Yesterday, the U.S. Department of the Treasury designated the Latin American gang Mara Salvatrucha, known as MS-13, pursuant to Executive...
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Brazil’s largest corruption trial yields its most important guilty verdict
José Dirceu, one of Brazil’s most powerful political figures, has been convicted in the wide-ranging mensalão scandal trial, which is...
Over $31 million seized from international drug and money laundering scheme
Brian R. Crowell Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) New York Field Division and Preet Bharara,...
Vietnam: Ecstasy-style drug use up in Ho Chi Minh (HCM) City
More people in HCM City are using amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS) like Ecstasy and crystal meth, according to reports from the...
Thailand: Facebook drug dealer arrested
Police have arrested a university student for selling drugs on Facebook, following the arrest of a teenager who claimed to...
Imprisoned medical marijuana provider reaches plea deal for child porn
Justin Flor, who is serving a five-year prison sentence for his role in a Montana medical marijuana dispensary, has reached...
Seven Long Beach medical marijuana sites raided by police, DEA
The Long Beach Police Department and the federal Drug Enforcement Agency raided seven medical marijuana dispensary sites Wednesday afternoon, making...
Oakland sues U.S. government to defend pot dispensary in city
The city of Oakland has sued to block U.S. authorities from closing down a prominent medical marijuana dispensary that is...
Police arrest two men harvesting cannabis in Siberia
Police in the Tomsk region have arrested two men caught harvesting cannabis in a Siberian nature reserve. Further reading
A gene implicated in schizophrenia risk is also associated with risk for cannabis dependence
A paper by Shizhong Han and colleagues in the current issue of Biological Psychiatry implicates a new gene in the...