Drug Enforcement Agency

DEA Embroiled In Prostitution Scandal

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Drug Enforcement Agency, Video, Colombia, Dea Cartagena, Secret Service, Dea Investigation, Cartagena, Dea Secret Service, Dea Prostitution, Dea Scandal, World News

WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department inspector general's office was investigating possible misconduct by two or more Drug Enforcement Administration a...

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Honduran Area Wants DEA To Leave After Deadly Operation

AP | ALBERTO ARCE and MARTHA MENDOZA | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Drug Enforcement Agency, Video, Honduras Dea Operation, Dea Operation Honduras, Honduras Drugs, Honduras Drugs Operations, Honduras Drug War, Honduras, Dea, Honduras Dea, World News

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Bullets flew as U.S. helicopters swooped toward a river boat. Honduran national police rappelled to the ground and local...

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Why We Fight for Medical Cannabis - and How Congress Can Help Us Win

Steph Sherer | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Drug Enforcement Agency, Cannabis, Medical Cannabis, Marijuana, Medical Marijuana, Pot, Dea, Rohrabacher-Hinchey-Farr, Politics News

My friend is still alive. Marijuana will not reverse the course of her illness, but thanks to high-quality cannabis products, she is alert enough to talk to her friends and family for what may be the last time.

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State Legislature OKs Hemp Farming

AP | Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: Drug Enforcement Agency, Farming, Cannabis, New Hampshire House, Hemp Farmers, Video, Hemp, Marijuana, New Hampshire, New Hampshire Hemp Farming, Hemp Farming, Drugs, Pot, Dea, Green News

CONCORD, N.H. -- The New Hampshire House is giving the nod to hemp farmers after passing a bill to protect industrial hemp from being tagged as an ill...

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DEA Raids Artist Mecca On Suspected Pot Bust

The Huffington Post | David Sands | Posted 02.03.2012

Read More: Drug Enforcement Agency, Russel Industrial Center Weed, Detroit Crime, Video, Artist Studio Drug Raid, Pot Busts, Michigan Marijuana Amendment, Detroit News, Detroit Arts, Dea, Rich Isaacson, Russell Industrial Center, Detroit News

Federal drug enforcement agents raided part of a Detroit warehouse known for its market and artist studios, and more recently its medical marijuana fa...

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Colo. Springs-Chicago Drug Ring Busted

Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Possession of Cannabis, Drug Enforcement Agency, Trafficking, Video, Springs-Chicago Marijuana Ring, Unlawful Delivery Jof Cannabis, Elbert County, Marijuana, Cannabis Trafficking, Colorado Springs, Dea, Illegal Drug Trafficking, Denver News

In a federal and joint police force investigation, authorities have recovered over 140 pounds of marijuana believed to be used for trafficking Colorad...

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U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency Expands War On Drugs

The New York Times | CHARLIE SAVAGE | Posted 01.06.2012

Read More: Drug Enforcement Agency, War on Drugs, Foreign-Deployed Advisory Support Team, Michael A. Braun, Bruce Bagley, World News

The United States Drug Enforcement Administration now has five commando-style squads it has been quietly deploying to Western Hemisphere nations that ...

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DEA's Aspen Cocaine Informant May Have Had Name Leaked

The Huffington Post | Ryan Grenoble | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Drug Enforcement Agency, Pitkin County Sheriff, Aspen Drug Bust, Drug Enforcement Administration, Jo Disalvo, Aspen Cocaine Ring, Aspen Police Department, Bob Braudis, Pitkin County, Denver News

A late-May drug bust in Aspen, Colorado that put the kibosh on a cocaine smuggling operation has led to increased tension between law-enforcement offi...

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Senators Target Internet Narcotics Trafficking Site Silk Road

AP | MICHAEL GORMLEY | Posted 08.05.2011

Read More: Drug Enforcement Agency, Drug Trafficking, Internet Narcotics, Sen. Joe Manchin, Internet Narcotics Trafficking, Silk Road, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Justice Department, Politics News

(AP) ALBANY, N.Y. — Two U.S. senators said Sunday they will ask federal authorities to crack down on a secretive narcotics market operated on the In...

