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Private properties are becoming more favorable to drug syndicates as sites of illegal drug production. [6] Methamphetamine remains more feasible to sell in the Philippines than cocaine, a more costly illegal drug. [7] Owing to its geographical location, international drug syndicates use the Philippines as a transit hub for the illegal drug trade.
Owing to its geographical location, international drug syndicates use the Philippines as a transit hub for the illegal drug trade. [45] [46] Some local drug syndicates and gangs are also involved in narcotics, utilizing drug mules to transport small amounts of illegal drugs to other countries. [47]
The drug policy of the Philippines is guided by the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 and is implemented by the Dangerous Drugs Board with its implementing arm, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency along with other member agencies. Aside from regulating and prohibiting the usage, sale, production of certain drugs, the 2002 law is ...
The Philippine drug enforcement agency denied on Monday that Marcos was ever on such a list, but that didn’t deter Duterte from digging in during another rally on Tuesday. “Fentanyl is ...
Interior Secretary Benjamin Abalos Jr. described the series of operations as the "probably the biggest drug haul in the history of the Philippines [a] ". [5] Abalos gave credit to President Bongbong Marcos , who he said directed the PNP and the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) to go after the "big" hauls in relation to the ...
But in Olongapo, a city of 220,000 three hours north of Manila, drug users are taught carpentry skills and paid 5,000 Philippine pesos ($103) a month to build wooden coffins as part of the local ...
On Facebook, where the "narco list" has been published by several national news outlets, many of the Philippines' 47 million Facebook users have expressed their support for Duterte's hard line on drugs and their desire to see justice handed out to institutional backers of the drug trade.
Lascanas also disclosed in his affidavit that former PNP Chief Dela Rosa, as well as PDEA Director Wilkins Villanueva, were "enablers" of the illegal drug trade. Yang denied this claim. PDEA Chief Villanueva also said during a succeeding Senate hearing that if Yang were involved in illegal drugs, he would have been long dead.