"Forty-nine mutilated bodies were found dumped along a highway on Sunday near Monterrey, Mexico’s third-largest city, according to officials."

"Cocaine-related emergency-room admissions, overdoses and requests for rehab have declined since the economy started its 2008 decline"

"“Since the Taliban moved in, we can plant the poppy. The people are not starving anymore, because they have opium. And if the government tries to bully us, we have weapons.”"

Two posters left near the bodies declared that the pair -- a young man and woman -- were killed for posting denouncements of drug cartel activities on a social network.

A disgraced ex-cop acquitted of raping a drunk Manhattan woman won't face drug charges after heroin was found in his police precinct locker.

..."about 80% of the businesses in Mexico are involved in one manner or another with the drug racket. Now once you start publishing things like that and looking into it, you’re getting to the power centers of Mexican society, and they’re simply not going to want to be exposed." If they can use the drug assassins to stop it, they will.

"Ever heard of dimethocaine, methoxetamine or JWH-18? They are ‘research chemicals’ similar to cocaine, ketamine and cannabis respectively. They were all first synthesized in the last few years and are being produced in large quantities in Chinese factories. They are quasi-legal and readily available over the internet. As a consequence, they are already widely taken. Like mephedrone before them, it probably won’t be long before they are banned. And, like mephedrone, no-one really knows if they are safe or not. People haven’t been taking these new drugs for long enough for us to know..."

"The man's death is believed to be related to a lethal hallucinogenic drug, paramethoxymethamphetamine or PMMA, that may have been sold as ecstasy, and may go by the street name "death"."