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• Military Operations Begin on Venezuela’s Western Border to Fight Drug Trafficking

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  Venezuela has announced the expansion of military operations along its western border in order to fight drug trafficking and protect a recently discovered reserve of coltan from illegal mining. In what is titled Operation Blue Gold, 15,000 Air Force, Army, and Navy personnel will protect the coltan reserve, which ...
  2 days ago

• Trial Shows Fine Balance for Police and Informers

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  A narcotics detective is on trial after working with informers who were also employed by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
  4 days ago

• Senate Committee Seeks Improved Access to Controlled Meds for Long-Term Care and Hospice Patients; Drafts Legislation to Address Issue

  
  FDA Law Blog — Authority: 471
  By John A. Gilbert and Larry K. Houck – Senate Special Committee on Aging Chairman Herb Kohl (D-WI) and Member Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) have sent a letter  to U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder seeking improved access to needed pain and other medications for long-term care and hospice patients.  Their ...
  1 week ago

• The Real Government Effort to Impede Senior’s Drug Medication

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 139
  Interesting story from the Washington Post’s Carrie Johnson: Heightened efforts by the Drug Enforcement Administration to crack down on narcotics abuse are producing a troubling side effect by denying some hospice and elderly patients needed pain medication, according to two Senate Democrats and a coalition of ...
  1 week ago

• First Montana hemp license issued, may challenge DEA ban

  
  NORML Daily Audio Stash — Authority: 444
  ( Billings Gazette ) The state this month issued its first license for an industrial hemp-growing operation to a woman who said she wants to develop a domestic market for the plant despite federal law barring its cultivation. Laura Murphy, of Bozeman, was the first to apply for the two-year license since the state ...
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• WHAT IF BUSH HAD DONE THAT? -- BY JOSH GERSTEIN, Politico

  
  COURAGE IN AMERICA — Authority: 166
  A four-hour stop in New Orleans, on his way to a $3 million fundraiser. Snubbing the Dalai Lama. Signing off on a secret deal with drug makers. CLICK TITLE OR HERE TO READ REMAINDER OF ARTICLE
  2 weeks ago

• How War Does Speed

  
  Last Free Voice — Authority: 401
  War is not the health of the state. At least not in the long run. I respect Randolph Bourne and his cogent observation that  “War is the health of the state”. But he is far too lenient in diagnosing war and that psychopathic institution of monopolistic coercion, which is the state. Rather war is the [...]
  2 weeks ago

• National Briefing | West: California: Arrests in Marijuana Ring

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Federal authorities announced charges against 18 people they said operated a lucrative marijuana-growing operation by converting homes into high-tech marijuana nurseries.
  2 weeks ago

• House Bill Would Enhance Penalties for Meth to Minors

  
  FDA Law Blog — Authority: 471
  By Larry K. Houck – In an effort to combat a new aspect of the methamphetamine epidemic, Congress has introduced yet amendment to the Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”).  Representative John Boozman (R-AR) has introduced legislation in the House that would enhance criminal penalties for methamphetamine ...
  2 weeks ago

• DOJ Issues Medical Marijuana Investigation and Prosecution Guidelines; DEA Issues Statement

  
  FDA Law Blog — Authority: 471
  By Larry K. Houck – In a departure from US DOJ policy, Attorney General Eric Holder announced formal federal guidelines for U.S. Attorneys in states that have authorized marijuana for medical use.  The guidelines, set out in an October 19, 2009 memorandum authored by Deputy Attorney General David Ogden, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rocky Mountain Reefer Madness: DEA claims Mexican cartels supplying Colorado dispensaries

  
  NORML Daily Audio Stash — Authority: 444
  ( Denver Post ) 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 and is now probably being supplied by international drug cartels, say some local sheriffs and agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Adam Jasinski, Big Brother Winner Arrested (VIDEO)

  
  Blippitt.com — Authority: 584
  A former winner of the “Big Brother” reality TV show has admitted that he used his $500,000 in prize money to purchase oxycodone pills and resell them. Adam Jasinski , 31, has been charged after trying to sell 2,000 pills to a government witness in Massachusetts. Federal agents report that Jasinski was ...
  3 weeks ago

• Support to legalize Medical Marijuana in New York

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  San Francisco, Oct 20 (THAINDIAN NEWS) There were talks on for the legislation to legalize medical use of Marijuana in New York were encouraged on Monday by the announcement of a shift in federal policy first promised by President Barack Obama in his presidential campaign.This new Obama administration policy looks ...
  3 weeks ago

• It’s Official: Obama Admin will not raid state-compliant medical marijuana facilities

  
  NORML Daily Audio Stash — Authority: 444
  WASHINGTON ( Huffington Post ) — The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws, under new policy guidelines to be sent to federal prosecutors Monday. Two Justice Department officials described the new policy to The Associated Press, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Feds to issue new medical marijuana policy (AP)

  
  Politics - Political News — Authority: 150
  WASHINGTON – Federal drug agents wont pursue pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers in states that allow medical marijuana, under new legal guidelines to be issued Monday by the Obama administration. Two Justice Department officials described the new policy to The Associated Press, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Los Angeles Prepares for Clash Over Marijuana

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Harborside Health Center, a nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary in Oakland, Calif., is looked upon as a model of how others could operate.
  3 weeks ago

• E-prescribing taking off, but theres a long way to go

  
  News — Authority: 125
  The good news is that the number of U.S. clinicians writing electronic prescriptions has doubled since last year, suggesting that the Medicare e-prescribing bonus program is working. The bad news is that the overwhelming majority of scripts still are written on paper. E-prescribing network Surescripts reports that ...
  4 weeks ago

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