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NEW YORK: US authorities said they had arrested a Japanese yakuza organised crime leader and three Thai men who trafficked heroin and methamphetamine and tried to acquire surface-to-air missiles for rebel groups in Myanmar and Sri Lanka.

Bangkok Post

Robin Abcarian: Congress says it's liberalizing pot research laws. What pot researchers really need is money

Despite some recent baby steps, the untangling of the federal government's enduring and preposterous opposition to cannabis as a medicine or recreational substance is going to take a long, long time.

Los Angeles Times

Cocaine godmother: The wild real life story behind the ‘chameleon’ drug queen portrayed by Sofia Vergara

Griselda Blanco’s psychotic spiral from drug-fuelled orgies to homicidal paranoia, igniting Miami’s cocaine war, is getting a Hollywood glow up, writes Justin Vallejo

The Independent UK

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At a Tennessee crossroads, 2 pharmacies, a monkey and millions of pills

CELINA, Tenn. — It was about 1 a.m. on April 19, 2016, when a burglary alarm sounded at Dale Hollow Pharmacy in Celina, a tiny town in the rolling, wooded hills near the Kentucky border.

Tribune News Service

Paul Herman death: The Sopranos and The Irishman actor dies aged 76

Star who also appeared in ‘Goodfellas’ and ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ died on his birthday

The Independent UK

DEA-Licensed Cannabis Producer Bright Green Corp Heading For NASDAQ, Current Valuation $650M

Bright Green Corp., a Fort Lauderdale-based company with conditional approval from the DEA to produce cannabis, is filing to list its shares on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol “BGXX”.

Benzinga

Psyched: Third Michigan City Decriminalizes Psychedelics, MindMed Reports $133M Cash Position, Real Brands To Enter The Space

The psychedelics legislative landscape continues to move forward with Hazel Park, Michigan enacting decriminalization measures for naturally-produced psychedelic molecules, becoming the third city in the state to do so after Ann Arbor and Detroit. In Utah, Governor Cox signed a psychedelics research bill into law and positive legislation around psilocybin is continuing…

Benzinga

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Mob boss Daniel Kinahan's 'mafia' pal extradited to Italy six months after dramatic Dubai arrest

In what could spell future trouble for Kinahan himself, Raffaele Imperiale has been extradited to Italy six months after his dramatic arrest in Dubai

Irish Mirror

K-Rail: 70% of land need to be acquired in advance

Foreign bank loans for semi-high-speed rail project

The Hindu

Real Brands Enters Medical Psychedelics Market, Partners With Marcu & Arora For Licensure, R&D

Real Brands Inc. (OTCQB:RLBD) will become a premier provider of medical psychedelics. As Phase 1 of laying the groundwork, Real Brands has entered a partnership with consulting firm Marcu Arora to apply for DEA licensure for psychedelics, including defining the protocols for application and focus of the formulation research and development and for…

Benzinga

Wikileaks’ Assange to Marry in Prison

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his fiancée Stella Moris will get married on Wednesday, at the high-security London prison where he is being held during his extradition case. Assange, 50, is fighting attempts to remove him from the UK to face trial in the United States over the publication of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

WikiLeaks' Assange to marry in prison

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his fiancée Stella Moris get married on Wednesday, at the high-security London prison where he is being held during his extradition case.

Bangkok Post

Fentanyl test strips could reduce overdoses, deaths. Florida Legislature said no to legalizing them

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — With overdoses and deaths caused by fentanyl surging several of South Florida’s most prominent elected officials sought a change in state law to legalize inexpensive test strips that can detect its presence, a step they said could save thousands of lives.

Tribune News Service

Michigan Colleges Poised To Lead Marijuana Education In America If DEA Agrees

Michigan’s Marijuana Regulatory Agency (MRA) recently created a new license type that allows universities to purchase or produce their own cannabis for educational purposes.

Benzinga

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Congressman Perlmutter Pushes For Senate Approval Of Marijuana Banking Bill, Pledges To Be A 'Real Pest'

Last month, the U.S. House of Representatives formally attached a cannabis banking reform amendment to large-scale legislation dealing with innovation and manufacturing.

Benzinga

First DEA-Approved Company To Harvest Cannabis For Medical Research Says It Was Worth All The Effort

The York County, PA-based Groff North America claims to be the first company in the U.S.

LiveScience

14 of the deadliest natural disasters in history

The world's deadliest natural disasters span more than 2,500 years of human history and include earthquakes, tsunamis and cyclones.

Reason

Several Justices Seem Dismayed at the Idea That Doctors Can Be Accidentally Guilty of Drug Trafficking

The Supreme Court is considering what standard should apply to prescribers accused of violating the Controlled Substances Act.

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Chicago Sun-Times

The real-life ‘Narcos’ agents on the hunt for drug lord Pablo Escobar, the Netflix series and Chicago’s place in drug trafficking

Retired DEA agents Steve Murphy and Javier Peña say Netflix took some liberties. But Peña acknowledges unwittingly working with a death-squad leader to locate Escobar.

Reason

SCOTUS Needs to Clarify the Line Between Doctors and Drug Dealers

Patients suffer when physicians who prescribe opioids in good faith can face decades in prison.

Tribune News Service

Colorado fentanyl deaths believed to be the most lethal single such event in US

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The shocking fentanyl overdose deaths of five young people in a Commerce City apartment last weekend marked an ugly milestone for Colorado: It was the country’s largest single fentanyl overdose event the Drug Enforcement Administration believes it has seen in one place at one time.

Benzinga

DEA Proposal To Criminalize 5 More Psychedelics: Judge Grants Hearing For Opposition To Make A Case

This article was originally published on Psychedelic Spotlight and appears here with permission.

Benzinga

DEA's Psychedelics Ban To Get Hearing After Advocates Revolt Over Proposed Scheduling

Researchers and advocates are seemingly poised to win the battle against the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) and its proposal to ban five psychedelic compounds, Marijuana Moment writes.

Miami Herald

Colombian businessman and Maduro ally Alex Saab worked as DEA informant, court papers reveal

MIAMI — A Colombian businessman held in Miami on charges of paying bribes to Venezuelan government officials worked as a confidential informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and turned over millions of his profits to the DEA before he failed to surrender in 2019, according to a federal court…

The Guardian - US

Maduro ally informed US about bribing Venezuelan officials, court filing claims

Alex Saab, facing charge in Miami of siphoning $350m via US, allegedly agreed to be ‘active law enforcement source’ for DEA

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