The War on Drugs

The wild story of how the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah became major players in the global cocaine trade – and how the DEA and CIA fought each other to catch them.

New Zealand is overrun with meth and new synthetic drugs – sold by fierce biker gangs. But, this is how one psychedelic rockstar almost managed to end their War on Drugs!

The War on Drugs has failed, but legalisation is going to be a complex process. We explore what legal heroin, cocaine and ecstasy might actually look like.

From 'face-eating cannibals on monkey dust' to people on bath salts 'ripping out their scrotum' to 'crack babies', the tabloid press is full of made up drug stories. Why?

We follow the money to find out how the cocaine industry actually works, why it functions the way it does and who bears the responsibility.

Going on a shroom, DMT or acid trip may not sound like a conventional therapy session, but there’s a psychedelic revolution going on in mental health treatment.

Does crystal meth use really make your teeth fall out? We pick apart meth fact from fiction and show how the War on Drugs has created a world on speed.

Racism is not a bug of the War on Drugs – it’s a feature. Since their earliest beginnings, drug laws have been explicitly built around targeting ethnic minorities.

This is the story of the North America Opioid Crisis – how a combination of medical overprescribing and drug prohibition created an epidemic as serious as COVID-19.

Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán turned Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel into the most powerful drugs gang on the planet. When he was arrested, it unleashed a tidal wave of violence.

In the early-2000s, the War on Drugs tried to stop smokers getting high on hash. However, this led to the UK getting its very own domestic ‘skunk’ industry.

Mephedrone in the late 00s was easy to order off the internet, it was the catalyst that moved the drugs market online – changing the way people get high forever.