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    Why Rescheduling Cannabis Is a Very Bad Idea

    As of Friday, President Donald Trump is considering signing an executive order which would reclassify cannabis (marijuana) from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 (CSA) to Schedule III. That unprecedented action would allow physicians to prescribe cannabis to treat patients’ medical ailments. The president’s decision to reschedule marijuana would be a mistake…
    Paul J. Larkin
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    In Sanctuary State, ICE Arrests Illegal Alien Responsible for Death of 24-Year-Old Woman

    An illegal alien responsible for the death of a 24-year-old Colorado woman has been arrested.   Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed the arrest on Thursday of a 16-year-old from Colombia who was convicted of reckless driving resulting in death but was released back onto the streets of Colorado by the Arapahoe District Attorney’s Office.   ICE…
    Virginia Allen
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    DEA to Consider Loosening Federal Marijuana Restrictions

    THE CENTER SQUARE—The Drug Enforcement Administration plans to hold a formal hearing next week on its plan to reschedule marijuana at the federal level. The proposal is to move marijuana from a Schedule I drug, along with heroin and LSD, to Schedule III, where it would join ketamine and anabolic steroids. In May, the Department…
    Brett Rowland
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    Why the Sudden Rise in Fentanyl Deaths Among Young People? 

    A mother who tragically lost her teenage son to fentanyl poisoning is speaking out about the opioid crisis among the nation’s youth. Federal data shows that among 10- to 19-year-olds, fentanyl deaths rose 182% from 2019 to 2021. “These days, experimenting with drugs is deadly,” said Janet Hehl, mother of Alec Pierce Hoffman.  “The cause of…
    Mary Elise Cosgray
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    Chinese Drug Dealers Use Risqué Ads to Sell Narcotics, Fentanyl Ingredients on US Social Media

    Accounts claiming to represent Chinese drug manufacturers are using provocative images of women to advertise narcotics and fentanyl precursors on U.S. social media, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation review of hundreds of English and Chinese-language social media posts. The Daily Caller News Foundation identified several dozen LinkedIn accounts claiming to be saleswomen representing…
    Philip Lenczycki
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    This State Has Suffered ‘Highest Fentanyl Death Rate in America’

    West Virginia is feeling the worst effects of illicit fentanyl flowing across America’s southern border, according to state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey.  Fentanyl is “ravaging our state,” Morrisey says, noting that is “in part because West Virginia for many decades really has had the highest drug-overdose death rate in the nation.” And now, the Mountain…
    Virginia Allen
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    Texas Woman Testifies ‘Blood’ of Dead Mother, Daughter Is on ‘Multiple Hands in This Administration’

    Elisa Tambunga became pregnant with her daughter when she was only 19 and, according to Tambunga, her little girl quickly became the center of her world.   Usually, at about this time of year, Tambunga says she would be buying her elementary school-age daughter school supplies. Instead, the Texas mother sat before members of Congress at…
    Virginia Allen
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    Dead Migrants, Dead Americans: Pro-Border Security Rally Highlights Scourge of Cartels and Fentanyl

    A photo of a skeleton laying in the Texas dirt flashed across the screen, followed by another, and another – all images of the remains of migrants who died from exhaustion or other causes after entering America illegally. “[President] Joe Biden is responsible for more dead people on the Texas border than any time in…
    Virginia Allen
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    ‘Deadly’: Rep. Chip Roy Issues Warning on Fentanyl Crisis

    A Texas congressman is sounding the alarm over how fatal even the smallest amount of fentanyl can be as the lethal drug continues to pour into the United States. “People don’t understand how deadly fentanyl is. A sugar packet, a Sweet’N Low packet of fentanyl could kill, in its pure form, all of the people…
    Samantha Aschieris
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    How America’s Unsecured Border Contributes to Fentanyl Crisis, Deaths

    Drug overdose is the leading cause of death for Americans ages 18 to 45.   A total of 91,799 deaths from drug overdoses occurred in 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. Opioid drugs, such as fentanyl, were involved in 68,630, or 75%, of these overdose deaths.   “It’s undisputed that the leading cause of deaths…
    Virginia Allen
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    Border Deaths Surge Under Biden Compared With Trump, Obama

