Cannabis growing wild in China, where it has been used to treat conditions such as gout and malaria The country holds hundreds of patents relating to the drug, which means more profits as decriminalisation spreads globally Ian Johnston Sunday 05 January 2014 Almost 5,000 years ago, Chinese physicians recommended a tea made from cannabis…
By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) - Peru wants to secure a deal with the United States as soon as possible to help it tackle the use of planes to smuggle.
LIMA (Reuters) - Peru wants to secure a deal with the United States as soon as possible to help it tackle the use of planes to smuggle cocaine at a time when coca cultivation has been growing, the Andean nation's anti-drug chief said on Wednesday.
"They sent messages that if we did not desist (from reporting the incursions), they would take out those responsible, the leaders," he said, noting that images of dismembered bodies were sent to his mobile phone. Flor de Ucayali is among at least 100 indigenous communities in the central Amazon region of Ucayali that have been threatened in recent years by invading coca farmers, who grow the crop used to make cocaine for drug trafficking gangs.