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Jun 14, 2024 | leafie.co.uk | Rebecca Tidy |Rebecca TidyRebecca

“With the banning of opium, the price went up to the sky: my life is better with this order of Shaikh Sahib”Afghanistan has a long and colourful relationship with psychoactive plants. It was a popular destination on the Hippie Trail in the 1950s and 60s, thanks to its famous cannabis culture. Rural dwellers discovered that a shrub covering the country’s mountains, ephedra, is easily converted into crystal meth and a potent weight-loss drug named ephedrine.

Mar 21, 2024 | leafie.co.uk | Rebecca Tidy |Rebecca TidyRebecca

Vendors on the former #1 biggest darknet marketplace, Incognito, got a double whammy of bad luck when they logged in on March 5th. Not only had the administrator – a guy known only as Pharaoh – closed the market and stolen all of the money held in users’ online accounts, but he’d left a rather shocking message to extort the people who sold drugs through his website. “We have accumulated a list of private messages, transaction info and order details over the years.