Drugs News

Federal prosecutors charged 53 people on Wednesday with running open-air drug markets at two housing projects near Yankee Stadium.

The government's drug advisory body is "fatally flawed" and should be rebuilt from scratch along the lines of the Bank of England, Professor David Nutt has declared.

A former United Parcel Services driver who claims he was fired for refusing to deliver a package containing marijuana has filed a lawsuit against the delivery company.

State narcotics agents and local authorities raided two houses containing dozens of people in East Palo Alto this morning, arresting one person and seizing drugs and a gun.

Mauricio Fernandez, mayor of Mexican town San Pedro Garza Garcia is seen in Monterrey, Mexico, Monday, Nov.

Dallas police say the shooting deaths of a man and a woman at a house appear to have been drug related.

Washington -- President Barack Obama on Monday admonished President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan that he must take on what U.S. officials have said he avoided during his first term: the rampant corruption and drug trade that has fueled the resurgence of the Taliban.

The Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office says it has broken up a $2.5 million marijuana distribution ring that moved the drug from New York to the Easton area and then resold it on Kutztown University's campus.

Prescription drug overdoses kill more people than cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine combined.

Authorities say a Mexican citizen accused of being the leader of a drug trafficking organization has been sentenced to nearly 22 years in federal prison.

A special legislative commission studying a surge in OxyContin and heroin use in Massachusetts could release its findings as early as this week.

Amy Winehouse - who has previously battled drug addiction - visits the gym for three or four hours a day but her family are happy with her new obsession.

Lawrence police say the shooting death of a 21-year-old city man outside a convenience store over the weekend may be drug related.

Michael Caine said he never became involved in drugs because the only time he tried to smoke Marijuana he ''nearly got a hernia''. Michael Caine "nearly got a hernia" from smoking Marijuana.

Twenty-one suspected gang members were arrested late Friday in a gang sweep that reached from Santa Cruz to Watsonville.

A Northern California man and a Nevada man are facing possible life sentences after being convicted in a Placer County case involving drugs and torture.

Mexico has extradited 11 fugitives, accused of crimes including murder, sex offenses, drug trafficking and money laundering, to face trial in the United States, the Justice Department said Sunday."The extradition of these 11 defendants exemplifies the strong cooperative relationship between the United States and Mexico," said Attorney General Eric ...

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Health Canada is getting tough with patients who use government-certified medical marijuana, demanding full payment in advance before shipping the weed.

The opium poppy was introduced to Afghanistan more than 2,300 years ago by the armies of Alexander the Great.