City places marijuana tax on April ballot

2023/01/18 by ERIK GALICIA Columbia voters will decide April 4 whether to allow the city to impose a 3% sales tax on retail sales of recreational marijuana. The Columbia City Council unanimously approved the special election ...

Drug trafficking and creativity to transport drugs

January 16, 2023 | 3:01 pm One of the major social ills afflicting the country is the trafficking of illegal substances. Drug traffickers are coming up with increasingly inventive ways to enter and exit Dominican territory. The Special Report ...

The drug mules carrying Europe's cocaine in their guts

Last Updated: Jan 16, 2023, 09:04 AM IST More than a sixth of the cocaine consumed in France is smuggled inside the bodies of drug mules from its poverty-stricken South American region of Guiana.Women -- some of them pregnant -- and even ...

Teen actor Tyler Sanders' cause of death revealed

Published December 29, 2022 12:00pm EST By Caroline Thayer (https://www.foxnews.com/person/t/caroline-thayer) | Fox News (https://www.foxnews.com/) A cause of death for Tyler Sanders, the teen actor from programs like "9-1-1: Lone Star ...

Woman sentenced for smuggling, dealing deadly fentanyl-laced drugs to friends speaks out

Published December 29, 2022 12:21pm EST By William La Jeunesse Jocelyn Lopez Sanchez started drinking vodka at 15. She moved on to Xanax for depression, then cocaine and painkillers. By 19, she said, "nothing really mattered. I just wanted ...

Massive drug bust slows influx of drugs in King County, sergeant says

The bust took 400 pounds of methamphetamine and 478,000 fentanyl pills, among other drugs, off the streets. NEXT UP IN 5 Idaho professor sues TikToker for defamation Marker in Lakewood that ...

[Herald Interview] Korea should treat drug abuse epidemic as it did COVID-19: minister

Dec 28, 2022 By Cho Chung-un, Kim Arin The Korea Herald is running a series of feature stories and interviews on the evolution and rise of drug crimes, insufficient support systems and young addicts’ stories in South Korea. This is ...

Drug menace scaling new heights, 'chitta' use widespread in Palampur

Ravinder Sood Palampur, December 27 Drug menace is scaling new heights in Palampur and its adjoining areas. Poor surveillance by state agencies and lack of awareness about its repercussions has made the matter worse. The youths in rural areas ...

FDA Officials Say Hemp And CBD Regulatory Plan Is Months Away As It Carries Out Marijuana Scheduling Review

Published 8 on December 27, 2022 By Kyle Jaeger (https://www.marijuanamoment.net/author/kylejaeger/) As the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) carries out a scientific review into marijuana that will inform its federal ...

Safe Banking Act denied by Congress

by Ciara TateSunday, December 25th, 2022 Jefferson City — The U.S. Congress released its 1.7 trillion-dollar spending package, and cannabis advocates are disappointed after the Safe Banking Act was not included. The Safe Banking Act ...

Efforts to combat student drug abuse lacking: group

By Shih Hsiao-kuang and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, staff writer The Ministry of Education and other agencies should do more to address a rise in the abuse of category 4 drugs among students, a Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) affiliated ...

Captagon: Jordan seizes huge amphetamine haul at Iraq border

By Henri Astier BBC News Millions of Captagon pills en route to the Gulf are seized in Jordan each year Jordan has seized one tonne of amphetamine pills being smuggled in date paste at the border with Iraq. A total of six ...