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Niko Vorobyov

Niko Vorobyov is a freelance journalist, convicted drug peddler, and the author of Dopeworld. Follow him on X @Narco_Polo420

Narcan and fentanyl test strips are available for free at the Brockton Neighborhood Health Center. (Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

“Only the people can save the people”: As Trump guts harm reduction programs, activists fight back

Niko Vorobyov
Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte takes an oath as he attends a senate probe on the drug war during his administration, in Manila on October 28, 2024. (Photo by JAM STA ROSA/AFP via Getty Images)

Duterte’s bloody drug war was really a war on the poor

Niko Vorobyov
A Mexican soldier stands guard next to marijuana packages outside a tunnel discovered at a warehouse in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, near the border with the US on November 26, 2010. (FRANCISCO VEGA/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s plan to wage war with cartels will backfire, experts say

Niko Vorobyov
Bolivia, La Paz: Women in typical costumes distribute coca leaves on coca chewing day. Photo: Radoslaw Czajkowski/dpa (Photo by Radoslaw Czajkowski/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Indigenous groups demand coca leaves be legalized. Will the world listen?

Niko Vorobyov
Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) (Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The gospel according to Amanita muscaria, the world’s most charismatic mushroom

Niko Vorobyov
A Man from Pasi community (a Dalit or untouchable community of India) serving toddy (Palm wine), a traditional alcoholic drink made from the sap of palm trees. (Pradeep Gaur/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Bihar, India banned alcohol nine years ago. It’s failing just like American Prohibition

Niko Vorobyov
Ecstasy tablets, with an imprint of the country of Australia (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

America rejected MDMA, but Australia didn’t. Here’s why psychedelics have been embraced Down Under

Niko Vorobyov
Women walk through a war-torn neighborhood in Omdurman on November 2, 2024. (AMAURY FALT-BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Sudan’s gruesome civil war has a new driving force: the meth trade

Niko Vorobyov
Abstract blue pills flying from smartphone. (Alena Butusava / Getty Images)

Russia’s dark web markets prove the drug war can’t be won

Niko Vorobyov
KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN - APRIL 06: Afghan workers work at poppy field in Kandahar, Afghanistan on April 06, 2022. Farmers demand an alternative for plantations after Taliban's ban on poppy cultivation. (Photo by Sayed Khodaiberdi Sadat/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

As heroin in Afghanistan dries up, Europe could face an overdose crisis like the U.S.

Niko Vorobyov
General view of a weed / marijuana shop - 7th Heaven on Koh Chang Island in Trat province. Koh Chang is a popular tourist resort island situated about 350 km south east of the capital, Bangkok, Thailand. (Paul Lakatos/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Why Thailand legalized marijuana — and then almost banned it again

Niko Vorobyov
Drug users prepare cocaine before injecting, inside of a Safe Consumption van set up by Peter Krykant on September 25, 2020 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Abandoning drug decriminalization is a mistake — the drugs were never the point

Niko Vorobyov
A bumblebee collects pollen from a rhododendron flower in a garden outside Moscow on June 1, 2021. (YURI KADOBNOV/AFP via Getty Images)

What it’s like tripping on mad honey, the hallucinogen that (maybe) is an aphrodisiac

Niko Vorobyov
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Convicted drug dealers are political prisoners: I should know — I was one

Niko Vorobyov