Every year in Belarus several thousand people go to jail for violating Article 328 or “illicit trafficking in narcotic and psychotropic substances, their precursors and analogs.”
On magnets or underground: how does the Russian anonymous marketplace work?
Convenience, anonymity and relative security are what drug users and dealers love the darknet for.
Poland reforms drug policy. You do legal highs? You are a criminal!
Polish Parliament had unanimously approved an amendment to the drug law. Law and Justice is contributing yet another chapter to the pointless fight against legal highs in Poland.
How Facebook bans life saving advice
So you smoke weed? Drop ecstasy? Keep quiet or get out of Facebook!
Romanian Roulette: Shooting up in Bucharest
People who are addicted in Romania, especially the poor, receive little of the support they’d need to get better and are at a constant risk of overdose.
After the War on Drugs in Ireland
Since 2015 the LSE’s International Drug Policy Unit (IDPU) has been working with local partners the Ana Liffey Drug Project to help foster a new era of progressive drug policies in Ireland.
Let them pray for death. Belarusian war on drugs
How the war on drugs was declared in Belarus – and what came out of it. Political Critique tried to find out whether the authoritarian government is effective in its crusade against prohibited substances.