U.S. Senator Joni Ernst , along with the full Iowa delegation, received notice from the U.S. Air National Guard that the RC-26 aircraft will remain based in Iowa at this time. The RC-26 aircraft is designed to counter drug trafficking and assist in counterterrorism efforts, and plays an important role in the Iowa Counterdrug Task Force.
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‘Like a block of cheese with holes in it’ – How Mexican cartels…
‘Like a block of cheese with holes in it’ – How Mexican cartels will subvert and avoid Trump’s border wall An agent from the San Diego Tunnel Task Force lowers himself into the passageway of a tunnel found under the US-Mexico border in San Diego, November 26, 2010. “We will build a great wall along the southern border,” President Donald Trump said this summer, months prior to his election.
DOD to increase drug testing for military recruits
The Department of Defense will increase its drug testing for new recruits, checking them for the same 26 drugs that are prohibited for active military members. As of April 3, new recruits will be tested for substances such as heroin, codeine, morphine, hydrocodone, oxycodone, hydromorphone and oxymorphone along with synthetic cannabinoids and benzodiazepine sedatives.
Denver FBI honors youth program partly funded by pot taxes
The Denver FBI honored a youth dropout prevention group Thursday, apparently without realizing it is partially funded with taxes from the marijuana industry. The U.S. Justice Department, the FBI’s parent agency, considers the marijuana industry operating in Colorado and other states illegal, and new U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has indicated he wants stronger enforcement of federal law.
Marijuana crackdown is so yesterday
We’re disappointed that White House press secretary Sean Spicer recently said “greater enforcement” of federal drug laws, including prohibition of marijuana, is coming. “There’s a federal law that we need to abide by when it comes to recreational marijuana and other drugs of that nature,” he said.
Valley congressman leads the charge for more funding to fight drug abuse
Congressman Tim Ryan is leading a bipartisan coalition of 23 members of Congress calling on President Donald Trump to include full funding of $9.3 billion to fight the opioid and prescription drug epidemic in the United States. “This epidemic is costing our nation $700 billion nationally in health, crime and lost productivity costs, but that is nothing compared to the toll it is taking on our families and friends.
Sessions’ path to remake Justice Department may be clearer – Sat, 04 Mar 2017 PST
Attorney General Jeff Sessions pauses during a news conference Thursday at the Justice Department in Washington where he said he will recuse himself from a federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 White House election. The political cloud over Sessions’ decision to step back from any investigation touching the Trump campaign may have a silver lining for a law enforcement officer who appears preoccupied by issues such as violent crime.
Indictment sends ripple of doubt through Baltimore cases
These undated photos provided by the Baltimore Police Department show, from left, Daniel Hersl, Evodio Hendrix, Jemell Rayam, Marcus Taylor, Maurice Ward, Momodu Gando and Wayne Jenkins, the seven police officers who are facing charges of robbery, extortion and overtime fraud, and are accused of stealing money and drugs from victims, some of whom had not committed crimes.
Police: Indicted Baltimore officers ‘1930s-style gangsters’
These undated photos provided by the Baltimore Police Department show, from left, Daniel Hersl, Evodio Hendrix, Jemell Rayam, Marcus Taylor, Maurice Ward, Momodu Gando and Wayne Jenkins, the seven police officers who are facing charges of robbery, extortion and overtime fraud, and are accused of stealing money and drugs from victims, some of whom had not committed crimes.
Sessions says marijuana should not be sold a at every corner grocery storea
Sen. Jeff Sessions was sworn in as attorney general on Thursday morning. “He’s devoted his life to the cause of justice and believes deeply that all people are equals in the eyes of the law,” President Trump said about Sessions.
The Latest: Trump suggests leaving many fed jobs unfilled
A presidential address to Congress is always part policy speech, part political thea… With his first address to Congress, President Donald Trump gets an opportunity to refocus his young administration on the economic issues that helped him get elected. With his first address to Congress, President Donald Trump gets an opportunity to refocus his young administration on the economic issues that helped him get elected.
South Korean prosecutors indict Samsung’s de facto chief
With his first address to Congress, President Donald Trump gets an opportunity to refocus his young administration on the economic issues that helped him get elected. With his first address to Congress, President Donald Trump gets an opportunity to refocus his young administration on the economic issues that helped him get elected.
Lawmakers: Tax exemptions to be examined in upcoming session
Lawmakers who closed a $304 million mid-year budget deficit are already looking ahead to April, when the Legislature will look for revenue sources to help remedy the state’s consistently dire financial picture. After pulling $99 million from the state’s rainy day fund and filling the remaining gap with cuts, including $40 million cut primarily from healthcare administration, the looming task is now to prevent these budget deficits from reoccurring.
