Tag: drug

Marijuana may soon be a Schedule III drug: What will change?

(NEXSTAR) – The Justice Department took a major step this week, formally moving to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug. The process isn’t finalized yet, but if approved, the plan would drop marijuana from a Schedule I drug to a Schedule III. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) classifies substances into five categories, denoted with Roman […]

Two month undercover investigation leads to arrest with multiple drug charges

The Flager County Sheriff’s office Special Investigations Unit, along with the Problem Area Crime Enforcement (PACE) team and the SWAT team, served a search warrant at 24-A Pine Hurst Lane in Palm Coast on Friday. ▶ WATCH CHANNEL 9 EYEWITNESS NEWS This search warrant was the culmination of a more than two-month-long investigation into Rondal […]

Louisiana State Police conducts multi-parish drug bust

Disclaimer: All persons are presumed innocent until proven guilty. GRAY, La. (WGNO) — Several arrests have been made and multiple drugs have been seized following months of investigation into a possible drug trafficking operation through four parishes. In January, detectives with the Louisiana State Police Criminal Investigations Division-Houma Field Office began investigating in Terrebonne, Lafourche, […]

Trump demands drug test for Biden ahead of first debate

Former President Trump said he wants President Biden to be drug-tested before their first debate. “I’m gonna demand a drug test too, by the way,” Trump said at the Minnesota Republican Party’s Lincoln Reagan Dinner Friday. “I am, no I really am. I don’t want him coming in like the State of the Union, he […]

Imprisoned Jerome man pleads guilty in second drug case

HILLSDALE — A Jerome man already serving two to 20 years in prison for possession with intent to deliver methamphetamine appeared in the 1st Judicial Circuit Court Monday for a plea hearing in a second, unresolved drug case. Jack Wayne-Wesley Bond, 35, is serving his sentence at the Lakeland Correctional Facility in Coldwater. He was […]

Father and son drug dealing duo nabbed

ST. LOUIS – Pictures of seized drugs only tell part of the story of what federal agents cleared from the streets of St. Louis. Authorities say a father and son admitted dealing drugs, valuing in millions of dollars. “This operation was dubbed ‘family business,’” Colin Dickey from the Drug Enforcement Administration told FOX 2 as […]

AstraZeneca’s COVID prevention drug cuts risk of disease in vulnerable patients

(Reuters) -AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 prevention therapy reduced the risk of infection in patients with weaker immunity in a late-stage trial, meeting its primary goal, the drugmaker said on Thursday. The long-acting antibody therapy called sipavibart showed a “statistically significant reduction” in symptomatic COVID-19 cases among immunocompromised patients, the company said. Immunocompromised people include those with blood […]