Generally speaking, when we refer to narcotics, we have in mind any illegal drug, starting from cocaine until prescription pills used illegally. But “narcotics” actually refer to a specific class of drug. The term narcotics refers to drugs that are derived from opium, the so called “opiates”, like heroin, morphine, and other drugs common to [...]

 
Synthesized from morphine, heroin is an illegal drug and a medical pain-killer. Discovered in 1874 by C. R. Alder Wright, a derivative of the opium, heroin is a dangerous substance with high addictive potential. There is a huge traffic of heroin, Afghanistan producing 87% of the world’s heroin.
On the street is known as “H”, “smack”, [...]

 
Cannabis is a plant native to Central Asia, known in actuality as being the most widely used illegal drug in the world, and coming in the third place in the world as the most commonly consumed unhealthy substance after alcohol and tobacco. The fact that the majority of drug offenses are cannabis and marijuana related [...]