U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration

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 >>

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

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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

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 >>

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

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

Arpaio spouts SOS in new drug-conspiracy documentary

Bad Medicine

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

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

Just Say No

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

No Rave Review

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

Up in Smoke

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

B-Boy Wonder

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

The Lesser of Three Evils

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

Big Bong Theory

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

American High

With Traffic, Steven Soderbergh takes on the unwinnable war

Tally How

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

Drug War Cowboys

The DEA may finally get its man

Flashes 08-03-2000

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

Letters 04-27-2000

Phoenix or Busted

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

La Vida Roca

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

City of Coke

Cocaine from Mexico is the currency that drives gangster economics

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

Death of a Shopkeeper

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Prying Game

DEA Papers List Canelos Firm

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

Visa Granted

Business partner of Symingtons gets pass good for one year

Symington Family Partner Under Suspicion

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

Inspectors Can Do Little to Stem Tide of Smuggling

DPS Quits Federal Drug Unit

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

Tokin' Resistance

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

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

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

BLOOD SPORT

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

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

THE HEMP IRE STRIKES BACK

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

THE THAI CONNECTION

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