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Marijuana advocacy groups urge Obama to withdraw nomination of Michele Leonhart
A number of medical marijuana advocacy organizations are urging President Obama to withdraw his nomination of Michele Leonhart to serve as the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). Leonhart was nominated to be the Deputy Administrator by President Bush in 2003 and confirmed by the Senate in 2004. She…
Ecuador discovers 100-foot-long drug smuggling submarine
The Drug Enforcement Administration said Saturday it has helped seize a submarine capable of transporting tons of cocaine. DEA officials said that the diesel electric-powered submarine was constructed in a remote jungle and captured near a tributary close to the Ecuador-Colombia border. Ecuadorean authorities seized the sub before it could…
Wachovia pays $160 million to stop drugs probe
Wachovia has agreed to pay US prosecutors 160 million dollars for its failure to stop drug money being laundered to Mexican affiliates, the DEA said Wednesday. The embattled bank admitted it failed to stop an estimated 110 million dollars from being sent from the US to Mexico by wire transfer…
Despite Obama admin’s promise, DEA continues raids on medical marijuana growers
A day after telling a Denver news station of his profitable medical-marijuana operation, Chris Bartkowicz found himself under arrest by drug-enforcement agents who say they will continue to arrest growers despite a promise from the Obama administration to respect state laws allowing the growing and selling of marijuana for medicinal…
Photographer upset drug dealer stole his Limbaugh parody
A successful parody always risks being taken too seriously, and a parody ad targeting Rush Limbaugh’s drug use may have received the ultimate accolade when it was featured on the website of an actual dealer in illicit drugs. To the satirist’s dismay, his photoshopped image has now become part of…
Bringing out my inner (small-l) libertarian
My favorite Netroots Nation booth There’s not a single item in this article that doesn’t make me stuff-throwing, puppy-kicking angry. Federal agents raided a Culver City medical marijuana dispensary and spent more than four hours there, making no arrests but leaving the shop in disarray, it was reported Friday. Nice…
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