Drug Enforcement Administration

Oxycodone Bust From L.A. To Washington Nets 41 Suspects, LAPD Says

That redneck crack known as oxycodone has reached down the coast from the hinterlands of eastern Washington state to our own backyard. And the LAPD announced a massive drug bust today, stating that 41 people, including 28 in L.A., were in custody for narcotics-related violations. The department sa ... More >>

Hash-Oil Blast In San Diego Investigated By DEA; 3rd Weed Explosion In SoCal This Month

For the third time this month by our count, suspects allegedly extracting hash or honey oil from marijuana set off an explosion. The latest blast happened at the Heritage Inn near SeaWorld in San Diego yesterday. Police told the Weekly three people in a room where hash oil was being extracted were ... More >>

Brandon Woodard Murder Was Possible Retribution For Bad Cocaine Deal, Report Says

The brazen murder of Angeleno Brandon Woodard in Manhattan earlier this month might have been payback for a major drug-deal gone sideways, the website DNAinfo.com is reporting. Citing law enforcement sources, the news organization's Murray Weiss reports that Woodard might have been a mid-level cour ... More >>

Top 10 Marijuana News Stories For 2012, LA Weekly-Style

If you like drama and marijuana together, then 2012 was the year for you: It was jam-packed with topsy-turvy cannabis news. As the Obama administration cracked down on medical marijuana dispensaries in California, the president himself said pot users in marijuana-legal states shouldn't be prosecut ... More >>

Too Much Mr. Nice Guy: How Lee Baca Let Paul Tanaka Run Amok in County Jails

How did progressive L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca end up running some of the nation's most violent jails? By letting Paul Tanaka do whatever he wants.

KPCC's Madeleine Brand Problems: Readers Respond

Marijuana Raids At 7 Long Beach Dispensaries As Cops Warn All Shops in City to Close

While Los Angeles is the wild west when it comes to marijuana dispensaries now that out pot shop ban is history, the city of Long Beach is vowing to shut down each and every cannabis retailer in town. To that end it enlisted the help of the DEA, the state Franchise Tax Board and the District Attorn ... More >>

Marijuana Trial: Brave SoCal Pot Shop Owner Aaron Sandusky Fights Feds

If you run a medical marijuana dispensary, what do you do when federal authorities bust down your door, arrest you, and haul you into court on drug possession and distribution charges, as they've been doing in L.A. lately? U.S. district courts have not recognized California's medical pot laws, so w ... More >>

Marijuana Crackdown by Feds Targets ALL Downtown, Eagle Rock Pot Shops

See also: *Medical Weed's Stay of Execution in L.A. *How to Grow Weed in Los Angeles If Dispensaries Go Away. Federal authorities today moved to shut down all marijuana dispensaries in the downtown area and Eagle Rock as well as one in the city of Huntington Park. The move is part of an ongoing ef ... More >>

Medical Weed's Stay of Execution in L.A.

LAPD could crack down before March ballot measure

Collaborator Review: Character Actor Martin Donovan Makes Directorial Debut

Savages Review

Oliver Stone's drug-trade drama Savages settles for sensation

James Rosemond, Who Once Managed Rapper The Game, Convicted For New York-to-L.A. Cocaine Ring

James Rosemond, the rap manager one L.A. journalist says was behind an attack that sparked the East Coast-West Coast hip-hop wars of the 1990s, was convicted today in a case that accused him of running a New York-to-L.A. cocaine ring, a courtroom observer told the Weekly. Rosemond, who goes by the ... More >>

What Land Art Would You Create If Money Were No Object? Three Artists' Proposals

In 1966, Robert Smithson, famous for piling up mud and black basalt in Utah's Great Salt Lake and sculpting it into a 1,500-foot coil called Spiral Jetty, went rock hunting with sculptor Donald Judd. They went in New Jersey, where Smithson was from, and spent an hour chopping away at a lump of lava ... More >>

Obama's Marijuana Moments: Top 5 Stances, Statements And Subterfuges

The Left Coast is rejoicing today after President Obama announced that same-sex couples should be able to marry. And it wasn't lost on us that he made the statement on the eve of a fundraising trip to George Clooney's house tonight in the hills above Studio City. Maybe the timing was intended to he ... More >>

