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As the new head of the Justice Department, Attorney General Jeff Sessions will have sweeping power over how the federal government approaches marijuana under President Donald Trump's administration. The federal government classifies marijuana, which is illegal nationally, as a schedule I drug , meaning that it considers the plant to have no acceptable medical use and a high potential for abuse.
A bipartisan group of 34 U.S. lawmakers has sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to step up pressure on Venezuela's government by immediately sanctioning officials responsible for corruption and human rights abuses, The Associated Press has learned. The letter was partly prompted by an AP investigation, which it cites, that found corruption in Venezuela's food imports.
One year after taking a fiery tone with House and Senate Republicans, Governor Tom Wolf's annual state budget address on Tuesday was much more conciliatory. Wolf's 2017-18 budget proposal is a $32.3 billion spending plan, which is a $575 million increase over last year, when the governor criticized Republican lawmakers for walking away from a budget agreement weeks earlier.
In Illinois, Lincoln's essential premise of "government of the people, by the people and for the people" has been corrupted into "government of the casinos, by the casinos, and for the casinos"-as exemplified by the new casino legislation in Senate Bill 7. In 2015, U.S. Congressional hearings highlighted that much of the Illinois bankruptcy was precipitated by $35 billion to $100 billion in giveaways since 1990 to gambling interests - diverting funds particularly away from essential education funding. For example, the original 10 Illinois casino licenses worth $5 billion were given away for only $25,000 each to political insiders, including one insider who thereafter went to prison.
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.
An Oakland woman working as a TSA agent has been sentenced to nearly two years in prison for helping smuggle approximately 24 pounds of marijuana through airport security and conspired to help drug smuggling through the Oakland International Airport, according to federal prosecutors. Authorities say Kiana Scott Clark, 29, a former Transportation Security Administration agent, worked with co-conspirators to allow them to smuggle illegal drugs in their carry-on luggage on at least two occasions.
Powdered heroin is pictured in this undated handout photo courtesy of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration. REUTERS/US DEA/Handout via Reuters Police busted a massive drug operation that distributed heroin cut with fentanyl on school property and caused the overdose death of a pregnant woman.
President Donald J. Trump has appointed West Carthage native Thomas D. Homan as acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Mr. Homan is moving up from executive associate director for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement division of Enforcement and Removal Operations.
Fisher served as executive director of the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics from 2005-2014, where he oversaw the state's largest methamphetamine bust and provided staff for Mississippi's first comprehensive intelligence center. Most recently, he served as state director for the Mississippi Gulf Coast High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area.
A manager and another employee of a local Burger King are facing drug charges after a police sting for allegedly using the drive-thru to serve a meal with a side of marijuana.
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.
President Donald Trump announced his long-awaited plan Wednesday to build a wall on the 1,954-mile U.S. border with Mexico, calling for its "immediate construction" to stop the flow of smuggling and drugs. One-third of the U.S.-Mexico border, or 653 miles, is already studded with fence in a potpourri of styles, from menacing barriers to those that can be easily hopped.
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The largest advocacy group representing medical professionals in Utah is launching a crusade against medical marijuana, arguing there is no evidence it has medicinal value. The Utah Medical Association is lobbying lawmakers in the state to reject any classification of marijuana as "medical" in future laws, claiming there is little scientific research backing up the label.
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Police say they received a call just before 1:30 p.m. Wednesday of a drug overdose at the Wesley Inn, 625 Wells St. Officers say they arrived to find 30 year old Erica Lenard and 23 year old Cody Lenard in the room with items commonly used in methamphetamine production. The weather may be warming up for now, but conditions are expected to get colder again.
Republican Gov. Chris Christie's warning to the Democrat-led Legislature not to move forward with legalizing marijuana is going mostly unheeded. Christie, a longtime opponent of legalizing the recreational use of the drug, cautioned lawmakers in an impassioned State of the State address aimed at battling the opioid epidemic.
When he takes his oath of office on January 20, Donald Trump will likely be the first president in 24 years to have never used any form of illegal drug. Trump has long claimed that he has never once smoked cigarettes, touched alcohol or used drugs, which would distinguish him from the last three men to occupy the White House, all of whom either admitted to drug use or refused to deny it.
In the wake of the partisan 2016 election, there is an urgent need for the parties to start solving problems together again. Helping children whose futures are threatened by the opioid crisis is exactly such an opportunity.
This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows death row inmate Christopher Wilkins. Wilkins is set for lethal injection Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017, as the nation's first execution this year.