Trump Backs Legal Recreational Pot in Florida, Harris Calls It 'Pandering'
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s Monday statement that he would vote to legalize recreational marijuana use in Florida sent...
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- 7 days ago
- 2 min
Classifying Pot As Less Dangerous Drug Becomes Campaign Issue
A decision on whether to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in the U.S. won’t come until after the presidential election, a...
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Crime and Justice News
- Sep 3
- 2 min
Oregon Makes Hard Drugs Illegal Again After Reform Experiment
As of Sunday, it is again illegal to possess small amounts of hard drugs in Oregon. A first-in-the-nation law decriminalizing drugs...
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Crime and Justice News
- Aug 28
- 2 min
San Francisco’s 'Chill Packs' To Meth Users May Be Working
San Francisco is handing out antipsychotic drugs to homeless methamphetamine users who frequent psychiatric emergency services to help...
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Crime and Justice News
- Aug 20
- 2 min
Matthew Perry’s Death Highlights Issues With Ketamine Treatment
Actor Matthew Perry, who had a long history of addiction, became interested in ketamine during a rehabilitation stay in Switzerland,...
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Crime and Justice News
- Aug 16
- 2 min
Unusual Charges Against Two Doctors In Matthew Perry Death
Two doctors are among the five people charged in connection with "Friends" star Matthew Perry's death. Perry, 54, was found unresponsive...
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Crime and Justice News
- Aug 15
- 2 min
Several Charged In Actor Matthew Perry's Accidental Overdose Death
Several people were charged in Southern California on Thursday in connection with the accidental overdose death of actor Matthew Perry,...
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Crime and Justice News
- Aug 14
- 2 min
Can $18B In Opioid Settlement Funds Shift The Overdose Tide?
The opioid crisis has been ravaging the U.S. for decades, costing states millions of dollars in resources and claiming tens of thousands...
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Crime and Justice News
- Aug 14
- 2 min
Drug Overdose Patients’ Kids Need Help, Advocates Say
Every day, 8-year-old Emma sits in a garden outside her grandmother’s home in Salem, Ohio, writing letters to her mom and sometimes...
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Crime and Justice News
- Aug 2
- 2 min
Could Mexican Cartel Leader's Ambush Lead To Bloody Drug War?
Ismael Zambada GarcÃa, a founder of the Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, appeared in court in Texas on Thursday, one week after he was...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jul 23
- 1 min
Feds Break Up One Of Largest Drug Operations In U.S. History
Federal agents took down the man leading one of the largest drug operations in the history of the U.S., hailing it as a big step forward...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jul 11
- 2 min
Can Oregon Pilot Program Succeed In Reducing Drug Abuse?
Tera Hurst runs the Health Justice Recovery Alliance, which represents over 100 addiction recovery groups. Her organization opposes...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jul 8
- 2 min
Fentanyl Seizures Rise 1700% Over Six Years, Concentrated in West
A new study by NYU Langone, funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute on Drug Abuse, shows how fentanyl has...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jul 1
- 2 min
Fentanyl Crisis Claims 2,100 Lives in 10 Years Among L.A.'s Homeless
Fentanyl claimed the lives of more than 2,100 people living on the streets of Los Angeles County and in homeless shelters between 2014 to...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jun 27
- 2 min
High Court Blocks Purdue Deal To Pay $6B In Opioid Settlements
The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma's bankruptcy settlement that would have shielded its wealthy Sackler...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jun 26
- 2 min
Could Toledo Be A Model For Reducing Opioid Overdoses?
A multiyear experiment in Toledo, a working-class city on Lake Erie’s banks, holds clues to how the U.S. could get a handle on its...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jun 19
- 2 min
Two Dozen Arrested In Sinaloa Cartel Money Scheme With Chinese
A five-year U.S. investigation has uncovered a complex partnership between one of Mexico’s most notorious drug cartels and Chinese...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jun 19
- 2 min
Maryland Marijuana Pardons Add To National Total of 2.5 Million
This week, Maryland became the latest state to announce mass pardons for people convicted of marijuana-related crimes, The Associated...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jun 13
- 2 min
'Super Mario' Street Drug 100 Times Stronger Than Fentanyl
A new street drug named "Super Mario," which includes a synthetic opioid 100 times more potent than fentanyl, has surfaced in New York,...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jun 13
- 2 min
FL Doctors Warn Of Chaos From Vote On Legalizing Recreational Pot
Florida’s ballot initiative to legalize recreational pot has divided the state’s medical marijuana industry. The state’s largest medical...
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