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Heroin Handout Funded By New York City, Called How-To For Heroin Users

AP | Posted 01.04.2010 | New York

Read More: Take Charge Take Care, Inject Heroin, Heroin Handout, Drugs, Heroin, Dea, NYC Heroin, New York City, New York News

NEW YORK — A New York City-funded guidebook for heroin users offers information on how to prepare drugs carefully and care for veins to avoid in...

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'Reefer Mad' Mainstream Media Does It Again

Paul Armentano | Posted 12.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cannabis, Depression, Brain, Marijuana, Health, Teens, Dea, Adolescents, Brain Damage, Thc, Drugs, War on Drugs, Pot, Anxiety, Serotonin, Politics News

For anyone who missed the worldwide corporate media's hysterical anti-pot headlines last week, here's a sampling.

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DEA Grinches Spoil Bonanno Family Christmas Party

Jerry Capeci | Posted 12.28.2009 | New York

Read More: Johnny Green, A Bronx Tale, Bonanno Crime Family, The Sopranos, Dea, Banner Social Club, John Faraci, John Buretta, Vincent Badalamenti, Vinny TV, Sam Nastasa, Fbi, New York Mafia, New York Mob, New York News

Just as the holiday crowd at the Banner Social Club in Brooklyn -- it included three Bonanno wiseguys -- began to unwind, shotgun-toting party poopers with search warrants arrived.

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Updating Incorporation Transparency Laws

Raymond Baker | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Project Coronado, Chicago Parking Meter LLC, Limited Liability Corporation, Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Act, Incorporation Laws, La Familia, Senate Bill 569, Drug Enforcement Agency, Drug Cartel, S. 569, War on Drugs, Dea, Politics News

It is time to update our anachronistic and unsafe laws of incorporation and strike back at criminals that for too long have been able to use our financial system for their game to our own detriment.

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Tobacco-Related Health Costs: $800; Booze-Related Health Costs: $165; Pot-Related Health Costs: $20 -- Any Questions?

Paul Armentano | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cannabis, Law Enforcement, Medical Cannabis, Smoking, Marijuana, Dea, Alcohol, Thc, Obama, Tobacco, Legalization, Prohibition, Politics News

A new study has directly compared the societal costs of marijuana and alcohol, as well as tobacco, and the final tally isn't pretty.

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Colorado Marijuana Busts: Taxpayer Dollars Wasted When Cops Bust Legal Growers

Glenwood Springs Post Independent | Robert Allen | Posted 10.26.2009 | Denver

Read More: Medical Marijuana, Dea, Summit County, Summit County Drug Task Force, Colorado, Colorado Department of Health, Department of Justice, Breckenridge, Eric Holder, Denver News

SUMMIT COUNTY, Colorado -- Sheriff's deputies recently searched a Summit County home where nearly 200 marijuana plants are under cultivation, but the ...

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Miguel Angel Caro Quintero, Mexican Drug Lord, Pleads Guilty To Smuggling Tons Of Drugs To Colorado

AP | IVAN MORENO | Posted 10.23.2009 | Denver

DENVER — A Mexican drug kingpin who led a fearsome cartel for more than a decade pleaded guilty Friday to U.S. drug and racketeering charges. M...

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DEA 'Cartel' Claims Lack Facts, Again

Erin Rosa | Posted 10.21.2009 | Denver

Read More: Drug War, Marijuana, Dea, Cannabis, Obama Medical Marijuana, Medical Marijuana, Pot, Drug Legalization, Eric-Holder-Marijuana, Weed, Denver News

DEA agents in Denver have a sordid history when it comes to backing up their claims, and their most recent allegation that medical marijuana dispensaries are being supplied by 'cartels' is no different.

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Medical Marijuana: Increased Applicants In Colorado Lead Law Enforcement To Questions Pot Sources

The Denver Post | Mike McPhee and Victoria Barbatelli | Posted 10.21.2009 | Denver

Read More: Marijuana, Weed Dispensaries, Drug Cartels, Colorado Marijuana, Medical Marijuana, Dea, Denver News

Demand for medical marijuana in Colorado has grown so fast in the past few months that it has outstripped the production of legal "grow" operations an...

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Holder's Baby Step On Medical Marijuana

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: 2835, Necessity, Medical Necessity, President Obama, Glaucoma, Marijuana, Barney Frank, Dea, Doj, Raid, Oakland Cannabis Buyers Cooperative, Medical, Medical Marijuana, Obama, War on Drugs, Injustice, Drug, Eric Holder, California, Drug Enforcement Agency, Gonzales v Raich, Federal Prosecutor, Schedule I, Schedule, Ed Rosenthal, Marinol, Schedule II, Medical Use, US v Rosenthal, Drug War, Department of Justice, Justice, Federal Attorney, Oakland, Gag Rule, Federal, Attorney General, Necessity Defense, US v OCBC, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Holder, Controlled Substances Act, Ag, Cannabis, Chris Weigant, Ashcroft v Raich, hr2835, Drug Policy, Medical Necessity Defense, Raich, Ocbc, Rosenthal, Politics News

Obama's plan is good news for medical marijuana advocates, but although this is a historic shift in the War on Drugs, it does not go far enough because it does not resolve the illogic of the underlying legal issue.

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Hemp Protest at DEA Leads to Arrests

Anna Brones | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Hemp Industries Association, Hemp, Dea, Drug Enforcement Administration, Green News

In the eyes of farmers and members of the hemp industry, legalizing industrial hemp production is not only a question of economics, but national interest.

