Medical Marijuana patients have started a petition calling for DEA chief Chuck Rosenberg to removed from office for calling the medicine “a joke”. So far 10,000 people have signed the change.org petition. Rosenberg was quoted […]
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Nation’s Biggest Wiretap Operation May Not Be Legal
Federal drug agents have widely used wiretaps in the Los Angeles area over the past several years to intercept tens of thousands of text messages and phone calls in order to monitor drug traffickers across […]
Federal Court Decision Is A Landmark Victory For Medical Marijuana Providers
The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has been told by a federal court in California to leave medical marijuana dispensaries alone. According to the court, the DEA’s interpretation of a medical marijuana bill that was recently […]
FBI Under New Investigation For Mobile Phone Spying Programs
The U.S Department of Justice is investigating the FBI for information obtained from mass surveillance by the National Security Agency’s (NSA) phone data collection methods. The NSA spying program secretly collected massive amounts of U.S. […]
New DEA Chief Perfectly Happy To Double Down On Wasteful ‘War On Drugs’ Strategy
The country’s new DEA chief has staunchly defended the agency’s ill-fated war on drugs after he emphatically criticized the legalization of marijuana. Lawyers, doctors and the population in general were looking for the new head […]
Bolivia Sees Sharp Drop In Coca Production After Evicting The DEA, Legalizing Drug Farms
Coca plantations in Bolivia are in steep decline after years of battling the drug menace. Since the country kicked out the DEA and the UN approved the first ever coca producing regions, Bolivia’s coca farmers […]
DEA Getting Lazy As Wiretaps Soar 300% Over Nine Years
The FBI isn’t the only U.S. secret police agency to have a case of NSA envy. It’s also not the only one getting lazy, preferring rights eroding technology and rubber stamp approval processes rather than […]
DEA Chief Michele Leonhart To Resign Over Sex Parties
Michele Leonhart, the head of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), is expected to resign in the coming days, a senior administration official said today. The decision came as a result of extensive scandal and corruption […]
Why The String Of Cartel Head Captures Means Nothing
The New York Times reported yesterday that Mexican authorities had captured Juárez Cartel boss Jesús Salas Aguayo, the latest in a string of headlines claiming victories in the war on drugs. Known as ‘The Liquidator’, […]