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U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    Chandler Police and the Drug Enforcement Agency Want You to Fork Over Your Old Prescription Pills

    ladybunny.netIf this is what your martinis look like, you may want to make a trip to the Chandler Police Department on April 30.​Instead of getting high off those expired, unused, or unwanted prescription drugs you have at home, give them to the Chandler Police Department and the Drug Enforcem ... More >>

  • News

    February 3, 2011

    Arizona's Medical-Marijuana Pioneers Don't Know the Final Rules of the Game Yet -- But They Are Certain of the Prize

    ladybunny.netIf this is what your martinis look like, you may want to make a trip to the Chandler Police Department on April 30.​Instead of getting high off those expired, unused, or unwanted prescription drugs you have at home, give them to the Chandler Police Department and the Drug Enforcem ... More >>

  • News

    January 13, 2011

    Why Snorting "Bath Salts" Is Popular -- and Dangerous

    ladybunny.netIf this is what your martinis look like, you may want to make a trip to the Chandler Police Department on April 30.​Instead of getting high off those expired, unused, or unwanted prescription drugs you have at home, give them to the Chandler Police Department and the Drug Enforcem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2010

    Border Agents Find 22 Pounds of Heroin in Truck Engine

    www.icanhascheezburger.com​We don't claim to be well-versed in the black tar heroin trade, but a pound of heroin seems like a lot. That said, 22 pounds of heroin seems like a shit load -- and that's exactly how much of it border agents found in the engine of a pickup truck that tried to cross into ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    Tempe Police Want Your Drugs -- So They Can Destroy Them

    www.icanhascheezburger.com​If you happen to have any drugs laying around that you don't feel like enjoying need anymore, the Tempe Police Department is happy to take them off your hands -- so they can destroy them.The TPD, in collaboration with the Drug Enforcement Administration, is holding a "dr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2010

    Stripper Pole Action, Devo Devastates, Primus' Spacemen, and Other Highlights From Day Two of Arizona Fall Frenzy

    Luke HolwerdaDevo performs yesterday during day two of Arizona Fall Frenzy.​Whoever was manning the hose at Arizona Fall Frenzy had a perfect sense of timing.Temps soared into the triple digit range during the second day of the three-day concert, but luckily the promoters thought ahead and man ... More >>

  • News

    August 19, 2010

    High Science: Synthetic Marijuana Is Legal, and It Might Get You High -- But Is It Safe?

    Luke HolwerdaDevo performs yesterday during day two of Arizona Fall Frenzy.​Whoever was manning the hose at Arizona Fall Frenzy had a perfect sense of timing.Temps soared into the triple digit range during the second day of the three-day concert, but luckily the promoters thought ahead and man ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    Heroin-Filled Hiking Boots Earn Mexican Doctor Seven-Year Prison Sentence

    www.nrainsights.com​Two Mexican men, one a medical doctor, were sentenced to prison yesterday for their participation in a heroin-trafficking conspiracy that stretched from a drug cartel in Colombia, through Arizona, and all the way to New York City.Dr. Jose David Portillo-Lopez, 39,&nb ... More >>

  • News

    February 4, 2010

    High Times: Valley Smokers Buy, Steal, and Inhale JWH-018 to Get High – and They Say It’s Working

    www.nrainsights.com​Two Mexican men, one a medical doctor, were sentenced to prison yesterday for their participation in a heroin-trafficking conspiracy that stretched from a drug cartel in Colombia, through Arizona, and all the way to New York City.Dr. Jose David Portillo-Lopez, 39,&nb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2009

    Marinol Vs. Medical Marijuana: Millions Invested by Paradise Valley Man Trying to Create Stoner Oil

    The Arizona Republic took a sober look this morning at the issue of a marijuana-based drug and the Phoenix company trying to legally earn cartel-level salaries with it. The article covered the toils of wealthy entrepreneur John Kapoor, who has invested $40 million of his own stash in his company, I ... More >>

