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Business/Economics, Idaho, U.S.

What Economic Recovery? Don’t forget to add the Sears stores bought by GGP to the closing list. All part of REIT plan to change the way you shop, and they blame you the shopper!

“….those with high occupancies, solvent anchor tenants, good population density and access to affluent shoppers, as stable, low-risk, income-producing assets and will pay up for them today. Poor quality malls, on the other hand, are either not trading or selling at a steep discount, and perhaps are scheduled for demolition or conversion.”-Ryan McCullough, Property and […]

Business/Economics, U.S.

Climate Civil War: Too Big to Jail Banks use saving the Climate as new excuse to steal your money?

“ESG is often celebrated as the new and improved form of capitalism, a movement of sorts….  …While some have a meaningful effect on environmental, social, and governance issues, we learned that others are ineffective if not downright misleading to consumers and investors.”-Reed Watson, Director of the Hayek Center and Professor of Practice in Economics On […]

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‘death party’: Drugs, the American Way, January 2019

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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 January 2019:

South China Morning Post: Mexico’s new president declares ‘drug war’ over

The Guardian:Mexico’s murder rate broke new record in 2018 as drug war drags on

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Logan C. Kellums, 29JAN2019.

Off the coast of Yemen, in the Gulf of Aden, the USN captured  4,700 kilograms of hashish, 24JAN2019.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Logan C. Kellums, 29JAN2019.

It was the second Gulf of Aden hash capture, by the USN, in the past four weeks. The hash boat crew were allowed to sail away after the drugs were confiscated.

U.S. Coast Guard photo, 04JAN2019.

U.S. Coast Guard came across this drug ‘fast boat’, somewhere in the Pacific, 04JAN2019.

New York Times: Former Mexican President and Barack Obama buddy, Enrique Peña Nieto, accepted $100-million bribe from drug lord

U.S. counties where doctors got more meals, trips and consulting fees from opioid makers had higher overdose deaths involving prescription opioids

U.S. News & World Report: Drug Overdose Deaths Skyrocket Among Women

Many Addiction Centers Lack Anti-Opioid Meds

Journal of the American Medical Association: Medical marketing increased substantially….especially DTC (Direct To Consumer) advertising for drugs…only two countries allow DTC drug advertising, New Zealand and United States

ALABAMA: Student busted with guns and drugs on High School campus

man arrested for trading teen girl for drugs

Knives, drugs, more found in Marshall County Jail crackdown

ALASKA:  Federal taxpayers giving Juneau Police Department $2.5-million, the police admitted the drugs war is all about making money for the cops: “Those interdictions are now our bread and butter, whether that’s postal or on the airlines or through the ferry.”-Jeremy Weske, JPD drug unit

Woman indicted for bringing meth, heroin on flight to Juneau

What do drugs in Alaska have to do with President Trump’s ‘border crisis’?

ARIZONA: Nogales border officers make record 254-pound fentanyl bust

Meth, cocaine, heroin: Most gets smuggled through ports of entry.

16 arrested across Pima, Cochise counties

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Sabrina Candiaflores, 22JAN2019.

In Yuma, the USMC tried to convince high school students not to get intoxicated by having them play fun games with vision impairing ‘beer goggles’ on, 22JAN2019.

ARKANSAS: 8 Pounds Of Meth In Washington County

3 pounds of meth found in apartment

Nine arrested 

Co-founder of youth outreach program confesses to federal drug and gun charges

CALIFORNIA: For proof how commonplace drug smuggling has become in the leftist liberal Blue State; dumb repeat offender drug traffickers get arrested for a traffic violation, then while in jail openly reveal their latest major drug trafficking op!

Australian and U.S. cops capture record-setting 1.7 tons of meth worth $1.29 billion

mass drug overdose killed one person and sent more than a dozen to hospitals

new phase of opioid epidemic

New Opioid Laws

Despite an opioid crisis, most ERs don’t offer addiction treatment 

Californians so addicted to prescription drugs that veterinarians must counsel pet owners on pet drugs

San Francisco — where drug addicts outnumber high school students

COLORADO:  Lawmakers so addicted to prescription drugs they want to directly import cheapo foreign made stuff

Despite ganja being legal in the state, cops raid 50 ‘blackmarket’ marijuana growers…since 2014 at least 350 illegal mary-jane growers have been raided by police

Again, despite legalized marijuana, prison population is expected to skyrocket due to drug crimes

Police report record number of cops shot while doing their job, it coincides with an increase in property crimes, specifically stolen vehicles, and if you look at the map of cop shootings you’ll notice it’s along a metro-area drugs trafficking corridor  (so much for legalized marijuana)

CONNECTICUT:  U.S. Postal Service captures 60 packages of cocaine shipped to Connecticut from Puerto Rico

A defense lawyer for a police sergeant accused of running a drug factory out of his home, has withdrawn a request to exclude the public and the press from the courtroom

judge dismisses opioid lawsuits against drug makers

Doctor pleads guilty in compound medicine case 

DELAWARE: Teacher With History of Alcohol Arrests Faces DUI Sentencing

131 drug incidents in one week!

Two men busted for attempting to sneak drugs into Delco prison

Opioid Overdoses Up In 2018

CIVIL FORFEITURE, the real reason local governments love illegal drugs: Despite being acquitted of drug crimes, court decides to keep the more than $13-thousand dollars in cash the thieving cops took from the man, because he can’t prove it’s his cash!

FLORIDA: For the second year in a row, cruise ship passengers arrested on drug charges

man says 3 syringes found in his butt aren’t his

Police dog exposed to ecstasy powder 

Cocaine making a deadly comeback

USCG photo by Petty Officer Third Class Brandon Murray, 31JAN2019.

31JAN2019, five miles east of Haulover Inlet, a Coast Guard ‘smallboat’ intercepts a fishing boat that turned out to be hauling about 130 pounds of cocaine.

USCG District 7 Photo, 07JAN2019.

07JAN2019, at U.S. Coast Guard Station Fort Lauderdale, personnel test seven kilograms of cocaine captured by Homeland Security Investigations, and Customs and Border Protection agents. The drug smugglers were also smuggling illegal immigrants.

GEORGIA: Evidence eaten after teacher allegedly gave students marijuana

26 suspects arrested

15 arrested in $3.5M meth ring bust

Truck carrying $10M worth of liquid meth busted at repair shop

Doctor’s husband accused of prescribing drugs in wife’s name while she’s sitting in jail

Two mothers accused of selling drugs near elementary school

$1M of narcotics from shipping container 

local ‘Smoke shops’ selling illegal drugs to teens

GUAM: Drugs found in Postal Service priority mail packages

HAWAII: Marijuana use in workplace increased

Hawaii County Police Department reveals a few details of massive cop crimes involving drugs and other things, so far seven cops suspended, one forced into early retirement, two fired! Cop crimes include stealing drugs from evidence locker, assault of a juvenile suspect, and falsifying traffic tickets.

6 things to know about new flu drug Xofluza

IDAHO: man admits to eating cocaine while being chased by police

drug lab explodes inside Idaho Falls residence

Idaho Falls juvenile arrested with 500 doses of LSD, marijuana

Fourth state level prison cop pleads guilty to smuggling drugs into prison

Judge orders partial release of state prison lethal injection documents

Journalism professor banned from University of Idaho for allegedly admitting to using meth and threatening  access to guns

Example of why first time drug offenders SHOULD NOT make a plea deal in Idaho; harsher sentencing!

new DUI law requires first-time offenders to install ignition locking devices

ILLINOIS: Madison County Sees Record 109 Drug Overdose Deaths in 2018

Mayor, State Senator jailed on drug charge

Food-truck gun deal leads to Chicago drug case

Drugs company executive gave Illinois doctor lap dance while promoting drug

INDIANA: a rural Indiana town descends into drug addiction

10 indicted in drug running between Indiana and Mexico

Death doctor run out of Tennessee for causing deadly overdoses, is now working in Indiana

infants suffering from drug crisis

IOWA: Mayor, and her husband, caught with 18 marijuana plants during search for shooting suspect

Meth, cocaine overdoses rise

Iowa’s growing dependence on China for pharmaceutical drugs

Faulty muffler leads to drug arrests

KANSAS: parents arrested after child tests positive for meth

CVS pharmacist, husband charged with prescription drug crimes

Johnson County mom is accused of hosting parties where minors were served alcohol

KENTUCKY: teacher at party where juveniles admitted to drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana

The fall of a Kentucky-Mexico drug gang

Grandpa says he sold meth to save son from Mexican cartel

Fatal drug overdose leads to a bartender facing federal drug charges

Connecticut based drugs maker Purdue appeals order to unseal OxyContin records to Kentucky Supreme Court

 man had 2 ounces of meth ‘stuffed inside his butt crack’

LOUISIANA: ‘star agent’ for the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) now on trial for essentially ‘faking’ drug busts, after three-year investigation that has roiled the federal law enforcement community

Undercover bust: 168 arrests!

Pharmacist fatally shoots robber at drug store

MAINE:  Police seize drugs and cash at Oxford hotel

Residents now turning to gun ownership to protect themselves from druggies: “He was standing on our porch and kept yelling for help. The only thing that separated us was the glass on the front door. In my 35 years, I never felt the need to own a gun to protect my family until we moved to Presque Isle. I guarantee that if he had broken the glass on that front door, there would have been shots fired.”-Jonathan Guerrette, complaining to city councilors, interestingly the deputy police chief admitted they’ve known about the druggie problem in certain neighborhoods ‘for many years’ yet gave a plethora of excuses why nobody was arrested, supposedly the state law enforcement is going to get involved  

Death leads to discovery of meth lab

MARYLAND:  Washington County sees sharp increase in drug, alcohol deaths

Baltimore to No Longer Prosecute Marijuana Possession Cases

More Than 300 Bags Of Heroin, Cocaine & Meth Found In Car

MASSACHUSETTS: What does 2019 have in store for marijuana

Fentanyl-laced cocaine, not heroin, is now the biggest overdose threat

Suspect was operating ‘very significant’ drug ring while out on $200K bail

Leftist Liberal Mayors Visit Safe Injection Sites in British empire Canada

New Yorkers head to western Massachusetts to buy pot legally

MICHIGAN: Excessive social media use is comparable to drug addiction

Michigan lists pain drug Gabapentin as controlled substance

Life of high-tech savant cut short by drugs

Recreational marijuana is legal, but Lansing’s largest employers don’t allow it

More employees than ever test positive for marijuana

More than half of Michigan medical marijuana users admit to driving while high

Macomb County had 380 drug-related deaths in 2017, in desperation local government agencies are now ‘deputized’ under a new federal government program called FANTOM (Federal Anti Narcotics Team Of Macomb)

MINNESOTA:  man allegedly holds drug-fueled ‘death party’ for wife

Man dies of opioids at experimental homeless shelter

Dakota County drug bust nets 45 pounds of meth, 15 kilos of cocaine

MISSISSIPPI: 8 arrested 

CIVIL FORFEITURE, the real reason local governments love illegal drugs: Should it be this easy for Mississippi police to take property?

