Josh Torrance

Researching drug diversion schemes. Harm reduction activism in fields. Consultancy bits & bobs. Views are mine.

[Josh Torrance @Joshitea]

A reminder that if you search joshtorrance on the other one you can find the account where I now post text-based drug policy stuff...

[Josh Torrance @Joshitea]

@marclanders @Legalisecanabo THC percentages are a farce. Generally anything saying over 25% isn't reflected in independent testing. The 22% ones might be accurate but may not be. True in the US and the UK. Nothing ever really tests over 30%.

[Josh Torrance @Joshitea]

@gmhales Also just recently there has been a lot of thai grown cannabis on the market, going for a fraction of the price of UK grown.

[Josh Torrance @Joshitea]

@gmhales Lots of demand for US and Canadian grown cannabis thanks to perceived higher quality. Production cost in North America is much cheaper and is worth more than UK grown cannabis. Plenty still being grown here but UK based growers often struggling to compete.

[Josh Torrance @Joshitea]

Quite a mad case of stigmatisation of people who use heroin here... vigilantes using violence to police their local community. So much ropey logic and drug exceptionalism I don't know where to start!

https://t.co/MXKtfZksgT

[Josh Torrance @Joshitea]

Add me on here...

[Josh Torrance @Joshitea]

The largest single seizure of cocaine ever by Spanish authorities - 13 tons found in Spain in one shipping container, sent from Ecuador. That's a lot of eggs in one basket. Insight Crime with good coverage as per usual.

https://t.co/hYygy8D89k

[Nicki Killeen @nickikilleen]

UN: Rise in Afghan opium cultivation reflects economic hardship, despite Taliban ban https://t.co/ojhPs0s4C0

[Transform Drug Policy Foundation @TransformDrugs]

Germany's first legal non-medical cannabis is dispensed from one of the newly licensed non-profit membership-based associations.
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https://t.co/IGD4mVh4TP

[Josh Torrance @Joshitea]

Kamala Harris seems to back federal cannabis regulation...

https://t.co/z7coMOCiEr

[Josh Torrance @Joshitea]

Europol and others dismantle another encrypted phone network called Ghost. 51 suspects arrested: 38 in Australia, 11 in Ireland, one in Canada and one in Italy. Over €1m in cash seized plus lots of drugs and a drug lab.

Weird how anyone still trusts encrypted phone networks!

[Europol @Europol]

🚨Europol has teamed up with law enforcement from 9 countries to take down a criminal encrypted communication platform.

👮‍♀️Law enforcement is committed to ensuring that crime cannot operate in the shadows.

More details in our press release ⤵️

https://t.co/9DReLgVNym

[Josh Torrance @Joshitea]

@DrewIsSharing Controlling for tobacco use, smoking cannabis is associated with cardiovascular disease, with increased risk for heavier users.

https://t.co/S9B3lftkOX

[Josh Torrance @Joshitea]

@DrewIsSharing People who smoke drugs on a regular basis should not be labelling people who use other drugs with stigma, or assuming they will inevitably suffer from a drug dependency, which happens to a minority of PWUD.

In fact anyone who uses the terms nitty or junkie can get in the bin.

[Josh Torrance @Joshitea]

...be glad they had such a long run with access to so many customers (because of low tech barriers to entry).

Dialadealers will have a good October.

[Josh Torrance @Joshitea]

Big collectives of vendors will likely end up splintered.

No real reason to think that vendors will start getting their doors kicked in (yet), as long as they have decent opsec.

Veteran vendors will have lived through many iterations of online markets, so may well just....

[Josh Torrance @Joshitea]

@poppykoronka Hi @poppykoronka , any chance of catching up on this? Thanks

[Josh Torrance @Joshitea]

@poppykoronka Hi @poppykoronka, X won't let me DM you but I have a question about the statistic in this article that ketamine addiction has 'more than quadrupled since 2016'. Could you drop me a follow and a message to discuss? Thanks.

[Josh Torrance @Joshitea]

Goodbye to stupid names for medical cannabis...