  • News

    August 7, 2008

    Postmodern John McCain: the presidential candidate some Arizonans know — and loathe

    The Arizona Republic took a sober look this morning at the issue of a marijuana-based drug and the Phoenix company trying to legally earn cartel-level salaries with it. The article covered the toils of wealthy entrepreneur John Kapoor, who has invested $40 million of his own stash in his company, I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2008

    Thomas' TV Propaganda Cites a Drug Statistic Even the DEA Says Is Wrong

    The Arizona Republic took a sober look this morning at the issue of a marijuana-based drug and the Phoenix company trying to legally earn cartel-level salaries with it. The article covered the toils of wealthy entrepreneur John Kapoor, who has invested $40 million of his own stash in his company, I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2008

    Arpaio spouts SOS in new drug-conspiracy documentary

    The Arizona Republic took a sober look this morning at the issue of a marijuana-based drug and the Phoenix company trying to legally earn cartel-level salaries with it. The article covered the toils of wealthy entrepreneur John Kapoor, who has invested $40 million of his own stash in his company, I ... More >>

  • News

    December 8, 2005

    Bad Medicine

    Locking up cold medicine makes the politicians feel good -- but it won't put a dent in Arizona's meth habit

  • News

    November 3, 2005

    The New Boss

    Police have shut down most of the meth labs in Phoenix, but now the drug is a big import from Mexico -- cheap, pure and more plentiful than ever

  • Music

    July 22, 2004

    Just Say No

    A natural drug with an unnatural effect: 5-MeO-DMT.

  • News

    May 8, 2003

    No Rave Review

    A new federal law aimed at raves may put promoters of all music on the defensive

  • News

    March 20, 2003

    Up in Smoke

    Valley glass blowers and head shops fear prosecution, as Operation Pipe Dream shuts down a local manufacturer

  • Music

    May 16, 2002

    B-Boy Wonder

    Megadef is the smack-talking, beat-juggling wild child of an embattled DJ scene

  • News

    February 14, 2002

    The Lesser of Three Evils

    Mexico and U.S. authorities finally captured Arizona's leading drug kingpin. Good work, guys. Now let him go.

  • News

    September 13, 2001

    Big Bong Theory

    Arizona's pro-pot advocates cast first stone in latest national effort to legalize marijuana

  • Film

    January 4, 2001

    American High

    With Traffic, Steven Soderbergh takes on the unwinnable war

  • Music

    January 4, 2001

    Tally How

    Pregnant chads and butterfly ballots abound as we sort through the latest batch of local CD submissions

  • News

    December 21, 2000

    Drug War Cowboys

    The DEA may finally get its man

  • News

    August 3, 2000

    Flashes 08-03-2000

    Undoing Time, They're Baaaaaack, Double Your Pleasure, and Me and Julio

  • News

    April 27, 2000

    Letters 04-27-2000

    Undoing Time, They're Baaaaaack, Double Your Pleasure, and Me and Julio

  • News

    April 6, 2000

    Phoenix or Busted

    The Valley is now the prime way station for ruthless smugglers engaged in the lucrative trafficking of human cargo -- illegal immigrants

  • News

    March 23, 2000

    La Vida Roca

    Some would-be illegals get turned back, then turn to crack

  • News

    December 30, 1999

    City of Coke

    Cocaine from Mexico is the currency that drives gangster economics

  • News

    June 24, 1999

    Rivera's Edge

    After a year on the job, U.S. Attorney Jose de Jesus Rivera looks to be in the right place at the right time

  • News

    January 28, 1999

    Death of a Shopkeeper

    Friends say controversial police sting contributed to store owner's demise

  • News

    August 27, 1998

    The Narc and the Smuggler in the Land of Plenty

    A dying narcotics agent opens his files, and out pours Miguel, just one of a legion of Mexicans who embraced drug-running as their ticket to the American dream

  • News

    May 28, 1998

    Suspects of Convenience

    The sting targeted stores selling over-the-counter medicines that could be cooked into meth. But the cops warned major retailers to stop the sales while throwing the book at mom-and-pop shops, most of which are owned by Arab immigrants.

