Afghan Poppy Cultivation at ‘All-Time High’
Cultivation of the illegal poppy plant in Afghanistan has reached an “all time high” following a $7.6 billion counternarcotics campaign paid for by the United States, according to government oversight...
View ArticleMan Gets Arrested, Claims to be Denzel Washington
A man was arrested in Murfreesboro, Tenn., after claiming he was Denzel Washington. Police were responding to a noise complaint when they found five people, including the 21-year-old, in an apartment...
View ArticleD.C. at War
S Street Rising by Ruben Castaneda is at least five different books, all for the price of one. It is a score-settling D.C. memoir by a veteran Washington Post reporter; a well-reported account of a...
View ArticleAs Supreme Court Deliberates, Drug Take-Back Law Spreads in California
The number of local governments looking to mandate that drug manufacturers pay for environmentalist-crafted programs to collect and dispose of unused prescription drugs is growing even as the legality...
View ArticleDEA Agents Left College Student in Cell for Five Days, Receive Light Punishments
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents who left a 23-year-old UC San Diego student locked in a holding cell for five days without food or water received only light punishments, according to...
View ArticleIncreased Health Care Costs Topple Support for Drug Take-Back Programs
As the trend of mandatory drug take-back programs spreads across the country, new polling data shows that an overwhelming majority of American consumers say they have no interest in the programs due to...
View ArticleBrother of Placenta-Eating Alicia Silverstone Smoked In Bowe Bergdahl Pot Raid
The brother of actress Alicia Silverstone, infamous for consuming her own placenta after pregnancy, was snagged in the California marijuana raid in which alleged U.S. Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl was...
View ArticleClintons Paid At Least $1.6M For Speeches To Drug Companies
Despite Hillary Clinton’s promise to take on prescription drug companies, she and Bill Clinton have pocketed millions of dollars from paid speeches to pharmaceutical trade associations over the years....
View ArticleFederal Police Officer Caught Having Sex on Duty Was Promoted
A government police officer who pleaded guilty to attempting to make meth at a federal facility in Maryland was also having sex on the job, according to an ongoing investigation by a House committee....
View ArticleLeaked Audio: Clinton Talks Drug Abuse in Home of Convicted Coke Dealer
While appearing at a fundraiser hosted by a convicted drug dealer who was known as “the Pharmacist,” Hillary Clinton spoke on the urgency of addressing drug abuse problems in the United States and also...
View ArticleEuropean Regulators Investigating Clinical Trial of Drug Led By Obama FDA...
President Obama’s nominee to head the FDA helped “design and oversee” an approved drug whose clinical trial is now under investigation by European regulators. Robert Califf, the deputy commissioner of...
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Coast Guard Intercepts Record-Breaking Amount of Cocaine
The level of cocaine intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard in 2015 rose by more than 50 percent due to an extreme increase in total cocaine flow into the United States, according to a new Department of...
View ArticleStrickland Hits Portman on Efforts Against Drug Abuse Despite Own Record
The campaign for Ted Strickland, a Democrat looking to unseat Ohio Sen. Rob Portman (R.), called into question the senator’s commitment to drug abuse prevention efforts this week despite Strickland’s...
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Texas Democrat Caught Carrying Envelope of Cocaine
Texas Democratic state representative Alfonso "Poncho" Nevárez was caught on video surveillance dropping an envelope containing cocaine at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. The Texas Department...
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Cocaine-Carrying Texas Dem Turns Himself In
Texas Democratic state representative Alfonso "Poncho" Nevárez turned himself in Thursday after a video surveillance camera captured him dropping a cocaine-filled bag at the Austin-Bergstrom...
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Analysis Casts Doubt on Weed’s Ability to Fight Opioid Epidemic
Marijuana may not be an effective tool for those struggling with opioid addiction, according to a new analysis. While marijuana advocates have claimed that the drug can help fight the opioid epidemic,...
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Kamala Harris Blames Weed Arrests for Mass Incarceration
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris lamented the mass incarceration of those convicted of marijuana-related offenses Thursday. The former California attorney general did not acknowledge...
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GOP Senators: Treat Drug Cartels As Terror Groups
A group of Republican senators is pushing for the United States to treat drug cartels the way it does terrorist organizations following the massacre of nine American women and children in Mexico. The...
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DOJ Busts Four in International Cocaine Smuggling Ring
The Department of Justice on Tuesday announced the indictment of four men it claims have been smuggling cocaine into the United States for almost 15 years. Amado Beltran Beltran, Otto Rene Salguero...
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America Is in a Polydrug Crisis, New CDC Data Confirm
The United States is facing a drug overdose epidemic driven by methamphetamine, cocaine, and synthetic opioids, data released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control confirm. The new statistics,...
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