In September, a "Narcotics Strike Force" burst into the Utah home of 45-year-old Todd Blair. Blair, "armed" with a golf club, was shot within seconds. Police found "paraphernalia" and an empty vial of meth. Here's video of the raid.
Over the last four years, 30,000 people have died in Mexico's drug war. Damn.
The British government is quietly trying to end a legal requirement that its Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs contain at least six scientists and a drug industry expert. Because who cares what scientists have to say about drugs?
Another mass grave has been found in Mexico, this one with 18 bodies—likely the work of a drug cartel.
Eighteen tourists who disappeared in September were found in a mass grave in Acapulco, Mexico. The tourists, mostly mechanics who vacationed together every year, seem to have been killed as revenge against a cartel based in their home state, Michoacan.
Hey, parents! What's the best way to stop your kids from doing drugs? What's that you say? A conversation? Ha! Nice try, hippie. The best way to stop your kids from doing drugs is to search your home with a drug-sniffing dog once a week, rented from Maryland's very own nonprofit organization, Dogs Finding Drugs:
Mexican authorities yesterday flew in journalists, dignitaries and college kids to watch the burning of 134 tons of marijuana — much of which was seized earlier this week near Tijuana. It was a statement to drug cartels, or something.
20-year-old criminology student Marisol Valles became the bravest college girl in North America when she stepped up to be police chief of Guadalupe, Mexico's second-most violent city after Juarez. Nobody else would accept the position.
Mexican authorities seized 105 tons of marijuana on Monday. That's more than 95 million joints.
A D.A.R.E. anti-drug lesson about the "dangers" of marijuana made such an impression on a fifth grader that he brought his parents' joints to school and reported them. He's now been removed from his house by social services.
Police in New Mexico raided a middle school and searched its on-campus greenhouse for marijuana. They even brought out their helicopter! What did they find? A bunch of tomato plants.
Notorious drug kingpin Edgar Valdez Villarreal, a leader in the Beltran Leyva cartel, was captured in Mexico on Monday.
Ohioan Richard Heritz was arrested earlier this month for smuggling marijuana into the Warren Correction Institution for an inmate. The thing is: Richard Heritz is 85. And the inmate who was supposed to receive the weed is his grandson, Gregory.
A 12-year-old girl was arrested on Wednesday in Queens, New York as part of a huge NYPD drug bust that nabbed 42 other people. Maybe she was the ringleader! Probably not though, as drug rings are complicated and dangerous organizations.
Sex tapes: Not just for D-list celebrities anymore! Puerto Rican drug lord Junior Capsula (real name: Jose Figueroa Agosto) has one featuring multiple women, and it's "selling like hotcakes" in the Dominican Republic. Guanabee put together a PG clip:
Marijuana brownies and other edibles may carry double the jail time and double the fines thanks to a vague new law aimed at drugs "marketed or packaged to appear similar to a candy product." The U.S. Senate: Harshing your buzz.
Hey, your Congress did something today! The House passed a bill (already passed by the Senate) to reduce a relic of '80s-style freak-out legislation: reducing the massive disparity between powder and crack cocaine prison sentences.
Police found eight heads in four different places outside of Durango. They had received an anonymous tip that two heads were located beside each of three roads leaving the nothern Mexican city. Roadside cleaners found the other two. [AFP]
As though yesterday's leaked military documents didn't paint a bleak enough picture of our Afghanistan adventure, meet the stoner cops of the Arghandab province—members of an Afghan police force receiving a $27 billion international investment.
Last week's killing of 17 people in northern Mexico was one of "several" carried out by inmates temporarily freed from prison using weapons on loan from prison guards. But the war on drugs should be over any day now. [LAT]
