The underground routes by which drugs enter the U.S. from Mexico, and the officials who’ve found it almost impossible to curb their construction.

A statistics-based argument that drug pricing, not drug use or law enformencement, is the only way to predict swings in violent crime rates.

An undercover report on Afghanistan’s drug-smuggling border police that is now heavily used for intelligence training.

Stuck between the Taliban and the U.S. Military, Afghanistan’s farmers risk their lives both when they grow, and when they refuse to grow, fields of poppies.

A former pilot of miniature cocaine-smuggling submarines tells his story.

How the bulk of the cocaine entering the U.S. ends up cut with a cattle dewormer.

It took a desperate screenwriter to find Max Mermelstein, Miami’s former coke overlord, after twenty-five years in hiding.

In nine hours, Guinea-Bissau’s President and military leader were assassinated in separate incidents. Their dealings had turned the country into the runway of choice for drug smugglers and Hezbollah.

The rise and fall of a chubby Idaho pizza delivery boy turned weed kingpin.