Drugs News

A woman from the ritzy New York City suburb of Scarsdale who is accused of raising thousands of marijuana plants was compared Tuesday to Colombian cocaine lords.

A missing brain enzyme increases concentrations of a protein related to pain-killer addiction, according to an animal study.

Marion law enforcement officials arrested 10 people on Friday during an effort to be proactive about drugs in the county.

Acting Assistant Commissioner Michael Cornish said it was a rate "four times greater per 100,000 head of population than any other Australian jurisdiction".

During a raid today at an unidentified hotel, Norwich police said they seized an ounce of raw heroin, a car, $1,600 cash and arrested a 37-year-old man on drug charges.

RUTHERFORD - A Rutherford man has plead guilty to charges that he attempted to give an undercover FBI agent a $10,000 bribe to have his drugs and weapons charges dismissed by the Passaic County Prosecutor's office.

Norman Dudley pleaded guilty Monday to selling crack cocaine to an undercover Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement agent in the parking lot of a K-Mart store last August.

The Iowa Board of Chiropractic says Cameron Hart, of Clive, sent the patient numerous text messages that were of a sexual and graphic nature.

One of four people charged with dealing cocaine, heroin, marijuana and ecstasy in North Dakota and Minnesota has been sentenced in federal court.

Following are excerpts from the Burlington Police Department log.i»¿ Note that this is a sampling of activity in the log, not a complete account.

The New Hampshire Senate and House support allowing seriously ill people to use marijuana in their medical treatment, but they don't agree on how broadly to soften drug laws.

Investigators say two Gloucester Township Police officers were conducting a traffic stop along the Blackhorse Pike in the Glendora section of Gloucester Township on Thursday.

Jamie N. Roberts, 37, and Christopher R. Ball, 33, were arrested following the execution of a search warrant at a residence on Curtis Hollow Road in Reedsville around noon Thursday.

TBI spokeswoman Kristin Helm told The Jackson Sun that Weakley County Sheriff's deputies went to a home Friday to serve a search warrant for narcotics as workers for the Department of Children's Services were removing two children from the home.

One reason is that the addictive substance is now being made in spaces as small as a large soda bottle.

In May 1918, with America embroiled in the First World War, Iowa's Gov. William Lloyd Harding dealt a blow against Germany.

Two Massachusetts residents face numerous drug charges after New Jersey police allegedly found about 65 pounds of marijuana hidden in the trunk of their rented car.

Firefighters advanced against a monstrous wildfire outside of Colorado Springs, expanding containment lines and lifting evacuation orders for thousands of anxious residents in the most destructive blaze in state... Crews gained the upper hand on the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history Saturday and had more than half the blaze contained as ... (more)

The lawyer for a man arrested in this week's massive police raids in Toronto says he's concerned that media reports linking his client to the scandal surrounding Mayor Rob Ford may compromise the man's right to a fair trial.

Santa Cruz police say they have arrested five people on charges that they allegedly turned a disabled man's home into a drug house and bicycle chop shop while failing to care for him as they were supposed to.