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DEA And NYPD Storm Wrong Apartment In Washington Heights

New York Daily News | Rocco Parascandola and Alison Gendar | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

Read More: Jessica Suriel, Drug Enforcement Agency, Carlos Ruiz, Dea, Nypd, Washington Heights, New York Crime, Calixta Guerrero, Gabriel Gorenstein, Barry Weinstein, New York News

They came hellbent on finding drugs and a gang boss - but it was the wrong apartment, a shaken Washington Heights family said on Thursday. Authoritie...

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Marijuana Use By The Numbers

Paul Armentano | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

By age 25, 54 percent of the population has admittedly used marijuana. Does anyone still believe that marijuana prohibition is working -- or that all of these people deserve to be behind bars?

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Task Force Raids LA Marijuana Dispensaries, Shoots Dog (HuffPost Exclusive: Search Warrant)

Anthony Citrano | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Raids, California, Marijuana, Medical Marijuana, Obama Drug Policy, Dea, Los Angeles, Eric Holder, Exclusive, Drug Policy, Politics News

There hasn't been a more confusing legal environment regarding marijuana than there is now in California, as recent multi-agency raids on two L.A. medical marijuana dispensaries demonstrate.

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Drug Wars: Brazil's Amazon The New Rio Grande

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 09.08.2009 | World

Read More: Bill Clinton, Council on Foreign Relations, Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Latin America, Lula, Farc, Mexico, Dea, Obama, Brazil, Plan Colombia, Kgb, France Iran, Hip Hop, Colombia, Michele Bachelet, Alvaro Uribe, Vladimir Putin, Hillary Clinton, Drug War, Celso Amorim, Cuba, Amazon, Sivam, World News

The last thing president Lula and Brazilian democracy need is the United States on its northern border using the drug war to interfere in internal politics like it has done in the past with Mexico.

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DEA Raids Michael Jackson's Doctor's Clinic

AP | JUAN A. LOZANO and JUSTIN PRITCHARD | Posted 08.22.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Dr. Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson Doctor, Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson Drugs, Dea, Entertainment News

HOUSTON — The Michael Jackson investigation took a stunning turn Wednesday as authorities raided the offices of the doctor who was with the pop ...

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Honduras... The Big Backstory

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 08.20.2009 | World

Read More: Iran-Contra, Otto Reich, Chicago, Havana, Arias, Obama, Ros-Lehtinen, South America, Ortega, China, Organization of American States, Iran, Oas, Zelaya, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Harry Potter, Panama Canal, Nicaragua, Bill Clinton, Hugo Chavez, Mara Salvatrucha, Latin America, Kremlin, Venezuela, Hugo Llorens, Israel, Hillary Clinton, Gangs, Hutchinson Whampoa, Cuba, Soto Cano, War on Drugs, Palmerola, Sandinista, Dea, Mossad, World News

The White House denounced the action in Honduras as "illegal." But that call requires Washington to cut off all but humanitarian aid and could jeopardize the big Soto Cano base outside Tegucigalpa.

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A Ban on Painkillers Helps No One

Joshua Lyon | Posted 08.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Percocet, Prescription Painkillers, Dea, Prescription Drugs, Banning, Painkillers, Prescription Pills, Vicodin, Pills, Prescription Medication, Fda, Health, Living News

We can't combat painkillers like any other drug epidemic by trying to eliminate the source. The medications must remain available to people who are living with debilitating diseases.

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AP source: DEA joins Jackson death investigation

AP | MICHELE SALCEDO | Posted 08.01.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackon, Michael Jackson Autopsy, Dea, Michael Jackson Dead, Michael Jackson Dies, Michael Jackson Death, Entertainment News

WASHINGTON — The Drug Enforcement Administration is joining the investigation into Michael Jackson's death, a law enforcement official said late...

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Barney Frank Introduces Marijuana Legislation

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dangerous Controlled Substance, White House, President Obama, Marijuana, Ron Paul, Barney Frank, Dea, Medical Marijuana, Obama, Drug, President, Drug Enforcement Agency, John Stuart Mill, Schedule I, Schedule, Schedule II, Medical Use, Bill Maher, Committee, House, Frank, Democrat, Henry Waxman, Paul, Democrats, Barack Obama, Marijuana Patient Protection Act, Dana Rohrabacher, Chris Weigant, Controlled Substance Act, Drug Policy, Personal Use, Rohrabacher, Politics News

How many Democrats do we need to elect to Congress before such commonsense laws are passed to rein in some of the excesses of past eras?

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DEA Forcing Agents To Illegally Work In Afghanistan, Claim Pilots

McClatchy | Marisa Taylor | Posted 07.23.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Drug War, Dea Afghanistan, Drug Enforcement Administration, War Wire, Dea Forcing Agents to Work, Dea, Drug Enforcement Administration Afghanistan, World News

WASHINGTON -- As the Obama administration ramps up the Drug Enforcement Administration's presence in Afghanistan, some special-agent pilots contend th...

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DEA Agents: Administration Forcing Us To Afghanistan

McClatchy | Marisa Taylor | Posted 07.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dea Agents Afghanistan, Dea Agents Forced to Afghanistan, Dea Afghanistan, Drug Enforcement Administration, Dea, Dea Agents Sent to Afghanistan, Drug Enforcement Administration Afghanistan, Politics News

As the Obama administration ramps up the Drug Enforcement Administration's presence in Afghanistan, some special-agent pilots contend that they're bei...

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25 Years In Prison For Pot? Congressman's Proposal Is Just Plain Dumb

Paul Armentano | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cannabis, Mark Kirk, Marijuana, Barney Frank, Dea, Medical Marijuana, Thc, Obama, Pot, War on Drugs, HR 2835, Legalization, The Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act of 2009, Weed, Potency, Health, Politics News

Facts play virtually no role in political drug policy debate, and ignorance hardly disqualifies someone from holding elected office.

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