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...most-intriguing-looking prospect, you'll have to wait until midseason: "Kingpin," a violent HBO wannabe about a Mexican drug lord and the DEA agents chasing him, had touches of both amoral crime opera and glitzy soap (its creative team comes from HBO's "The Sopranos" and "The Corner"; the production company is prime-time soap czar Aaron Spelling's). The network is hyping it, probably self-fulfillingly, as the most controversial show of the season - and NBC's so bravely behind it, they're ordering a whole six episodes. (Most new shows initially...
...Harvard Medical School who ran the tests as part of research on the physiological effects of cocaine, had to clear a number of bureaucratic hurdles in order to administer the drug in his lab. Researchers who work with illegal narcotics must receive approval from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for a grant of exemption from prosecution for the possession, distribution and dispensing of controlled substances. Once granted immunity from the law, researchers are free to inject narcotics into rats, rabbits and other small woodland animals to their heart’s content...
Thank goodness the DEA is protecting our children from getting high on frozen waffles that contain hemp. I'm sure it has research that shows eating such waffles leads to using harder drugs--such as caffeine. MICHAEL MURPHY Half Moon Bay, Calif...
...mass murder did much to consolidate the family's hold over the lucrative Tijuana smuggling corridor. Arellano-Felix confirmed to the Mexican military officers that Ramon, had died in a shoot-out with authorities in Mazatlan on Feb. 10. The body was cremated but Hutchinson said today the DEA still hoped to use DNA evidence to confirm that the remains were indeed Ramon...
Meanwhile, hemp's defenders crop up everywhere. Three years ago, after a friend convinced former CIA Director James Woolsey of hemp's salubrious ecological profile, Woolsey became a lobbyist for the North American Industrial Hemp Council. Woolsey takes no direct swipes at the DEA, but he impugns its logic. "You'd have to be stark raving mad to try to hide marijuana in the middle of a hemp crop because of cross-pollination," he says. "I'm very proud of the fact that I've been attacked in High Times magazine." A High Times columnist called him a "dirtbag...