State Highway Patrol Admits: Police officers high on duty or test positive for drugs

Retired pharmacists arrested for operating an illegal pharmacy out of his flower shop

MISSOURI: Shoes, package of cookies lead to drug bust at taxpayer subsidized Amtrak station

Two homicides linked to $8.5 million meth trafficking ring 

Seven fugitives captured during drugs sweep

Cops Find Stolen ATV, Gun, Meth And Dead Bald Eagle 

MONTANA:4 died in due to fentanyl disguised as less-dangerous drugs

man, daughter accused of running ‘dark web’ drug operation

Woman says meth testing patch gives false positives (it wouldn’t be the first time a drug test was faulty)

In the sparsely populated state a new report says even more taxpayer funded drug treatment centers are needed

NEBRASKA: Busted Omaha drug operation sounds like fiction, except it wasn’t

DEA captures 4,737 pounds of marijuana, 83 pounds of methamphetamine and 27 pounds of heroin over six months

Drug-dealing cases against CBD oil shop owners

Killing was the result of ‘Attempted robbery of a drug dealer’

Woman dealt heroin, meth from home where she ran daycare

NEW HAMPSHIRE: One dead, two in critical condition after taking drugs

NEW JERSEY:  Local cops fail drug tests!

Medical marijuana can now be used to treat opioid addiction

NEW MEXICO: 15 lbs. of meth and 2,000 fentanyl pills smuggled by ‘family business’

U.S. Border Patrol captures 115 illegal immigrants with marijuana 

Drug addiction so bad there is now a new museum dedicated to drug abuse

NEW YORK: Syracuse University football wide receiver arrested along with 14 others as part of a federal drug bust

“Highly organized drug delivery service” netted about $50,000 weekly in drug addicted NYC

Legal drugs Middlemen Got Big Markup in New York

NORTH CAROLINA: 27 arrested in Bladen County

Illegal immigrants, including MS-13 gang member, charged in 2 kilo drug bust

USCG photo by Petty Officer Second Class Corinne Zilnicki, 08JAN2019.

Off North Carolina’s coast, on board an HC-130 Hercules, U.S. Coast Guard personnel operate radar and cameras to detect suspicious boats.

NORTH DAKOTA: drug raid in Fargo, in connection to heroin O-Ds across two counties

Burleigh County cop gets prison time for stealing drugs

OHIO: The Union County Drug Free Coalition honored the Ohio National Guard Counterdrug Task Force as the 2019 Community Champion Award: “We are grateful to the Ohio National Guard for their commitment to the health and safety of families in Union County.”-Rich Baird, superintendent of North Union Schools and chair of the Union County Drug Free Coalition

Overdose deaths falling throughout Ohio, but not in Franklin County

nightclub owner pleads guilty to drug crimes

Drug-fueled wave of kids taken from homes peaks 

OKLAHOMA: Police find 18000 pounds of suspected pot during traffic stop

Sheriff frustrated with relaxed drug laws

24 serving life without parole for drug trafficking

new emergency rules for medical marijuana

OREGON: Operation Wildfire

Man with criminal history, including running one of the largest drug gangs in the state, continues to commit crimes yet is released from jail, all charges dropped

PENNSYLVANIA: Drug deaths are rising in Coal Country and treatment is hard to come by

77 suspects arrested 

PUERTO RICO: FBI says there’s a “crisis of violence” in Puerto Rico

USCG photo by Ricardo Castrodad, 30JAN2019.

29JAN2019, U.S. Coast Guard captures 2-hundred pounds of cocaine off the coast of Arecibo.

RHODE ISLAND: Illegal immigrant gets 9 years in prison for major drug trafficking ring

Suspended Firefighter admitted to Police He Was Doing Cocaine

SOUTH CAROLINA: Clemson University football players suspended for failing drug test

64 suspects charged, many still wanted, in Spartanburg County

Doctors and cops come out in opposition to legalized marijuana, calls it “the most dangerous drug” in the U.S.

CIVIL FORFEITURE, the real reason local governments love illegal drugs: seizing vehicles in drug cases. Mistakes still happen.

SOUTH DAKOTA: chief justice calls for reform in handling of drug cases

Multi-state drugs gang tries to rip-off Mexican cartel?

South Dakota charges ingestion of drugs separately from possession, meaning someone can be charged with a crime if a blood or urine test comes back positive for marijuana or other drugs.

Wisconsin woman driving rental car from Colorado says South Dakota cop unlawfully captured the suitcase full of drugs in the car

grandmother faces felony child abuse, drug charges

TENNESSEE: Head Start teacher arrested after she brought meth to school

12 Arrested On Drug Charges In Franklin County

Thousands of fake Viagra, Cialis pills confiscated 

New opioid laws

State cop assigned to protect governor was on prescription painkillers, repeatedly fell asleep on job…..supervisors knew about his problem with prescription medication, and that his “pattern of behavior was allowed to continue for months without any knowledge of the THP command staff”

TEXAS: Cops invade home, shoot and kill military veteran husband and his wife, several cops wounded,  (next it’ll be revealed that one of the invading cops has a documented history of lying about drug raids, and apparently it’ll be three months after the cop invasion before investigators even search the crime scene for evidence, evidence that will counter the official police version of the story)

A six month multi-agency investigation resulted in nine people being arrested for piddly amounts of drugs

UTAH: Illegal immigrant drug smuggler has been deported eight times, caught yet again

Defense attorney who smuggling drugs into prison, sentenced: “I never dreamed in a million years that I would be an addict.”-Tony Miles

387 drug dealers arrested in Operation Rio Grande

Two drug busts in one day yield combined $2 million worth of meth and cocaine

Public Employees Receive taxpayer funded Transportation and a $500 Cash Bonus to Purchase drugs in Mexico

U.S. Virgin Islands: New governor signs bill legalizing medical marijuana

Virgin Islands was source of heroin shipped to Michigan

VIRGINIA: drug case against actress involved in Me Too Movement

dozens of arrests after hundreds of indictments

WASHINGTON: Sodo District; drugs and RVs

overdose spike in north Seattle

drug and alcohol counselor arrested for selling drugs

‘christian’ university student, accused of murder, in more trouble after being caught doing drugs in the courtroom 

Washington DC:   millions of dollars’ worth of heroin seized 

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Workplace drug overdoses increasing

WEST VIRGINIA:  teacher accused of giving alcohol to teens

 teacher jailed after allegedly soliciting drugs

A 7th Special Forces Group soldier and a West Virginia National Guard Special Forces soldier pled guilty to trying to smuggle marijuana from Columbia 

WISCONSIN: ERs fight drugs with drugs

Shopko owes drugs supplier $67-million

woman convicted of smuggling drugs into prison

WYOMING: Restaurants accused of ‘laundering’ drug money

Drugs, the American Way, December 2018: “THE WHOLE THING IS CUCKOO NUTS….WHAT COUNTRY ARE WE LIVING IN?”

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“You don’t really make a lot of money”: U.S. banking/service sector/retail apocalypse, November 2018

Incomplete list of U.S. retail/banking/service sector job loss WARNings and store shutdowns made or announced in November 2018: Ireland based helicopter rental company (whose main clients are oil companies, and is directly connected with George Soros), Waypoint Leasing Holdings, is now bankrupt busted in the United States WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification ARIZONA: Bed Bath & […]

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‘war zone’: Drugs, the American Way, November 2018

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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 November 2018:

Germany based drugs maker Bayer getting the hell outta the animal health business, as well as selling-off Coppertone and Dr. Scholl’s, 12-thousand jobs worldwide gone due to investor pressure!

Denmark based drugs maker Novo Nordisk cutting 1,300 additional jobs, blaming the U.S. economy

New York Times: ‘The Numbers Are So Staggering.’ Overdose Deaths Set a Record 

Marijuana Legalization Threatens Dogs’ Collars

Business Insider: Mexican cartels make billions in the U.S., but “In most cases, individuals hired to transport drug shipments within the United States are independent, third-party contractors…”

Coast Guard crews are capturing record amounts of cocaine

Wall Street Journal:Pfizer to Raise Prices on 41 Drugs

ALABAMA:  CBD products illegal in Alabama

doctor charged with 103-count indictment

Blue Cross changes opioid coverage

Drug thefts at area pharmacies…linked

Woman arrested in largest heroin bust in Marshall County history

Three arrested at state prison for smuggling drugs and guns

County sheriff pleads guilty to corruption, drug charges

ALASKA: A month after being implicated in a massive drug smuggling operation (see October’s report), the National Guard turns over 2 tons of ‘Take Back’ drugs 

Soldier at Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson dies from mystery drug poisoning

Heroin Disguised as Christmas Package

School employees find package of meth hidden in food shipment

man arrested at airport with suitcase full of meth

drug overdose data from 2013-2017

ARIZONA: Fentanyl Found In All Kinds Of Drugs

Massive O-Ds force Tucson police boss to push for treatment programs

Chapo may be on trial, but his Sinaloa cartel still doing huge U.S. business

7 arrested in connection with Yavapai County marijuana grow

Border Patrol Seizes 30 Pounds of Meth

Border officers seize $812K worth of drugs in Nogales

Celebrities help drive rise in rehab tourism

ARKANSAS: Medical Marijuana Growers Say it’ll be Ready By Spring 2019

Two doctors linked to opioid deaths

political consultant charged in child porn case used meth

Faked drug deal led to shooting

man who revealed illegal police raids now faces felony charges 

CALIFORNIA:  Drugs maker Pfizer issued a shutdown Worker Adjustment Retraining Notice (WARN) for its San Mateo County factory, 1-hundred jobs gone in February 2019!

Two more blood pressure drugs recalled for potential cancer risk

Couple who lost home in wildfire get pardons for drug crimes

GHOST drug SHIPS WASHING ASHORE ON SECLUDED NAVY BASE! Navy officials accuse San Diego officials of doing nothing to stop it

Fire Hits ‘Rehab Riviera,’ Putting Addiction Care in Jeopardy

County sheriff’s deputy arrested for staging a fake drug bust in order to steal and sell the drugs himself

51 years old cop sentenced to 17 years in prison for providing armed escort for drug dealers

over $140000 in illegal drugs in East Bakersfield

COLORADO: Denver is latest city pushing for 1st U.S. illegal drug injection site

Denver Might Decriminalize Psychedelic Mushrooms 

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have found that prescribed anti-anxiety and anti-psychotic medications make it easier to kill yourself: “…those who used a psychotropic drug in an attempt were 70% more likely to have prescribed access than patients who used other methods in their attempt.”-Talia Brown,  Colorado School of Public Health

Colorado State University organic chemists invent way to use phosphorus to make new drugs

CONNECTICUT:  16 charged in connection with drugs sales in Bridgeport area

Groton Youth Survey Overestimated Drug and Alcohol Use

drugs kickstart motivation in rats suffering from apathy

Suspected drug dealer arrested for 2nd time in a month

Doctor accused of illegally selling prescriptions, marijuana

DELAWARE:drug company Incyte wins ‘spying’ case

Police arrest 35

Drug hallucinations inspired Claymont killing

drug company jacks-up price of O-D rescue drug naloxone by 600%!

