A team of researchers from Karolinska Institute and the lab SciLifeLabboth in Sweden, sign a new job published in the scientific journal Science. In it, they show how they have managed to improve the function of a protein, opening the door to a new concept in drug development. The modified protein can repair oxidative damage … Read more
✍ 12 January, 2022 – 09:59 The former Colombian president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Juan Manuel Santos, considered that “legalizing” some drugs is “the only way” to combat drug trafficking groups and consumer problems and lamented that his country continues “swimming in coca ”. “Drug trafficking, or at least the violence it generates, will … Read more
In 2020, customs seized 39 kg of cannabis, 6 kg of cocaine and more than 1 kg of heroin, i.e. 46 kg in all of soft and hard drugs. In 2021, they seized 50.5 kg of cannabis and 18.2 kg of cocaine. The gold medal in Tunisia, however, goes to amphetamines, the consumption of which … Read more
Former Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos believes that in the fight against drugs the world today is worse than 50 years ago because the problem, far from diminishing, has increased due to prohibition and that is why it is necessary to change the approach. Santos, president from 2010 to 2018, and 2016 Nobel Peace Prize … Read more
A police report says journalist Jesus Malabanan was shot in the head while watching television at his home. He helped investigate President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs. Data show at least 21 journalists have been killed in the Philippines since Duterte took office in June 2016. A journalist who participated in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Reuters … Read more
Jesus Malabanan. (Twitter) A Filipino journalist who reported on the “war on drugs” promoted by the President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, which has resulted in thousands of deaths since 2016, has been shot to death this Wednesday in the east of the country. Jesus Malabanan, a 58-year-old reporter for an English newspaper and a … Read more
Freethinker and talkative, communist as a young man and critic of the left in recent years, he recognized that I was a bit sick of being “the one with the drugs”. This is how he was known for his most famous book, in which he made explicit his position against drug prohibition, written in a … Read more