Let’s go back, way back to the 1980’s when when the Reagan Administration began implementing divided sentencing for cocaine possession and crack cocaine possession. Many people are unaware of the major differences between the two drugs, and the truth of the matter is…there’s not very much difference aside for two chemicals: baking soda and water (which creates the rock). Crack cocaine is the smokable version of cocaine.

I bet you are asking yourself, « I always thought crack cocaine was worse. » One of the reasons for that mindset probably has to do with the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 which basically perpetuated the myth. This law solidified that penalty for crack cocaine over cocaine charges included a minimum of a 5 year prison sentence and a 100:1 weight ratio. At the time cocaine was much more expensive at the time which meant primarily used by white individuals while crack cocaine…

The more harmful, dangerous and addictive a drug is the more important that its availability should be legally regulated, otherwise, inevitably, a criminal market is created with massive consequential health and social harms.

In the UK, before the Misuse of Drugs Act was introduced in 1971, we had around 3,000 problematic drug users. We now have 350,000. Yet successive governments carry on in the same direction.

The vested interests of Big Booze have been supported and encouraged by weak politicians, leading to lighter and lighter regulation of the most dangerous drug of all. Meanwhile, relatively harmless and beneficial substances like cannabis have been abandoned to street dealers and organised crime, blighting communities and involving children in both dealing and use – just as happened with alcohol prohibition in the US.

All the evidence is before us and the most effective policies for reducing harm from drugs are very clear. What…

KATHMANDU :इन्टरपोलले युरोपियन युनियन अन्र्तगत रहेका राष्ट्रमा गरेको आठदिन लामो अप्रेसनमा एकहजार जना अभियुक्त र ६ क्विन्टल कोकिन, दुईसय किलो हेरोइन, १३ सय किलो चरेश बरामद गरेको छ । समुन्द्री बन्दरगाह र नाकामा संगठित अपराध बिरुद्धको अप्रेसनमा यो सफलता हात लागेको इन्टरपोलले जनाएको हो । बाँकी समाचार अग्रेजीमा छ है ।

Law enforcement frommore than 30 countries joined forces to tackle organized criminal networks operating across Europe in an operation led by Europol and supported by INTERPOL.

Operation Archimedes (15-23 September) saw police and customs officers from 34 countries, with the support of INTERPOL, Eurojust and Frontex, hold a series of coordinated actions at hundreds of locations including airports, border crossings, sea ports and known crime hotspots to target the illegal activities of organized crime.

The operation focused on crimes including human, drug and firearms trafficking; illegal immigration; counterfeit goods and cybercrime. In parallel, investigators targeted the key infrastructures used…