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Enough fentanyl was seized in the US this year by drug cops to kill EVERY American

More than 397 million fatal fentanyl doses have been intercepted this year with just two milligrams enough to be deadly, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration

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Growing fentanyl crisis is leaving 'trail of death' in its wake, federal officials warn

LOS ANGELES — In the last two months, agents with Homeland Security Investigations have seized as much fentanyl as they did in all of 2019, federal officials said, warning that the amount of the drug hitting the streets is increasing every year with deadly consequences.

Los Angeles Times

DEA Wants To Boost Production Of Cannabis & Psychedelics For Research In 2023

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is proposing a significant increase in the amount of research cannabis allowed to be cultivated in 2023.

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Is 'rainbow fentanyl' a threat to your kids this Halloween? Experts say no

The Drug Enforcement Administration is warning that drug dealers are marketing rainbow-colored fentanyl to kids. Many drug experts say that's likely not happening.

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DEA's Alarming Fentanyl Seizure, Nevada's Nearly $1B In Sales, Oregon Raids Yield Hefty Fines & More

DEA Seizes Alarming Amount Of Fentanyl As Overdose Deaths Continue To Soar The Drug Enforcement Administration has seized over 10 million fentanyl pills and roughly 980 pounds of fentanyl powder as part of its enforcement operation conducted from May to September.

Benzinga

DEA Claims Doctors Requesting Psilocybin For Dying Patients Have Commercial Interests

For the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), physicians who seek psilocybin for their dying patients under federal Right to Try (RTT) laws are making a request for a ‘commercial use.’ The DEA is implying that doctors who want to give terminally ill patients psilocybin have a financial interest, making them ineligible for a f

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Inside the quest to recapture Mexican drug lord Caro Quintero

Since 1985, when US DEA agent, Kiki Camarena was killed, a task force has sought to capture the man accused of being involved in the death, now he’s behind bars once again. Kevin Sieff and Mary Beth Sheridan tell the story

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DEA Taken To Court Again For Access To Psilocybin For End-Of-Life Care

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has refused once more to a petition from a doctor to treat terminally-ill patients with psilocybin therapy, following federal and state “Right to Try” (RTT) laws. The agency is being takento court in a new case.

Benzinga

Right To Try Laws: Psilocybin For End-Of-Life Care Poses Ongoing Battle With The DEA

A group of terminally ill patients seeking psilocybin therapy will likely take the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to federal court once again over the agency’s denial to grant access to the treatment under Right To Try (RTT) laws, The Microdose

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Kansas Seized $21 Million From People Over the Past Two Years. Most Were Never Convicted of a Crime

An Americans for Prosperity Foundation report found that less than a quarter of people who had property seized through asset forfeiture by Kansas police were ever convicted of a crime.

Reason

Idaho residents allege DEA, Canyon County agencies used excessive force in drug search

Two years ago, the Drug Enforcement Administration, with the help of two Canyon County law enforcement agencies, searched a home west of Caldwell for drugs. The officers didn’t find any, according to court documents obtained by the Idaho Statesman.

Tribune News Service

South Florida DEA agents charged in scheme to peddle info about drug investigations

MIAMI — A current Drug Enforcement Administration agent and a retired agent — both of whom had worked in the agency’s Miami field office for years — surrendered Friday on corruption charges involving the payment of thousands of dollars in bribes for confidential investigative information about drug-trafficking suspects.

Miami Herald

U.S. extradites former Honduran police chief on drug charges

A Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) plane took off from the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa on Tuesday morning carrying the country's former police, Juan Carlos "El Tigre" Bonilla, who is being extradited to the United States on drug-trafficking charges.

Reuters

Activists Protest At DEA HQ, Demand Legal Access To Psychedelics For Terminally Ill Patients

Activists held a protest, including a die-in outside of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) headquarters in Virginia.

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'DEA Has Blown It Again' - MMJ Request Federal Court Action For Emergency Motion To Expedite

Megan Sheehan of Sheehan & Associates, Attorneys representing MMJ International Holdings and MMJ BioPharma Cultivation etal, scheduled to execute on clinical trials in Huntington's disease and multiple sclerosis, filed a motion in federal court against the Drug Enforcement Administration, asking the federal court for "an emergency motion for irrepa

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U.S. extradition jet for Hondura's Hernandez due later on Thursday

A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) plane due to be used for the extradition of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez is set to arrive in Honduras at 1 p.m. local time (1900 GMT), police in the country said on Thursday.

Reuters

U.S. plane scheduled to extradite Honduran ex-President Hernandez on Thursday

A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) plane is scheduled to land in Honduras on Thursday to extradite former President Juan Orlando Hernandez to the United States, a presidential adviser to the Central American nation said Wednesday.

Benzinga

U.S. Produced Cannabis Has Supplanted Mexican Marijuana According To The DEA

According to a budget document from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) titled “FY 2023 Performance Budget Congressional Budget Submission,” Mexican marijuana “has largely been supplanted by domestic produced marijuana.”

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DEA Under Fire For Blocking Psilocybin As Treatment For Terminally Ill Cancer Patients

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will face activists at its headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, reported Mary-Elizabeth Gifford and Justin Grant of Lucid News. Protestors intend to block the entrance to the building to call attention to the rights

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Drugs that treat opioid use disorder are a good use for multibillion-dollar settlement funds

States, cities, counties and tribal governments across the nation will soon receive a windfall through several major opioid settlements. Drug distributors and manufacturers, including Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family members who own it, will relinquish a total of about US$32 billion for their role in the overdose crisis. Other…

Tribune News Service

Colorado fentanyl deaths believed to be the most lethal single such event in US

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The shocking fentanyl overdose deaths of five young people in a Commerce City apartment last weekend marked an ugly milestone for Colorado: It was the country’s largest single fentanyl overdose event the Drug Enforcement Administration believes it has seen in one place at one time.

Benzinga

DEA's Psychedelics Ban To Get Hearing After Advocates Revolt Over Proposed Scheduling

Researchers and advocates are seemingly poised to win the battle against the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) and its proposal to ban five psychedelic compounds, Marijuana Moment writes.

Miami Herald

Colombian businessman and Maduro ally Alex Saab worked as DEA informant, court papers reveal

MIAMI — A Colombian businessman held in Miami on charges of paying bribes to Venezuelan government officials worked as a confidential informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and turned over millions of his profits to the DEA before he failed to surrender in 2019, according to a federal court…

The Independent UK

Businessman close to Maduro was DEA informant, records show

Newly unsealed court records show that a Colombian businessman linked to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was secretly signed up by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a cooperating source in 2018 and gave agents information about bribes he paid to Venezuelan officials

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Lawmakers Send Bipartisan Letter To DEA: Allow Psilocybin Treatment Under Right-To-Try Laws

Bipartisan members of Congress sent a letter on Tuesday requesting that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) allow terminally ill patients to use psilocybin as an investigational treatment without the fear of federal prosecution, reported Marijuana

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