Drugs News

The Drug Enforcement Administration says it has busted one of the largest drug rings in the Hampton Roads area.

Two guards at a Northwest Florida prison are accused of smuggling marijuana and cell phones into the facility.

Indianapolis police say a 4-year-old boy fired the shot that killed his 3-year-old playmate.

Federal agents in California said they seized nearly 450,000 marijuana plants worth about $2 billion during a raid in two national forests.

A Elisabetta Canalis, a former showgirl who has been expected to marry American actor George Clooney, has been implicated in a sex and drugs scandal involving businessmen, celebrities and prostitutes, according to several reports out of Italy.

On the cover of "Mustaine," a new autobiography from the frontman of metal band Megadeth, a more youthful, almost-cherub version of Dave Mustaine stares impassively at the reader.

The death of Coronel, 56, is the biggest strike yet against Sinaloa cartel led by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman - Mexico's top drug lord - since President Felipe Calderon launched a military offensive against drug traffickers in late 2006.

An herb and chemical blend dubbed K2 that is sold legally in the U.S. as incense but produces a marijuana-like high when smoked is landing a rising number of people in emergency rooms, doctors said.

Nearly a fifth of Colorado's medical marijuana dispensary operators could be forced out of business in coming weeks because of new state rules barring some convicted felons from the pot business, federal drug authorities say.

Federal and state agents have arrested nearly 100 people in a sweep of marijuana-growing operations that's netted more than $1.7 billion worth of pot in California's Sierra Nevada range.

The majority of medical marijuana dispensary owners in Colorado have criminal records, and 18 percent were previously convicted of felonies, Drug Enforcement Administration statistics show.

A package addressed from "Grandpa Henderson" in San Diego to "Grandma Henderson" in Talladega, Ala., wasn't ordinary mail, and it wasn't picked up by any grandmother.

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A suspected drug cartel lieutenant with a quarter-million-dollar reward on his head was captured in the border state of Chihuahua, where rival gangs are waging a bloody turf war, police said Wednesday.

Schapelle Corby in the Trijata Police Hospital in Indonesia where was treated for mental illness.

A woman has been charged after a 1-year-old child was found to have cocaine and PCP in his system early Sunday at her Garfield Park neighborhood home on the West Side, police said.

Congress is reducing sentencing differences between crack and powder cocaine convictions that sent tens of thousands of blacks to prison while often letting whites skate for possessing the same amount of the drug in powder form.

A 19-year-old Kentucky woman who has been missing for more than a week is believed to be with a registered sex offender who has a history of kidnapping and unlawful confinement, authorities said Tuesday.

"Celebrity Rehab" might have had trouble coming up up with a superstar for its upcoming season, but it has a superstar's sibling in Eric Roberts.

Sugarloaf Township police seized about $10,000 in heroin and drug-manufacturing paraphernalia from a Nanticoke man's home following his arrest Friday on drug charges, Sgt.