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Five men have been indicted after French police in the city of Angers made a record seizure of cannabis in the city from a drugs network operating out of local shisha bars. The arrests of the five men occurred in

Two people in Louisiana have been arrested on Tuesday after they allegedly sent a five-year-old kindergarten student to school with cocaine.

Eric Glaze was arrested Tuesday after his alleged drugged captive escaped the freezer where he stashed her.

The U.S. is engaged in talks with senior socialist party official and alleged “drug kingpin” Diosdado Cabello about the possibility of removing Nicolás Maduro from power in exchange for future immunity, according to a report from the Associated Press.

A Somali migrant granted the right to stay in the United Kingdom despite 33 previous convictions has been imprisoned for drug dealing just weeks later.

British prime minister Boris Johnson has hired a policy adviser from the Centre for Medicinal Cannabis who wants to legalise the drug for recreational use.

The public University of Michigan is scheduled to host a symposium on the effects of psychedelic drugs this fall.

Italian carabinieri conducted a large scale raid at a migrant reception centre and found at least six migrants using the centre as a base to sell drugs.

Locals in the Swedish city of Gothenburg claim the centre of the city had greatly deteriorated as violence, robberies, and drugs have become more common.

Diverting border security resources to address the “humanitarian need” of migrants is leading to record-high levels of illicit drug smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border, said James W. Carroll, director of the U.S. Office of Drug Control Policy.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. overdose deaths finally stopped climbing last year. And they apparently fell a little — the first such decline in nearly three decades.

Drugmakers and distributors dispensed 76 billion pills to commercial pharmacies over the past seven years, according to an analysis of federal data released Wednesday.

The mother of Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman pleaded with Trump for a “Christian and humanitarian act” ahead of his sentencing.

A Tennessee police department asked residents this weekend not to flush drugs down their toilets to avoid turning alligators into “meth-gators.”

Five African migrants have been arrested in Rome this week after turning a local church into a headquarters for trafficking and hiding large amounts of heroin.

A London bus driver has been sentenced for crashing one of the city’s iconic red double-deckers into a depot after smoking crack cocaine, injuring several people.

Authorities arrested a Florida man Wednesday for drugging and sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl before posting videos of her online, police said.

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden missed his father’s big campaign launch rally despite having planned to be there in Philadelphia for it because of a Breitbart News investigation published the day before on police documents that named him as a suspect in narcotics probe in Arizona, the New Yorker reports.

Dutch police say they have made Europe’s biggest ever seizure of methamphetamine after discovering 2.5 tons of the drug stashed behind a wall in a building in the port city of Rotterdam.

Nominations are closing in the race to become Britain’s next prime minister, with almost a dozen contenders already battling it out over Brexit, tax policy and past drug use.

The U.S. and Mexico continue talks on illegal immigration and tariffs, but Mexican authorities are already beefing up border security.

Venezuela’s Supreme Court, run by loyalists to socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, ordered the online news outlet La Patilla to pay senior chavista official, television show host, and alleged cartel chief Diosdado Cabello 30 billion bolivars ($4.7 million) for aggregating a 2015 article in which Hugo Chávez’s former security chief accused Cabello of drug trafficking.

The City of Oakland’s supervisors voted on Tuesday to decriminalize “magic mushrooms” and other natural psychedelic drugs, becoming the second city in the U.S. to do so after Denver voters approved a similar ballot measure last month.

The city of San Francisco will consider a proposal to provide free mental health care and substance abuse treatment to all residents in a referendum in November.

In a half-century in Washington — spanning 36 years in the Senate and eight in the Obama administration — Joe Biden has flip-flopped on most major issues. On other issues, his former positions are no longer viable within the Democratic Party.

Breitbart News has exclusively obtained a heretofore unreported-on police report from days before the 2016 presidential election that describes how a cocaine pipe that authorities determined was used to smoke cocaine was found in a rental car returned to an Arizona Hertz location in the middle of the night. Also found in the vehicle were several personal effects of Hunter Biden, then-Vice President Joe Biden’s son.

“Folks, there were mistakes that were made,” Biden admitted. “The biggest mistake in that bill in my view was making crack cocaine and powdered cocaine a different sentence, they should not be mandatory sentences.”

The Mile High City is seeking to take a step into the next level by becoming the first U.S. city to legalize hallucinogenic mushrooms, according to reports.

Drug Czar Jim Carroll told Breitbart News that “93 percent of heroin” in the country “comes from Mexico” ahead of National Takeback Day.

The Starbucks chain of coffee houses is set to begin installing needle-disposal boxes in store bathrooms for drug-addicted customers.

Government-approved opioids almost doubled the number of young men who were pushed out of the workforce before the election of President Donald Trump, according to economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.

Five members of a London gang have been handed jail sentences for the “extremely violent” kidnapping and torture of a 16-year-old.

Italian police have arrested a Pakistani immigrant on charges of dealing narcotics, catching him in possession of 180 doses of heroin.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed in a video posted to her Instagram account Wednesday that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials are “injecting kids with drugs” based on their “national origin.”

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) introduced legislation Friday to increase transparency in drug pricing and lower the cost of prescription drugs for American consumers. 

An illegal alien charged with murdering four Americans over the course of a week in Nevada did so in order to steal money to buy methamphetamine, a police detective alleges.