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Mexican Cartels Smuggling Drugs In Food Imports: Record-Breaking Meth Bust At US-Mexico Border Is Latest
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 4:07pm | 579Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized over $17.4 million in methamphetamine from a tractor-trailer hauling a shipment of coconuts at the Mexico-Texas border. The bust is one of many involving cartels slipping drugs across the border in fresh food shipments from Mexico, which is the largest...
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Fed Health Agency Funds $2.4M Study On Psychedelics Treatment For Meth Addiction
Wednesday, August 28, 2024 - 7:26pm | 522The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is stepping up efforts to combat the rising tide of methamphetamine addiction by funding a $2.4 million study to explore the potential of psychedelics as a treatment. According to Marijuana Moment, this five-year grant, provided by the National Institute on...
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DEA Report Shows Reduced Cannabis Testing Amid Legalization
Tuesday, October 3, 2023 - 3:00pm | 381A recent DEA report highlighted a significant decrease in cannabis testing conducted by drug analysis laboratories, coinciding with the growing wave of marijuana legalization across the U.S. As reported by Marijuana Moment, the DEA's National Forensic Laboratory Information System (NFLIS)...
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Buddhist Monks In Thailand Test Positive For Meth, Leaving Temple Empty As They Go To Rehab
Wednesday, November 30, 2022 - 12:29pm | 1164A Buddhist temple in central Thailand has been left without monks after three of its Buddhist monks and an abbot failed drug tests and were defrocked, a local official said Tuesday. The monks, from Phetchabun province's Bung Sam Phan district were sent to a health clinic for drug...
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Oregon Becomes First US State To Decriminalize Drug Possession, Begins Psilocybin Program
Wednesday, November 4, 2020 - 9:43am | 705Voters in Oregon have approved two measures that mark an unprecedented change in the history of U.S. drug policy. Measure 110, which passed with 58.8% positive votes, decriminalizes the possession of small amounts of all illegal drugs. It also creates a support program for drug abuse...