25/08 Latin America’s Marijuana Markets Diversify. A series of seizures and drug raids across Latin America have revealed how previously niche high-strength marijuana products are establishing themselves within the region’s drug markets.
27/08 Two people were arrested in a tik (crystal methamphetamine) bust in Cape Town on Thursday night, Western Cape police said. The raid in Killarney Gardens, Milnerton yielded 11 bags of the drug, weighing approximately 20kg.
27/08 Montenegro seizes over a tonne of cocaine in bananas shipment. The raid was carried out in Mojanovici, a suburb of the capital Podgorica in the tiny Adriatic country, the national police said in a statement on their Twitter account.
28/08 Taliban Move to Ban Opium Production in Afghanistan. Taliban leaders, seeking international acceptance after seizing power in Afghanistan, have told farmers to stop cultivating opium poppies, residents of some major poppy-growing areas say. This has caused raw opium prices to soar across the country.
29/08 NDLEA arrests man with 87 wraps of cocaine. The Nigerian National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has intercepted a drug kingpin, Mr Ibeh Ejike, at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja for ingesting 87 wraps of cocaine.
29/08 The Dominican National Drug Control Directorate (DNCD), with the support of the Specialized Port Security Corps, seized 57 packages of cocaine during an interdiction operation carried out in the Port of Haina Oriental, Santo Domingo Oeste municipality. DNCD officers and military personnel inspected dozens of containers that would be shipped to Philadelphia, United States. After several hours of intense search, with high-tech equipment, it was possible to discover a double compartment in one of the containers and thwart the shipment of the drug.
29/08 Cocaine production soars in Colombia as oil industry crumbles. Conflict-torn Colombia’s economically crucial oil industry continues to labor under the pressure of an array of threats. After being severely impacted by the pandemic oil output in the Andean country fell to its lowest level in over a decade, to an average of 694,151 barrels per day during June 2021.
