a long history (Boustany, 1993; Hautefeuille, 2002; Rasmussem, 2011; Kamieński, 2016). Furthermore, money from drug trafficking May sometimes be a source of income for some insurgent or terrorist groups. Some terrorist perpetrators in Europe have …