    Under the Biden administration, deaths of migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border in 2021 increased by almost 300 from the prior year, and by 200 from the last non-pandemic year, according to a United Nations agency that now classifies the southern border as the “deadliest land crossing in the world.”  Moreover, more border deaths have occurred…
    Fred Lucas
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    Left-Wing Prosecutor Soft on Alien Drug Dealers So They Weren’t Deported

    The recent recall of radically left-wing San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin by the city’s overwhelmingly Democrat voters was utterly justified by his total incompetence. Progressive social warriors like Boudin in San Francisco, George Gascon in Los Angeles, Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, and Kim Foxx in Chicago have done massive harm to their cities by…
    Simon Hankinson
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    DEA Agents Told to Stop Saying ‘Mexican Cartel’

    Officials at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration have been directed by headquarters to stop using the term “Mexican cartel” when speaking with reporters, according to an email exclusively obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation from a government official. A portion of the email sent in mid-July states: “Also, we need to now avoid saying ‘Mexican…
    Jennie Taer
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    Colombia Is Being Threatened by Leftist Violence. Biden’s Silence Is Deafening.

    Colombia, one of the United States’ oldest and most reliable allies in the hemisphere, has been rocked by political violence in the past few months aimed at destabilizing the country.  As the Center for a Secure Free Society reports, the government of democratically elected President Ivan Duque has been targeted by the same violent, narco-funded,…
    James M. Roberts
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    Pence Praises DEA for Border Security, Weakening Maduro Regime

    Vice President Mike Pence vowed Thursday that regardless of what happens in Congress, the administration will secure the southern border—and that includes a wall. After a briefing on drugs at the southern border by senior officials from the Justice Department and Drug Enforcement Administration, Pence spoke to about 60 DEA employees at the DEA Museum…
    Fred Lucas
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    Conservatives Balk at Talk of Trump Amnesty Deal With Democrats

    President Donald Trump and Democratic leaders asserted that they haven’t reached a deal to give legal status to those who came to the country illegally as children—but one seems to be pending. “It’s a negotiating trick, and one that Mr. Art of the Deal has fallen for,” @MarkSKrikorian says. “We’re working on a plan—subject to…
    Fred Lucas
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    In Positive Turn, Justice Department Prosecuting Wrongdoers Rather Than Cutting Deals to Win Fines

    Federal prosecutors have accused a group of U.S. postal workers servicing the Atlanta area of taking bribes in exchange for delivering shipments of illegal drugs. U.S. Attorney John Horn said, “For cash in their pockets they were willing to endanger themselves and the residents on their routes and bring harmful drugs into the community.” Contrast…
    John-Michael Seibler
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    DEA Targets Innocent Americans, Accessing Travel Data to Seize Cash via Civil Asset Forfeiture Laws

    Well-meaning laws designed to nab high-level criminals have been twisted to siphon off money from law-abiding American citizens. The latest abuse of civil asset forfeiture laws involves air and rail travelers being targeted and fleeced by a federal agency. The Drug Enforcement Administration is pulling Americans’ travel data en masse from airline and Amtrak records,…
    Jason Snead
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    1 Year After Steinle Death, San Francisco Unveils Immigration Policy Keeping ‘Sanctuary’ Protections

    Nearly one year after Kate Steinle was killed in San Francisco allegedly by a man living in the U.S. illegally, the city has approved a new policy restricting the circumstances under which it will cooperate with immigration requests from the federal government. San Francisco’s new sheriff, Vicki Hennessy, and the city’s board of supervisors reached…
    Josh Siegel
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    How the TSA and Drug Enforcement Administration Joined Forces to Seize Cash at Airports

    A new report from a government watchdog criticized the Drug Enforcement Administration for working with a Transportation Security Administration security screener to flag bags containing large sums of cash, which the drug agency could then take. According to the investigation from the Department of Justice’s inspector general released earlier this month, the TSA agent was registered…
    Melissa Quinn
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