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Internet drug dealing on the rise thanks to Bitcoin currency and coded listings
The internet is starting to rival the backstreet as a place to buy illicit drugs, according to findings from the 2013 Global Drugs Survey, with 22% of users reporting the had bought drugs online. The online marketplace Silk Road has risen to notoriety in recent years as essentially an eBay…
Lawmakers ‘unjustifiably focus’ on illicit drugs rather than alcohol: report
Lawmakers around the world “unjustifiably” treat illicit drugs as if they were a greater public health concern than alcohol, according to a report published online Wednesday in the Journal of Psychopharmacology. Alcohol is at least as harmful as illicit drugs, according to Jan van Amsterdam of the Laboratory for Health…
One new ‘illicit’ drug popping up in European Union each week
New illicit drugs are appearing on the European Union market at a rate of nearly one a week, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) said on Thursday. In 2011, a record 49 new drugs were identified, up from 41 reported in 2010, the largest number of…
GOP gubernatorial candidate wrote book on soliciting prostitutes
A Republican candidate for governor in Montana also turns out to be an expert on “illicit pleasures” like gambling, drugs and prostitution. In a recent interview, Neil Livingstone, who bills himself as a counterterrorism expert, admitted to The Associated Press that he had been on a yacht where his wife…
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