All posts tagged "Drugs"

A top intel committee lawmaker warned Thursday that the video showing a second strike on an alleged drug boat off the coast of Venezuela appeared to confirm the U.S. committed a war crime.

The video from a Sept. 2 attack in the Caribbean Sea was shown to lawmakers during a briefing with Admiral Frank M. 'Mitch' Bradley and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Dan Caine in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper spoke with Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, who said the video was one of the worst things he has seen. ...

A mayoral candidate in Red Oak, Iowa, suggested that "mass extermination" could be a solution to deal with people who struggle with drug abuse.

KCSI obtained audio of candidate John Haidsiak's proposal during a candidate forum sponsored by the Red Oak Mayor’s Youth Council.

"It’s a cruel fact, but people who’ve went through drug abuses, teenagers and young people, when they have children, they do two things. They get them involved, and they steal from ’em," he remarked. "And it just escalates the problem to where there’s no reasonable fix-it solution other than mass extermination."...

Political consultant Stuart Stevens suggested that the Department of Homeland Security look a little closer to home — perhaps as close as the White House — in its efforts to root out convicted criminals for deportation.

Stevens addressed ICE chief Tom Homan on X, writing Thursday, "Here’s a tip, Tom Homan: Cuban born convicted narco-cartel drug dealer named Orlando Cicilia still in America. He’s not hard to find. He’s Marco Rubio’s brother-in law."

Stevens included a link to a Washington Post report from 2015 when Senator Rubio, now secretary of State, was running for the Republican nomination against Donald Trump....

The knives are coming out as Elon Musk exits the White House, with insiders spilling new details about his drug use and family drama.

The tech mogul bought himself a perch inside the White House by donating at least $275 million of his own money to get Donald Trump re-elected as president, but he alienated administration insiders and the president's allies with his drug use and erratic behavior, reported the New York Times.

"Mr. Musk’s drug consumption went well beyond occasional use," the Times reported. "He told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use. He took Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms. And he traveled with a daily medication box that held about 20 pills, including ones with the markings of the stimulant Adderall, according to a photo of the box and people who have seen it."...

Los Angeles (AFP) - Three years after becoming the first American state to decriminalize all drugs, Oregon has reversed course, making possession of even small amounts an offense again. Governor Tina Kotek on Monday signed a law that will provide for up to six months in prison for anyone caught with hard drugs like fentanyl, heroin, cocaine or ecstasy, starting in September. The reversal ends a three-year experiment that left police officers handing out $100 fines and cards with details on how users could get treatment for their addictions. The plan was to treat drug use as an illness, rather ......

Investigators have arrested 1,357 suspected dealers and criminals within a few days during extensive drug raids in numerous French cities. As Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said in the eastern city of Dijon on Thursday, 751 of the suspects were already wanted by the judiciary. According to the information provided, many of them are now in custody. "We are taking dealers out of circulation in the long term," the minister said, countering the accusation that the police actions had no long-term impact in neighbourhoods plagued by drug dealing. The police raids, dubbed "Tidy Place" in French, a......