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DEA Bans Chemicals Used In Synthetic Marijuana

The Huffington Post | Steven Hoffer | Posted 06.15.2011

Read More: Drug Enforcement Agency, Synthetic Marijuana, K2, Fake Weed, Dea, Drug Ban, Fake Weed Banned, Marijuana, Politics News

Fake weed could be going up in smoke. The Drug Enforcement Administration has placed five chemicals used to manufacture synthetic marijuana product...

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WikiLeaks Cables: DEA Transformed Into Global Intelligence Organization

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drug Enforcement Agency, Wikileaks, Karen Tandy, Lansana Kouyate, DEA WikiLeaks, Guinea, Dea, Ricardo Martinelli, Ernest Bai Koroma, Panama, Sierra Leone, World News

The Drug Enforcement Administration has been transformed into a global intelligence organization with a reach that extends far beyond narcotics, and a...

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The DEA's New Tool Against Crime

Zack Isaacs | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drug Enforcement Agency, Controversy, Ebonics, Imprisonment Rates, Justice, Translators, African-American, Impact News

There's a new job skill that the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is requiring of a few agents: how to speak Ebonics. And that's probably because it is not usually taught in schools.

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Arriola, Mexican Drug Lord And Money Launderer, Sentenced To 20 Years

The Denver Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drug Enforcement Agency, Money Laundering, Peyton, Cocaine, Drug Lord, Dea, Miguel Arriola, Denver News

A Mexican citizen described by a federal prosecutors as a drug lord with a distribution hub in Colorado was sentenced to 20 years in prison last Frida...

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Jeffrey Sweetin, Denver DEA Chief, Tells His Side Of The Recent Medical Marijuana Arrest In Highlands Ranch

Westword | Michael Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drug Enforcement Agency, Colorado Medical Marijuana, Dea, Denver News

Jeffrey Sweetin, special agent in charge of the Denver field division of the DEA, lately hasn't been too fond of the mainstream media. Much of it has ...

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Obama's Military and DEA Rogues Gone Wild

David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stanley McChrystal, Drug Enforcement Agency, Mcchrystal, Sarah Palin, Rougue, General Stanley McChrystal, John McCain, Barack Obama, Politics News

In pitching his Afghan escalation plan, Gen. McChrystal went rogue, preemptively leaking his request to the media, then delivering a public address telling Obama to immediately follow his orders.

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DEA Raid Has Pot Clubs Worried

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Department of Justice, Marijuana Policy, Drug Enforcement Agency, Marijuana, Eric Holder, Politics News

The United States Attorney for the district of Colorado is charging a local man in federal court as a drug dealer for growing medical marijuana. Such ...

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Holder's Baby Step On Medical Marijuana

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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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New Medical Marijuana Policy: Obama Administration Will Not Seek Arrests For People Following State Laws

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pain, White House, Marijuana, Marijuana Policy Project, Orgeon, Doj, Eric Holder, Decriminalization, Nevada, Marijuana Laws, Obama, War on Drugs, Patients, New Mexico, Colorado, Prescriptions, California, Suppliers, Washington State, State Laws, Weed, Michigan, Medicine, Maryland, Montana, Users, Medical Marijuana, Vermont, Rhode Island, Justice Department, Drug Enforcement Agency, Maine, New Medical Marijuana Policy, Health, Hawaii, US Attorneys, Alaska, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws, under...

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Updating Incorporation Transparency Laws

Raymond Baker | Posted 05.25.2011

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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In Search Of Crime Boss, DEA And NYPD Storm Wrong Apartment

New York Daily News | Rocco Parascandola and Alison Gendar | Posted 05.25.2011

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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Barney Frank Introduces Marijuana Legislation

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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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Question For Obama: How About A Science-Based Drug Policy?

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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