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The farmer who faked his own death to work for Pablo Escobar — and the CIA

New HBO docuseries "The Invisible Pilot" tells the story of Gary Betzner, an Arkansas crop duster turned international drug smuggler.

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1971 druggie diary ‘Go Ask Alice’ was made up by a suburban housewife

Teen memoir "Go Ask Alice" has shocked decades of readers with its lurid account of heroin addiction, prostitution and death. But it was all made up by a suburban housewife.

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Biden should legalize cocaine to ‘defang the gangs’: The Economist

President Joe Biden has been "timid" in decriminalizing marijuana and should go even further by legalizing cocaine as a means of weakening Colombian drug cartels, according to influential British...

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New Zealand police find 3.5 tons of cocaine worth $300M floating in Pacific...

New Zealand police made the largest drug bust in the country's history, seizing 3.5 tons of cocaine worth $316 million that were found floating in the ocean.

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Pols rap Hochul for backing felons over disabled military veterans in giving...

Outrage mounted Monday over Gov. Kathy Hochul's decision to give convicted drug felons preference over disabled military vets in the awarding of licenses to run marijuana dispensaries.

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Why ‘harm reduction’ policies are causing more harm than good

Harm Reduction strategies were initially launched to help prevent the spread of HIV among intravenous drug-users.

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How much are tickets to Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival?

Clapton's headliners include the John Mayer Trio, Sheryl Crow, ZZ Top and many more.

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How much are Ohana Festival tickets to see The Killers, Foo Fighters?

Other headliners include The Chicks, HAIM, The Pretenders, Father John Misty and festival curator Eddie Vedder.

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NY on verge of settling in suit alleging state favored drug dealers over...

Gov. Kathy Hochul's regulators are on the verge of settling a discrimination lawsuit alleging that the state favored convicted pot felons over disabled vets.

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Border Protection gets help from dogs sniffing out smuggled fentanyl

A Golden Retriever named Goose is one of America’s most trusty defenders against fentanyl trafficking at the Mexico border.

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‘When the good times turned dark’: Behind the scenes of an 80s Miami cocaine...

Over the course of the 1970s and 1980s, "Cocaine Cowboy" Willy Falcon and Salvador "Sal" Magluta, perfected cocaine trafficking.

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