Need to Get Your Drugs Through LAX? Just Bribe a TSA Screener

Four TSA screeners were arrested for allegedly taking cash in exchange for letting suitcases full of cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana to pass through checkpoints. The allegations focus on two current and two former TSA screeners: Three were arrested this morning and one was arrested last nigh ... More >>

Marijuana Law That Would Protect Dispensaries Passes Public Safety Committee

At a time when medical marijuana in California is under attack both by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and cities, like L.A. and Long Beach, that want to ban dispensaries altogether, California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano has answer. It's called AB 2312, and the proposed law would regulate pot ... More >>

Medical Marijuana Ban in L.A.? City Officials Botched Regulation, Now Want Prohibition

Medical weed ban heads to City Council

Miss Bala Review

Mexican beauty queen caught in war on drugs in Gerardo Naranjo's Oscar hopeful

Marijuana, When Paired With Other Powerful, Quasi-Legal Drugs, Really Works on Pain, California Study Says

strainbrainIt really works.​We never would have guessed this, what with all the self-medicating going in the world, but two powerful, often illicit drugs, when taken together, really work on that pain, a study claims. Seems that Amy Winehouse, Richard Pryor and Kurt Cobain did similar researc ... More >>

Dr. Alvin Yee: Starbucks Used to Evaluate Patients, Dole Out Oxycodone Prescriptions For Cash, Feds Allege

Rush likes it.​You know, just the other day we were thinking we sure wish we could find a good doctor ... in Starbucks. And here we find that one Alvin Mingczech Yee has been practicing inside this fine purveyor of coffee, with examinations costing $600 and less, according to our friends at t ... More >>

Marijuana Growers Find a Home on California Farmland?

realcaliforniamilk.comWhat are those cows munching on?​Since California legalized medical marijuana in 1996, growers of pot have, well, grown wise, evolving from a campaign that emphasized the cancer-afflicted grandma growing pot on her windowsill (way to legalize it) to the reality of large-s ... More >>

Marijuana Legalization on National Level Urged by State's Largest Doctor's Group, the California Medical Association

Medicine?​California's largest physicians' group over the weekend urged the federal government to legalize marijuana. It claims to be the first such statewide doctors' organization in the nation to do so. Interestingly, the California Medical Association says the main reason for legalizing it ... More >>

Texas Killing Fields: Ami Canaan Mann Interview

Michael's daughter talks about her quest to make a more realistic cop movie

Cop's Book Says Sean Combs, Suge Knight Ordered Tupac and Biggie Killings

Top detective on rap murders says LAPD pulled the plug despite confessions

Chosen Few Black Biker Club's Demise?

City considers seizing a drug-riddled, violent South L.A. clubhouse

William C. Rempel's New Book At the Devil's Table: 7 Astounding Revelations About Colombian Drug Lords

Robert HarmonRempel, author of the new book about the Cali Cartel called At the Devil's Table​ William C. Rempel, who for 36 years worked as an investigative reporter and editor at the L.A. Times, has written the book At the Devil's Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the C ... More >>

Learn How to be a Drug Dealer Via Facebook's 'Weeds Social Club' Game

​So you want to be a weed dealer? You could try to open a shop in L.A. (good luck, following the city's crackdown). And there's always the sidewalk on Alvarado Street in MacArthur Park (if you don't get shot by rivals first). But maybe the most trouble-free way to become a homegrown slanger o ... More >>

James Rosemond, a.k.a. Jimmy Henchman, Rap Manager Allegedly Linked to Tupac Attack, Arrested in L.A.-to-NYC Drug Investigation

James Rosemond.​Update: According to various reports Rosemond was remanded/held without bail following a court appearance today. A hip-hop impresario alleged to have had a role in the 1994 attack on rapper Tupac Shakur that set off the East Coast-West Coast rap wars of the '90s was arrested i ... More >>

Obama OG Kush: President Gets New Marijuana Strain, Available in Southern California, Named in His Honor

San Diego CityBeatA dose of Obama.​President Obama is, like Bill Clinton and his saxophone-playing ways, a pop phenomenon who transcends the pomp and circumstance of the highest office in the Western World. After he put Osama Bin Laden at the bottom of the ocean, he also became somewhat of a ... More >>