Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg, seriously this isn’t the half-of-it!) list of U.S. drug related crimes and oddities for the month of December 2018:
Southwest of of Malpelo Island, Colombia, U.S. Coast Guard personnel capture bales of cocaine dumped by a drug boat they were chasing, 02DEC2018.
U.S. Coast Guard personnel assist Costa Rican Drug Police (Policia Control de Druga) in cataloging 1.7 tons of cocaine captured on a ‘fishing boat’, 05DEC2018.
U.S. Coast Guard captured this boat, full of drugs, 242 miles southeast of Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, 30DEC2018.
New York Times: The never ending failed War on Drugs has resulted in police becoming de facto prosecutors, even without formal charging authority, and in violation of the Constitution
NBCNews: Legal marijuana made big promises on racial equity — and fell short
The proven to be a failure DARE program (LiveScience: Was D.A.R.E. Effective? VOX: Why anti-drug campaigns like DARE fail VICE: We Asked Seven Drug Addicts What They Learned from D.A.R.E. Time: Just Say No to DARE Common Sense for Drug Policy: DARE Admits Failure) is now trying to claim victory, boasting that teenaged drug use is down, oops, except in regards to marijuana use, which is going back up. So teenagers are just switching drugs.
Two people arrested for trying to smuggle drugs into two different prisons
Dozens Arrested in MPD Drug Sting
ALASKA: Is testing student athletes for drugs and alcohol effective?
31 years of Alaska drug arrests revealed
ARIZONA: Photos: Border busts 2018
50-foot-long drug tunnel discovered in Nogales
Meth Seizures Triple in Arizona
Prison time, mental illness, drugs all commonalities in Phoenix
ARKANSAS: police chief arrested on evidence tampering, drug charges
Little Rock-based Drug Enforcement Administration agent accused of taking bribe to shield dealer
18 of the Biggest Border Busts of 2018
San Quentin Deaths Come Amid Increase in Drug Overdoses at Prison
Born on drugs: Babies from addicted moms are increasing
The legalization of marijuana is actually helping drug gangs to sell drugs illegally
Who is dying of drug overdoses? Not who you might think
California’s anti-gun laws did nothing to stop illegal drug dealers from buying a rocket launcher
Million-dollar bra? Woman allegedly smuggles black tar heroin in undergarment
USS Vandergrift off-loads 8.5 tons of cocaine at Naval Base San Diego, 19DEC2018.
Video of British empire Royal Canadian Navy Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) Edmonton off-loading 5-thousand-1-hundred pounds of cocaine in San Diego, 07DEC2018:
COLORADO: Social media helps police bust drug gang
Despite marijuana being legal in Colorado, a supposedly legitimate businessman asked for a hidden compartment to be installed in a Dodge Charger, which turned out to be stolen, then federal level cops where tipped-off who then discovered an organized drug gang operating across the U.S. More proof that if you legalize something it doesn’t mean it will end crimes associated with it.
