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NORMAL is currently attempting to chip away at strict--and, the organization contends, unjust--marijuana laws through a suit against the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) that would force the agency to reclassify the drug. Marijuana is now a Schedule I drug, like heroine, meaning it cannot be used medically except in special circumstances because of its supposed dangerous side effects. NORMAL wants it switched to Schedule II, which covers substances with potential for abuse but acknowledged medicinal value...
...canal negotiations in 1976. The defense, however, claims that the general also had control of an $11 million slush fund from which, on Washington's behalf, he allegedly supplied the Nicaraguan contras and spied on Castro. Prosecutors are braced for any such bad-news revelations and expect the CIA, DEA and DIA to have some dirty laundry aired...
Though Noriega may disclose embarrassing details about his ties to Washington, his chances of beating federal case 88-79-CR look dim. The Justice Department and the DEA have launched a full-court press against him, with at least a dozen federal prosecutors and 25 DEA agents working on the case for the past year and a half. Although the State Department long viewed the Noriega indictment as a handy political stick with which to oust a greedy and unsavory ally, the Miami prosecution team sees it as a pure and simple drug case. "The alpha and omega of this...
...assemble those facts, DEA agents have tracked down more than 1,000 leads in Texas, Mexico, Chile, Canada, Germany, France, Belgium and even South Korea. Prosecutors have lined up a formidable rogues' gallery of drug dealers, $ dope pilots, shady businessmen and former Noriega military cronies to testify against him. The star witness will be Panamanian pilot Floyd Carlton Caceres, who claims he was the general's point man with the Medellin cartel. In addition, six of the 15 men indicted along with Noriega have been convicted and have turned state's evidence in exchange for a promise of leniency...
...most mysterious events in the case, B.C.C.I. bank records from Panama City relating to Noriega "disappeared" in transit to Washington while under guard by the Drug Enforcement Administration. After an internal investigation, the DEA said it had no idea what had happened to the documents...