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Albanian Drug Cartels Become Kings Of White Mountain

Agamapar ChadhaAugust 13, 20220

Over the past decade, Albanian crime groups have overtaken all rivals to become some of the most crucial players in global drug trafficking. These criminal networks from a tiny European country have revolutionized the international cocaine business. Reports emerged that the European cocaine market had surpassed us in value for the first time. A relatively new type of trafficker has primarily supplied this decade-long explosion in European coke habits. The highly successful organized crime groups are drawn from Albanian communities all over the continent. Albania is a small country with a population of under 3 million. For decades, it was ruled by a brutal authoritarian communist regime which is part of the reason it's now become so prominent in international organized crime. Thro

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Syria Becomes World’s First Narco Nation: Amphetamine Runs Bashar’s Civil War

Agamapar ChadhaAugust 1, 20220

In 2021 in a shipment of oranges, the Lebanese officials peeled open the orange to find 9 million pills of the drug Captagon a power amphetamine. However, the smuggler, in this case, wasn't another Columbian, Mexican, or drug cartel. Instead, this involves an entire dictatorial government of Syria which has been mired in civil war since 2011. This has turned the country into the biggest narco- state on Earth, running multi-billion dollar operations to supply drugs and fuel the domestic conflict. Known as the 'poor man, cocaine is an amphetamine-like drug that was developed in is an amphetamine-like drug first developed in the 1960s and banned across the world in the 80s. But it's achieved massive underground popularity in the Middle East and Gulf regions, whose drug cultures often

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Portugal’s Tackling Of Drugs: Addicts Humanised Instead Of Criminalised

Agamapar ChadhaJuly 20, 20220

Combating drug addiction has always been an issue for nations as drugs keep pouring in through cartels that target wealthy countries where the populace wants to indulge and governments that have economic downtrodden where the citizens want to forget about the squalor that is their lives. At any rate, it has led to violence, cartels gaining power and influence, death due to overdoses and complications faced by drug users in regards to their relationship, effects that drugs have on their bodies and withdrawals of not taking drugs when they try to get away from the grasp of addiction. This 'War On Drugs' popularised in the U.S. has led to many nations cracking down on suppliers and drug users alike. Like The Philippines, where the police force, when suspecting or catching someone smocking ...

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Opium Production In Afghanistan: US’s Lost War Because Of Drugs In Afghanistan

Agamapar ChadhaJuly 15, 20220

American handling some or mishandling by others of the terrorist-ridden state of Afghanistan saw America removing American troops leaving the Afghan forces at their own devices, and informally ending the Afghan. Campaign after more than 20 years of conflict made Afghanistan the most protracted battle in which the U.S.A. has been involved. Many experts have pointed out religion, race and other factors benefitting their terrorist nemesis Taliban and their use of Guerrilla warfare to force the U.S. leaving the region. However, one overlooked factor that deadlocked Americans from stabilising Afghanistan was the opium poppy. After a four-year brutal conflict with the Soviet Union in 1979 led to the decimation of 10% of Afghanistan's population. During the battle, the resistance groups called...