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Drug trafficking

The illegal drug trade in global black markets involving cultivation, manufacturing, distribution, and sale of drugs.

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Drug trafficking

muscimol

Law enforcement; Drug trafficking

Muscimol (also known as agarin or pantherine) is the principal psychoactive constituent of Amanita muscaria and related species of mushroom. Muscimol acts as a potent, selective agonist for the GABAA ...

crystal meth

Law enforcement; Drug trafficking

Methamphetamine (from N-methyl-alpha-methylphenethylamine) is a neurotoxin and potent psychostimulant of the phenethylamine and amphetamine classes that is used as a recreational drug and, rarely, to ...

ecstasy

Law enforcement; Drug trafficking

MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamine) is an empathogenic drug of the phenethylamine and amphetamine classes of drugs. MDMA has become widely known as "ecstasy" (shortened to ...

hash

Law enforcement; Drug trafficking

Hashish, often known as hash or hashish oil (BHO), is a cannabis product composed of compressed or purified preparations of stalked resin glands, called trichomes. It contains the same active ...

heroin

Law enforcement; Drug trafficking

Heroin (diacetylmorphine or morphine diacetate, also known as diamorphine (BAN, INN) and commonly known by its street names of H, smack, horse, brown, black, tar, and others) is an opioid analgesic ...

laudanum

Law enforcement; Drug trafficking

Laudanum is a tincture of opium containing approximately 10% powdered opium by weight (the equivalent of 1% morphine). Reddish-brown and extremely bitter, laudanum contains almost all of the opium ...

marijuana

Law enforcement; Drug trafficking

Cannabis, commonly known as marijuana and by numerous other names, is a preparation of the cannabis plant intended for use as a psychoactive drug and as medicine. Pharmacologically, the principal ...

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