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Investigators found 2.5kg of cocaine inside Jae Young Choi’s suitcases at Sydney Airport in March 2023

‘That can look suspicious’: how a drug smuggler came undone

Saddled with a $450,000 debt and a serious addiction to gambling, Jae Young Choi was in trouble.

  • Sally Rawsthorne

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Wollongong’s Yours and Owls festival.

First NSW music festival to allow pill testing revealed

The announcement marks a major win for drug reform advocates who have long called for pill testing in the state. 

  • Michael McGowan
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‘We won’t be accepting that’: AFL’s proposal for strict new drugs code revealed

The AFLPA boss said the union would refuse to accept a new drug code regime of immediate fines. Also, players testing positive wouldn’t place their anonymity at risk.

  • Caroline Wilson
Mudgee Rehab

The luxury retreat for men accused of grievous crimes

In a sleepy corner of a fashionable NSW town, accused criminals chill out in the spa, cool off in the pool, and relax over a game of tennis.

  • Jordan Baker, Perry Duffin and Amber Schultz
Sarah Napthali spent a year investigating the effects of psychadelics.

‘I’m just a seeker’: The Sydney mum who spent a year sampling psychedelics

Sarah Napthali lowers her voice over lunch when our conversation veers to the names of the drugs she used: LSD, MDMA, ketamine, DMT, bufo (toad poison) and the rest.

  • Jordan Baker
Xi Jinping and Donald Trump are at the opposite ends of the fentanyl crisis in the US.

How drug labs in China fuel Trump’s global trade war

The Wuhan company didn’t bother with the dark web. It spruiked its goods right in the open, showing mounds of white powder that were available in a “Mexico hot sale″⁣.

  • Lisa Visentin
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How Maribyrnong Council promoted the Nicholson Street Mall playground in Footscray (left); and before it was removed.

A $250,000 playground was installed in Footscray’s mall. It backfired

Nicholson Street is one of Australia’s oldest pedestrian malls. But traders say it was the wrong move in 2023 to install a playground because it became a magnet for antisocial behaviour.

  • Sophie Aubrey
Cocaine smuggling at Port Botany

Cocaine smugglers use dangerous new tactic to infiltrate Sydney

Federal police fear a novel cocaine importation tactic will end with gangsters killing security guards to secure the illegal drugs in Sydney.

  • Perry Duffin
Recent research suggests that three in 10 cannabis users will develop cannabis-use disorder.

‘It is a public health threat just like alcohol’: Marijuana dependence linked to higher risk of suicide

Patients with cannabis-use disorder died at almost three times the rate of the general population. Young adults are most at risk, a new study has found.

  • Roni Caryn Rabin
An alleged bandit of a criminal gang of Sao Paulo, Brazil, appears in a recorded message that was broadcast on O Globo television early on Sunday, Aug. 13, 2006. Brazil’s most notorious organized crime group, the PCC, kidnapped O Globo television reporter Guilherme Portanova and forced his station to broadcast a video early Sunday in which the gang calls for improvements in the country’s prison system. (AP Photo) .

The feared Brazilian crime gang targeting Australia

Closely tied to Italy’s ’Ndrangheta and organised crime groups across the Balkans, the Primeiro Comando da Capital is thought to be Latin America’s largest gang.

  • Sally Rawsthorne

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