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…
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Druglink article 2014 – 2009: New psychoactive substances – Mephedrone: the future of drug dealing by Mike Power
Every so often the drug scene goes through paradigm shifts. Usually these are heralded by the arrival of a new drug or a new version of an established drug. So in the 1980s, it was smokeable heroin and cocaine, while…
Druglink article 2014 – 2007: Plant warfare by Max Daly
Druglink published one of the very early articles on cannabis farms in March 2007 written by Max Daly, then the Druglink editor and now a freelance journalist. It is reproduced below: Police are shutting down cannabis farms on a daily…
Druglink article 1997 – A shattered peace: heroin, market forces and the war in Yugoslavia by Roger Lewis
With the first convicted war criminal in Europe for fifty years now behind bars, it is time to review the impact that the Yugoslav war has had on the infamous ‘Balkan route’. Did the war smother the heroin trade, or…
Druglink article 1991 – Supply and demand: lessons from Poland by Peggy Watson
The recent history of opiate use in Poland provides a ‘natural experiment’ which can help disentangle the relative contributions made by supply and demand forces to levels of drug use. In Poland demand first developed in the absence of supply…
Druglink article 1990 – Illicit drugs and the world economy by the UN information service
Why a world economy that gives us cheap coffee also gives us cocaine. The rapid decline in raw commodity prices and accumulation of foreign debt in developing countries in the 1980s lies behind the escalating illicit drug production and trafficking…
Heroin and other opiates
Boy, brown, china white, dragon, gear, H, horse, junk, skag, smack, diamorphine, morphine, methadone, opium, codeine, pethidine, dihydrocodeine (DF118), palfium, diconal, temgesic, physeptone What is heroin? Heroin (diamorphine) is one of a group of drugs called ‘opiates’. These drugs are…
Cannabis
What is cannabis? | Methods of use | Dose and Price | Effects/Risks | Therapeutic use | Legal status | Legalisation | Prevalence | A gateway drug? What is cannabis? Bhang, black, blast, blow, blunts, Bob Hope, bush, dope, bud, draw,…
Where do drugs come from?
Drugs bought from dealers or underground sources come from a number of sources: Grown in the UK Made in domestic labs Stolen or sold on from chemists or hospital pharmacies Imported from overseas Bought online Drugs come in three basic…