Bayhealth pharmacy employee charged with drug thefts

FLORIDA: Drugs pusher Bristol-Myers Squibb issued a WARN for its Tampa ops, 69 jobs gone in January 2019.

Honduran President’s Brother, Arrested in Miami, Is Charged With Drug Trafficking (Honduras is one of the countries flooding the U.S. with illegal immigrants)

FEDS ACCUSE 39 white GANG MEMBERS OF ARMS, DRUG TRAFFICKING

12-year-old gave out THC-laced gummies

cruise ship crew members tried to smuggle cocaine

Seminole County million-dollar heroin, fentanyl drug gangs

Crawfordville Pharmacy prescription drug theft

U.S. Coast Guard delivers 18.5 tons of cocaine to Port Everglades, 15NOV2018.  The illegal drug was captured off the U.S. Pacific coast.

GEORGIA: woman sues over faulty (but commonly used) police drug test that said cotton candy was meth, she spent three months in jail as a result

20% of those killed by cops test positive for meth (remember, the test has been proven to be faulty)

Fulton Co. jail officer charged with smuggling drugs

metro Atlanta postal workers sentenced for taking bribes to deliver cocaine

drug linked to at least 22 deaths

Operation Vanilla Gorilla charge over 40 white supremacists ‘Ghost Face Gangsters’: drug trafficking,firearms

GUAM: Drugs, $540K seized in raids

burglary leads to drug bust

Feds accuse woman of selling drugs near school

Murder, drug cases dismissed by Supreme Court due to violation of the Right to a speedy trial, but charges can be refiled 

HAWAII: Man Who Got Meth Parcel at Airbnb Pleads Guilty

IDAHO: Four people arrested in Fort Hall following investigation in Montana

Boise joins national lawsuit against opioid manufactures

Police use flash-bang grenades in south Boise drug trafficking arrests

Idaho Falls man sentenced for trafficking 28 pounds of pot

Idaho Drug Trafficking Suspect Identified as Previously Deported Illegal Immigrant

9 crimes, including drug dealing, in Idaho automatically place teens in adult court.

Boise State University wasting federal tax dollars on RADAR center in hopes of warning locals in Boise about cyber-security, suicide and drug addiction.

ILLINOIS: Men caught with RV packed full of $400-thousand in cash-drug money

Priest Who Served Time for Drugs Removed From Ministry Again

More arrests in connection to taxpayer funded Amtrak drug smuggling

Drug-induced homicide on the rise in McHenry County

INDIANA: 120 people charged in Johnson County drug bust

Indiana sues Purdue Pharma over opioid drug addiction costs

Fatal quadruple shooting in Indianapolis was a marijuana robbery

IOWA:  $2.8M of marijuana in southwest Iowa

Methamphetamine is making a comeback across Iowa.

teacher arrested for meth, marijuana

KANSAS: woman sold drugs to pay bondsman

the owner of L&H Auto Sales accused of working with illegal immigrants to sell cocaine

Hit-and-run driver found with list of drug buyers on arm

It’s easier to get drugs on the street than beer

Strip club closes after drugs bought with food stamps

KENTUCKY: ‘Crystal meth by the pound.’ 

Bullitt County sheriff ‘had my back,’ drug dealer testifies

Bullitt County sheriff acquitted of aiding drug trafficking

TV news investigation reveals doctor suspended for being on drugs

Here’s how Mexican cartels funnel drugs into Louisville

Kentucky ranks fifth in the nation for 2017 overdose deaths

LOUISIANA: 12 arrested for drugs in Jackson Parish

Cops arrest 49 people in three days

Pain management Doctor Guilty Plea in Drug Test Kickback Scam

woman arrested for attempting to smuggle drugs into prison

After mom overdoses, son shoots wife, carjacks and kills a man; then gets shot to death

Prisoner pleads guilty to plotting with prison guard to smuggle drugs

Suspect in horrific human trafficking case allowed to get treatment for drug addiction

MAINE: Nine arrested 

Activists hang banners calling for safe injection site 

MARYLAND: 22 People Arrested

A veteran Narcotics Officer wants an End to the failed War on Drugs after arresting his own daughter

MASSACHUSETTS: Opioid Epidemic Cost state taxpayers $15.2 Billion In 2017

Federal court orders sadist Massachusetts prisons to help prisoners fighting opioid addiction!

MICHIGAN: Marijuana will be legal in Michigan on Dec. 6

employers still can fire you for smoking pot

Heroin is most common drug offense in Michigan

State Police wraps up roadside drug testing pilot program (remember, police drug tests have been proven to give false positives)

Federal grand jury charges 10 men with cocaine conspiracy

MINNESOTA: Minnesota man accused of running Oregon-to-Wisconsin drug network

University of Minnesota doctor in conflict over connection with opioid maker

MISSISSIPPI:  What happened to the 12 respected professionals accused in $400M compound pharmacy scheme?

Federal court rules county violated woman’s Right to a speedy trial after she was jailed 96 days without ever seeing judge

Drunk Man Crashes Truck Into Courthouse to Report Stolen Drugs

MISSOURI: Missouri made medical marijuana legal, but most doctors don’t want any part of it

paramedic admits stealing drugs from ambulances

Woman looked pregnant, actually carried 4 pounds of heroin

MONTANA:  Local health care experts revamp efforts to treat drug-exposed newborns

Flathead reservation pharmacy fined $95K for disappeared opioids

USDA and U.S. Forest Service conduct ‘Take Back’ operations in Montana  (once again proving the drugs came from the government)

Child Protective Services prevents some addicted pregnant women from being honest

Christian run Rescue Mission in Billings will no longer take in intoxicated homeless on cold nights

NEBRASKA: $105K seized yet no arrests 

14-Year-Old Takes Plea Deal in Drug Deal Slaying

Nebraska Attorney General reminds sellers of CBD oil: His office believes it’s illegal

NEVADA: Undercover operation breaks up Lake Tahoe drug ring

16 arrests made in Las Vegas 

NEW HAMPSHIRE: prison chaplain allegedly smuggled drugs to prisoners

Methamphetamine Use By Pregnant Women

NEW JERSEY:   Sun Pharma issued a WARN for its Cranbury location, 96 jobs gone by the end of January 2019.

New Jersey Sues Pharmaceutical Company

82 drug arrests at notorious apartment building

19 charged in federal drug bust

desserts laced with drugs

NEW MEXICO: Escape from New Mexico’s ‘war zone’

Medical pot can disrupt job searches in New Mexico

NEW YORK: cops sentenced after admitting to conducting illegal drug raids 

$1.3 million in cocaine in airport suitcase 

Claims that video shows cops set up people to be busted for drugs

Known drug kingpin, with long criminal record, finally arrested after flooding Staten Island with new killer heroin

32 Staten Island public schools do not have a drug prevention program

firefighter, saved from apparent overdose, faces drug charges

Bronx Opioids Action Plan

NORTH CAROLINA: Drug cartel killed teacher thinking he was DEA agent

man killed, possibly fed to hogs for stealing cocaine

Five postal workers charged with stealing drugs from mail

Vehicle crash at childcare center suspected to be drug related

NORTH DAKOTA: increased crime rate could be tied to opioid epidemic

OHIO: Signs of a Shifting Drug Crisis

Ohio votes against de-felonizing drug possession

daily drug death toll of 14 second highest in U.S.

OKLAHOMA: Co-author of the state’s medical marijuana measure says there’s a conspiracy to radically change the voter-approved law.

Nine arrested

clemency for 22 female drug possession offenders

Oklahoma has the highest rate of women’s incarceration in the nation.

16 arrested

Police Arrest Seven

OREGON:  Candy from trick-or-treating tests positive for methamphetamine

nurse charged with drug trafficking 

Oregon Takes 1st Major Step Toward Legalizing Psychedelic Mushrooms

3 million heroin, oxycodone, fentanyl doses seized 

PENNSYLVANIA: Mac Miller Overdosed on Fentanyl and Cocaine

32 arrested

Pennsylvania to get $10 million from Bloomberg in fight against opioid deaths

Junior high teacher charged with dealing drugs from her home

dealers sold up to 1-thousand bags of heroin a day 

RHODE ISLAND:  ‘Operation Street Sweep’ nets 24 on drug charges

Rhode Island remains the only state to screen prisoners for opioid use, and to offer drug treatment 

Police Seize at Least $1 Million Worth of Heroin

Rhode Island set to open first behavioral health emergency center

Grand jury indicts 41 people 

SOUTH CAROLINA: Women arrested for trying to smuggle drugs into prison

13 arrested

17 people charged with prison drug smuggling

High school assistant principal arrested for drug crimes

SOUTH DAKOTA: Sioux Falls Area Drug Task Force seizes record amount of drugs

Meth takes toll on South Dakota women

High school coach arrested for drunken driving, drugs

TENNESSEE: Hospital patient dies after nurse gives lethal dose of wrong drug

Eighteen indicted on TennCare drug fraud charges

DEA will teach local doctors, dentists and veterinarians how to stop ‘drug diversion’

38 arrested

addiction consultant fatally overdoses

TEXAS:  Houston-based pharmacy is supplier of state’s execution drugs

Almost 6000 pounds of drugs discovered 

14 arrested

Student had 100-plus tabs of LSD 

UTAH: Utahns legalize medical marijuana as LDS Church opposes

Utah cops claim successes despite growing drug epidemic

Insurance company sending Utah customers to Mexico to buy drugs

Most Utah jails don’t help drug addicts

Feds blame Utah’s growing drugs, criminal activity on undocumented immigrants

Opioid makers spent nearly a million dollars bribing Utah doctors

student hospitalized after allegedly smoking from THC pen

VERMONT:  needle exchange isn’t just giving out syringes, it’s handing out buprenorphine

The roots of Vermont’s drug problem

Anti-addiction drug Suboxone tops Vermont’s taxpayer funded public prescription spending list

governor inflated his record on reducing opioid treatment

Prescription-drug DUI case shows odds against the poor

VIRGINIA: Operation House of Cards arrests 22 people

Thirty-four indicted

18 arrested

Virginia-based Kaleo increased the price of its auto-injectable overdose-reversal drug EVZIO from $575 to $4,100

WASHINGTON: Spokane Valley drug house where 20 detained in SWAT raid

Where do the drugs that land on Seattle streets come from?

Why CBD suddenly is everywhere

300 percent spike in HIV infections among straight IV users

Washington DC: FDA approves powerful new opioid despite warnings of new opioid carnage

First FDA-approved cannabis-based drug now available

WEST VIRGINIA: West Virginia again leads nation in drug overdose deaths

To understand U.S. life expectancy decline, start in West Virginia

Kindergartner brings drugs to school

WISCONSIN:  New $1 (one dollar) Fine For Marijuana Possession

Seven drug deaths suspected

Health Care employee charged with stealing drugs

CBD ‘gold rush’ could mean big business for Wisconsin’s hemp industry

driver kills three Girl Scouts after ‘huffing’

WYOMING:  Over 300 Pounds of Pot Seized

Man arrested after pushing a dolly loaded with seven pounds of ganja down U.S. Highway 30 east of Cheyenne

Drugs, the American Way, October 2018: “NOW YOU TELL ME WHO THE ENEMY IS!”

