Drugs trade / drug trafficking

When widespread state-criminal collusion persists in transitions from autocracy to democracy, electoral competition becomes a catalyst of large-scale criminal violence.

This Element interprets how narcotrafficking and private armies interacted with the process of configuration of the state in Colombia.

This Element interprets how narcotrafficking and private armies interacted with the process of configuration of the state in Colombia.

State crackdowns on drug cartels often backfire, producing entrenched ''cartel-state conflict''; deterrence approaches have curbed violence but proven fragile.

State crackdowns on drug cartels often backfire, producing entrenched ''cartel-state conflict''; deterrence approaches have curbed violence but proven fragile.

Through an examination of violent neighborhoods this book shows how criminals affect local politics in Colombia, Brazil, and Jamaica.

Through an examination of violent neighborhoods this book shows how criminals affect local politics in Colombia, Brazil, and Jamaica.

This collection provides detailed information on current advances in analytical methods and strategies employed for monitoring and discovering a wide range of novel psychoactive substances (NPS) in clinical and forensic laboratories.

This collection provides detailed information on current advances in analytical methods and strategies employed for monitoring and discovering a wide range of novel psychoactive substances (NPS) in clinical and forensic laboratories.

Provides the first regulatory history of UN drug control and examines its enabling role in the modern ''war on drugs''.

Provides the first regulatory history of UN drug control and examines its enabling role in the modern ''war on drugs''.

Mainland Southeast Asia is one of the world's key regions for trafficking of illegal goods.

Conventional analysis of the illicit opium market suggests that source country interventions have at best achieved minimal results.

Bitter, brownish and sticky, opium - the sap of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum - has been cultivated from the earliest of times.

Conventional analysis of the illicit opium market suggests that source country interventions have at best achieved minimal results.

Mainland Southeast Asia is one of the world's key regions for trafficking of illegal goods.

Bitter, brownish and sticky, opium - the sap of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum - has been cultivated from the earliest of times.

Hotel K - Bali's most notorious jail - is Hell in Paradise.

Egdar "e;Lefty"e; Mendieta investigates the death of a notorious stripper in this second sweltering "e;Narco-lit"e; noir from the Godfather of Mexican crime fictionAn intelligent, atmospheric police procedural series for fans of John Le Carr and Mick HeronWhen the mutilated body of Mayra Cabral de Melo is found in a dusty field, Detective Edgar "e;Lefty"e; Mendieta has personal reasons for bringing the culprit to justice.

Forty years after the declaration of the war on drugs by President Nixon, the debate on the effectiveness and costs of the ban is red-hot.

In the flow of drugs to the United States from Latin America, women have always played key roles as bosses, business partners, money launderers, confidantes, and couriers-work rarely acknowledged.

In the 1980s a poor farmer's son from Recife, Brazil, joined the Brazilian navy and began selling cocaine.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe unbelievable true story of the man now pardoned by President Trump In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anything drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisons free of the government s watchful eye.

Organised crime puts on a smiley face.

WINNER OF THE NED KELLY AWARD FOR BEST TRUE CRIME 2023WINNER OF THE UK TRUE CRIME AWARD FOR BEST INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING 2024A relentlessly fascinating and often jaw-dropping true story of two American women who unwittingly became Australia's 'Drug Grannies'In 1977, Vera 'Toddie' Hays and Florice 'Beezie' Bessire thought they were about to embark on the trip of a lifetime when Vera's nephew, Vern Todd, offered them a campervan to drive from Germany to India.

This is your nation's history on drugsAmericans are stumbling through a world-historic drug binge.

Wait now, light me up so we do this right, yes, hold me steady to the lamp, hold it, hold, good, a slow pull to start with, to draw the smoke low into the lungs, yes, oh my.

In Psychedelia and Other Colours, acclaimed author Rob Chapman explores in crystalline detail the history, precedents and cultural impact of LSD, from the earliest experiments in painting with light and immersive environments to the thriving avant-garde scene that existed in San Francisco even before the Grateful Dead and the Fillmore Auditorium.

The first critical analysis of how Whiteness drove the opioid crisis.

The book presents up-to-date research that explores the various connections between drug misuse and crime.

Skating on Thin Ice exposes the culture of toxic masculinity in professional hockey and suggests how sport and society can change the narrative on sexual assault and violence.

'All the staples of the prison memoir are here: sadistic guards and attempted break-out, the terrors of solitary confinement, the joys of freedom .

This timely and important work offers an in-depth analysis of the existence-or nonexistence-of a nexus between international terrorism and drug trafficking emanating from Afghanistan.

A stunning investigation of the life and legend of Mexican kingpin Joaqun Archivaldo ';El Chapo' Guzmn Loera, building on Noah Hurowitz's revelatory coverage for Rolling Stone of El Chapo's federal drug-trafficking trial.

NOW A MAJOR SKY ATLANTIC SERIESFrom the international bestselling author of Gomorrah, this searing expos reveals how dirty money and the drug trade are at the heart of our lives, our economy, and our worldIn many countries, 'zero zero' or double zero flour is the finest, best flour on the market.

The No 1 Bestseller!

'I was a drug trafficker in the true sense of the word: a pure narco.

Following the collapse of his business and the loss of his home, Frank Kane made a catastrophic decision.

Mr Nasty charts the rise, fall and ultimate redemption of a wannabe player in the global narcotics business.

The real-life Alex from Netflix's Orange Is the New Black tells her own story in this memoir of crime, punishment, and her relationship with Piper.

Miami, December 31, 1979.

Father.

Durante el 2016 se vivieron dos episodios históricos para la reflexión sobre las estrategias de drogas en Colombia: la celebración de la Sesión Especial de la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas sobre el problema mundial de drogas (UNGASS 2016) y la firma del Acuerdo de Paz entre el Gobierno y las FARC-EP, que incluye lo pactado sobre la "Solución al problema de las drogas ilícitas".

La implementación del Acuerdo de Paz entre las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) y el Gobierno nacional –así como el inicio de los diálogos con el Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN)– es un hecho fundamental en la historia política y económica del país.

Criminals are not born in a vacuum, and Frank Lucas is no exception.

The Lives Less Ordinary series brings you the most exciting, adventurous and entertaining true-life writing that is out there, for men who are time-poor but want the best.

'There are 3,000 drugged-up psychopaths, armed to the teeth with blades, shooters and bombs.

Busted!

With contributions from seven of Mexico's finest journalists, this is reportage at its bravest and most necessary - it has the power to change the world's view of their country, and by the force of its truth, to start to heal the country's many sorrows.