By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Difficulties seem to be sprouting up like weeds as local governments across the country experiment with new laws and regulations concerning medical marijuana; the drug is still illegal and listed as a controlled substance by the federal government. A top federal law enforcement official in Oregan has declared that medical growers…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Despite the president’s promise to place science above politics, the DEA issued a final order rejecting a license for a University of Massachusetts, Amherst professor to grow marijuana for federally regulated research. Just over a decade ago, in June of 2001, Professor Lyle Craker, 70, applied for the license in an…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The DEA on Thursday announced the arrests of 1,985 persons as part of a 20-month crackdown on the La Familia Michoacana Mexican drug cartel’s operations in the U.S. DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart said authorities said the crackdown, known as “Project Delirium”, also seized $62 million in U.S. currency, plus approximately…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Granted, the irony is rich. But ex-Seattle U.S. Attorney John McKay, a President Bush appointee, says he has his reasons for joining a coalition that’s pushing an initiative to legalize marijuana in the state of Washington. McKay, 55, contends that criminalizing marijuana creates a black market that benefits international cartels and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court handed law enforcement an added tool on Monday. The Court ruled 8-1 that it was okay when Lexington, Ky. police busted into an apartment without a warrant after smelling marijuana and fearing the suspect was trying to destroy evidence, the Associated Press reported. The ruling overturned…
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. Sixteen of those years were in the drug unit. He is the author of the book “Carving Out the Rule of Law: The History of the United…
subversive chicken? By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Al Qaeda they were not. But declassified FBI files show agents kept tabs on the Beatles, Michael Jackson, Jimi Hendrix and Col Sanders of KFC fame, according to the London publication, The Sun. The paper reports that the FBI files indicate the agency’s concern that the Beatles…
By Justin Blum Bloomberg Derek Williams was working as a trash-truck driver when his cousin told him about K2, a product made from plant materials and chemicals that provided a legal, marijuana-like high. Williams saw his ticket out of the residential rubbish business: Make a better blend. He studied compounds that mimic the effects of…
