Drugs & Crime

The country is making the transition from net importer of ideas to net innovator, and as it does, it is finding that good patent laws matter.

Decriminalization saves lives. But Canada is only just accepting that reality—and the United States is even further behind.

The country’s substance use spike is undermining its focus on gross national happiness.

Legal marijuana abroad is playing into xenophobia at home.

With a stark decline in the price fetched by opium gum, Mexico’s government should take strides toward making crop substitution proposals a reality in Guerrero.

U.S. Republicans are weakening a U.N. anti-corruption investigation into President Jimmy Morales. What are they getting in exchange?

A voluntary coca crop substitution initiative in Colombia is failing. It is still the country’s best option to address its cocaine production problem.

Fentanyl is the PRC’s deadliest export—and new promises probably won’t stop it.

Proposals to legalize opium production could still beat the cartels—but only if poppy farmers are part of the process.

In a country where no one trusts the police, vigilante groups promising to stop gang violence were initially welcomed. Now, with extralegal justice on the rise, some citizens have had enough.

A year after the country decriminalized domestic violence, women feel the consequences.

China is now in charge of one of the world’s most important watchdogs. Here’s how it is treating allies like Pakistan.

In the nation’s northeast, Christians and activists struggle over the future of addicts.

Future conflicts will mostly be waged by drug cartels, mafia groups, gangs, and terrorists. It is time to rethink our rules of engagement.

Internal cable cites report that farm murders in South Africa are at their lowest level in 19 years.

The Philippine president likes to pick fights. But can he win against the Catholic Church?

Don’t expect Mexico’s new president to radically shift the country’s approach to foreign policy.

The country's institutions are not a counterweight to Hezbollah, but its enablers.

Russia’s best killers learned their skills fighting Moscow.