By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Take your pick: Medical marijuana or a gun, but not both. Responding to multiple questions from federally licensed gun sellers, the ATF wrote an open letter declaring it illegal to knowingly sell firearms to medical marijuana users. The confusion arrises out of differing legal schemes regarding medical marijuana. Federal law prohibits…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The president’s entourage rolled through a small Massachusetts airport last year like an untamed rock band wreaking havoc in a hotel room, causing more than half a million dollars in damages. Or so the airport alleges. Marlborough Airport Properties Inc. filed a suit in a U.S. district court this week against the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com DEA agents, in conjunction with local police, arrested more than 50 people in the St. Louis area this week associated with a loose network of heroin trafficking. Officials hope to double the number of arrests in a fight against a growing problem in the region. A new form of highly-potent and…
Watch the Full Debate The quirky and highly popular blog BoingBoing.net posted the abbreviated version of this video of Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, and Asa Hutchinson, a former DEA Administrator, about drug policy and enforcement. The debate was sponsored by the Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) chapter at the University of Arkansas and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sometimes curiosity just isn’t enough reason to do something. At least that’s what the government seems to believe as it fights efforts by the group Judicial Watch, which has asked under the Freedom of Information Act for photos and videos of al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden after he was killed…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It may not be so easy to get off the terrorist watch list, the New York Times has found. The paper reported that the FBI is allowed to include people on the list who have been acquitted of terrorism related crimes or the crimes have been dismissed. The discovery comes after…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Expect more craziness in coming days and weeks in the scandal brewing in Los Angeles where the FBI paid a sheriff’s deputy a bribe to sneak a phone into the county jail for an inmate in what turned out to be a sting. Sheriff Lee Baca is fuming that he was…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A whole lot of U.S. Attorneys were confirmed Monday night on Capitol Hill. The U.S. Senate confirmed six U.S. Attorneys — four in Texas, one in Oregon and one in Utah. The Texas U.S. Attorney’s included: John Malcolm Bales for the Eastern District of Texas; Kenneth Magidson for the Southern District…
