U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration

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3 DEA agents killed in Afghan helicopter crash

AP News 26 days ago

3 DEA agents killed in Afghanistan copter crash, first deaths of this kind there Three Drug Enforcement Administration agents were killed Monday when a U.S. military helicopter went down in the west of Afghanistan, U.S. officials said. The casualties mark the first ...

Largest US sting on drug cartel arrests 300-plus

AP News 30 days ago

Largest US sting on Mexican drug operations nabs 300-plus, shows wide scope of drug trade In the largest single strike at Mexican drug operations in the U.S., authorities arrested more than 300 people in a sting that demonstrates an upstart cartel's vast ...

Drug raids targeting Mexican cartel nab 300-plus

AP News 30 days ago

Largest single strike against Mexican drug cartel in US results in 300-plus arrests from raids In the largest single strike at Mexican drug operations in the U.S., federal officials on Thursday announced the arrests of more than 300 people in raids across ...

Feds issue new medical marijuana policy

AP News 33 days ago

Federal government won't prosecute medical marijuana users if they comply with state law Pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers should not be targeted for federal prosecution in states that allow medical marijuana, prosecutors were told Monday in a new policy memo issued ...

Feds to issue new medical marijuana policy

AP News 33 days ago

Federal government won't prosecute medical marijuana users if they comply with state law Federal drug agents won't pursue pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers in states that allow medical marijuana, under new legal guidelines to be issued Monday by the Obama administration. ...

Farmers try to plant hemp at DEA office, arrested

AP News 39 days ago

Protesting farmers arrested while trying to plant hemp at DEA headquarters in Virginia A 51-year-old grandfather who grows garbanzo beans and other crops in northwestern North Dakota was among the protesters arrested for planting hemp seeds on the lawn of the federal ...

Pot legalization gains momentum in California

AP Features 45 days ago

Marijuana advocates are gathering signatures to get as many as three pot-legalization measures on the ballot in 2010 in California, setting up what could be a groundbreaking clash with the federal government over U.S. drug policy. At least one poll shows voters ...

Raid targets Puerto Rico drug gang

AP News 50 days ago

Big US raid targets trafficking network of Puerto Rico's alleged No. 1 drug kingpin Some 500 law officers swarmed into a public housing project and other sites Friday to dismantle a trafficking ring allegedly run by the island's top drug suspect, a ...

Puerto Rico Drug Kingpin

AP News 50 days ago

Suspected drug dealers are arrested by DEA and FBI agents during a raid at a housing project in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, Friday, Oct. 2, 2009. With assault rifles slung over their shoulders, agents swarmed the complex where the suspected kingpin Angel Ayala ...

Senate Judiciary Committee Holds Hearing On Steriods Usage

Getty Images 53 days ago

WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 29: (L-R) Office of Compliance of the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Division Director Michael Levy, Drug Enforcement Administration Deputy Assistant Administrator Joseph Rannazzisi, United States Anti Doping Agency CEO Travis Tygart, Interim Executive ...

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