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“significant changes”: U.S. Food Crisis, September 2018

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Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns, outbreaks and recalls for the month of September, 2018:

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

In Denmark, one of the world’s most profitable salmon farms is now blaming the mass die-off of salmon (750-thousand around just one of Denmark’s islands) on farm fertilizer run-off which is causing a deadly algae to bloom

Who actually makes money off taxpayer funded farm bills; Wealthy urbanites from Hollywood to Manhattan 

Is the Second Farm Crisis Upon Us?

Corn plunges on huge yields

More than 1-thousand-3-hundred Shop ’n Save employees across Illinois and Missouri losing their jobs as a result of failed efforts to sell-off the troubled stores by parent company Supervalu!

ALABAMA: Legal Petition Urges Feds to End Toxic Agricultural Pesticide Use on Alabama Wildlife Refuge Complex

Drought conditions spread

Almost a Half-Million Pounds of Prepared Chicken Is Being Recalled 

ALASKA: worries that Alaskans could lose food stamps 

240 varieties of potatoes grown in Palmer

ARKANSAS: In Texarkana, after more than 40 years Park Place Restaurant shutdown so the owner can retire.

Legal Issues in Arkansas Agriculture

Rain Stalls Potentially Record Arkansas Cotton Harvest

ARIZONA: The owners of Tucson Tamale Company said, on facebook, that they’re forced to shutdown their Broadway location because of road construction, they hope the shutdown is temporary.  In Chandler, after ten years Wimpy’s Paradise shutdown, the owner claiming he is not quiting the eatery scene, he just has to adjust to his age.

The cost of cotton

Life as a Farmworker in Yuma’s Lettuce Fields

Department of Agriculture investigates well-being of horses in Vail

CALIFORNIA: In Los Gatos, after 36 years Gilley’s Diner shutdown due to family ‘obligations’.  In San Francisco, The Matterhorn Swiss Restaurant shutdown after 24 years “because we’re old and tired.”  Four Ruby’s Diners, in Huntington Beach, Laguna Hills, Oceanside and Palm Springs, now bankrupt busted.  Color Spot Nurseries issued a shutdown WARN for its Carson location, 52 jobs gone by Thanksgiving. Veggie packer Jackpot Harvesting Company issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Gonzales, 256 jobs gone in January 2019! (it might have something to do with a lawsuit over compensation of piece-rate employees)

Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton held a Feds Feed Families food event at the Blinder Memorial Chapel. Feds Feed Families is a U.S. Department of Agriculture operation, relying totally on unpaid volunteers (federal government employees), to help provide food to food pantries near military bases.

Despite California farm shutdowns, Farmers claim they’re Struggling To Find Workers. 

Arrogant leftist-liberal California claims its farmers will show the world how to lead on climate change.

COLORADO: Are hot springs the future of farming?

meatpacker recalls ground beef after E. coli death

CONNECTICUT: In Stratford, after 62 years popular restaurant Marnick’s shutdown without warning to customers and employees, local news media reported that city officials were happy to announce the property (which also included the Rodeway Inn) had been sold.

At Farm Aid In Hartford, Neil Young Tells Fans ‘Corporate Farms Suck’

DELAWARE: Restaurant Cocina Lolo shutdown after only three years, even the facebook page was disabled.

Third equine case of West Nile Virus confirmed

Monsanto grant to help Delaware Farm Bureau

Delaware farmers to get tariff relief

FLORIDA: What exactly is the Florida Commissioner of Agriculture?

GEORGIA: diversity of agriculture industry

Mayfield Dairy (Dean Foods) eliminated 108 jobs!

GUAM: Guam Agriculture Awarded $313-thousand in taxpayer funded Federal Grants

SNAP recipients to get 60% of food stamps automatically added to help deal with Typhoon Mangkhut

HAWAII: Stratos New York Pizzeria shutdown due to ongoing lava flows running-off tourists, and the fact that the owners have been blocked from moving to a new location.

IDAHO: tax panel raising valuations on irrigated farmland

elk hunters are having some of the best hunting of all time

Gov. Otter to lead trade mission to Canada

Raising warm water fish near the cool waters of Idaho

U.S. Department of Agriculture m44 land-mine explodes Pocatello family

ILLINOIS: Chicago based, but British empire Canada/South Africa owned, MillerCoors eliminating 350 corporate jobs in the U.S. by the end of October! MillerCoors is also raising prices, as well as canceling some of its products, due to crashing beer sales.  Shop-n-Save issued shutdown WARNs for grocery stores in Jerseyville, Granite City, Belleville, Cahokia and Springfield, 420 jobs gone just in time for Xmas!

record 300.5 pound watermelon

More proof its farm welfare; farmers anxious about promised federal taxpayer payouts

Rauner declares harvest emergency for 2nd straight year

INDIANA:  Farmers Need Industrial Hemp Or Legal Marijuana To Prosper

Indiana partners with British empire Canadian province to advance agricultural

Why aren’t land values plummeting?

IOWA: VeroBlue Farms issued a shutdown WARN for its fish farm ops in Webster (and also warned of looming bankruptcy), 24 jobs gone by Halloween.

Iowa land values fall

USDA is putting tax dollars into developing new markets

KANSAS: first step toward growing industrial hemp

American Farmers Are in Crisis

KENTUCKY: In Louisville, after 28 years Clifton’s Pizza shutdown because the owner needs to “take care of my personal life.”

AppHarvest launches high-tech agriculture class

test plot of malaria-fighting plant a success

Why Vermont students are farming in Kentucky

LOUISIANA: After 18 years The Melting Pot shutdown its Baton Rouge location because “we have been unable to work out a long term lease deal with our landlord”.

Government data proves Louisiana is in trouble

MAINE: Oyster farm on Maquoit Bay raises concerns

small, midsized farms suffering from labor shortage

Maine ranks highest in New England for food insecurity

MARYLAND: Fudgery shutdown its 33 years old location at Inner Harbor, due to sales that can’t keep up with increasing costs.

Coalition Launches ‘Save A Shore Farmer’ Program

New regulations for lawn-fertilizer 

MASSACHUSETTS: Save-A-Lot suddenly shutdown its 12 years old grocery store in Taunton, with only a weeks notice, local news media reported the corporate office refused to say why.  In Hyannis, Cape Cod Potato Chips suddenly laid off 21 people as part of efforts to ‘upgrade’ to new equipment, which reduced the three production lines down to just one.

Farmers Revive Historic Hops

Cranberry prices so low farmers are going to dump their crops!

Indigo raises $250M to build online marketplace for farmers

MICHIGAN: Grocery giant Kroger shutting down its store in Mundy, 73 jobs lost by the end of October.  In Hastings, after 30 years Mills Landing shutdown, the restaurant owners didn’t say why.  Great Lakes Coca-Cola Bottling shutting down its Kalamazo operations, 102 jobs affected by November!  Great North Foods issued a layoff WARN, at least 19 people (the official WARN also warned of additional layoffs) jobless right after Thanksgiving.

Here’s one reason for Trump’s tariffs; Michigan lost 143 dairy farms in the past year!

Marie Catrib’s in Grand Rapids closing in October

MINNESOTA: In Minneapolis, Colossal Cafe shutdown so the owner can retire.  Maple Plain Food Center shutdown after 52 years due to increased competition, the owners reminisced about how hard it was to start a family run store because of government regulators: “We were actually the first combination grocery store/pharmacy in the state of Minnesota. We had trouble getting our license initially because the state board of pharmacy thought it was unethical to have groceries and pharmacy in the same facility.”-Tom Reycraft

MISSISSIPPI: farmers, contractors still back Trump

MISSOURI: HeBrews Coffee forced to shutdown its Springfield location due to a court order, as a result of a dispute with the landlord.  In Saint Louis, after more than 40 years Llywelyn’s Pub, on McPherson Avenue, suddenly shutdown so the owner can focus on the more profitable locations.  In Jefferson City, Weber Meat Market shutting down by Xmas because the property owner wants to demolish everything, due to the fact that the majority of spaces in the 60 years old shopping plaza are vacant.  In Kansas City, after about 12 years Domo Sushi & Japanese Grill shutdown so the 75 years old owner can retire.

farmers still struggle

Drought effects persist despite rain

Farm owner refuses to comply with state regulations

MONTANA: The farmers who trust Trump

NEBRASKA: Obviously trying to “revolutionize the way America thinks about food” doesn’t pay-off because Eat Fit Go now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, suddenly shutting down two stores.

New health care plan available for Nebraska farmers

New Costco poultry complex initiates ripple effect at retail

NEVADA: Starving horses suddenly appear, nobody knows where they came from 

tariffs strengthen “perfect storm” slamming Nevada farms

USDA hands out $5-million taxpayer funded grant for snow-pack study

NEW HAMPSHIRE:  Farm Bet on Organic Eggs and Won Big

NEW JERSEY:  Grocery store Seasons now bankrupt busted and up for sale.  In Cherry Hill, Asian Food Markets shutdown its 13 years old Barclay Farms location, saying a new location is being sought.

a thriving agriculture industry

Hazelnuts could never grow in New Jersey — until now

NEW MEXICO:  USDA bills New Mexico $164-million for over-billing of SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, aka food stamps)!

NEW YORK: Coffee shop chain Fika now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, apparently rent on 11 of the 20 shops hasn’t been paid. Maritima issued a shutdown WARN for its LaSirena restaurant, 140 jobs gone right after Xmas!  Signature issued a shutdown WARN for its North End Grill, 59 jobs gone a week before Xmas.

New invasive pest could impact NY’s agriculture

Immigration policy at the forefront of New York apple farming controversy

NORTH CAROLINA: Golden Corral shut down its buffet in Elizabeth City, without warning or explanation.  Smithfield Foods shutting down its Clayton distribution center, 1-hundred jobs lost to consolidation operations!  The Winterville Rucker Johns restaurant shutdown with no warning and no explanation.  In Washington, after six years Coffee Caboose shutdown.

Florence Engulfs Hog Farms And Chicken Houses causing floods of pig poop and chicken crap, Thrashes North Carolina Agriculture

Millions of dead chickens and pigs found in hurricane floods

Video, Maryland National Guard assists North Carolina National Guard in food distribution after Hurricane Florence:

Video, North Carolina National Guard delivers MREs to a local fire department after Hurricane Florence:

Marines from MCAS Cherry Point conduct food distribution ops house-to-house in New Bern, 20SEP2018.

NORTH DAKOTA: Judge rules North Dakota anti-corporate farm law is constitutional

Demand for North Dakota beans goes south

OHIO:  Tilted Kilt suddenly shutdown its pub-restaurant on East Prospect Avenue, in Cleveland, supposedly the employees will be working at a “new venue” elsewhere.  In Cincinnati, after 20 years restaurant Palomino announced it can’t renew the lease on its Fountain Square location and shutdown.  In Findlay, after 40 years New China Inn shutdown, the owners said “we’re getting old.” 

U.S. Defense Logistics Agency associates, along with local food bank volunteers, collected 9-thousand-143 pounds of food that will support more than 525-thousand people in Central Ohio!

