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Two groups of complainants in the drug cases against Senator Leila de Lima before the Department of Justice formally opposed her motion to have the cases transferred to the Office of the Ombudsman. The Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption and the duo of former National Bureau of Investigation deputy directors Reynaldo Esmeralda and Ruel Lasala filed on Friday their five-page joint opposition with the panel handling the preliminary investigation of the four consolidated complaints.
Jay S. Tabb, Jr., the FBI's new Special Agent in Charge in Seattle, has the all qualities you'd expect from a high-ranking federal law enforcement guy: a strong foundation in leadership he credits to his military roots ; a bureau career that began in 1997 and saw him working in counterterrorism, critical incident response, violent crime and drug trafficking; honorary recognition for his tenure with the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team ; and a direct, no-nonsense attitude paired with the self-assured confidence of a man who believes very, very firmly that he knows what he's doing-and feels comfortable doing it.
Huberto Espindola-Soto, 37, was sentenced to 146 months, or 12 years and 2 months, and 5 years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine, 500 gram or more of methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking crime, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice. On Nov. 12, a DEA task force officers arrested Espindola-Soto.
The Food & Drug Administration has warned the manufacturer of melatonin-laced brownies called "Lazy Larry" that the government considers them unsafe and could seize them from store shelves, reported the Associated Press. The warning letter obtained by AP was sent to the company last week.
Republicans are trying to rope the country's governors into their Obamacare repeal effort, soliciting feedback from the state executives Monday as they plot their strategy for early next year. While they've said dismantling the Affordable Care Act is their top priority in the new year, congressional Republicans are still sketching out what comes next, and the governors, who have grappled with the effects of Obamacare and the uninsured up close, could provide a lifeline for the GOP.
Since penicillin was discovered 88 years ago, almost every bacteria is becoming resistant to the antibiotic designed to treat it. So-called superbugs are a growing threat: germs so strong, they're immune to most or all antibiotics known to man.
Sitting in his fifth floor corner office overlooking the slow moving Interstate traffic snaking through Jackson on a weekday afternoon, Chris Gillard is a long way from his childhood in Tupelo. As director of the Mississippi Highway Patrol, he oversees the state's most visible and, perhaps, most elite law enforcement agency.
Elected officials and veterans advocates said Tuesday that they were deeply disturbed by allegations that employees at the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital in Bedford may be involved in selling drugs to patients. On Sunday, The Sun reported that the Office of the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs was investigating an alleged drug-dealing ring at the hospital that includes employees and patients and may be linked to at least two overdose deaths in VA facilities.
Donald Trump's nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., as attorney general could have dire consequences for Washington state's marijuana industry, for the wishes of the public, and for common sense when it comes to federal drug policy. While Trump said during the campaign that, "In terms of marijuana and legalization, I think that should be a state issue, state-by-state," Sessions is an old-school hard-liner when it comes to drug policy.
Weed is winning in the polls, with a solid majority of Americans saying marijuana should be legal. But does that mean the federal government will let dozens of state pot experiments play out? Not by a long shot.
Weed is winning in the polls, with a solid majority of Americans saying marijuana should be legal. But does that mean the federal government will let dozens of state pot experiments play out? Not by a long shot.
Gov. Chris Christie said on a radio show this week that he's the only thing standing in the way of legalization of recreational marijuana in New Jersey. Well, maybe not.
The number of U.S. children in foster care is climbing after a sustained decline, but just five states account for nearly two-thirds of the recent increase. Reasons range from creation of a new child-abuse hotline to widespread outrage over the deaths of children who'd been repeatedly abused.
On the same day Donald Trump was elected president, four states legalized marijuana for recreational use, while four others legalized or expanded access to medical marijuana. As a result of those ballot initiatives, most states now recognize marijuana as a medicine, and one in five Americans lives in a state that has decided to tolerate cannabis consumption without a doctor's note.
Donald Trump's selection of Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., as his attorney general poses a threat to the booming marijuana industry. Sessions is a staunch opponent of marijuana, despite legalization of the drug for recreational use in seven states and legalization of the drug for medical use in 27 states.
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has long had an existing ban on gun sales to anyone who uses marijuana . The ban was upheld in a controversial 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in August; A medical marijuana patient in Nevada said the ban violated the Second Amendment, but the 9th Circuit unanimously agreed that pot and other drug use "raises the risk of irrational or unpredictable behavior with which gun use should not be associated."
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security quietly shut down Operation Phalanx, an aerial surveillance program that intercepts drugs and illegal crossings along the Mexican border. Cuellar, a member of the House Appropriations Committee and the Homeland Security Subcommittee, is drafting a letter to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson protesting the shutdown.
After winning big at the polls only 10 days ago, backers of marijuana legalization fear their movement took a major hit Friday when President-elect Donald Trump chose Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions , a staunch legalization opponent, as his attorney general. It is false that marijuana use doesn't lead people to more drug use.
In what may be his last significant act as President Barack Obama's surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy released a report Thursday calling for a major cultural shift in the way Americans view drug and alcohol addiction. The report, "Facing Addiction in America," details the toll addiction takes on the nation _ 78 people die each day from an opioid overdose; 20 million have a substance use disorder _ and explains how brain science offers hope for recovery.
An autopsy has revealed that the only son of longtime District of Columbia mayor Marion Barry died of an accidental drug overdose. A spokeswoman for the D.C. Medical Examiner, LaShon Beamon, said Thursday that Barry died of acute phencyclidine toxicity.