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Funeral services will be held this morning at 9:10 a.m. at the Bell-O’Dea Funeral Home, at 376 Washington Street, Brookline. The funeral will be followed by a 10 a.m. Mass at St. Lawrence Church at 774 Boylston Street, Chestnut Hill...
...Drug Enforcement Administration is launching an urgent new initiative to confront the exploding Afghan heroin trade, which officials fear will generate millions of dollars for al-Qaeda-linked groups. Code-named Operation Containment, the DEA effort will open offices in Kabul and the Uzbek capital of Tashkent to monitor the bustling northern smuggling route to Russia. The agency's offices in Turkey are being expanded to intensify monitoring of heroin traffic to Western Europe. Stateside, FBI officials have established new narco-terrorism squads in New York City and other field offices, and are expanding domestic investigations into drug rings with...
...aids patients suffer brutal nausea, he won government approval in 1997 for the first clinical trial of marijuana in more than a decade. Marijuana proposals at the time required the approval of three agencies--the FDA, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the National Institute on Drug Abuse--and the DEA and NIDA had resisted. A DEA official worried in a letter about the political fallout if Abrams found positive results. "The government is saying there are no studies proving the medical benefits," Abrams fumed in 1996. "But they're also not letting studies be conducted...
...reports, the National Institutes of Health hasn't initiated a study of cannabis therapeutics in two decades, leaving California's young center as the only U.S. research institution doing the basic science. Marijuana remains the only drug that researchers must acquire directly from the feds. If the FDA and DEA approve, scientists can get even ecstasy from outside labs, but NIDA is the sole source for cannabis, requiring a third bureaucratic layer. "In an era of privatization, it's shocking that the government insists on a monopoly so that it can choose not to provide marijuana to projects it doesn...
...bust couldn't have gone better for the pot folks. California attorney general Bill Lockyer fired off an angry letter to DEA chief Asa Hutchinson, who wrote back saying that federal law allows the feds to seize pot. "During the Clinton years they didn't do this," says Lockyer. "It disappointed me that they would be using precious resources to act like a bunch of bullies." San Jose police chief William Lansdowne was so annoyed by the raid that he withdrew his officers from the local DEA task force, ending 15 years of close work. Even Governor Gray Davis...