And while an age-related increased risk of bleeding has seen it fall out of favor with medical authorities, it's now shaping up as something that might be even more beneficial in triggering the immune system to help take down certain cancers.
The war on drugs has been going on for decades. The goal of the war was to prevent people from using illicit drugs. Since the very beginning, the drug war has failed to achieve that end.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers (CBP) at the San Ysidro Port of Entry made a massive bust over the weekend, discovering more than $11 million of blue fentanyl pills concealed in a car on Sunday.
Texas officials are celebrating the seizure of an island near the United States-Mexico border described as a "safe haven" for cartel drugs and weapons.
The infiltration of Mexican drug cartels into local criminal gangs in Ecuador is causing severe harm to the country. It has led to a surge in organized crime, including drug trafficking, money laundering, and extortion.
Although cocaine is consumed in every part of the world, its base, the coca plant, is mainly cultivated in three Latin American countries: Peru, Bolivia and Colombia.
Switzerland's capital is examining a pilot scheme to allow the sale of cocaine for recreational use - a radical approach to the war on drugs that is not thought to have been tried elsewhere.