Multimillion-Dollar Drug Ring Busted, DA Says
On Wednesday, Philadelphia District Attorney's Dangerous Drug Offenders Unit announced they broke up a multimillion-dollar drug ring that trafficked c...
On Wednesday, Philadelphia District Attorney's Dangerous Drug Offenders Unit announced they broke up a multimillion-dollar drug ring that trafficked c...
The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 05.29.2012
A British housewife faces the firing squad in Bali after she allegedly tried to smuggle $2.6 million worth of cocaine into Indonesia. Cops said Lin...
Mallory Yael Seegal | Posted 05.28.2012
Who was that girl we were with anyway, she was weird. I always say, you know how I always say that people with multicolor hair are trying to make statements with words they were too dumb to learn in school -- that girl.
Russ Belville | Posted 05.23.2012
The latest public opinion poll to ask Americans about legalizing marijuana like alcohol and tobacco shows 56% agree with the idea, according to Rasmussen Reports. The support for marijuana legalization rises if it is to be sold only in pharmacies.
The Huffington Post | Christine Friar | Posted 05.25.2012
In a recent episode of his podcast "Penn's Sunday School," comedian Penn Jillette laid his opinions on the Obama drug policies out on the table. J...
AP | Posted 05.17.2012
QUITO, Ecuador -- Ecuador's official news agency says police have found a cocaine-processing lab near where a small Mexican-registered plane crashed o...
Posted 05.16.2012
Earlier this month, officials inspecting a shipping container at the Red Hook Container Terminal discovered a staggering 24.6 pounds of cocaine, The N...
AP | Posted 05.14.2012
NOGALES, Ariz. -- Federal authorities say a Mexican man tried to smuggle more than 7 pounds of cocaine into Arizona by hiding it in his wheelchair's s...
AP | Posted 05.11.2012
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Federal authorities have arrested 28 people and charged them with participating in a cocaine-smuggling ring that brought millions o...
HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 05.10.2012
An Idaho mechanic made an unexpected discovery while working on an elderly woman's car last week when he found a pound of cocaine hidden under the hoo...
Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 05.09.2012
Author and legal scholar, Michelle Alexander, has written a powerful and highly acclaimed, well-researched book titled, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness."
Emma Gray | Posted 05.08.2012
Make-up sex is just like cocaine? So wrote clinical psychologist Seth Meyers (not of SNL) in a recent blog for Psychology Today titled "Make-Up Sex Hurts: Why and How to Avoid It."
Posted 05.07.2012
As if video games weren't addictive enough. Authorities in Texas arrested a man on Thursday after a routine traffic violation led to the discovery ...
Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 05.04.2012
Author and legal scholar, Michelle Alexander, has written a powerful and highly acclaimed, well-researched book titled, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness."
AP | Posted 04.27.2012
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Security forces seized 3.3 tons of cocaine during an anti-drug operation at one of Venezuela's main seaports Thursday, a top sec...
Reuters | Posted 04.26.2012
* Peruvian gourmets see native cocoa as having strong future * CCN-51 cocoa developed in Ecuador in 1960s ...
Although cocaine makes people feel more alert and on top of things in the moment, it can leave users vulnerable to a much slower brain in the long run...
The Huffington Post | Lee Hernandez | Posted 04.23.2012
Demi Lovato is in a really good place these days. The 19-year-old singer just released a new music video for her hit song, "Give Your Heart A Brea...
Posted 04.20.2012
If only it was icing. Jacksonville police say a 4-year-old boy tested positive for cocaine that he might have thought was white icing, according to...
R. Gil Kerlikowske | Posted 04.18.2012
Today we are releasing the 2012 National Drug Control Strategy -- the Obama Administration's primary policy blueprint for reducing drug use and its consequences in America. It is based on the premise that drug addiction is a chronic disease of the brain that can be prevented and treated.
HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 04.17.2012
WASHINGTON -- A couple of convicted crack cocaine dealers caught between old and new sentencing regimes had their cases argued before the Supreme Cour...
AP | FRANKLIN BRICENO | Posted 04.11.2012
LIMA, Peru — Shining Path rebels are seeking a $10 million ransom for 40 Peruvian construction workers abducted in a pre-dawn raid at the countr...
AP | JUAN CARLOS LLORCA | Posted 03.27.2012
EL PASO, Texas -- Two men with Army ties – including an active-duty sergeant – sought to work with a Mexican drug cartel in a murder-for-h...
AP | Posted 02.13.2012
MIAMI -- The U.S. government says plenty of evidence supports a federal jury's conviction of Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton on cocaine conspiracy an...
Posted 02.08.2012
An Aspen father who wrote an anonymous letter to police, concerned about a local drug dealer that he believed sold drugs to his 17-year-old daughter, ...
The Huffington Post | Simon McCormack | Posted 05.31.2012