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Animal tranquilliser found in cannabis vapes and illicit sedatives in UK
Xylazine can cause skin ulcers and overdoses and has caused multiple deaths since 2022, warn researchersPeople...
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Rotterdam mayor calls for end to lax stance on middle-class drug use
Europe has been ‘negligent,’ as an acceptance of cocaine and cannabis leads to corruption, violence, and...
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Participants at retreat where man died after ayahuasca ceremony allegedly told not to talk, NSW inquest hears
Jarrad Antonovich died after drinking plant-based psychedelic and having frog toxin extract ‘kambo’ dabbed into burnsGet...
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British boys more at risk of modern slavery than any other group in UK, says study
Teenagers are coerced into committing crime for someone else’s benefit, according to social justice groupsAlmost half...
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UK to send specialist assistance to Turks and Caicos after surge in fatal shootings
It is the second time in less than two years the Caribbean archipelago is seeing escalating...
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EU plan for medicine stockpile could worsen UK’s record shortages
Bloc plans to bulk-buy key drugs for all 27 countries, potentially leaving Britain ‘behind in the...
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‘This used to be a calm place’: killing continues in Ecuador’s week of chaos
As cartels and crime syndicates flock to Ecuador for cocaine trade profits, its murder rate has...
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Biden pardons thousands of people convicted of marijuana possessions
Move is latest in round of executive clemencies meant to rectify racial disparities in the justice...