A massive police raid on a meth-making village in China exposed the links between the country’s vast chemical industry and Mexican drug gangs. Chinese takeaway (PDF)
Tag Archive for enforcement
Druglink article 1999 – The people on drugs: British attitudes to drug laws and policy by Russell Newcombe
How do people in Britain feel about drug policy? There have been no large-scale surveys to find out, but a review of smaller ones is revealing. The people on drugs: British attitudes to drug laws and policy (PDF)
Druglink news item 1999 – Rough ride for the drug czar
Media treatment of the UK anti-drugs coordinator, Keith Hellawell. Rough ride for the drug czar (PDF)
Druglink article 2014 – Emerald experiment by Tim Bingham
Bold new laws introduced in Ireland to tackle legal highs and NPS dramatically cut the number of head shops. But the country’s drug users merely switched substances or modes of supply. Tim Bingham reports. Internationally, there has been a lot of interest in…
Druglink article 2014 – Disunited nations by Max Daly
Behind the scenes at the UN’s latest drug summit, frantic negotiations took place in order to acknowledge the changing nature of the drug debate. But as Max Daly discovered in Vienna, all the world could do was agree to disagree. Disunited nations (PDF)
Druglink article 2014 – Wrong arm of the law by Jessica Magson
The evidence from abroad, especially Portugal, suggests that scaling back on criminalising drug users in the UK could be a smart move, says Jessica Magson Despite major advances in drug treatment support over the past 20 years, punitive approaches to tackling illicit drug use remain…
Druglink article 2014 – Ten and you’re out: Dance culture by Peggy Whitfield
Ever more restrictive club regulations has seen a return of unlicensed raves.. Illegal raves and free parties have been a ubiquitous part of British life since the late ‘80s. Free parties were born out of the acid house musical movement and the so-called second “summer of love”…
Druglink article 2014 – Crime busters or PCC plods? by Geoff Monaghan
Former detective sergeant Geoff Monaghan has some trenchant views on the policing plans of Policing and Crime Commissioners. Crime busters or PCC plods? (PDF)
Druglink article 1998 – High times, low company: Global drug trading since the 1960s by Roger Lewis
We’ve come a long way since Howard Marks – the drug trade in the nineties is nasty, brutal and short. Here one of Europe’s foremost trafficking experts outlines how and why this is. High times, low company: Global drug trading…
Druglink article 1998 – Law and order by Maggy Lee and Nigel South
Almost uniquely in the western world, the history of drug control in Britain has a tense fascination. The tension lies in the development of control policies which have generally sought to balance treatment with enforcement. Policy has usually been shaped…