Drugs News

FMPD's Special Investigations Group along with SWAT and uniformed officers conducted a search warrant on the home and seized 135 grams of marijuana, six bags of cocaine, and a variety of drug paraphernalia.

A Fort Wayne man could face federal drug charges after police say they found an indoor marijuana farm with more than 300 plants growing in his home.

Whitney Houston, who reigned as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, has died.

A 47-year-old man is being held on $250,000 bail after police in Maine discovered he was wanted in Texas for walking away from a prison farm.

Police say five Santa Rosa middle school students became sick after ingesting a substance that investigators suspect was tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, a chemical derived from marijuana.

Seven more people have been charged in a marijuana sales ring involving school teachers and others in Antigo and Merrill.

Police responding to a violent domestic abuse situation charged a western Pennsylvania man with rape but found themselves investigating whether he was also running a methamphetamine lab after finding toxic chemicals at his home.

FAIRFIELD: "Yes, what a GREAT mother! Her 16-year-old son now has police record that will follow him for the rest of his life because of a harmless plant.

Authorities say the man shot by Berkeley police after he rammed an officer with his car was a drug dealer and was pulled over as part of a narcotics investigation.

Death Row Records co-founder Marion "Suge" Knight was jailed briefly in Las Vegas on three outstanding traffic warrants and suspicion of marijuana possession, after being pulled over for a driving infraction, police said on Thursday.

Peru's defense minister says one of two remaining fugitive leaders of the once-powerful Shining Path rebel group may have been wounded in combat with government forces.

"I had a heroin overdose. I stopped breathing for too long, and I died. My heartbeat stopped and brain waves stopped," he said.

We hear a lot about the hazards of drunk driving, but here's something else to put on your radar: A study in the British Medical Journal found that marijuana nearly doubles the risk of vehicle collisions.

People who use marijuana before driving are nearly twice as likely to cause a car crash as those not under the influence of alcohol or drugs, according to a Canadian analysis of previous studies.

A jury has been chosen in the federal trial of two Memphis men charged with being contract killers for an organization that moved drugs from Mexico into Tennessee and other U.S. states.

A San Francisco woman is accused of having a suspected drug lab in her apartment that exploded and injured her and a 12-year-old boy.

Bolivian authorities say they've seized 17 properties from a provincial clan ostensibly in the gravel business that it suspects of laundering drug money through real estate.

An initiative seeking to legalize and regulate the recreational use of marijuana will be decided by voters, Washington state lawmakers said Thursday.

The FBI files just released about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs say that he dabbled in illicit drugs in his youth and alienated colleagues yet commanded universal respect.

Federal authorities say two women have been charged with trying to smuggle cocaine inside pouches of salad dressing and syrup as they passed through Los Angeles International Airport.