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Finland’s millennial feminist prime minister Sanna Marin has denied allegations of drug use after footage of her partying emerged on social media.

A Russian court sentenced U.S. citizen and WNBA player Brittney Griner to nine and a half years in prison on Thursday for smuggling cannabis oil into Russia in February.

A 27-year-old who was killed in a drugs gang shooting had been the subject of a manhunt over the kidnapping and rape of a Ukrainian woman.

Democrats in the California State Legislature passed a bill Tuesday to allow the expansion of “safe” drug use sites in major cities, despite the well-publicized failure of one such site in San Francisco’s notorious Tenderloin district in recent months.

Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has seized over half a tonne of Colombian cocaine at the London Gateway port. 

Officials in North Carolina made it clear Monday that drugs are not welcome in their communities.

GOP officials expressed alarm over a recent leak that saw explicit media involving first son Hunter Biden circulating online, deeming the president’s disgraced son a threat to “national security” while calling for a full-scale investigation over the matter.

President Alejandro Giammattei of Guatemala told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview last week that President Joe Biden should take more action to prevent drug trafficking out of Venezuela, suggesting that Biden’s decision to “negotiate oil” with the repressive Venezuelan socialist regime may be negatively impacting law enforcement efforts.

A laboratory manufacturing the illegal narcotic ecstasy (MDMA) was discovered on a Belgian NATO base that houses nuclear weapons, with two people arrested in the case, according to prosecutors.

The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC)’s 2022 World Drug Report, published this week, warned that the growing international movement to legalize marijuana for medical and recreational uses is creating a “significant carbon footprint.”

A suspected drug dealer in Orange County, California, has been charged with several counts of possession of fentanyl that could kill up to 12 million people, according to the county’s District Attorney’s office.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis described the election of Marxist Gustavo Petro, a former member of the left-wing M19 terrorist guerrilla, to the presidency of Colombia as “disastrous” in remarks on Monday, proclaiming that “we’ve got a problem” in Latin America with the rise of “totalitarianism.”

Left-wing Oregon decriminalized drugs and the results are predictably catastrophic.

Thailand’s federal government legalized the medicinal use of marijuana on Thursday, becoming the first country in Asia to do so, the news website Coconuts Bangkok reported.

Hunter Biden’s Las Vegas call girl, Cheryl Deboves, won a $20,207 Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) check under a “female owned sole proprietorship” designation.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that part of the problem with drugs and homelessness in various major cities is a policy approach that “Nothing is better than anything else” and that “everything is positive. Everything is not positive. You should be ashamed that you’re using, that might get you to stop.”

The first series of polls out following Sunday’s presidential election in Colombia showed on Wednesday that much of the country is uniting against far-left candidate Gustavo Petro for next month’s runoff, backing elderly outsider businessman Rodolfo Hernández.

Boris Johnson’s government is proposing new punishments for the “middle-class coke heads” fuelling “gang violence and turf wars”, such as requiring them to surrender their passports when their football team is playing abroad.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has announced the formation of a commission to study the decriminalisation of marijuana in the British capital

Deaths from drug overdoses increased by 15 percent in President Joe Biden’s first year of office, according to new data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Police say they found a loaded anti-tank weapon at an address in the city of Zaragoza as well as the victim of an apparent drug overdose.

Swedish police have claimed that their country has become a major international transit hub for illegal drugs, with large amounts of drugs smuggled in and distributed across Scandinavia and beyond.

A federal judge sentenced a New York City prostitute to 30 years in prison after she distributed narcotics that caused the overdose deaths of two victims and gave drugs to two additional individuals who died following their encounters with her, the Justice Department (DOJ) announced.

State officials in New York are considering greenlighting licenses that would allow food establishments to sell weed-infused food, per a report.

The United States Border Patrol and its K9 unit intercepted 85 pounds of fentanyl in the Tuscon Sector before it could hit U.S. streets.

A Japanese Yakuza leader and others were caught amid an alleged scheme to buy missiles in exchange for drugs headed to New York.

The United Arab Emirates has sentenced an Arab Israeli citizen to death after she was convicted of possessing over one pound of cocaine, an accusation she denies.

Author J.D. Vance, a GOP candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio, is out with a provocative new television advertisement on Tuesday calling out establishment media outlets for claiming Americans who want to secure the border and stop the flow of illicit drugs are “racist.”

President Joe Biden’s budget request asks for roughly $12 billion to accelerate the inflow of economic migrants into Americans’ jobs and homes, while minimizing funds for anti-drug efforts, border enforcement, and deportations. 

People in Seattle are experiencing an emergency, a bakery owner declared as violent crime in the area reportedly hit a 14-year high last year.

Authorities say a Florida man was arrested after he called 911 and requested a deputy “test the methamphetamine” he purchased.

The number of people using heroin under Kabul’s notorious Pul-e-Sukhta bridge — long synonymous with hard drug use — has increased since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in August 2021, people living near the bridge told Deutsche Welle (DW) on Thursday.

The drug dealer who allegedly sold “The Wire” actor Michael K. Williams fentanyl-laced heroin that resulted in his death last year was a repeat offender, and had been released from custody under New York’s bail reform.

Number of Scottish cannabis users being hospitalised with psychiatric issues has soared since the drug was semi-decriminalised.

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office in Florida has charged 68 individuals after a 6-month-long drug investigation using gay dating apps.

Sadiq Khan is reportedly planning to effectively decriminalise marijuana for those under the age of 25 in the British capital.