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Long Drug-Smuggling Tunnel Found Linking San Diego, Tijuana
The entrance of a “narcotics tunnel” was found at a home in Tijuana and was used to discretely cross the U.S.-Mexico border to carry out acts of organized crimes and other illicit activities, authorities in Mexico said.
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Drug Take Back Events Held Across the State
Multiple drug take back events were held in Connecticut on Saturday.
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Virginia Toddlers Exposed to THC Found in ‘Gold Fish Crackers' at Day Care: Sheriff
The Office of the Stafford County Sheriff said that three one year olds were taken to the emergency room after their parents observed “lethargic and uncoordinated behavior, as well as glassy, bloodshot eyes.”
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Cannabis Stocks Are Hot Ahead of a House Panel Hearing on a Federal Legalization Bill
Investor optimism over the possibility of federal cannabis legalization has contributed to a strong rally in beaten-down pot stocks.
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Pfizer Planning to Submit Data on 4th Covid Shot Soon, While Working on Vaccine for All Variants
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla appeared on CNBC exactly two years after Covid was declared a pandemic by the WHO on March 11, 2020.
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Russian Customs Detains American WNBA Player
The Russian Federal Customs Service said they have detained WNBA star Brittney Griner after finding vape cartridges that contained hashish oil in her luggage at the Sheremetyevo airport near Moscow
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Drug Overdoses Are Costing the U.S. Economy $1 Trillion a Year, Government Report Estimates
U.S. government officials said synthetic opioids are akin to “a slow-motion weapon of mass destruction.”
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Police Warn About Fentanyl Use in Teens
Police and health experts are trying to spread the word on how dangerous fentanyl is and hope parents will talk to their kids about those dangers.
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Police Warn of Fentanyl Use in Teens
Hartford Police Sergeant Chris Mastroianni has been giving presentations to parents, teachers, school nurses, and principals to educate them about the dangers of fentanyl after a 13-year-old student overdosed at school and later died. Fentanyl is often packaged in very small bags, similar to the size of a gum wrapper. It costs $2 to $3 per bag, but most are sold…
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Fla. Man Tells Police Drugs Found Wrapped Around Penis Aren't His
Florida authorities said they found cocaine and methamphetamine wrapped around a man’s penis during a traffic stop, but the man denied the drugs were his. Pinellas County sheriff’s deputies said they stopped a vehicle driving without its lights on at 4 a.m. last Saturday. WFLA-TV reports the driver was arrested on charges of DUI and marijuana possession. Authorities said...
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German Cannabis Firm Shares Pop After New Government Pledges to Legalize the Drug
Shares of German cannabis company SynBiotic rose sharply Thursday a day after the incoming government pledged to make the drug legal.
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Democrats Reach a Breakthrough Deal on Drug Prices, as Spending Bill Nears the Finish Line
The plan will grant the government power to regulate the prices of some of the most expensive drugs and limit out-of-pocket costs for seniors.
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Merck Ready to Deploy Tens of Millions of Its Covid Antiviral Pills If Regulators Approve, CEO Says
“We’re on pace to have 10 million courses ready before the end of this year, and more than double that next year,” Merck CEO Robert Davis told CNBC on Thursday.
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4 Arrested During Investigation Into Drugs and Guns at Manchester Hotel
A police investigation into drug and gun trafficking at a Connecticut hotel has led to the arrests of four men, authorities announced on Saturday. A regional police narcotics task force and federal agents focused on the Hawthorn Suites in Manchester this past summer after receiving complaints and reports of gunshots fired, Manchester police Sgt. Shawn Krom said in a statement….
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When One Pill Kills
As part of an NBC News series, One Nation Overdosed, eight different victims and their families share their stories.
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Treasury Department Sanctions 8 Members of the Notorious Sinaloa Drug Cartel, Which Was Once Run by ‘El Chapo'
The Biden administration imposed sanctions Wednesday on eight members of the notorious Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel.
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Treasury Sanctions Colombian Drug Trafficking Queen ‘La Patrona'
The Biden administration imposed sanctions on Zulma Maria Musso Torres, aka ‘La Patrona,’ the woman in charge of a drug trafficking empire based in Colombia.
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Moderna Shares Rise After Company Reveals Single-Shot Vaccine Booster for Covid and Flu
Moderna is developing a single-dose vaccine that combines the company’s Covid vaccine and a flu booster.
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Amsterdam's Coffeeshops, Already Hit by Covid, Fear a Clampdown on Tourists
Europe’s so-called “city of sin” has not been the same since the Covid-19 pandemic struck and coffeeshops, popular with tourists, have been hit.
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Congressional Democrats Want to Let Medicare Negotiate Prices With Drugmakers. Here's What That Could Mean for the Cost of Coverage
Democrats’ $3.5 trillion spending plan calls for reducing Medicare drug costs, which may involve letting the government negotiate pharmaceutical prices.