Drugs

"This was a routine traffic stop that ended with a serious poison peddler behind bars," Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said after the arrest of suspect Derick McKay, 36.

Zachary Wester, 26, a former Jackson County Deputy, was arrested on Wednesday after a yearlong investigation determined that he had routinely planted drugs on innocent people after pulling them over at traffic stops.

Trevor Martineau, a guard at Buena Vista Correctional Facility, allegedly crammed 91.4 grams of meth into the burrito, along with 26.1 grams of heroin, 46 strips of suboxone and six thumb drives.

The 46-year-old culprit, who has not yet been named, broke into the cruise ship cabin while suffering from hallucinations, authorities said.

Deputies from the Hardee County Sheriff's Office pulled over suspect Anthony Richardson for a traffic stop. They found he was carrying illegal drugs—and that was not all.

"It's insane to think that Guzman would have all that money," one of "El Chapo" Guzman's attorneys said.

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Jorge Martinez, 18, gave the victim Oxycodone after meeting her at a party she was hosting in Miramar on Monday, police said. The victim is now in a coma.

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China is one of several countries in the region with severe punishments for drug smuggling or trafficking of any kind, even if the individuals caught are foreigners.

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Humans have been cultivating the cannabis plant for thousands of years, but we know very little about when it was first used for its psychoactive properties.

Terry Leon Simmons, 53, from Fort Pierce, was arrested on Friday afternoon on a felony sale and delivery of cocaine charge at his residence.

At around 4:30 a.m. local time on Sunday, deputies from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office pulled over a vehicle at a traffic stop in Tampa. A female deputy immediately noticed that a passenger in the car, later identified as 20-year-old Fabricio Tueros Jimenez, had a white powdery substance on his nose.

A coroner in Louisiana believes he may have investigated the first recorded case of a THC overdose.

All drugs carry a degree of risk, and cannabis is no exception.

Arrest follows a series of large meth haul seizures in recent days.

Defense Department documents obtained by Newsweek show U.S. Northern Command sent an urgent request for additional U.S. forces.

Medical researchers have known for decades that the pipeline for new drugs to stave off bacterial infections would one day run dry. That day is now at hand.

Antibiotics have saved countless lives over the years, but as deadly bacteria grow immune, those miracle drugs stop working.

"We're balancing a very complex mission that's mutlifaceted," said Robert Perez, deputy commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency.

Men have suffered complications including disfigured genitalia.

Mexico's plan points to the failure of the decades-long international war on drugs.

Scientists also found ketamine and a banned pesticides in shrimp.

The report does suggest that violence from Mexican cartels against Defense Department personnel working on the southwest border could increase.

"It's very encouraging to see so many presidential candidates taking a position in line with what the American people want," Matthew Schweich, deputy director of the Marijuana Policy Project, told Newsweek.

Venezuela's political and economic crisis has led to a massive uptick in cocaine-carrying flights.

At least half of pregnancy terminations involve drugs rather than surgery, research has found.

"Mexico understands that we're going to close the border or I'm going to tariff the cars," the president said.

MDMA is known to produce pro-social effects in humans.