Bumper crops not paying off for farmers

OKLAHOMA: Woody’s Corner Bar shutdown after 12 years in Tulsa, the owners claim they’ll be back with something new.  Also in Tulsa, the Natural Grocers store shutting down by November, 16 jobs lost to ‘recent financial performance’.

8-Year-Old Boy Killed In Farming Incident

producers can apply for funds to offset tariff disruptions

Men Charged with Series of Cattle and Equipment Thefts

OREGON:  Beaverton Bakery shutdown after 93 years, apparently due to increased competition as local news media reported there were eight other bakeries in the immediate area.  In Portland, Sweet Heart Pizza on North East 7th Avenue shutdown so it can be turned into something else.

Critical Drought Levels After Driest Summer 

USDA approves emergency grazing, cover crops

Feds will take over troubled Lost Valley Farm megadairy

PENNSYLVANIA:  In Indiana, after 25 years The Coventry Inn shutdown, the owners claiming they can’t find reliable employees saying “We need eight or 10 committed workers, and four or five is hopeless.”  In Pittsburgh, after 28 years Beehive CoffeeHouse & Dessertery forced to shutdown because the building is being sold-off.  In Hermitage, After 86 years family owned Darrenkamp’s grocery chain shutting down and/or selling-off its stores, more than 641 jobs affected!  Hunger relief organization Philabundance got 3-thousand-931 pounds of food from the local U.S. Defense Logistics Agency employees. Philabundance feeds 90-thousand people across Pennsylvania and New Jersey!

Spotted Lanternfly discovered

sounding the alarm on deer disease

$10 million in farm tax credits available

PUERTO RICO: In coffee country, ‘We have to motivate the farmers to come to the soil’ 

RHODE ISLAND: In Middletown, after 14 years Rusty’s Bar & Grill forced to shutdown so the property can be gentrified into a 23 unit apartment building, local news media reported that the customers are opposed to the city’s decision.

Hemp will be cropping up 

Topsfield Fair pumpkin record smashed

SOUTH CAROLINA: Hurricane Florence causes at least $125-million in damages to farms

SOUTH DAKOTA: 2-year-old dies from farming accident

Variability leads to questions about crop outcomes

TENNESSEE: In Franklin, after only two years the Buffalo Wings & Rings shutdown with only one weeks notice.

Who wants to be a farmer?

TEXAS: Farmers Branch based Taco Bueno suddenly shutdown 16 restaurants across four states due to “changing traffic patterns”.  In Upper Kirby, Steakhouse Power owned Del Frisco’s Grille suddenly shutdown after five years, local news media reported its another in a long list of restaurants that can’t seem to survive in that area of town.  In Austin, after more than 70 years iconic Hill’s Cafe shutdown, the owners say they’re looking for a new location.

Sheppard Air Force Base Feds Feed Families video promo:

UTAH:  new innovations in food production

Drought conditions prompt emergency meeting

Panguitch Lake closed because of toxic algal bloom

VERMONT: Magnolia Bistro suddenly shutdown after 12 years due to the owner’s negative social media comments about people with addictions, and despite the owner’s apology for those comments.

Scores of farm owners face higher taxes 

Thieves Put Damper On Hemp Harvest

VIRGINIA: man killed in farming accident

WASHINGTON: Starbucks warning of massive layoffs at the corporate level due to “significant changes”.  

Record $171-million spent in farm-land sale

apple crop awaits answers amid ongoing trade uncertainty

WEST VIRGINIA: More Women Are Becoming Farmers

U.S. Attorney Sues Hemp Farm Over Seeds’ Origin

WISCONSIN: On Pace To Hit Highest Loss Of Dairy Farms In 4 Years

University of Wisconsin-Madison: Ancient farmers reduced the negative effects of The Ice Age and started Global Warming

The Fort McCoy Commissary donated food as part of the nation-wide Feds Feed Families operation.  Feds Feed Families is a USDA operation, relying totally on unpaid volunteers (federal government employees), to help provide food to food pantries near military bases.

WYOMING: Why a wrinkle in the old water law is worth millions (thanks to the oil industry)

elk populations boom ahead of hunting season

Wyoming to begin international trade with Taiwan

U.S. FOOD CRISIS, August 2018: OUTBREAKS & RECALLS

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‘Seven days of Hell’ ‘1.5 million lethal doses’: Drugs, the American Way, August 2018

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Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg, seriously this isn’t the half-of-it!) list of U.S. drugs related crimes and oddities for the month of August 2018:

CNBC: Antianxiety drugs — often more deadly than opioids — are fueling the next drug crisis

In Korea (south) the U.S. Air Force’s 51st Fighter Wing has started a Food First! program to help with its Drug Demand Reduction operations.  It’s partly based on studies that show that so-called health food supplements (now considered ‘drugs’) don’t actually work in people who are already healthy: “The program highlights the importance of good nutrition, hydration, rest and recovery, and physical activity in the development and maintenance of good health as opposed to relying on supplements such as multivitamins and protein shakes.”-Lisa Roof, 51st MDG Health Promotion Coordinator

Washington Post: Our justice system is addicted to drugs

U.S. News & World Report: Prison guards, and prisoners, in 2 States Treated for Exposure to Drugs

Fortune: U.S. Overdose Deaths Rose to a Record 72000 Last Year

The U.S. Coast Guard captures yet another drug boat off the U.S. Pacific Coast, 28AUG2018.

ALABAMA: CBD oil is illegal in Alabama

50 pounds of marijuana found

lawmaker’s son arrested in predawn drug raid

Man arrested after drugs received in mail

Car Dealership Owner & Another Arrested for meth

Leader of non-profit ‘christian’ group, supposedly helping victims of human trafficking, arrested for drug dealing

ALASKA:  Inside Alaska’s Meth Epidemic

‘The First Lady’ of Mountain View meth ring arrested

Hells Angels arrested in FBI meth bust

man arrested for drug use on school grounds

New report shows fatal opioid overdoses still on the rise

More proof the government is behind drug abuse as Federal court orders opioid maker to continue shipping drugs to Alaska, despite the maker reporting the pharmacy orders as “suspicious”!

ARIZONA: Drug tunnel ran from old KFC in Arizona to Mexico bedroom

Yuma BP agents seize nearly $1 million in drugs

Border agents seize drugs worth $345000 in Nogales

Deaths from heroin, painkiller abuse surge

Couple arrested after toddler ingested meth, fentanyl 

Man found with drugs and stolen Maricopa County Sheriff’s guns!

ARKANSAS:  5 drug deaths in 4 days reported at Arkansas prison

7 people arrested after federal investigation

11 indicted in central Arkansas drug ring

Drug overdoses killing more Arkansans

Marijuana Grower Busted

CALIFORNIA: Despite the use of marijuana being legalized in the Communist state of California, the California National Guard Counterdrug Task Force gladly accepted federal tax dollars to help fund the destruction of still illegal marijuana farms found on taxpayer owned land.

22 Arrested in Connection With Helping Sinaloa Cartel 

men arrested for allegedly selling drugs from ice cream truck

“Fresno is the poorest large city… in California…, drug use is about twice the state average…”

Proof the U.S. government is behind drug addiction as federal judge orders No more forcing captured migrant children to take psychotropic drugs

This Oakland ER Treats Opioid Addiction on Demand. That’s Very Rare. (tell me about it, my ex-wife died because a hospital in eastern Idaho refused to treat her for opioid addiction and they were quoting Idaho law that says hospitals can refuse to treat people due to drug addiction!)

COLORADO:  thousands of dollars’ worth of drugs found inside daycare center filled with kids

17 people arrested on 124 drug charges

Despite legalized ganja FBI, DEA orchestrate massive raid of suspected illegal marijuana grow

How many Coloradans are driving high?  (3 out of 4!!!)

Mixed findings on marijuana traffic deaths

CONNECTICUT:  Mass K2 overdose affects more than 70 people 

Deadly K2 drug was created by U.S. pharmaceutical company in Connecticut

7 cops Exposed to Powdery Drug, 2 Hospitalized

Police Seize Cocaine, Heroin & Guns In Drug Bust

Notorious Suspected Dealer, 5 Others Arrested

Drugs Sold Out Of convenience Store

DELAWARE:  fatalities spike: 8 drug deaths in 4 days 

Nearly 100 pounds of cocaine found in pineapples

More than 3500 bags of heroin

Heroin epidemic moves into small towns and swamps police

Dover deli shutdown for selling drugs

Paraplegic man fatally shot in bed by two state troopers during drug bust, in front of his father, cops claim the paralyzed man was going to shoot them!

U.S. Coast Guard off-loads 12-thousand-5-hundred pounds of cocaine at Port Everglades, 01AUG2018.

FLORIDA: couple built drive-thru window at mobile home to sell drugs 

Drug raids target taxpayer funded fire stations, firefighters arrested or dismissed

Hypocrisy?  Controlling drug Addiction With Prescription Drugs

GEORGIA: 17 arrested in Cairo

‘Rolling lab’ able to make 16000 pills per hour busted

$5M in drugs in food boxes seized in metro Atlanta bust

Drugs hidden in cappuccino maker at convenience store

Drugs, gun found on janitor in late night school arrest

GUAM: Man faces meth charge after police conduct traffic stop

Drugs, cash seized; multiple arrests

Car parked near beach leads to prescription drug arrest

Convicted drug dealer and informant violates parole

HAWAII: More than 2 dozen accused of alleged drug trafficking 

IDAHO: Courts identify a 1977 drug sentencing law that could be the cause of out-of-control prison growth, Idaho judge admits “When this statute was written, we didn’t know anything.”  (or maybe the ‘christian’ dominated state is just a bunch of druggies)

Boise women arrested

Migrants(?) caught in Idaho Falls with 90 pounds of meth

11 counties sue prescription drug sellers over opioid epidemic

ILLINOIS:  nurse nets 4 years for stealing opioid patches from patients

six ‘dealers’ arrested in Freeport

Who counts as a drug dealer?

25 people arrested in Rockford

New Law Broadens Synthetic Marijuana Ban

INDIANA: Indiana experiences record year for overdose deaths

Evansville hit by drug dealers

eight arrested Indy drug bust

Drug deal gone bad led to teen’s death

Just two people blamed for central Indiana’s raging drug problem?

Drug bust in Greene/Sullivan Counties

Big bust in Clarksville

IOWA: hospital nurse pleads guilty to stealing pain meds

cop unjustifiably accuses two men of trafficking guns and drugs

Accused drug dealer shoots himself in the nuts!

