Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard to think of anyone who could resist the call of today's roaring bull market. So when agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration set out to crack a Colombian cocaine ring three years ago, they opened a fully licensed--but also fully bogus--brokerage in suburban Atlanta to get inside the drug world. Even though the customers never made a single stock trade--double-digit stock gains are paltry in contrast to 400% returns on cocaine--the sting paid off last week with federal indictments of five Colombians, who are believed to have ties to the Cali drug cartel...
...investigation began after authorities in Cartagena, Colombia, seized 386 kg of cocaine hidden inside containers of frozen fish shipped by a company with a distribution center in Atlanta. Drug agents subsequently opened their phony office and offered to launder funds for suspected traffickers. As it played out, agents picked up drug funds in gym bags, luggage and boxes on the streets of such cities as New York, Dallas, Madrid and Rome. Then, with the help of black-market money changers in Colombia, the dollars were converted into pesos and deposited into the traffickers' Colombian accounts. But much to the dismay...
...development that could give new meaning to the term "experiential learning," a number of American universities are under investigation for misuse of heroin, cocaine, LSD and marijuana provided for research studies. According to the Associated Press, the Drug Enforcement Administration is looking into the research programs of at least a dozen of the 535 universities currently authorized to use the whole spectrum of illegal substances in controlled laboratory tests. Federal officials say the government, which provides $250 million for universities to buy the drugs, doesn't do much to find out what's happening inside the research facilities. Whether this...
Ironically, getting the initial federal authorization to buy the drugs is anything but easy; each study is subject to punctilious investigation at the beginning of research. But once an experiment is on the books, the money keeps rolling in without much scrutiny. Those familiar with Kajander's case, while happy to disagree on which entity is ultimately responsible for how the drugs are used, seem to agree on one thing: Both the government and research institutions need to pay much closer attention to the process - and the inevitable risks - of drug research...
Looking to shine some light into the murky medicinal netherworld of online drug sales, the Clinton administration Tuesday proposed that the federal government begin policing cyber-pharmacies In the bricks-and-mortar world, drugstores are regulated by states, but state authorities have had a hard time overseeing sites based outside their jurisdiction. While this isn't a new issue - states have been grappling with the problems posed by mail-order houses for years - the Web offers a new, more enticing arena for the sale of unregulated products. The new FDA commissioner, Dr. Jane Henney, told TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson...