Fentanyl

As the opioid crisis continues to destroy thousands of lives every year, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveals the horror of a specific danger...fentanyl. The report comes several weeks after the Biden administration declared fentanyl combined with...

Over 25 members of the Sinaloa cartel, including the sons of notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, were charged on Friday in a fentanyl-trafficking investigation by the U.S. Justice Department. Of the three Guzmán sons, Ovidio, Jesús and Iván,...

Joanne Marian Segovia, a 20-year employee and executive director of the San Jose Police Officers Association has been charged with importing and distributing fentanyl, muscle relaxers and other drugs through a complex international mail scheme.  Segovia used...

Congressman Blames FDA For Damaging Public Trust Due To Lack Of CBD Regs At a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing, a Republican congressman and staunch marijuana opponent accused the FDA of failing to regulate the CBD, causing "controversies" and "disrupting...

When Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador called the 70,000+ annual fentanyl overdose deaths of Americans the result of the US’s inherent “social decay” having nothing to do with Mexican cartels trafficking it across the border by...

As the opioid epidemic continues to take a devastating toll across the country, in Northeast Ohio fentanyl is now the most commonly used drug involved in overdoses. As the powerful synthetic opioid is 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine, it has also become a risk to first responders. A...

Mexican authorities recently made a record-setting fentanyl bust High Times reported that Mexican Army personnel seized a fentanyl pill manufacturing center. The laboratory contained the largest methamphetamine production capacity in the municipality of Culiacán, Sinaloa, according to Mexico...

Oklahoma To Reconsider Bills On Psilocybin Therapy Research Together with several other state legislatures, it is now Oklahoma’s turn to dive in with the relaunch of a 2022 proposal involving psychedelics. Last year, HB 3414 was amended but ultimately killed. However, sponsor Rep. Daniel Pae...

In his second State of the Union, President Biden touched on what has been called the most serious issue the DEA has seen in decades and doubtless the country’s most pressing issue: the opioid crisis and more specifically the flood of fentanyl into the U.S.  More than...

DEA special agent Jon DeLena recently told Congress that the drug crisis underway today is unlike anything he’s ever seen in his 27 years with the agency. He called two Mexican cartels the greatest drug threat the U.S. has ever faced. “The Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels...

Gov. Ron DeSantis rolled out a criminal justice proposal last week that should delight Florida’s conservatives as well as his inevitable national supporters who are already lining up behind the governor’s anti-woke, anti-gay, anti-Disney, anti-cannabis legalization and his recent...

Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the billionaire Sinaloa Cartel kingpin who is serving a life sentence in a Colorado supermax prison is not happy with his digs. So, he’s begging Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to bring him...

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond (R) believes that the ever-growing and deadly fentanyl problem could be controlled by seizing illegal cannabis operators. “It is coming up from Mexico, not that Mexicans are bringing it. It’s Chinese nationals,”...

Fentanyl, an opioid used as a pain medication, is considered dangerous, addictive and one of the reasons why rates of drug overdose deaths are skyrocketing. According to CDC data, overdose deaths caused by synthetic opioids other than methadone, including fentanyl and fentanyl analogs, increased by...

This week U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced the Temporary Emergency Scheduling and Testing of Fentanyl Analogues (TEST) Act, which was immediately welcomed by civil rights organizations and policy experts, reported the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA). The proposed ...