Solar panels driving opium trade in Afghanistan
The Taliban walks between hypocrisy and holiness while trying to figure out how to profit from poppies and not damage its local economy.
The Taliban walks between hypocrisy and holiness while trying to figure out how to profit from poppies and not damage its local economy.
Young men in United Arab Emirates have jumped on a bizarre, and weirdly “green” addiction, passing on cigarettes and sheesha to smoking dead ants to get high. They crush local black ants (Pachycondyla sennaarensis) and blend the crumbs in tobacco, drop them into a medhwak (smoking pipe) or sprinkle them on regular smokes before lighting up, according to Gulf […]
When authorities discovered a lab full of marijuana plants in a bomb shelter beneath an all girls Orthodox Jewish school south of Tel Aviv, they proposed that outsiders must be responsible – because Haredim girls would never smoke pot, right?