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Los Angeles gets tough on medical marijuana shops...RED EYES "There's no mention in the law that you can sell it over the counter," Joseph Esposito, head of the district attorney's narcotics division, told Reuters. "The dispensaries are about clever people who looked at the law and said:... In this article: Marijuana, Los Angeles, Steve Cooley, West Hollywood, California, Back pain, Cannabis, Pit Bull, and Insomnia |
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Deseret News | 1 day ago
New charges reveal violent scene at Green Street
...in a man being shot by an off-duty deputy, paints a chaotic picture - which continued even after the shooting. Rudy Chacon, a veteran narcotics detective for the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office, was cleared of any wrongdoing Thursday...
In this article: E mail
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San Antonio News | 1 day ago
Four-wheeler found with $461,000 drug load, driver bails
...it compared to a total for the 2009 fiscal year of 840,000 pounds. "When I saw the photos I thought, 'This will convey the measures these narcotics smugglers will attempt,'" Lopez said, recalling a similar incident when marijuana was found...
In this article: Fiscal year, Mexico, Cocaine, Starr County, Laredo, Texas, and California
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Fox News | 1 day ago
15 Arrested in Mexican Drug Cartel Bust
...transporting millions from Chicago to Dallas in May 2008 and April 2009. The investigation was part of Project Coronado, a multi-agency narcotics investigation that focused on La FamiliaaEUR™s distribution network throughout the United...
In this article: Cocaine, Chicago, Dallas, Defendant, All rights reserved, Mexico, and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
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Philly.com | 1 day ago
Two more narcotics officers snared in probe
Two more narcotics officers have lost their police powers and been forced to give up their weapons in an ongoing corruption investigation that has ensnared three others this year. The officers were identified as Robert McDonnell Jr. and...
In this article: Legal age, Best interests, Allegation, Philadelphia Police Department, and Fraternal Order of Police
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National Public Radio | 1 day ago
Obscured By War, Water Crisis Looms In Yemen
About 40 percent of available water goes to khat, shown here on a hillside in northern Yemen. Many Yemenis chew the mildly narcotic leaf. But experts and ordinary Yemenis agree that policy blunders have accelerated the crisis and made...
In this article: Khat, Yemen, NPR, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund
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Florida-Times Union | 1 day ago
Jacksonville narcotics officer shoots suspect during drug buy
Site Web Jacksonville narcotics officer shoots suspect during drug buy Police arranged undercover meeting; man has surgery at Shands Story updated at 7:53 PM on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 A Jacksonville Sheriff's Office undercover...
In this article: Jacksonville and Surgery
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L.A. Times - L.A. Now | 1 day ago
Palmdale and Lancaster sheriff's stations start 'Safe Drug Drop-off' program [Updated]
...or unused prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications, syringes and other controlled substances by dropping them off at special "narcotics mailboxes" at their local sheriff's station. [Updated at 2:29 p.m. : The Lancaster sheriff's...
In this article: Los Angeles County Sheriff, Lee Baca, and L.A. County
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New Jersey On-Line | 3 days ago
Bayonne police make two narcotics arrests
Local news, events, sports & more from Hudson County, NJ Bayonne police make two narcotics arrests GoogleBayonne Police arrest Robert Finnegan, 43, and Andrew T. Jordan, 28, on charges of narcotics possession on Monday, reports said.
In this article: Bayonne, Heroin, Hudson County, NJ, Williamsport, and Pennsylvania
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El Paso Times | November 12, 2009
Two arrested in Northeast El Paso undercover narcotics operation
EL PASO - Two people were arrested late Wednesday after a three-week undercover narcotics operation in the Northeast, a sheriff's spokesman said this morning. The suspects are Candice Elizabeth Carruthers, 21, and Thadeaus Sanders, 21.
In this article: Parole
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South Bend Tribune | October 30, 2009
Lakeville treasurer relieved of duties :Casey Grove failed to appear in court; narcotics found in his apartment.
Text Alerts: Get Local breaking news sent to your phone. Sign up here. Casey Grove failed to appear in court; narcotics found in his apartment. LAKEVILLE - The former clerk-treasurer for the town of Lakeville may soon face additional...
In this article: Lakeville, Misdemeanor, Arraignment, and St. Joseph County
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The term narcotic (ναρκωτικός) is believed to have been coined by the Greek physician Galen to refer to agents that benumb or deaden, causing loss of feeling or paralysis. It is based on the Greek word ναρκωσις (narcosis), the term used by Hippocrates for the process of benumbing or the benumbed state. Galen listed mandrake root, altercus (eclata) seeds, and poppy juice (i.e. opium) as the chief examples.
In U.S. legal context, narcotic refers to opium, opium derivatives, and their semi-synthetic or fully synthetic substitutes "as well as cocaine and coca leaves," which although classified as "narcotics" in the U.S. Controlled Substances Act (CSA), are chemically not narcotics. Contrary to popular belief, marijuana is not a narcotic, nor are LSD and other psychedelic drugs. Specifically, steroids are not narcotics.
Many law enforcement officials in the United States inaccurately use the word "narcotic" to refer to any illegal drug or any unlawfully possessed drug. An example is referring to cannabis as a narcotic. Because the term is often used broadly, inaccurately or pejoratively outside medical contexts, most medical professionals prefer the more precise term opioid, which refers to natural, semi-synthetic, and synthetic substances that behave pharmacologically like morphine, the primary active constituent of natural opium poppy. Although the overuse of the term "narcotic" in various nonclinical contexts is technically inaccurate, it does serve adequately as a shorthand way of denoting any powerful or illegal drug.
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