Sessions Tough Talk, Policies Could Increase Prison Totals
The federal prison population is on the decline, but a new attorney general who talks tough on drugs and crime and already has indicated a looming need for private prison cells seems poised to usher in a reversal of that trend. Jeff Sessions, a former federal prosecutor sworn in this month as the country’s chief law enforcement officer, signaled at his confirmation hearing – and during private meetings in his first days on the job – that he sees a central role for the federal government in combating drug addiction and violence as well as in strict enforcement of immigration laws.
Sessions’ tough on crime talk could lead to fuller prisons
The federal prison population is on the decline, but a new attorney general who talks tough on drugs and crime and already has indicated a looming need for private prison cells seems poised to usher in a reversal of that trend. Jeff Sessions, a former federal prosecutor sworn in this month as the country’s chief law enforcement officer, signaled at his confirmation hearing – and during private meetings in his first days on the job – that he sees a central role for the federal government in combating drug addiction and violence as well as in strict enforcement of immigration laws.
Sheriff Gives SHOCKING Report On Illegal Alien PREDATOR Arrests! [VIDEO]
Liberals have willfully blinded themselves and have attempted to do the same to others when it comes to the detrimental effects of illegal immigration. All in the name of being more “politically correct” than their conservative counterparts.
White House says it will step up enforcement of marijuana laws
Oregon lawmakers have repudiated a White House statement suggesting the U.S. Justice Department will enforce the federal prohibition on recreational marijuana in states that have legalized it. When Oregonians legalized recreational pot in 2014, they knew there was a risk of a federal crackdown with future presidential administrations, said Senate Majority Leader Ginny Burdick, D-Portland.
The Latest: Water levels at lake keep falling despite rain
A huge Pacific storm parked itself over Southern California and unloaded, ravaging roads and opening sinkhole… . A woman with her dog stops to look at a fallen tree that crushed a car Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017, in Sherman Oaks section of Los Angeles.
Iraqi forces launch push to retake western Mosul from IS
Authorities say they’ve found the body of a man who was swept down a rain-swollen gully during Southern California’s powerful storm. Authorities say they’ve found the body of a man who was swept down a rain-swollen gully during Southern California’s powerful storm.
Blind cleric behind 1990s terror plots dies in US prison
Kenneth McKoy of the Federal Correction Complex in Butner, N.C., said Abdel-Rahman died Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017, after a long battle with… A huge Pacific storm parked itself over Southern California and unloaded, ravaging roads, opening sinkholes and leading to the deaths of at least two people. A huge Pacific storm parked itself over Southern California and unloaded, ravaging roads, opening sinkholes and leading to the deaths of at least two people.
Man dies after breaching security at Honolulu airport
A huge Pacific storm parked itself over Southern California and unloaded, ravaging roads, opening sinkholes and leading to the deaths of at least two people. A huge Pacific storm parked itself over Southern California and unloaded, ravaging roads, opening sinkholes and leading to the deaths of at least two people.
Montana officials alarmed as they fight surge in meth use
A huge Pacific storm parked itself over Southern California and unloaded, ravaging roads, opening sinkholes and leading to the deaths of at least two people. Omar Abdel-Rahman, the “Blind Sheik” convicted of plotting terror attacks in the United States in the 1990s, has died.
Alaska’s Don Young is a founding member of the bipartisan U.S. House Cannabis Caucus
Alaska’s sole congressman, Don Young, on Thursday co-launched the House Cannabis Caucus with three other lawmakers, vowing to pursue changes to banking and other federal laws that stand between states and autonomy over the marijuana industry. Young joined with Reps.
Venezuela: US sanctions VP El Aissami over drug ties
Executive Vice President Tareck El Aissami and Venezuelan financier Samark Lopez were placed on the Office of Foreign Assets Control blacklist, the Treasury Department said in a statement Monday. The list freezes their assets in the U.S. and blocks U.S. companies and individuals from doing business with them.
Lawmakers advance bills on short-term rentals, partial prescriptions and more
Bills limiting regulation of short-term rentals, allowing doctors and patients to request partial drug prescriptions, and protecting people who administer opiate overdose reversal drugs advanced at the Utah Legislature on Monday. Here’s a roundup of some of Monday’s action on Capitol Hill.
Venezuelan Vice President Targeted for U.S. Sanctions
Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela’s president, right, waves to attendees while accompanied by Tareck El Aissami, Venezuela’s vice president, before the start of his annual address at the Supreme Court in Caracas on Jan. 15, 2017. The Trump administration is preparing sanctions against Venezuelan Vice President Tareck El Aissami, who’s been under investigation for years by U.S. authorities for alleged participation in drug trafficking and money laundering, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Bipartisan US lawmakers urge Trump to sanction Venezuela
In this Nov. 14, 2016 file photo, a billboard along the highway near Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, features an ant drawing and the Spanish slogan, “Freedom from bachaqueros.” Venezuelans call people who make a living illegally reselling food “bachaqueros,” after the leaf-cutter ants that haul food through the jungles.
