Government recategorizes marijuana to a lower drug classification – CBS News Watch CBS News For the first time since 1970, the federal government has reclassified marijuana from the most dangerous category downward into a less dangerous category. Dr. Jon LaPook breaks it down. Source link
JACKSON, Miss. — Six current or former Mississippi law enforcement officers have pleaded guilty to date and another has been found not guilty in an alleged drug trafficking bribery scheme that ensnared 20 people, including two sheriffs. Federal indictments filed in October allege 14 current or former Mississippi law enforcement officers took bribes from an … Read more
Ecuador’s top court on Wednesday approved the extradition to the United States of a high-ranking lieutenant of the “Los Choneros” gang. Dario Penafiel, known as “Topo,” was arrested in September in Ecuador’s Amazon, where he is believed to have been coordinating illegal mineral extraction. Authorities said Topo had ties to a dissident faction of Colombia’s … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Fox News has learned a high-ranking Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official is on administrative leave after an investigation was launched into the leader’s alleged “sugar daddy” relationship, lavish spending and drug use, according to a DHS official. The probe unfolded after a formal complaint was filed … Read more
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum told reporters on Wednesday that the Mexican military was unaware of the presence of U.S. agents who died in a car accident during an antidrug operation in the border state of Chihuahua. “Evidently, the military didn’t know there were people participating who weren’t Mexican citizens … that there were foreigners participating in … Read more
Mexico demands answers after CIA employees die in car crash following drug lab raid – CBS News Watch CBS News Leaders in Mexico are demanding answers after two CIA employees died in a car crash following a drug lab raid. CBS News intelligence and national security reporter Olivia Gazis has more. Source link
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday she would demand explanations over what U.S. and Mexican officials were doing in northern Chihuahua when they died in an accident over the weekend, noting that any joint collaborations between the local government and the U.S. without federal permission would be a violation of Mexican law. The crash, following … Read more
President Trump signed an executive order on Saturday that paves the way for more research into psychedelics as treatment for certain mental illnesses. The signing follows Mr. Trump’s move in December 2025 to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug. Josh Kesselman, the founder of RAW rolling papers and publisher of High Times Magazine, joins … Read more
Four anti-narcotics agents, including two American embassy workers, were killed in a car accident while returning from a major drug raid in northern Mexico, prosecutors said Sunday. On Friday and Saturday, six clandestine synthetic drug labs were raided in Morelos, in the northern state of Chihuahua, following a three-month investigation, state prosecutor Cesar Jauregui told … Read more
A Hungarian suspected drug trafficker on the list of Europe’s most wanted fugitives has been arrested in Mexico, the Latin American country’s public security chief said Saturday. Janos Balla, also known as Daniel Takacs, was taken into custody in the beach resort city of Cancun on the Yucatan peninsula, Security Secretary Omar Garcia Harfuch said … Read more