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Law enforcement is sounding the alarm over new rainbow fentanyl pills, which according to the Drug Enforcement Agency, are marketed for your kids. They have popped up in 21 states now, including a big seizure in Michigan of purple and rainbow fentanyl pills. "They're marketing strategy by traffickers to creating addiction in children and young adults," said Special Agent in Charge Orville Greene, DEA, Detroit Field Office. "They look like prescription drugs."

Transients are everywhere in Garberville, a tiny town with fewer than 1,000 residents. Dozens have set up a tent city on a hill just outside of town, dubbed “Hippie Hill.” The problem has given rise to a movement in Garberville to take back the town from vagrants and drug addicts who vandalize and burglarize homes and businesses, do hard drugs in public, urinate in the streets and harass tourists, who are now shunning the town. “There is a bit of a community revolt,” said Humboldt County Sheriff’s Sgt. Jesse Taylor, who is based in Garberville. Allen said she carries a...

The issue of drug legalization is a complex one. Most Americans do not favor it, yet there is a strong and very vocal lobby in the United States that feels that legalization would be the proper course to take. When this vocal minority raises the issue in any community, citizens look to the police chief to speak to the issue. Police chief are encouraged to borrow from this article as they prepare their speeches. ProponentsÂ’ Arguments Proponents of drug legalization believe that the current policies regarding drugs have been harmful to individuals, families, and society as a whole. They strongly...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico enacted a controversial law on Thursday decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs while encouraging government-financed treatment for drug dependency free of charge. The law sets out maximum "personal use" amounts for drugs, also including LSD and methamphetamine. People detained with those quantities will no longer face criminal prosecution; the law goes into effect on Friday.

Rush Limbaugh's longtime drug supplier Wilma Cline has angrily denied his lawyer's claim that she and her husband tried to blackmail the conservative talk show host. Wilma, Rush's former housekeeper, spoke out as a judge in West Palm Beach, Fla., dealt Limbaugh, 53, a major blow by ruling that his medical records could be examined by prosecutors as part of an "ongoing criminal investigation." It was the second setback for Limbaugh in 24 hours: Earlier a spokeswoman for his radio network revealed that behind the scenes his attorneys were trying to work out a plea bargain on charges of "doctor...

March 10, 2003 -- Most of you know what a 'sig' is, but for the uninitiated; it's a ‘canned’ message or information that’s automatically attached to the end of an e-mail. This morning while perusing a mailing list, I came across a someone’s sig that informed me: Politically correct speech is just government censorship. I mumbled back at my computer screen, "Political correctness is a straw man that blowhard reactionaries attack in lieu of reasonable refutations of sensible arguments for progress." I am tired of people who set themselves up as the heroic opponents of the vague adversary that is...