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ACLU takes on the DEA for seeking prescription records without a warrant
The American Civil Liberties Union is seeking to block the Drug Enforcement Administration from obtaining prescription records without a warrant in Oregon. The state of Oregon filed suit against the DEA last year after the agency sought to access the Oregon Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP), a database of prescription…
The Orange Couch, Breaking Bad, Episode 7: “Say My Name”
New Orange Couch, where we dissect the “you can’t get out alive” theme of the episode. I’ll add to our observations above this: When Walt began this operation, he really did think he would never get out alive, since cancer was coming for him. But, in fact, what’s apparent to…
DEA agent fatally shoots drug suspect in Honduras
TEGUCIGALPA — A US agent working with Honduran police fatally shot a Brazilian national last week during the seizure of nearly 1,000 kilos (2,200 pounds) of cocaine, US officials said Monday. Two agents from the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) were involved in the July 3 operation in eastern Honduras,…
Government-sponsored study destroys DEA’s classification of marijuana
A government-sponsored study published recently in The Open Neurology Journal concludes that marijuana provides much-needed relief to some chronic pain sufferers and that more clinical trials are desperately needed, utterly destroying the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency’s (DEA) classification of the drug as having no medical uses. While numerous prior studies have shown…
DEA adds 26 ‘synthetic marijuana’ substances to government blacklist
The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) said Tuesday that it expects to add 26 new synthetic drugs to its list of temporary Schedule I substances, an emergency authority that’s used to control little-known, poorly researched new substances that the agency feels pose a threat to public health. In the Food and…
Student forgotten in cell by DEA files $20 million torture lawsuit
Daniel Chong, the 23-year-old student at UC San Diego who was left in a Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) holding cell for five days without food or water, has filed a $20 million lawsuit against the agency, according to NBC San Diego. “The deprivation of food and water for four and…
Student abandoned in DEA holding cell drank own urine to survive
UPDATE: DEA apologizes to student left handcuffed in holding cell without food or water Daniel Chong, a 24-year old student at UC San Diego, was taken into custody during a drug raid and abandoned in a holding cell for five days without food or water, according to NBC San Diego.…
Rep. Jared Polis mocks Colorado’s new DEA chief
Democratic Rep. Jared Polis of Colorado on Wednesday poked fun at his state’s new head drug enforcement agent, joking that the Drug Enforcement Agency’s new motto was “protecting America from mold and water damage.” Barbra Roach, the chief of Denver’s Drug Enforcement Administration, recently told the Denver Post that medical…
Hundreds of ‘Spice’ variants surface after DEA ban
The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has a problem on its hands: How do you ban something when prohibition just creates hundreds of derivative products? That’s precisely the situation the agency is confronting with synthetic marijuana blends most commonly known as “Spice,” which they issued an emergency ban on in late…
Colorado asks DEA to recognize marijuana’s medical value
The state of Colorado has become the third in the nation to formally ask the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to reclassify marijuana in such a manner that would recognize its potential for medical value, similar to drugs like morphine and cocaine. The letter, sent just before Christmas by Colorado’s Department of Revenue,…
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