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War on Drugs

Daniel Small
Jul 7, 2025

South Georgia farm turned airstrip in drug-smuggling plot

During the War on Drugs, smugglers exploited an airstrip in rural Georgia, corrupt sheriffs and Friday night football to fly in planeloads of narcotics.

In New York, just over 120 legal cannabis dispensaries have opened since marijuana sales began in late 2022, while thousands of black market shops have cropped up. (Associated Press file)
May 14, 2024

Leadership plagues state’s legal weed program

ALBANY, N.Y.  — New York’s legal cannabis market has been hampered by inexperienced leaders who treated the state licensing agency like a “mission-driven” startup rather than a government office, an […]

May 1, 2024

US poised to ease restrictions on marijuana

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned, a historic shift to generations of American drug […]


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