A GRAN nicknamed ‘Queen Bee’ who headed a family drug network which flooded the UK with almost a ton of cocaine in just seven months, was jailed for 20 years today. Crime matriarch Deborah Mason, ...

Cocaine-related deaths rose from 2022 to 2023 in the United States, Britain and Canada. In Europe, the report noted an increase in cases of crack cocaine-use disorders.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has said that “cocaine is no worse than whisky,” as he suggested the multibillion dollar illicit trade in the drug could be “easily dismantled” if it was ...