  • News

    March 19, 1998

    The Internet Internist

    Dr. Pietr Hitzig of Maryland has prescribed a fen-phen panacea for all manner of ailments to thousands of patients he has never met. One of them, Alvin Chernov, killed himself.

  • News

    January 22, 1998

    Meth Mess

    Methamphetamine labs are springing up all over--in homes, apartments, motels. Who's making sure the toxins left behind are cleaned up? Nobody.

  • News

    December 18, 1997

    Methology - Part III

    Arizona is awash in crystal methamphetamine, a highly addictive stimulant that makes the weak strong, the lazy motivated, the fat thin, the trivial profound. Abuse it enough, and it can also make you psychotic.

  • News

    December 18, 1997

    Methology - Part II

    Arizona is awash in crystal methamphetamine, a highly addictive stimulant that makes the weak strong, the lazy motivated, the fat thin, the trivial profound. Abuse it enough, and it can also make you psychotic.

  • News

    December 11, 1997

    The Prying Game

    Arizona is awash in crystal methamphetamine, a highly addictive stimulant that makes the weak strong, the lazy motivated, the fat thin, the trivial profound. Abuse it enough, and it can also make you psychotic.

  • News

    May 8, 1997

    DEA Papers List Canelos Firm

    Drug Enforcement Administration records contain multiple references to a company controlled by a business partner of the Symington family

  • News

    April 17, 1997

    Visa Granted

    Business partner of Symingtons gets pass good for one year

  • News

    March 20, 1997

    Symington Family Partner Under Suspicion

    U.S. authorities suspect a Mexican vegetable grower with business ties to the Symingtons is involved in drug trafficking

  • News

    March 20, 1997

    Inspectors Can Do Little to Stem Tide of Smuggling

    U.S. authorities suspect a Mexican vegetable grower with business ties to the Symingtons is involved in drug trafficking

  • News

    February 20, 1997

    DPS Quits Federal Drug Unit

    U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration laments DPS' withdrawal after 13 years

  • News

    December 12, 1996

    Tokin' Resistance

    Proposition 200 -- the Drug Medicalization Act -- is causing high anxiety among politicians and lawmen

  • News

    April 25, 1996

    Mutiny At The County

    Sheriff Arpaio's deputies say his vaunted posse does little more than waste money and slake their boss's thirst for publicity

  • News

    August 31, 1995

    FEDS PROBE ALLEGED ABUSE IN COUNTY JAILJOE ARPAIO'S FAMOUS JAIL IS NOW THE SUBJECT OF A JUSTICE DEPARTMENT INVESTIGATION INTO POSSIBLE CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

    Sheriff Arpaio's deputies say his vaunted posse does little more than waste money and slake their boss's thirst for publicity

  • News

    January 19, 1995

    BLOOD SPORT

    COCKFIGHTING IS ILLEGAL IN 46 STATES. SIXTEEN OF THEM CONSIDER THE PRACTICE A FELONY. IN ARIZONA, IT'S ENTERTAINMENT.

  • News

    September 8, 1994

    Opiate for the Mrs.

    When laws are broken, somebody's got to be punished. In the case of Cindy McCain, that somebody is Tom Gosinski

  • News

    June 9, 1993

    THE HEMP IRE STRIKES BACK

    CANNABIS CLOTHIER, ACCUSED OF MARIJUANA SMUGGLING, IS ON THE LAM

  • News

    January 13, 1993

    THE THAI CONNECTION

    PROSECUTORS WILL SAY NARCOTICS PLAYED NO ROLE IN THE TEMPLE MURDERS. THE EVIDENCE SUGGESTS OTHERWISE.

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