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In this July 23, 2018, photo, nurse Brian Toia holds tabs of buprenorphine, a drug which controls heroin and opioid cravings, as he prepares to administer the drug, known also by the brand name Suboxone, to selected inmates at the Franklin County Jail in Greenfield, Mass. American correctional institutions are slowly loosening resistance to giving inmates medication for their opioid addiction.
Last month, Lopez Obrador said he would cancel the planned purchase of eight military helicopters from the US as part of cost-cutting measures Mexican president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will review security agreements with the United States, including the US$2.9 billion Merida Initiative, and wants to refocus aid to social and economic projects, a senior security aide said on Friday.
SAN JOSE: Law enforcement officials in Costa Rica said on Thursday they had recovered two tons of cocaine from a low-profile boat found about 80 nautical miles off the coast, one of the biggest drug confiscations made at sea. Costa Rican authorities said they began an operation in the Pacific Ocean after receiving a tip from the U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday that resulted in the discovery of about 2,000 packets of cocaine of about 1 kg each.
During the second meeting of a bipartisan legislative working group, lawmakers and marijuana advocates spent four hours Wednesday discussing the next steps for medical cannabis regulations, including the potential creation of an independent state agency that would have oversight and regulatory control of the marijuana industry. Committee members asked a wide array of questions of some of the state's most influential marijuana advocacy groups - Green the Vote, New Health Solutions and Oklahomans for Health - ranging from growing and cultivation to the apparent clash between federal and state laws.
State police in Kentucky are receiving fentanyl response kits to guard against the fatal overdose risks posed by potent synthetic opioids like fentanyl. The aid for first responders comes by way of a $25,000 grant awarded to the Kentucky State Police Foundation Monday by the Passport Health Plan.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended his top deputy Thursday after a handful of congressional Republicans moved this week to impeach him. A group of 11 House conservatives on Wednesday introduced articles of impeachment against Rosenstein, who oversees special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation because Sessions has recused himself.
A Laconia man was sentenced to 50 months in federal prison for methamphetamine trafficking, U.S. Attorney Scott Murray announced Friday. Peter Dauphin, 45, sold "ice" methamphetamine to an buyer cooperating with law enforcement officers on five separate occasions in April and May 2017, according to court documents and statements made in court.
U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, a Democrat from Niles, announced Friday his support for legalized recreational marijuana nationwide, becoming one of the few congressional members to openly endorse the idea. Once taboo, the idea of legalizing marijuana has become more accepted among politicians - especially within the Democratic Party.
Murphy said in a statement that the state is requesting applications for six new dispensaries, up from the six that now operate in the state. The program has grown under the Democratic governor, who has vowed to expand it.
The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to rule on a case that have a major impact on civil liberties and whether civil asset forfeiture can continue to serve as low hanging fruit for bureaucratic interests run amok. involves a man whose $42,000 Land Rover was confiscated via civil asset forfeiture.
Pot advocates celebrated the culmination of a yearslong effort to ease restrictions on the use of cannabis last month when nearly 60 percent of Oklahoma voters approved medical marijuana. Oklahoma's proponents had even included a two-month deadline for the implementation in their measure so as to avoid the years of delays they had seen elsewhere.
One of the hidden sources of division in the United States is the conceptual silo: the habits of thought, jurisprudence and reporting that segregates issues that feed on each other into separate debates, news reports and court cases. The segregation of debates and decisions about affirmative action, on the one hand, and mass incarceration, on the other, is exemplary in this regard and worth digging into, as I do below.
With their Obama repeal efforts failed and with customers howling over rising costs, House Republicans went back to the drawing board Wednesday looking to come up with new solutions to boost consumer choices and free businesses from the 2010 law's punishments. The Ways and Means Committee debated bills that would let Americans use Obamacare subsidies to buy cheaper plans outside the law's "exchange" markets, creating an escape hatch for health people who can't afford robust coverage that is getting more expensive.
He's more accustomed to life on Australia's most expensive residential street, Wolseley Road, Point Piper, where his neighbours include some of the wealthiest people in Australia. But one-time chemical company owner and executive Michael Snounou has traded views of Sydney Harbour and the bridge for prison greens at Lithgow's maximum security prison after being charged with five counts of importing and possessing chemicals linked to the manufacture of ice.
In his meeting with Bangladesh Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan, Singh will discuss ways to strengthen the anti-terror mechanism between the two countries and check radicalisation of youths by terrorist groups, a Home Ministry official said. NEW DELHI: Home Minister Rajnath Singh will pay a three-day visit to Bangladesh beginning July 13, during which he will hold discussions on various issues including anti-terror cooperation, attempts by terror groups to radicalise youths and Rohingya refugees, officials said on Tuesday.
The United States Coast Guard says crew members aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Thetis have offloaded 2,116 pounds of marijuana in Key West, Florida after returning home from an 88-day patrol in the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean. On Friday, the Coast Guard along with a Jamaica Defence Force crew intercepted a suspected drug smuggling vessel in the Caribbean Sea.
Republicans have long embraced the war on drugs. But recently many Republicans, including leaders like John Boehner, have shifted their stance on legalizing marijuana, thanks in part to veterans who say cannabis softens the symptoms of combat trauma.
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Federal authorities say a nationwide undercover investigation of the Darknet has resulted in the arrest of 35 illicit vendors, and the seizure of illegal narcotics, firearms, $3.6 million in cash and gold bars, plus 2,000 Bitcoins. "Criminals who think that they are safe on the Darknet are wrong," said Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.