Drugs - Page 2

Police in New York City are warning residents of a drug from Colombia named tusi that has been flooding the Big Apple.

Pope Francis pulled no punches in his condemnation of drug dealers, calling them “murderers” and drug liberalization laws a “fantasy.”

Approximately 30.3 tons of fentanyl have crossed the nation’s southern border since President Joe Biden (D) took office, the Republican National Committee (RNC) said Friday.

Parents of Paige Gibbons, a college freshman at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in New York in 2022, reveal that the 19-year-old died that year after ingesting what she thought was Percocet but turned out to be fentanyl.

A drug task force seized approximately 25,000 fentanyl pills being kept in a backpack under a baby’s crib at a home in San Jose, California.

A grandmother is accused of exposing her granddaughter to fentanyl after passing out in her parked car from her own alleged fentanyl use.

A mother and father were arrested in Smith County, Texas, on Monday morning for allegedly hiding fentanyl pills inside their baby’s diaper.

Jordanish Torres-Garcia said he got out of a green car at a traffic light and pointed a semiautomatic rifle at a woman in Florida.

Doctors in Oregon are reportedly seeing a rise in pregnant women using fentanyl, which is ultimately causing newborns to begin their lives struggling with withdrawal symptoms.

Two alleged drug dealers in San Jose, California have been charged with murder for their role in the fentanyl death of a toddler in 2023.

“We don’t want the gangsters anymore,” said longtime Christiania resident Hulda Mader as the district shut down “Pusher Street”.

The pilot who died during a hot air balloon crash in Arizona in January reportedly had the drug ketamine in his system at the time.

An Alabama man was arrested on April Fools’ Day for allegedly hiding fentanyl pills inside plastic Easter eggs, according to law enforcement. 

Oregon’s Democrat governor signed a bill on Monday that restores criminal penalties for possessing small amounts of drugs as the problems of addiction and overdose plague residents across the state.  

A K-9 Officer in Lane County, Oregon, is being praised for helping make two significant back-to-back drug busts which potentially saved lives.

Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed a bill on Thursday that would have legalized the sale of recreational cannabis.

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that could have a significant impact on how mifepristone is prescribed in the United States.

The bill is aimed at combating fentanyl overdoses among children after the deaths of three Bay Area infants and toddlers. 

A New York City man is suing Burger King for $15 million for allowing a location to be turned into an “open air drug bazaar” that’s ruining the surrounding neighborhood.

A police officer in Greece was arrested on drugs charges for allegedly using his service car to smuggle marijuana.

Residents of San Francisco’s Tenderloin district have taken legal action to remedy the troubling problems facing their neighborhood.

A study suggests daily cannabis users have a 25 percent increased risk of a heart attack and a 42 percent increased risk of a stroke.

The Central Minnesota Violent Offender Task Force seized nearly 5,000 fentanyl pills after an investigation into multiple fatal overdoses.

A disgraced Oregon father is accused of giving his daughter’s 12-year-old friends laced smoothies while they were at his home for a sleepover.

The Virginia state House and Senate agreed on Wednesday on a bill that would establish a legal market for recreational marijuana. 

Since Democrats in Oregon decriminalized drug use in 2020, reality hit hard and they are now seeking to recriminalize it.

Cholnan Srikaew, the health minister of Thailand, said on Thursday that recreational marijuana will be banned by the end of 2024. Thailand was the first Southeast Asian country to legalize medical marijuana in 2018, followed by recreational use in 2022.

Former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign released a new video on Thursday morning highlighting the surge in crimes–particularly murders being committed by illegal aliens ahead of Trump’s visit later in the day to the U.S. border with Mexico.

Officials in Las Vegas reportedly seized over 90,000 illicit fentanyl pills and other drugs from two men on Wednesday, the incident happening while a child was at the scene.

Three Florida mothers are taking a stand to inform the public about the dangers of fentanyl after losing their children to the deadly drug.

A 19-year-old Brazilian social media influencer is calling for justice after saying she was drugged, beaten, and raped by a group of male influencers at a party.

Former boxing champion Mike Tyson has called on President Joe Biden to grant clemency to all federal marijuana offenders.

Darius Rucker, singer for Hootie & The Blowfish, was arrested on Thursday for a minor drug offense in Tennessee. 

A toxicology report found cocaine and other illegal drugs were inside the three Kansas City Chiefs fans who froze to death outside a home.

The colorful former president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, stepped up an already bitter feud with his successor Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Tuesday by accusing him of seeking dictatorial power.

A Florida mother is in custody after her 9-month-old baby boy died of a fentanyl overdose in October of 2023.