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“Multiple people” could be charged in connection to Friends star Matthew Perry's death, according to a recent update. The actor died on 28 October 2023 at the age of 54 from the acute effects of ketamine, which caused the actor to drown in his Los Angeles mansion’s hot tub. His autopsy report from the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office also listed coronary artery disease and the opioid buprenorphine as contributing factors. The coroner closed its investigation into his death in December. However, in May the LAPD launched a criminal investigation to better understand the circumstances...
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New York (AFP) - A court in New York on Wednesday sentenced former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez to 45 years in prison after he was convicted of trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States. Anti-Hernandez protesters gathered outside the Manhattan courthouse ahead of sentencing brandishing placards decrying the former head of state's crimes with one declaring "Narco government -- makes the people emigrate." "The role of Mr Hernandez was to use his political power as president of Congress and president of Honduras to limit the risks of drug traffickers in exchange ...
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The world's most modest psychedelics reform has failed in the California Legislature once again. Yesterday, the sponsors of a bill that would have allowed three California counties to run temporary pilot programs through which veterans and first responders could be administered psilocybin (the "magic" chemical in magic mushrooms) under medical supervision pulled their legislation, reports KQED. The bill's authors cited a certain "no" vote in a coming Assembly Health Committee hearing as the reason for axing their own legislation. This is the latest failure of legislation aimed at liberalizing ...
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New York (AFP) - A court in New York on Wednesday sentenced former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez to 45 years in prison after he was convicted of trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States. Anti-Hernandez protesters gathered outside the Manhattan courthouse ahead of sentencing brandishing placards decrying the former head of state's crimes. The sentence, which also included an $8 million fine, was less than the life imprisonment that prosecutors had sought -- although Hernandez's age, 55, means he may die behind bars. Hernandez, who US federal prosecutors said tu...
AFP
United Nations' drug experts are worried that the collapse of opium production in Afghanistan will boost demand for new and dangerous alternative products around the world. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Vienna warned on Wednesday in particular against the synthetic heroin substitute nitazene, which has already led to deaths in several European countries. The cultivation of opium poppy, from which the heroin raw material opium is obtained, was banned in Afghanistan by the Taliban in 2022. As a result, global opium production fell by 74% last year to just under 2,000 tons, accordin...
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United Nations' drug experts are worried that the collapse of opium production in Afghanistan will boost demand for new and dangerous alternative products around the world. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Vienna warned on Wednesday in particular against the synthetic heroin substitute nitazene, which has already led to deaths in several European countries. The cultivation of opium poppy, from which the heroin raw material opium is obtained, was banned in Afghanistan by the Taliban in 2022. As a result, global opium production fell by 74% last year to just under 2,000 tons, accordin...
DPA
United Nations' drug experts are worried that the collapse of opium production in Afghanistan will boost demand for new and dangerous alternative products around the world. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Vienna warned on Wednesday in particular against the synthetic heroin substitute nitazene, which has already led to deaths in several European countries. The cultivation of opium poppy, from which the heroin raw material opium is obtained, was banned in Afghanistan by the Taliban in 2022. As a result, global opium production fell by 74% last year to just under 2,000 tons, accordin...
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Thirty years ago, the sociologist Craig Reinarman observed.pdf) that there's something "woven into the very fabric of American culture" that makes us susceptible to believing that a "chemical boogeyman" is to blame for "society's ills." He added that every moral panic about drugs since the 19th century has been fueled by "media magnification" in which the danger of a particular substance is dramatized and distorted. Now that recreational marijuana is legal in about half of U.S. states, and more Americans are consuming weed than ever before, the chemical bogeyman is back, and he's armed with a ...
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People are more likely to die from alcohol-related issues in Europe than anywhere else, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO). Globally, there were 2.6 million alcohol-related deaths in 2019, a 2.5 per cent decline from 2010 but still “unacceptably high,” Dr Vladimir Poznyak, who heads the alcohol, drugs, and addictive behaviours unit in WHO’s department of mental health and substance use, said during a press conference. The European region had the highest alcohol-related death rate – 52.9 per 100,000, just above Africa’s 52.2 per 100,000 – as well as the world’s h...
Euronews (English)
As of early May, more than three years after New York legalized recreational marijuana, just 119 licensed dispensaries were serving that market in the entire state. Unauthorized pot shops outnumbered legal outlets by 20 to 1, according to The New York Times, with more than 2,000 operating in New York City alone. The state had less than one licensed pot store per 100,000 residents—in contrast with about six in Massachusetts, 10 in Maine, 11 in Colorado, 19 in Oregon, and 48 in New Mexico. Legislators and regulators could have avoided this "disaster," as New York Gov. Kathy Hochul recently calle...
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