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This article originally appeared on VICE UK. ‘Hey, you around?’ is VICE’s new column asking drug dealers not just what…
A version of this story was originally published on The Appeal, a nonprofit criminal justice news outlet.Melissa Morales was riding…
This article originally appeared on VICE Australia.In 1799, at a party in a second-story drawing room in Bristol, England, a…
The amount of cash it takes to cop four commonly-used drugs in the United States has increased by over 40…
CARTEL CHRONICLES is an ongoing series of dispatches from the front lines of the drug war in Latin America. The…
This article originally appeared on VICE ASIA.The debate over whether or not to legalize medical marijuana continued to spread across…
High Wire is Maia Szalavitz’s reported opinion column on drugs and drug policy.Prescriptions go up. Overdoses skyrocket. People start to…
The crime that returned John* to Tonga began in a harshly lit gas station, somewhere on Las Vegas’ Sahara Avenue.…
The pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma began selling OxyContin in 1996. By 2001, it was already clear that addiction and overdoses…
Victoria Arana started working at a cannabis dispensary in Los Angeles when she was 18 years old. She and most…