RICHMOND, Va. — A former Virginia lawmaker was arrested over the weekend on felony gun and drug charges and a misdemeanor charge of violating a protective order, according to a sheriff’s office official and jail records. Matt Fariss, who had served in the House of Delegates as a Republican since 2012 before running unsuccessfully last […]
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president said Friday he won’t fight Mexican drug cartels on U.S. orders, in the clearest explanation yet of his refusal to confront the gangs. Over the years, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has laid out various justifications for his “hugs, not bullets” policy of avoiding clashes with the cartels. In the […]
I’m not trying to get anyone’s hopes up here too much, but it’s just possible that we are witnessing a turning of the tide in terms of the progressive fads and policies that have been sweeping the nation over the past couple of decades. First, we saw the “defund the police” movement turn into a […]
Oregon is poised to step back from its first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law with a new measure approved by the state Senate that would reinstate criminal penalties for possessing small amounts of some drugs. The law, which took effect in 2021, decriminalized possession and personal use of all drugs, including small amounts of heroin, methamphetamine, LSD, […]
It’s really happening. This week a bill aimed at rolling back Oregon’s previous decision to decriminalize drugs (known as Measure 110) is making progress through the legislature. It was passed out of committee on Tuesday. Oregon lawmakers on the joint addiction committee on Tuesday evening voted for a proposal to backtrack on Measure 110 and […]
TV producer and former daytime talk show powerhouse Oprah Winfrey has left the board of weight-loss company WeightWatchers after revealing that she uses drugs as a “maintenance” plan to maintain her weight. Winfrey admitted last year that she began using pharmaceutical drugs and not just dieting programs to maintain her weight loss and to avoid […]
Walking to cast their ballots next week along needle-strewn streets, past the gauntlet of addicts, petty thieves and empty storefronts that are the landmarks of 21st-century San Francisco, voters of the city by the Bay are expected to send a powerful message that they have had enough. “The pendulum is swinging,” Malcolm Weitz, 41, said. […]
The Centers for Disease Control delivered the grim news to Oregon residents late last week. Overdose deaths from fentanyl spiked more than 1,500% from 2019 (78) to 2023 (1,268). The reason can’t be imagined away. In 2020, Oregon passed the most liberal drug decriminalization law in U.S. history. It […]
BOSTON — Dozens of gang members operating mostly out of a public housing development in a Boston neighborhood have been accused of dealing drugs, targeting their rivals in shootings and recruiting young people with the enticement of appearing in their songs and videos, federal authorities said Wednesday. Acting U.S. Attorney Joshua Levy said the charges […]
Federal prosecutors in Oregon said four affiliates of a Mexican crime syndicate were charged Thursday with trafficking over one metric ton of liquid heroin in a moving truck. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon said the four suspects were charged with conspiracy and distribution charges related to the 1.4 metric tons of […]
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