Max Daly
Global Drugs Editor
max.daly@vice.comMax Daly is Vice's Global Drugs Editor and specialises in reporting on drugs and crime. He won the Orwell Prize in 2019 for his work on young drug dealers and co-authored Narcomania: How Britain Got Hooked on Drugs
Drugs
The Best Ever VICE Drug Stories
From investigations into why people in the UK don't use meth to interviews with drug dealers telling us how much they actually make.
Max Daly
4.19.24
News
Dealer Accused Of Giving Out 'Free Cocaine Samples' Attached to Business Cards
Police in Canada charged a man alleged to have handed casino goers business cards with small baggies of cocaine stapled to them.
Max Daly
2.8.24
News
A Brit Nearly Died Defending a Woman in a Thai Bar. His Attacker Was Fined $70
Hugo Mooney, 26, almost bled to death after he was stabbed in a bar on a paradise island by a man who had been harassing his female friend. Two days later a court gave the attacker a small fine.
Max Daly
2.7.24
News
Breaking Brit: Suburban Car Wash-Owning Couple Were Running $900M Drug Empire
Married drug barons were sentenced to 33 years each after exporting seven tonnes of cocaine to Australia and laundering the profits in a car wash. The couple also stand accused of adopting a boy so they could kill him for the insurance.
Max Daly
1.31.24
News
Record $1.1 Billion Cocaine Stash Found By Army in Ecuador
The Ecuadorian military found $1.1 billion of cocaine in a pig farm in what they say is a big win against global organised crime.
Max Daly
1.25.24
News
Cheap and They Don't Snitch: Drones Are the New Drug Mules
Drones are on the rise in the drug world with smugglers using them to shift product across borders, into prisons - and soon to a street near you.
Max Daly
1.5.24
News
You Thought Weed Was Legal in The Netherlands? It is Now
A four year government experiment to sell and make legal weed in parts of the Netherlands is a “fall of the Berlin Wall moment” for Europe’s cannabis industry.
Max Daly
12.21.23
News
Will Europe Escape America’s Opioid Death Crisis?
A worrying spike in synthetic opioid deaths is hitting Europe. But so far the continent has escaped a US-style death epidemic. Why is this and can it last?
Max Daly
12.12.23
Drugs
Here's What You Need to Know About the Panama Papers Of The Drug World
A colossal hack of emails from the Colombian prosecutor's office has resulted in a treasure trove of revelations about modern day organised crime and cocaine trafficking.
Max Daly
11.9.23
News
Why 'Following the Money' Isn't Enough to Stop Organised Crime Anymore
Drug traffickers are increasingly using specialist underground networks to hide their money, meaning police have to find other ways to catch gangsters.
Max Daly
11.6.23
Crime
The ‘Last Godfather’ of the Sicilian Mafia Has Died
Violent mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was one of Italy's most notorious fugitives before being captured earlier this year.
Max Daly
9.25.23
Crime
London Cop Who Shot Dead Unarmed Black Man Charged With Murder
Prosecutors have charged a Metropolitan Police officer with murder after he shot rapper Chris Kaba in London last year.
Max Daly
9.20.23
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