CONNECTICUT: teacher fired over medical marijuana card
State fines Avon Old Farms nurse for inappropriately prescribing drugs
Connecticut led investigation of generic ‘cartel’ expands to 300 drugs
DELAWARE: Teacher with history of alcohol arrests pleads guilty
Man Arrested With 7800 Bags of Heroin
In the small state, 112 drug incidents reported in one week
FLORIDA: Mexican drug lord guilty of smuggling 12,000 kilos of cocaine into Florida
‘Operation Crazy 8’ nets 21 arrests in painkiller drug trafficking ring
13 charged, 20 pounds of meth seized in ‘Operation Polar Pop’
‘Operation Dry Ice’ nets 17 suspects, more arrests
Detectives clean up with 30 arrests in Operation City Sweep
18 members of the “Bird Gang” arrested for drug dealing
man beats up girlfriend because she won’t share her drugs
narcotics cop caught leading meth ring
GEORGIA: Fentanyl is the deadliest drug in America, Atlanta based CDC confirms
Cotton candy or meth? ‘Failure of the system’ leaves innocent woman jailed
Jacksonville supplier, 23 others indicted in drug ring bust
Craving for hot wings leads to huge drug bust
GUAM: Expired license plate leads to meth bust
Man complains about barking dogs, gets busted with drugs
Woman caught smuggling drugs into prison
Man with Chinese name, accused of drug dealing in Nevada, captured in Guam
HAWAII: Thousands of Hawaiian teens admit to injecting illegal drugs
Man stabbed in front of Waikiki hotel in botched drug deal
Federal investigation focuses on local pain clinic
State Police capture 8-hundred pounds of illegal marijuana in rural eastern Idaho
Retired Boise christian priest blames depression and drugs for child pornography crimes
A 3rd prison guard pleads guilty to drug trafficking crimes
Many of Idaho’s opioid users prescribed unsafe drug combos
overdoses killed 14 out of every 100,000 Idahoans in 2017
Near the LDS controlled town of Rexburg a man high on LSD went naked into a convenience store
ILLINOIS: Chicago-native ‘El Chapo’ cocaine distributor describes national U.S. drug-selling network
10 suicides and 10 O-Ds in just one county in 2018
INDIANA: HIV outbreak: ‘Hope is alive’ in drug-ravaged town
Infants suffering from drug crisis
IOWA: teacher arrested, accused of being drunk at school
meth problem leads to harsh prison terms
woman sentenced after trying to use a Pop-Tart to sneak meth into jail
Meth treatment admissions rising
KANSAS: teacher arrested for trafficking meth
Man bitten by his illegal pet cobra, gets arrested for drugs
Illegal drugs sold out of barbershop just five blocks from police HQ
A once free life saving drug will now cost you $375,000 a year
KENTUCKY: Meth floods Northern Kentucky
Taxpayer funded city employee arrested on drug trafficking
Court rules secret OxyContin papers should be released
LOUISIANA: Local police chief proves Facebook is Fake News Central after admitting that his own post about meth containing zika virus was a lie! He now claims it was just a stunt to grab people’s attention! In truth it was a piss-poor failed attempt to catch meth users by telling them to “Please bring all of it to your local Police Department and they will test it for free”. It was also revealed that other police departments across the U.S. have made the same feeble-minded attempt to catch meth users.
failed drug test rate exceeds national average, officials blame Texas
Woman tried to smuggle drugs to boyfriend in Gretna jail
Guard at Angola Maximum-Security Prison Arrested for meth
MAINE: the drugs most prescribed in Maine
Welcome to the Church of Safe Injection
MARYLAND: Cop went from a decorated commander to stealing drugs
State Retirees Join Together To Keep Prescription Drugs
MASSACHUSETTS: drug bust nets 40,000 bags of heroin, 490 grams of cocaine
State senator O-Ded on drug used to execute prisoners
You May Be Denied Life Insurance For Carrying Naloxone
Already complaints of racism regarding the new marijuana law!
MICHIGAN: new marijuana law brings confusion
Carfentanil Eyed as a Deadly Culprit
Did the cops do the dirty work of a drug dealer hit-man?
MINNESOTA: most common drug offenses aren’t for opioids – they’re for meth
Opioid epidemic is driving thousands of children into foster homes
1900 pain pills stolen by nursing facility employee
MISSISSIPPI: overdose deaths associated with ‘fake’ drugs
sheriff arrested for drug trafficking, witness retaliation
MISSOURI: Woman admits to being on drugs when she killed
Owner of youth basketball association busted for drugs
Using CBD products? Beware risk of positive drug test
MONTANA: U.S. postmaster in Miles City sentenced for meth-ring involvement
NEBRASKA: woman arrested in largest drug bust in Stanton County history
record drug seizures by State police
Charges Against CBD Shop Owners Dropped
What is driving the meth crisis?
