Anti-drug body in hi-tech drug mode By ROGER M. BALANZA The Davao City government is going hi-tech in the anti-drug campaign with a computer system that would show the city’s drug profile with a push of a finger. Eliseo Braganza, action officer of the Anti-Drug Abuse […]
By ROGER M. BALANZA The head of the Philippines’ anti-drug agency said the Abu Sayyaf—the country’s most notorious Islamic militant group—may be running marijuana farms and protecting drug lords in Mindanao to finance its terroristic activities. Our latest discoveries of marijuana plantations were in the islands of Basilan […]
Anti-narcotics agents suspect the killing on Tuesday of two anti-drug informers and the wounding of an agent of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in General Santos City was an act of retaliation carried out by drug lords. Col. Edwin Minion, PDEA director for Central Mindanao, said the attack on […]
Governor first on the line North Cotabato Governor Jesus Sacdalan and Vice Governor Emmanuel Piñol, along with 13 provincial board members, were the first to undergo the random drug testing held on Tuesday at the provincial capitol grounds in Barangay Amas, as the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) […]
Marijuana staging a comeback By ROGER M. BALANZA Marijuana, replaced in the mid-90s by shabu or the poor man’s cocaine, is staging a comeback in the Davao Region. Low supply and higher price of the synthetic drug shabu are the main factors that led to drug users switching […]
