Operation Hard Ball–a law enforcement crackdown carried out by Canadian and U.S. authorities–has done what years of Indian diplomatic messaging sought to prevent: it has placed India’s criminal-security crisis before the world. On July 7, the US Department of Justice announced a multinational crackdown involving law enforcement in the United States, Canada and Europe. Twenty-four […]
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Pioneering Uruguay set to begin exporting medical marijuana
Already the first country in the world to legalize recreational use of marijuana, Uruguay now aims to go further by becoming the first in Latin America to export it for medicinal purposes. It’s taken a year to get to this point but in Nueva Helvecia — 120 kilometers (75 miles) west of the capital Montevideo […]