Raids in Jefferson County net drugs and cash, but not one drug dealer was found.  (can you say tip-off?)

woman pleads guilty to large meth operation

KANSAS: Wichita drugs, guns, cash and arrests

Deputies taken to hospital after finding drugs

68 pounds of meth

Couple forced children to handle drugs 

Meth, jail and love

KENTUCKY: A doctor admits to being a drug addict in ‘Seven days of hell’

Doctors fear being arrested for treating pain

Dentist arrested on drug charges

Drug charges top August indictments

Pet owners abusing their own animals to get drugs

worker drug use, overdoses in Kentucky

LOUISIANA: 38 arrested drugs, prostitution, theft…

 Operation Summer Heat: 71 drug arrests in 5 days

Two women arrested after trying to smuggle drugs inside prison 

21 pounds of marijuana, 2 pounds of meth

K2 hospitalizes 45 people in Lake Charles

MAINE: man who overdosed sues salmon farm for failing to call 9-1-1

massive drug bust in Lewiston

Drug crimes dominate  Aroostook County 

6th worst state in the nation for rise in overdose deaths

MARYLAND: Police inspect “nervous” driver’s semi truck, find enough fentanyl to kill 780,000 people

New ‘street’ drugs that can’t be identified causing overdoses

MASSACHUSETTS:  Despite anti-gun laws a taxpayer funded City of Boston Employee Among 29 Charged in Gun, Drug Bust

Taxpayer funded female State Police Trooper Dishonorably Discharged Over involvement with dealing drugs in the past

11 kilos of heroin and fentanyl

90% of Massachusetts Overdoses Linked to Fentanyl

MICHIGAN: 2 metro doctors got busted for $20M opioid scheme

Doctor charged with drugs for sex crimes

Home Nurse Pleads Guilty to Tampering With Valium

University of Michigan health system pays $4.3M to settle federal charges for stolen drugs

Drugs killed more Michiganders than guns and traffic combined 

Look up the number of overdose deaths in your county

Police surge into Jackson to fight drugs

Drugs, weapons seized at adult care facility

MINNESOTA: Prince’s Family Sues the Doctor That Prescribed Him Pain Pills

Board of Pharmacy to Ban 2 Types of Synthetic Drugs

Migrant woman pleads guilty to being the leader of massive drug gang connected to Mexico

woman found with 25 pounds of meth 

MISSISSIPPI: Taxpayer funded Tallahatchie County Sheriff revealed to be on drug-gang payroll after protecting local drug dealers from arrest for past 15 years!

6 hospitalized after overdosing on mystery drug

1 dead, another in coma after overdosing on mystery drug 

18 arrested in federal roundup

MISSOURI: Chinese missionary killed by gunman high on drugs

More proof there is no sexual equality as organizations rethink drug recovery for mothers

Woman captured with ‘1.5 million lethal doses’ of drugs

Drugs, counterfeit money and credit card cloning operation 

Nearly $400000 in federal taxpayer funds heading to just two Missouri drug courts

MONTANA: 7 suspects arrested

Migrant sentenced for meth trafficking

Where’s the equality? after Woman gets only ten years probation for drug related death-by-freezing of her baby (a man would’ve been locked up for most of his life)

Montana wants to add more than 200 drug collection boxes

Judge learns taxpayer funded crime lab expert testified while on meth, orders new trial: “The manifest hypocrisy in this situation — when a Montana Department of Justice Employee with meth in his system testified and helped secure another man’s meth possession conviction — is abhorrent.”-District Judge John Parker

HIV cases among drug users up in Montana

NEBRASKA:  German drug maker sues to halt planned execution

2nd drug company to join appeal seeking to stop execution

‘christian’ dominated Nebraska Just Became The First State to Use Fentanyl in an Execution

Drug companies drop lawsuit 

over 200 pounds of drugs found 

Biggest drug bust in York County history

46 pounds of meth

Drug dealer caught because he didn’t use turn signal

NEVADA: doctor faces discipline over illegally accessing Las Vegas shooter’s drug records

Physician assistant found guilty of illegally prescribing drugs

Las Vegas resident accused of mail-order meth & money laundering operation

Las Vegas to receive $125K federal taxpayer funded grant to fight drug abuse

Woman coming down off drugs while in jail was refused medical treatment by prison guards and died, her body was left for hours before being removed from the cell, the incident was caught on security camera video!  (guess what, it happens in Idaho jails and prisons all the time but is usually reported as ‘medical condition’ or ‘self inflicted’)

Elko drug bust nets a quarter-pound of heroin

Tech billionaire arrested after drugs found in Las Vegas Strip hotel

Tesla whistleblower claims rampant theft, drug dealing at Elon Musk Gigafactory 

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Police kill man then say he was a druggie

Rise of Meth in New Hampshire

second highest rate of overdose deaths

Keene Fire Department has responded to overdose calls involving people as old as 70 and as young as 16

Taxpayer/Pharma funded RALI New Hampshire hopes to get rid of legal drugs

NEW JERSEY: doctor loses medical license after pleading guilty to illegal drugs charges

Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Chief arrested on drug charges

$5.1M worth of marijuana seized

Israeli based drugs maker Teva gets $40M tax break from you for setting up shop in New Jersey!

Drug treatment in NJ’s jails helps break cycle of crime and addiction  (is that the reason why most states, like Idaho, don’t do it? they like keeping their prisons overcrowded)

NEW MEXICO: Parents accused of beating children, using drugs in front of them

14 Las Cruces Residents Facing Federal heroin Charges

State police officer facing drug charges resigns

NEW YORK: This Drug Is Safe and Effective. Compared With What?

22 arrested in Queensbridge Houses bust

Drugs on the East Side, gambling on the west — 32 busted

Celebrity restaurant busted in massive cocaine ring

About $150000 in narcotics disguised as children’s presents

NORTH CAROLINA: Drug bust was ‘one of the largest’

 Fatal overdoses rising faster than 48 other states

13 arrests part of ‘Operation Nor’easter’ 

NORTH DAKOTA: Homeless man accused of trying to kill drug/cop informant

Drugs Worth $200000 Seized 

Hospice nurses in Minot charged with stealing drugs from patients

Charges dropped in second large I-94 drug bust because of undisclosed “issues” admitted by the sheriff’s department!

tobacco shop owner pleads guilty to drug charges

Dead College Drug/cop Informant Wrongful Death Trial

OHIO: Heroin-fentanyl mix caused ODs at Ross prison, 30 people including prisoners, guards and nurses involved

largest meth bust in Ohio involved Mexicans 

more than $200000 in drugs and cash

Cheaper, purer meth piggybacks opioid crisis in Ohio

16 O-D deaths in five days

The Ohio National Guard has modified software to connect the dots between gun crimes and drug crimes.  It’s part of the state’s decision to treat opioid addiction as a ‘mass casualty event’, watch the official video:

OKLAHOMA: 22 indicted in money laundering, drug trafficking linked to Mexico 

Prisoners Use Sheets in Effort to Get Drugs Into Jail

police chief wants change to marijuana law

Reserve Police Officer Arrested For Trafficking Marijuana

OREGON:  secret drug raid by feds leads to new marijuana-trafficking indictments

Massive Bust Yields Meth, Heroin, And Cash

spike in synthetic opioid overdose deaths

Oregon’s Medicaid program weighs cutting off chronic pain patients from opioids

LIBRARIANS IN OREGON TRAINED TO ADMINISTER DRUG USED TO PREVENT O-D DEATHS

PENNSYLVANIA: Prisons Locked Down After drug exposures

overdose deaths continue to climb

70+ arrested 

Deaths from kratom, sold as an herbal supplement, are rising.

PUERTO RICO:  Aspiring Puerto Rican pro-gamer says she smuggled drugs to NYC to help family survive Hurricane Maria

In Puerto Rico, U.S. Border Patrol captured four illegal immigrant drug smugglers and their cocaine, 29AUG2018.

RHODE ISLAND: How the Smallest State is Defeating America’s Biggest Addiction Crisis

Police discover drug treasure trove

school employee among two facing felony drug charges

‘Gurgling’ dad overdosed with 1-year-old in car

Prisoner runs crack cocaine operation from inside prison

SOUTH CAROLINA: Nurse accused of stealing Hydrocodone at Inman nursing home

27 charged

Upper class home turned out to be a drug house

Plastic baggies found outside elementary school filled with heroin

$110000 in marijuana, cash

nurses given broader power to prescribe drugs

University South Carolina selling students overdose drug

SOUTH DAKOTA: South Dakota refuses to Reveal Drug to Be Used in Execution

Sturgis Motorcycle Rally 2018: Drug arrests up over last year

88 pounds of cocaine

Air National Guard unveils new anti-drug propaganda.

TENNESSEE: overdoses killed more Tennesseans than ever

drug organization laundered $30k in Memphis chicken restaurant

TEXAS:  Two years after his father’s death by opioids, an Army National Guard Specialist was picked to lead Civil Operations in the Panhandle region as part of the Texas National Guard’s Joint Counterdrug Task Force.

Arrests in suspected meth, cocaine conspiracy reach 28

AstraZeneca settles Texas drug lawsuits for $110 million

$1.5 Million in Drugs Found 

Video of drug boat (with more than 2-tons of cocaine) trying to evade capture off the coast of Texas, 03AUG2018:

UTAH: overdose deaths fall 12% 

LDS church (mormon) openly against legalization of marijuana

9.7 lbs. of meth; mom had 2-year-old in car

Relatives of people who died at concert automatically assume it was drugs: “There’s nothing but drugs out there what else could it have been?”-Lilia Martinez, aunt of deceased

Utah man accused of having $100K in drugs mailed to him

VERMONT:  State expands drug-collection program

State Adds 9 More taxpayer funded ‘Drug Recognition Experts’ To Evaluate Driver Impairment

School Administrators Get a Crash Course in Spotting Drug Use

VIRGINIA:  50 suspects indicted on 86 drug related charges

WASHINGTON:  Incorrectly made drugs kill in Spokane

Nez Perce drug and gun arrests

Nightclub managers knew date-rape drug was being sold in their bar

Federal cops threaten Seattle’s plan to provide taxpayer funded ‘safe places’ to inject drugs

marijuana buy turns into gunbattle

Washington State University helping smokers kick the habit by replacing it with addiction to more than a dozen new drugs!

Washington National Guard take part in ‘Konfitma’ on Saipan, 14AUG2018, learning how to test for chemicals that could be used to make drugs. The military considers it a CBRNE threat.

Washington DC:  U.S. Opioid Prescribing Limits May Have Backfired

FDA Did Not Intervene to Curb Risky Fentanyl Prescriptions

The U.S. FDA (Food & Drug Administration) is warning that some prescription diabetes drugs might be causing a deadly flesh eating disease that targets your ‘nads’!

FDA recalls are a reminder that China controls much of world’s drug supply

Snaring Doctors and Drug Dealers

Trump doles out $91M for drug-free community program

Federal tax dollars were spent on the 6th Multilateral Maritime Interdiction and Prosecution Summit held in the Bahamas.  The illegal drugs trade is so bad that 15 regional countries attended the meeting.  This after the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) ‘allowed’ a major cocaine shipment to pass through the ports of the island country of Haiti!

Watch this official U.S. military NorthCom (U.S. Northern Command) video, and realize the Joint Task Force North was created as a result of the Reagan era War on Drugs to militarize federal and local police, also realize that after 30 years it is a huge taxpayer funded failure (if its true goal was to stop drugs trafficking):

 

WEST VIRGINIA:  overdose deaths exceed 1000

Hepatitis A Outbreak due to illegal drug use 

Martinsburg police shut down 33rd drug house

WISCONSIN: 16 charged in $9.6 million cocaine conspiracy

27% of pharmacies fail to comply with state order concerning Narcan

Employment service wants employers to stop testing for drugs because too many job applicants are on drugs!