Judge Penny Wolfgang on Hardline
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What you need to know about weed in Maine Posted at
It’s been almost a week since personal possession and consumption of marijuana has been legal in Maine, following the citizen ballot initiative approved last fall. The new state law, which took effect Jan. 30, allows not only the possession and consumption of marijuana for adults, it will allow, in time, purchase and consumption of marijuana at regulated locations.  Maine joins seven other states and the District of Columbia that allow recreational use of marijuana.
Aguirre suspends NBI from enforcing anti-illegal drug ops
Taking cue from recent pronouncements of President Rodrigo R. Duterte, Department of Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II suspended the National Bureau of Investigation from conducting anti-illegal drug operations and investigation. “The DOJ and the NBI will now focus [their] energy and resources in waging war against corruption and in waging war against criminality,” he said in a statement.
BUFFINGTON: Medical cannabis debate returns
The medical marijuana debate will be back again this year in the Georgia Legislature, but the efforts remain a long shot. Rep. Allen Peake has introduced legislation calling for a state constitutional amendment that would allow medical marijuana to be cultivated in the state for medical use.
Gov’t wants speedy probe on Jee kidnap-slay
The government wants a swift investigation on the abduction and murder of South Korean businessman Jee Ick-Joo, especially since the world is awaiting results of the same, a Palace official said on Sunday. Presidential Communications Assistant Secretary Ana Marie Banaag said the government is expecting concerned authorities to come up with the probe results on the abduction and murder of Jee soon to hold accountable those involved in the crime.
Trump has two paths he can take on marijuana legalization – …
After his inauguration on January 20, Trump signed an executive order that directs federal agencies to start rolling back the Affordable Care Act, revived two controversial oil pipelines, staged a war on the media, and played a game of chicken with the president of Mexico. But we still don’t know much about Trump’s plans for marijuana legalization.
Hemp and Pot Restrictions Not Dying Fast Enough
I finally escaped Washington, D.C., last month, arriving by car with my girlfriend as new residents of Seattle early this month. I’ve welcomed most of the changes I’ve seen here-apart from the Lenin Statue near our apartment.
a Fedsa That Trump Wants to Send to Chicago Are Already There
A tweet by President Trump Tuesday night signaled curbing violence in Chicago is near the top of his to-do list: “If Chicago doesn’t fix the horrible ‘carnage’ going on I will send in the Feds!” But when pressed by ABC News’ David Muir on what that means in an exclusive interview, Trump offered no specifics. “I want them to fix the problem.
Executive Order: Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Immigration and Nationality Act , the Secure Fence Act of 2006 , and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 , and in order to ensure the safety and territorial integrity of the United States as well as to ensure that the Nation’s immigration laws are faithfully executed, I hereby order as follows: Section 1. Purpose. Border security is critically important to the national security of the United States.
Trump says US getting back control over border
The Latest on President Donald Trump : 3:10 p.m. President Donald Trump says in a speech at the Department of Homeland Security that his executive actions on immigration show that “beginning today,” the U.S. will get back “control of its border.” Trump says his administration will be working in partnership in Mexico to improve safety and economic opportunity for both countries and will have “close coordination” with Mexico to address drug smuggling.
Drug Dealer Goes Free: DEA Illegally Tracked Cell Phone
Agents with Drug Enforcement Administration illegally located Raymond Lambis’ cellphone, then arrested him for drug possession. Thanks to a resounding victory handed down in court by New York Federal Judge William H. Pauley who delivered a scathing ruling that the Fourth Amendment against ‘unreasonable search and seizure’ had been violated by agents in Lambis’ cocaine case.
City Drug Dealer Gets Clemency – Obama Cuts 34-Year Sentence Nearly In Half For McClung, 50
Nearly two decades ago, Harrisonburg resident Jeffrey McClung, who sold drugs for roughly 15 years, begged for leniency in U.S. District Court. Judge James H. Michael Jr. ignored the 32-year-old’s request and sentenced him to 34 years and two months in prison.
President Obama commutes 330 drug sentences
In a last major act as president, Barack Obama cut short the sentences of 330 federal inmates convicted of drug crimes on Thursday, bringing his bid to correct what he’s called a systematic injustice to a climactic close. With his final offer of clemency, Obama brought his total number of commutations granted to 1,715, more than any other president in U.S. history, the White House said.