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Most Filipino drug mules, mainly women, are sent to China, where drug convicts will face execution via lethal injection. [9] Ninoy Aquino International Airport has been identified as a favorable illegal drug trafficking hub. [6] Some Filipinos choose to be involved in drug trafficking due to the promise of a high income.
The Philippines is a signatory of the United Nations Convention on Narcotic Drugs which lists psilocybin as a Schedule I substance. [36] However, the PDEA has conducted arrests of illegal drug peddlers who also sold psilocybin mushrooms alongside explicitly recognized illegal substances in the past. [37] [38]
The protesters are holding placards which urge Duterte to stop killing drug users. During his official state visit to the Philippines in January 2017, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe said: "On countering illegal drugs, we want to work together with the Philippines through relevant measures of support". He offered financial assistance for ...
"This should be the approach in the drug war for me and the most important objective is to stop the smuggling of illegal drugs into the Philippines,” Marcos said, adding that the newly seized ...
In June 2019, the National Telecommunications Commission ordered the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (Association of Broadcasters of the Philippines) to stop the airing of the song. [358] The 2019 rap album Kolateral tells the story of the Philippine drug war through the eyes of the drug war's victims.
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA, / p iː ˈ d eɪ ə /; [1] Filipino: Ahensiya ng Pilipinas sa Pagpapatupad ng Batas Laban sa Bawal na Gamot [2]) is the lead anti-drug law enforcement agency, responsible for preventing, investigating and combating any dangerous drugs, controlled precursors and essential chemicals within the Philippines.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed his main political rival, Leni Robredo, his "drugs tsar", after the opposition leader expressed alarm about the death toll in an anti-narcotics ...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — China has executed two Filipinos for drug trafficking despite high-level Philippine government appeals to commute their death sentences to life in prison, the ...