The Drugs Fuelling Deadly Wars | News on Drugs

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Narco-terrorists fight for control of the cocaine trade, narco-insurgents like the Taliban fund their wars with heroin – and entire narco states are built around the drug trade. There is a centuries old relationship between drugs and warfare, which Peter Andreas writes in his book ‘Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs’. Drugs we call illegal are dished out to their soldiers by their own commanders. From Nazi soldiers on methamphetamine to Britain’s global narco empire, we explore how drugs made war, and how war made drugs.

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