Chronicle Book Review: Narco Media
If you are into TV shows and movies like Scarface, Miami Vice, Breaking Bad, and Weeds, we have a book for you.
This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
A Miami cop had a habit of ripping off drug dealers, a Baltimore cop was trading pain pills and confidential information for cocaine, and more.
No more marijuana testing for Division I athletes, the NCAA has announced. (Pixabay)
House Rules Committee Blocks Marijuana Amendments in Spending Bills, UN World Drug Report 2024 Released, More... (6/26/24)
A limited therapeutic psilocybin bill has died in the California Assembly, the NCAA ends marijuana testing, and more.
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez as he was being extradited to the US. Now he will be here for a long while. (Honduras National Police)
Supreme Court Throws Out Oxycontin Settlement, Honduras Ex-President Sentenced as Cocaine Trafficker, More... (6/27/24)
A House subcommittee has moved to block marijuana rescheduling, a North Dakota marijuana legalization campaign faces an uphill battle in that reddest of red states, and more.
Someone tell Florida lawmakers it's only a movie.
New FL Law Protects Residents from Cocaine-Crazed Bears, CA Bars Must Now Offer Date Rape Drug Test Kits, More...(7/1/24)
A Mississippi medical marijuana dispensary operators lawsuit over a state advertising ban gets thrown out of federal court, and more.
Eradicating coca in Peru's Upper Huallaga River Valley (Peru Interior Ministry)
Federal Court Reject Pot Companies' Challenge to Prohibition, Peru Coca Eradication, More... (7/2/24)
California could see dueling initiatives seeking to increase fentanyl penalties, the Biden administration announces a new initiative on drug treatment for inmates, and more.
The Delaware state capitol. Lawmakers there have approved a bill to expedite adult-use marijuana sales and promote social equity applicants. (Creative Commons)
DE Bill to Let Dispensaries Begin Adult Use Pot Sales Goes to Governor, 19 Dead in Mexico Drug Gang Clash, More... (7/3/24)
One of the companies whose challenge to federal marijuana prohibition was thrown out this week vows to take it to the Supreme Court, and more.
Tianeptine AKA gas station heroin--now banned in North Carolina. (FDA)
Arkansas MedMJ Init Campaign Hands in Signatures, FL Poll Has Good Tidings for Legalization Init, More... (7/5/24)
North Carolina becomes the latest state to ban "gas station heroin," German conservatives vow to undo marijuana legalization if returned to power, and more.
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