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The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that on Friday, April 7, 2017, Justin R. Brennan, 37, of Queensbury, New York, was sentenced in the United States District Court in Burlington following his guilty plea to Conspiracy to Distribute Five Grams or More of Methamphetamine. Chief U.S. District Court Judge Christina Reiss sentenced Brennan to 33 months in prison followed by three years of post-release supervision.
US military forces patrolling the country's southern approaches are under-resourced and overwhelmed by the flow of drugs and contraband coming north, military and Coast Guard leaders said in recent weeks. Both US Southern Command, which oversees military operations beyond Mexico's southern border, and the US Coast Guard, have been strained by the scope of their duties and limitations on their budgets.
Extreme partisanship is rampant on Capitol Hill, but a glimmer of hope for cooperation is emerging from a dark place - the prescription painkiller and heroin crisis that's ravaging the country. It's an issue where all sides have said they want to act, though getting agreement hasn't always been smooth.
Real-world research in more than a dozen states in recent years is giving farmers new understanding of how to grow industrial hemp and showing that it has promise to be a viable commercial crop in the U.S. The 2014 federal farm bill allowed for university and state-sponsored research programs of the plant whose fiber can be used in products from paper to clothing and whose oil can be an ingredient in food and health products. Programs have now been launched in 15 states, with two more states coming online, according to the hemp advocacy nonprofit Vote Hemp.
Bipartisan legislation proposed in the House on Thursday would make marijuana a Schedule 3 drug, removing cannabis from its current standing as a Schedule 1 substance alongside deadly contraband including ecstasy and heroin. By reclassifying weed in the same category as anabolic steroids, Congress would "make it easier for ill-patients and scientific and medical researchers to obtain marijuana," the bill's authors said in a statement Thursday.
Colorado is considering an unusual strategy to protect its nascent marijuana industry from a potential federal crackdown, even at the expense of hundreds of millions of dollars in tax collections. A bill pending in the Legislature would allow pot growers and retailers to reclassify their recreational pot as medical pot if a change in federal law or enforcement occurs.
Colorado is considering an unusual strategy to protect its nascent marijuana industry from a potential federal crackdown, even at the expense of hundreds of millions of dollars in tax collections. A bill pending in the Legislature would allow pot growers and retailers to reclassify their recreational pot as medical pot if a change in federal law or enforcement occurs.
Colorado is considering an unusual strategy to protect its nascent marijuana industry from a potential federal crackdown, even at the expense of hundreds of millions of dollars in tax collections. A bill pending in the Legislature would allow pot growers and retailers to reclassify their recreational pot as medical pot if a change in federal law or enforcement occurs.
A coalition of companies related to the legal cannabis industry have announced the formation of the New Federalism Fund , an effort dedicated to working with Congress and the administration to protect current state-based regulatory systems for the legal cannabis industry. Priorities of the group include maintaining the freedom to operate in states that have legalized the regulation and sale of cannabis, limiting the use of enforcement resources in these states and changing federal tax law so that all businesses are treated equally.
The House Republican plan may get rid of required health benefits for hospital care, cancer screening and more. But won't people still get sick, seek treatment they can't afford" Then who pays? How the GOP health bill could affect health benefits, including addiction The House Republican plan may get rid of required health benefits for hospital care, cancer screening and more.
In case you missed it: A story published March 4, in The Daily News written by Sarah Hauck headlined, "Task force prepares for Afghanistan deployment," reported on a live-fire training exercise she and I attended March 3 aboard Camp Lejeune.
The Florida Legislature opened its 2017 session Tuesday, and before they wrap up this year, lawmakers must cement the will of 71 percent of the voters who last November wanted medical marijuana written into the state Constitution in the belief that it would help some of their sickest neighbors.
"The rate at which drugs are being seized around the state should concern every Minnesotan." -- Mona Dohman, Department of Public Safety commissioner That comment on a report issued this week by the Department of Public Safety and its Violent Crimes Enforcement Teams makes clear the magnitude of the challenge all Minnesotans face in dealing with illegal drug use, especially methamphetamine and opioid prescription drugs.
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The Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act authorized $178 million for heroin and opioid abuse efforts, including expanded access to naloxone, an overdose antidote, promotion of alternatives to incarceration and state assistance for the development and maintenance of prescription drug databases. Although the bipartisan bill garnered 92 Senate votes, Republicans blocked funding, saying they would look at boosting drug treatment and prevention programs separately in future spending bills.
In November 2016, President-elect Donald Trump said this to CBS' "60 Minutes": "What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, where a lot of these people, probably 2 million, it could be even 3 million, we are getting them out of our country, or we are going to incarcerate." Everyone, especially liberals and feminists, should be grateful he's acting on that promise.
Struggling schools, opioid addiction and the state's medical marijuana program appear likely to dominate the rest of Georgia's legislative session. The Senate last week passed SB 81, the Jeffery Dallas Gay, Jr. Act, which would allow pharmacists to dispense Naloxone, an opioid antagonist, to individuals in accordance with a statewide standing order.
Capitol Hill's top moneyman is taking his budget savvy to K Street after more than two decades years on the job. Will Smith, who has led the House Appropriations Committee's Republican staff for the last three years of his congressional career, will be joining Cornerstone Government Affairs, a lobbying firm that handles a slew of appropriations work.
Struggling schools, opioid addiction and the state's medical marijuana program appear likely to dominate the rest of Georgia's legislative session. Lawmakers spent January and February consider bills introduced in their own chamber.
Deanna Perkins of Clackamas wears a pair of sunglasses to show her support at Portland's 17th annual Global Cannabis March, May 7, 2016 in downtown Portland. Pot insiders say they're hopeful, in part because the administration has signaled its support of states' rights and in part because state-authorized medical marijuana programs have legal protection.