NEVADA: death row prisoner sought deadly drug for suicide
NEW HAMPSHIRE: National Guard Joins state Department Of Education for new war on drugs in classrooms
2 face charges in death of child exposed to illegal drugs
NEW JERSEY: Heroin bust in Logan ‘historical’
8 residents charged in drug bust
Man Who Won Lottery Twice Arrested on Drug Charges
NEW MEXICO: Bodies found on mesa are those of missing teen boys, “drug deal that may have gone bad”
Newborn drug dependency on the rise
Drug smuggler arrested at high school basketball game
woman sold prescription painkillers out of her home
NEW YORK: Popular Celebrity Spot Shut Down After Drug Bust
How a 9-1-1 call can turn into a felony, or, why you shouldn’t help a drug addict to kick the habit
Man, 62, Killed in West Village Drug Deal Gone Wrong
Sadist cops force hospital to physically probe man’s rectum for drugs despite an X-ray already showing no drugs; “The whole thing is cuckoo nuts……..What country are we living in?” (no drugs were found during the court ordered rectum rape)
NORTH CAROLINA: $5M worth of cocaine
24 arrested in large-scale drug trafficking operation
22 alleged drug dealers arrested in the ’12 Days of Christmas’ drug bust
teacher, coach charged with selling drugs at school
NORTH DAKOTA: drug-fueled naked display at church
OHIO: new state rules for prescription of opioids
Akron is the new supply hub for illegal drugs
Cellphones in prisons enable drug deals
OKLAHOMA: councilman arrested after drug bust
police officer arrested on drug charges
prison worker charged after maximum security shakedown
Food Truck Owner Busted For Drugs
Cops find drugs hidden inside woman
Drug Dealer Allegedly Killed Customer With AR-15
OREGON: Three Storage Units Full of Drugs
Cops ignorantly declare victory in the never ending drugs war after arresting 29 people
firefighter arrested on drugs, weapon allegations
‘Magic mushrooms’ may soon be legal
PENNSYLVANIA: School districts can’t handle medical marijuana
Authorities Uncover $8 Million-a-Week Drug Operation
State health department gives away thousands of Naloxone-Narcan overdose-reversal kits
Court rules mothers’ drug use in pregnancy isn’t child abuse
18 arrested in ‘Operation K-O’d’
Drug dealers accused of assassinating New Jersey bank executive
RHODE ISLAND: Rite Aid pays piddly state fine for ‘over-dispensing’ drugs
cafe owner arrested on drug charges
three years old boy eats cocaine
SOUTH CAROLINA: Three Clemson University football players fail the NCAA drug test
Teens wounded after drug deal goes sour
23 people arrested in time for xmas
Twenty-seven gang members charged
assistant principal busted on drug charges
Despite statewide prison lockdowns, prisoners used dairy farm, bakery, and State House to smuggle drugs
SOUTH DAKOTA: first female-led anti-meth rally in prison
TENNESSEE: teacher charged with meth possession
death row prisoners want electrocution instead of lethal drugs
nurse gives lethal dose of wrong drug
doctor charged with ‘massive opioid fraud distribution’
TEXAS: After five years of selling illegal drugs, cops finally shutdown Mexican drug op
Power crazed cops Point Gun at Woman’s Head During Raid, turns out they raided the wrong house!
UTAH: Five people accused of trying to smuggle drugs to prisoners
defense attorney who smuggled drugs into jail is arrested again
How will the Medical Cannabis Act impact employee drug testing?
VERMONT: 15 suspected drug dealers arrested following an uptick in opioid overdoses
U.S. Virgin Islands: 
U.S. Coast Guard personnel off-load 2-thousand pounds of cocaine (and three smugglers) in Saint Thomas, 14DEC2018. Apparently it was captured after a ten hours chase of drug ‘fast boats’.
VIRGINIA: 19 charged
WASHINGTON: High school students struggle with addiction
drug bust snags dealers linked to Mexico
Washington DC: Who needs school cops when tax funded school districts are hiring drug dealers to be ‘violence interrupters’? (and yes, they still employ school cops)
WEST VIRGINIA: U.S. population death spiral starts with O-Ds in West Virginia
Legal drug maker poured 3-Million opioids into one small town in just 10 months!
WISCONSIN: Woman hides dead body in drug house
Woman accused of operating a drug house
Man shoots self because the drugs told him to
Mother faces drug charges after newborn dies
Columbia County panel O-Ks jail-based drug treatment
WYOMING: Baby tests positive for meth
Drugs, the American Way, November 2018: ‘WAR ZONE’