Five teenagers arrested

WYOMING:  Wyoming had largest drop in overdose deaths 

33 Arrests in ‘Operation Smack’ 

$7.3 Million Worth of Marijuana Seized 

Cops admit they let drug dealer get away, for the sake of ‘public safety’

Drugs, the American Way, July 2018: “A STATE OF NEAR DEATH.”

Business/Economics

“a change in business circumstances”: Sears-Kmart death spiral, October 2018

New York Post: Whirlpool doesn’t want Sears selling any of its appliances 9News.com KUSA: Sears is delisted on NASDAQ Yahoo Finance: lifetime warranties in question National Real Estate Investor: Sears Will End Up in Liquidation Delaware Online: Decisions to ax unsuccessful local locations were made well before bankruptcy! WCPO: How safe are Sears warranties and gift cards? Chicago Tribune: Whirlpool to Sears: We want our appliances back Bankruptcy judge […]

Idaho, U.S.

‘The Dream Market’: Drugs, the American Way, June 2018

Video

Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of U.S. drugs related crimes and oddities for the month of June 2018.

“If we don’t get tough on the drug dealers, we are wasting our time. And that toughness includes the death penalty.”-President Donald Trump, Manchester, New Hampshire, 19MAR2018

Trump proves he’s a Great Reneger by commuting sentence for Kardashian-backed drug offender.

Associated Press: British empire Canada drug smuggler used helicopter to fly marijuana into Washington and Idaho, then pick-up cocaine from California.

CBS News: Ex-DEA agent says Opioid crisis fueled by drug industry and taxpayer funded Congress

CNN: Cocaine and heroin supplies hit ‘record highs’ globally

National Geographic: Some Rivers Are So Drug-Polluted, Their Eels Get High on Cocaine

Center For American Progress: Ending the War on Drugs

Vox: Canada just legalized marijuana. That has big implications for U.S.

Los Angeles Times: Mexico sent in the army to fight the drug war

New York Times: Drug Dealers Targeted in nation wide Sweep of Illicit Online Marketplaces

Forbes: Drug Use Rankings Show Big Surprises And Even Bigger Problems

ESPN: NBA player high on drugs when he killed himself and his wife in car crash

Science News: narcolepsy may play a role in opioid addiction

New study says Superbug infections rising among injection drug users

ALABAMA: Heroin, cocaine, illegal guns, silencers, $16k seized

37-year-old Chilton County drug dealer gets life in federal prison

Mobile Police raids capture drugs, illegal guns, 7 suspects

Opelika Police find 4 pounds of drugs

Rise in major crimes taxing on Florence Police

“Pieces of meth all through that house.”–Monroe County 10 people drug busted

Trio accused of shooting man in retaliation for theft of cash, meth

2 women charged with using illegal drugs while pregnant

A judge dismissed drug charges against 55 people and recalled 20 arrest warrants supposedly because of the incompetence of the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office!

ALASKA: The state Department of Public Safety released drug seizure statistics from March through May.

Troopers now posting monthly drug seizure data

10 years in prison for meth, heroin distributor

Attorney accused of slipping drugs to prisoners

Anchorage police arrest dozens in ‘Operation Midnight Sun’

ARIZONA: CBP Arrest 3 Foreign Women for Drug Smuggling across the U.S./Mexican border

CBP arrests Tucson woman for trying to smuggle drugs from Mexico into the U.S.

CBP arrests foreign man for smuggling meth and heroin from Mexico

Naked Man killed by federal officer tested negative for drugs

Arizona seeing increase in DUI drug arrests

$2.5-million of meth confiscated during traffic stop

Former registered nurse accused of stealing narcotics

Yavapai County Attorney’s Office gets $5-thousand state taxpayer dollars to attend state drug summit

Large number of work-release prisoners test positive for dangerous drugs

Man with ankle monitor caught transporting drugs in Phoenix

CVS creates unwanted drugs drop-off sites

Man arrested after calling police to have his illegal drugs tested

Hashish Not Included in Medical Marijuana Law

ARKANSAS: Raids in Hope yield cars, drugs

Central Arkansas drug court a disaster

Ex-judge called on to scrutinize central Arkansas drug court 

Arrested men face federal drug charges

Caregiver arrested, faces drug charges after abandoning her patient

37 pounds (16.7 kilos) of pot outside west Little Rock

Ex-Bryant school employee arrested in drug-fraud case

Drug fund tapped by bribed lawmakers

drug bust at tire shop

CALIFORNIA:  Now former Los Angeles cop sentenced to five years in federal prison after his home grown drug lab exploded!
Twenty drug-trafficking suspects indicted
Nearly 400 people used California’s drug assisted suicide law in 2017
California Experiments With Distributing Fentanyl Tests
Study says psychedelic drugs really can fight depression, anxiety.
Prop. 47 reduced racial disparities in drug arrests
Deaths Surge From Fentanyl-Laced Street Drugs In San Diego County
Top USC medical school official feared dean was ‘doing drugs’ 

COLORADO: 6 Questions About Colorado’s Interest In Suing Opioid Drug Makers

El Paso County Sheriff’s deputy facing felony drug charges

El Paso County sees increase in drug deaths

El Paso County won’t join federal opioid lawsuit

Pikes Peak Library district arms itself against overdoses

Operation Dry Water 

CONNECTICUT: Drug deal leads to shooting

13 people arrested for drug trafficking in Hartford

Ellington prison, I mean High School locked down for drugs 

Mystery heroin overdoses in Waterbury

K9 uncovers cocaine during Bristol traffic stop

2 men arrested after 160 bags of heroin found in car

Drug factory shut down in Bridgeport

Nursing home Director Caught Stealing Patient’s Drugs

Cell phone crime leads to drug arrest

Artists install drug spoon sculpture outside pharmaceutical headquarters

Connecticut’s New Drug Pricing Law 

DELAWARE: Prescription Drug Assistance Program Restored

1,306 Heroin Bags found in Laurel

Investigation yields vast amount of drugs

Visitor to Smyrna prison arrested on drug possession charges

Woman sold Rx drugs

Dover police nab fugitive; hotel room yields crack, heroin, ecstasy

Woman Found With 65 Bags of Heroin

Semi-truck driver puller over for not using headlights at night, police find heroin, crack cocaine, various drug paraphernalia, and cash.

FLORIDA: Ex-NFL player arrested on drug charge

A French citizen pled guilty to Oxymonster (Oxycodone and Ritalin) trafficking through the ‘dark web’ site known as the Dream Market.

$2-million USD worth of marijuana  captured by Coast Guard is off-loaded in Key West.

5443 kilos (12-thousand pounds) of cocaine captured by Coast Guard is off-loaded in Port  Everglades.

Do your research, you’ll find that Florida is the main dumping point for drugs ‘captured’ by the U.S. government.  The federal government claims the drugs are used as evidence in court cases. or destroyed.  Florida was also the cocaine dumping grounds for Oliver North’s Iran-Contra Affair.

As such, the Florida National Guard and local municipalities are struggling to fight illegal, and prescription, drug use through the Civil Operations Program (COP). Saint Johns County alone reported that they collected 943 pounds of prescription medication in just four hours, during national Take Back Day!

 GEORGIA: Former Georgia Medical Examiner Pleads Guilty to Opioid Conspiracy
CNT makes 2 large-scale drug busts
Bust nets 65 kilos of cocaine, seven kilos of heroin
Dangerous new drug linked to at least 7 deaths
State Board of Nursing accused of protecting nurses addicted to opioids!  Nurses working while high!
Atlanta police officer arrested in drug raid 
Wendy’s restaurant accused of dealing meth
DEA drug raid at doctor’s office
66-year-old arrested in drug bust
Mother sentenced to 20 years for allowing men to rape young daughters for drugs 
Opioid prescriptions now require database check
GUAM: Mother of abandoned baby allegedly admits drug use
Election official discussed drug arrest
Guam’s largest cocaine case
HAWAII:  Project Safe Neighborhoods
Japanese tourists attacked by intravenous drug users get stuck with $50-thousand USD medical bill!
IDAHO: Convicted of the Iran-Contra conspiracy (which included cocaine dealing) USMC Colonel Oliver North gave speech at GOP convention at Idaho State University.
9 arrested in Post Falls 
Drug offenses driving Idaho’s soaring prison growth
Idaho to receive more assistant U.S. attorneys to combat exploding opioid-related crimes
University of Idaho tackles opioid addiction
 ILLINOIS:  K9 Assists in $10 Million Drug Bust in Chicago    Video, Customs & Border Patrol’s Perro the drug dog working Chicago O’Hare’s International Airport, finds DVD case containing drugs:

Video, Customs & Border Patrol unveils new laser device for determining type of drugs without opening the package:

  Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog: Nurse Pleads Guilty to Stealing Drugs from Illinois Nursing Home

INDIANA: He Sold Drugs for $225. Indiana Took His $42000 Land Rover.

6 arrested after drugs, explosives found

1 current Indiana University football player, 1 former player arrested for drugs

4 prison officers sickened by suspected drug fumes at Indiana jail

Indiana and Kansas troopers make interstate drug bust

Police Assisted Addiction Recovery Initiative says using drugs to stop using drugs works good

mother of prisoner charged with trafficking drugs

Police find drugs in mom’s diaper bag

IOWA: man sentenced in mail-order drug case that killed woman

Family Doctor Takes On the Opioid Epidemic

Police screw up?  Without explanation charges of meth possession were suddenly dropped against a man pulled over for an expired registration, Worth County Attorney’s Office would only say “it was in the interest of justice.”  

Drug bust at Viking Lake State Park

KANSAS: Walgreens opens Safe Drug Disposal kiosks in Wichita

KENTUCKY: How a McDonald’s receipt revealed a celebrated Louisville cop was really a drugs criminal!  (I wonder how many innocent people are in prison because of this guy?)

LOUISIANA: California-based drug ring ran drugs into New Orleans, involved “corrupted agents, subcontractors and employees” and threatened the safety of airline passengers.

“Operation Meltdown” results in 26 arrests in Bienville Parish

Man freed from drug-related life sentence immediately rearrested

Former U.S. attorney/New Orleans DA accused of supplying drugs to prisoner

Prescription drugs in Louisiana are exempted from state sales tax, but new legal medical marijuana will be taxed!

MAINE: Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) stopping people in Maine and New Hampshire, make at least nine drug busts and arrest two illegal immigrants.

Family Loses Second Son In Less Than A Year To Drug Addiction

Report shows drug deaths remain high and fentanyl on the rise

Attempted overdose leads to large drug bust

police dog credited with finding 120+ grams of cocaine

Drug treatment for drug addiction?

Drug convicts Still Face Lifetime Ban from SNAP (food stamps) even after completing their prison/probation time, end up back in prison for stealing food!

