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Josh Torrance

@Joshitea

Researching drug diversion schemes. Harm reduction activism in fields. Consultancy bits & bobs. Views are mine.

A reminder that if you search joshtorrance on the other one you can find the account where I now post text-based drug policy stuff...


Quite a mad case of stigmatisation of people who use heroin here... vigilantes using violence to police their local community. So much ropey logic and drug exceptionalism I don't know where to start! youtu.be/t4UowXTw7Lg

Joshitea's tweet card. Manchester's Heroin Haters | Drugs Map of Britain

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The largest single seizure of cocaine ever by Spanish authorities - 13 tons found in Spain in one shipping container, sent from Ecuador. That's a lot of eggs in one basket. Insight Crime with good coverage as per usual. bit.ly/4e7V3y7

insightcrime.org

Spain Reclaims Position as Cocaine Gateway to Europe

A record 13-ton seizure of cocaine is more evidence that Spain has bounced back as the main entry point into Europe for the drug.


Josh Torrance أعاد

Germany's first legal non-medical cannabis is dispensed from one of the newly licensed non-profit membership-based associations. 1/ HT @tblickman weser-kurier.de/landkreis-olde…


Europol and others dismantle another encrypted phone network called Ghost. 51 suspects arrested: 38 in Australia, 11 in Ireland, one in Canada and one in Italy. Over €1m in cash seized plus lots of drugs and a drug lab. Weird how anyone still trusts encrypted phone networks!

🚨Europol has teamed up with law enforcement from 9 countries to take down a criminal encrypted communication platform. 👮‍♀️Law enforcement is committed to ensuring that crime cannot operate in the shadows. More details in our press release ⤵️ europol.europa.eu/media-press/ne…

Europol's tweet image. 🚨Europol has teamed up with law enforcement from 9 countries to take down a criminal encrypted communication platform. 

👮‍♀️Law enforcement is committed to ensuring that crime cannot operate in the shadows.

More details in our press release ⤵️

europol.europa.eu/media-press/ne…


Goodbye to stupid names for medical cannabis...

هذه التغريدة لم تعد متوفرة.

So it turns out that: 1) EUDA can guess the country of origin of cocaine through chemical analysis 2) There is a strong hypothesis that cocaine in Europe of Peruvian or Bolivian origin is being processed from paste within Europe...

Joshitea's tweet image. So it turns out that:

1) EUDA can guess the country of origin of cocaine through chemical analysis

2) There is a strong hypothesis that cocaine in Europe of Peruvian or Bolivian origin is being processed from paste within Europe...

Meanwhile, record quantities of S American cocaine have been flooding into Europe (c €10bn/yr retail), with Colombia the main source euda.europa.eu/publications/e… - causing considerable harm euda.europa.eu/publications/e….

gmhales's tweet image. Meanwhile, record quantities of S American cocaine have been flooding into Europe (c €10bn/yr retail), with Colombia the main source euda.europa.eu/publications/e… - causing considerable harm euda.europa.eu/publications/e….
gmhales's tweet image. Meanwhile, record quantities of S American cocaine have been flooding into Europe (c €10bn/yr retail), with Colombia the main source euda.europa.eu/publications/e… - causing considerable harm euda.europa.eu/publications/e….


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