U.S. Department of Justice agency responsible for enforcing federal controlled-substance laws, regulating drug scheduling, and combating drug trafficking.
White House drug program HIDTA, with 33 regional programs covering every state, pulls local Flock and Axon plate data onto federal servers, 404 Media reports. The outlet calls it an end-around to the limits cities are now placing on how Flock data is used.
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DEA proposed in July to temporarily place 7-OH above a potency threshold in Schedule I, and nearly 36,000 public comments came in by Sept. 10. Experts agree kratom needs guardrails but split on where the line belongs.
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At Boulder Care, patients reporting kratom use went from 3% of new admissions last September to 14% in August. Two providers now describe the withdrawal in opioid terms, with no trial evidence to dose against.
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About a thousand institutions filed cannabis-related suspicious activity reports last year, some 11% of insured depositories, though GAO cautions that some were one-off transactions rather than accounts, so the figure caps participation rather than measuring it.
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Her $1.4 million civil settlement works out to roughly $1,556 for each of the 900 violations prosecutors alleged, and the alert that ended a 260,000-pill practice came from a patient's wife, not a pharmacy system.
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Wyden and Casar want a public review of federal hacking, spyware purchases and Rule 41 warrants. Wiretaps produce an annual report; 25 years of hacking has never produced one.
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