MARYLAND: Raids of four homes in Hagerstown led to drugs and 11 arrests

Drug addiction treatment one key to revitalizing Hagerstown

Freddie Gray’s sister gets probation for bringing drugs into prison

Maryland Prisons Reverse Policy after failed attempt to stop drug smuggling

man and woman found guilty in heroin O-D death

MASSACHUSETTS: Drug Busts In Lawrence Net Huge Score

More dying from overdoses of fentanyl-laced cocaine

Brockton Gang Unit detectives witness drug deal

100 overdoses, 25 dead, in Fall River

‘Targeted acts of violence’ in Fall River

Drug Overdose Uptick In Waltham

Worcester County emerging as marijuana central

Mother Charged With Drugged Driving in Crash That Injured Her 2 Kids

Drugmaker Eisai to close Andover research site, lay off employees

MICHIGAN: Democrats introduce plan to repeal drug liability law

Michigan ranked fourth in nation for drug problems

alcohol still No. 1 addictive drug

Michigan is hiring prison contractor known for smuggling drugs to prisoners!

Female Detroit doctor has license suspended for over-prescribing drugs

Libraries now the front lines of Michigan’s opioid war

Mail-order pharmacy system delays meds for some patients

MINNESOTA: Fentanyl in Minnesota

Mexican drug cartel ‘flooded our market’ with meth

police to stop arresting people for selling small amounts of marijuana

Minneapolis police ordered EMTs to inject suspects with rape drug, secret ‘official policy’ changed after being caught!

MISSISSIPPI:  ‘Operation High Life’

Operation Shark Tank

Federal judge shuts down Delta Pharma for distributing dangerous drugs

woman charged with prescription fraud

multi-million dollar pharmacy fraud scheme

MISSOURI: Man accused of deadly shooting over prescription drugs

Twenty-two indicted in undercover Boonville drug bust

Opioid-related deaths in Missouri grow

MONTANA:  Already record number of meth labs shutdown, so far this year!

Blackfeet Tribe bans convicted drug dealer from reservation

Fort Peck Indian Reservation fatal heroin overdoses

Drugs possible motive in Missoula shooting

Saint Ignatius School Board unanimously voided the contract with school bus contractor, after the owner was charged with smoking meth on buses.

Former Billings police clerk accused of stealing drugs from evidence locker

NEBRASKA: Drug use has gotten so outta hand in the predominantly ‘christian’ plain states that the U.S. DEA has opened a new Division Office in Omaha. Agents operating out of the office will cover Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.

NEVADA: Our Big Pot Feature

20 charged in Reno drug trafficking and gun case

Nevada’s First Report on Compensation & Samples Distributed by Pharmaceutical Sales

13 arrested in FBI probe of meth trafficking

NEW HAMPSHIRE:   2017 was deadliest year for overdoses

Will Soon Have Millions More tax-dollars to Fight the Opioid Crisis. But Where Will it really Go?

Opioids cause 21% increase in child abuse

NEW JERSEY: 70 pounds (31.7 kilos) of drugs seized 

Drug dealers still a problem despite 12 arrests

Massive Amounts Of Heroin, 10,000 bags moved per week, In Monmouth County

election worker accused of being on heroin

Ocean County cop stole cocaine, gets 3 years

meth deal in parking lot of Buffalo Wild Wings

NEW MEXICO:  Smuggling is a growing border problem

Over $1 million in heroin, cocaine found in wrecked car at immigration checkpoint

Drug addicts killing innocent victims caught on home video

Seizures of deadly fentanyl soaring

Almost 40% of women in prison are there because of drugs

NEW YORK: County prisoners charged with smuggling drugs

Nassau police officers arrested in drug probe

11 Members of drug ring, including a cop, arrested: “This investigation started out as a narcotics investigation, but we came across information regarding something unique and that was a casino heist involving an active police officer.”-Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini

Pakistani citizen pleads guilty to drug trafficking, in NYC court: “He agreed to send huge amounts of deadly drugs to American streets and neighborhoods, which would have fueled the current opioid epidemic and facilitated addiction and abuse by supplying huge amounts of heroin to New York and nationwide. We are pleased he is facing American justice in a United States court of law.”-Geoffrey Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York

Mexican Meth+California+U.S. Postal Service+New York=Operation Meltdown

NORTH CAROLINA: More than 100 arrested in Johnston County drug bust

Dozens arrested in WPD drug round-up

Police officer charged with drug possession

city councilman arrested in drug bust keeps his taxpayer funded job

College football signee arrested on drug charges

NORTH DAKOTA: Police incinerate pounds of drugs after big busts: “We’re getting better at it.”-Leutenant Troy Hischer, North Dakota Highway Patrol

Drug arrests increase

Now former deputy fails drug test, again!

Major traffic stop ganja bust unusable as evidence because of incompetent deputy, who claimed his only reason for being suspicious of the driver was that he was driving 2-mph under the speed limit, which is not a crime!

OHIO: Fentanyl seized in local drug bust called enough to kill millions

Feds bust 25 people

Record Number of Drug Overdose Deaths in Cuyahoga County

Officers arrest 22 during Warren drug sweep

Cocaine worth $3.4 million seized 

‘Haunted Farm’ turns out to be Mexican run meth house.

Columbus health department giving heroin users fentanyl test strips 

OKLAHOMA: Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Users Can’t Possess Guns

Prisoner pleads guilty to running drug operation from prison

Investigators trying to figure out how prisoner got drugs

Claremore doctor indicted for drug distribution 

New trend; cattle rustling for drugs!

OREGON: Task Force Arrests Suspect in Southern Oregon Drug Trafficking

55 people arrested in downtown Portland

Angry taxpayers forced to save known drug house from foreclosure!

Rogue Area Drug Enforcement (RADE) finds heroin and meth in local park

Employers warning they’ve run-out of employees who can pass a drug test!

PENNSYLVANIA: Mom, Son Accused of Trafficking Heroin, Cocaine, Fentanyl & Marijuana

Retailers experiment with blue colored lights to Prevent heroin Use in store toilet rooms.

Study reveals that Pennsylvania coroners are not able to identify drugs used in O-D deaths!  Which explains why Pennsylvania led the U.S. in unreported opioid deaths!

The opioid overdose crisis is hitting all of Philadelphia

RHODE ISLAND:  $1M worth of fentanyl seized in drug bust, 3 people arrested including a man from Dominican Republic

Pawtucket police seize $100K in marijuana

Drugs to be used to treat alcohol addiction?

‘Kristen’s Law’

SOUTH CAROLINA: Police continue illegal ‘no knock’ home invasions!

Prisoner caught running ‘multi-stage’ drug trafficking op from state prison.

Pile of powerful pills found on the street

man tricked into life in prison for nonviolent drug crime

Officers stopping for water make unexpected drug bust

Cop with six years on the job resigns after failing drug test

SOUTH DAKOTA: Fentanyl hits South Dakota with deadly force

A now ex-cop blames his meth use on the U.S. Army’s anti-malaria vaccine!

8 pounds of heroin, 2 pounds of fentanyl in traffic stop

TENNESSEE: Metro Schools teacher arrested for meth use

Meth Remains A Big Problem

Nineteen accused in Claiborne County

Man Accused Of Selling Drugs While pushing baby In Stroller

Heroin Overdoses Increase

Big expensive camping RVs used to traffic drugs from Oregon to Tennessee.

TEXAS:  Taxpayer funded immigrant prison contractor accused of injecting children with date rape drug!

20 charged in West Texas drug conspiracy

Alabama man arrested with nearly 5 pounds of meth

Corpus Christi store owner pleads guilty to ‘cutting’ diet supplements with “unapproved foreign drugs”.

‘Affluenza Mom’ Fails Drug Test

The Texas National Guard was given a class on anti-drug ops by the Illinois National Guard, which makes sense because ever since Barack Obama became the President of the U.S., Chicago has been the heroin gateway to the United States.

OBAMA LEGACY: WHO’S THE BIGGEST DRUG PUSHER? OBAMA!

UTAH: meth hidden in package of ‘snacks’

Emery County, 11 arrests

True reason why marijuana is illegal in Utah: Mormon Church’s Billion Dollar Pharmaceutical Investment

Woman attempts to drug husband because she “didn’t want to deal with him”.

VERMONT: 25 arrested in Washington County 

Act 86 Will Not Change Vermont National Guard Drug Policy

Despite legalized marijuana employees can still be fired for using it

VIRGINIA:  National Guard soldier high on drugs steals armored personnel carrier.

Police push confidential informant program as drug offenses jump 42%

Operation Purge, 11 arrests

WASHINGTON: Seattle based Amazon jumps into drug business with PillPack acquisition

Seattle officials propose mobile safe injection site

Spokane dentist indicted on federal drug charges

  Authorities arrest about three dozen in Western Washington drug busts

The 180 crew members of the Coast Guard Cutter Mellon, homeported in Seattle, divide their illegal activity patrols (like illegal fishing by foreigners and drug smuggling) between the central American country of Guatemala and the U.S. state of Alaska.

Washington DC:  The federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) reports that for April’s Take Back Day 430480-kilograms (474 U.S. tons) of drugs were collected nation wide. I’ve pointed out before that the phrase Take Back Day used by the government implies that it was the government that gave/sold you the drugs.

FDA approves first cannabis-based drug

Government issues warning about Nuetexta pushed on the elderly by pharmaceutical company

WEST VIRGINIA: Feds indict 31 

21 arrested in multi-agency drug sweep in Wayne County

Taxpayers turning apartments into drug treatment centers for women under Project Hope for Women and Children (this proves there is no hope for men?)

WISCONSIN:  International drug deal in Door County

meth use grows in Wisconsin, DOJ warns of “Altered State”

Older adults overlooked in opioid abuse epidemic

Wawautosa nurse practitioner indicted in major federal drug take down

Trucker was on drugs before crashing into school bus

High school students caught giving sex drugs to classmates, school officials criticized for lack of disciplinary action.

WYOMING:  Deadly drug found in Casper

Casper Police discover local families with small children are packing into motel rooms so the parents can do drugs!

Entire family accused of dealing meth

drug treatment gaps drive Wyoming’s prison problem

Wyoming man caught trying to traffic meth from Mexico

Female prisoners used vaginas to traffic meth inside county jail

DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, May 2018: U.S. Air Force says “BAG IT, SHIP IT, FORGET IT!”

DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, FEBRUARY 2018: “TEACHING KIDS ABOUT THE HARM OF DRUGS…DOESN’T REALLY WORK.”

SUMERIAN LAMENT: HISTORY SHOWS IMMIGRANTS ARE GREATEST SELF-INFLICTED THREAT TO EMPIRES!

THE NEW GREAT OPIUM WAR: MYANMAR NOW SECOND LARGEST PRODUCER OF OPIUM! (thanks to United States?)

2012: Occupation of Afghanistan designed to raise the price of opioids

U.S.

“You can’t stop the church!”: U.S. christian rapture, April 2018

Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of U.S. Christian shutdowns, layoffs and Rapture oddities for the Gregorian (western christian calendar) month of April 2018. Catholic Relief Services revealed that in 2017 about 14-thousand  parishes and schools in the United States were helped with the Lenten Rice Bowl food program.  However, Catholic Relief Services also admitted that only 25% of donations […]