If Parents Throw Their Weight Into The War On Drugs, How Much Does That Really Tip The Scales? When do most parents find out their kids are doing drugs? When they get a call from the school principal. Or the police department. Or the emergency room. Or the coroner. Too often, parents are the last to know. Sometimes, it's a mater of being clueless. Just ignorance about what kids are getting into these days. Last month, 12-year-old Tyler James Pinnick of Huntington Beach died from inhaling chemicals from aerosol cans. He was "huffing." His mother had never heard of it until then. [continues 2206 words]
MDMA. GHB. Keatmine. They're known on the street as "Ecstasy." "grievous Bodily Harm." "Special K." And other names. These are not your father's, or your mother's drugs. These are the Generation X of drugs. The club drugs. They've been around a few years. But they are becoming more and more popular among today's youth, casting a dark cloud over the otherwise downward trend in teen-age drug use. Since January, Dr. Michael Ritter of Children's Hospital of Orange County has counted at least 40 young people brought to the emergency room in Mission Viejo for GHB-related overdose. [continues 703 words]
If we thought it might lead to serious efforts to root out all the dirty cops in the department and change the culture of the Los Angeles Police Department, we might be inclined to offer a cheer or two at the news. But a deftly publicized threat from acting chief Bill Lann Lee of the civil rights division of the U.S. Justice Department to slap a lawsuit on Los Angeles if the LAPD doesn't clean up its act looks more like grandstanding and face saving than a serious reform effort. [continues 446 words]
Recently Matt Swearingen, ex-star athlete from Villa Park High School, killed his father. Through a plea bargain based on his past "good record," he was sentenced to 21 years. Because it's a determinate sentence, Swearingen will serve 85 percent of the time, or 17 years and 10 months. As it's his first strike, he won't spend his whole life in prison. A third-striker, on the other hand, even if his/her third conviction is for a crime not serious or violent, is not allowed a plea bargain and is given an enhanced, indeterminate sentence of 25 years to life and will not receive any time off for good behavior. He/she will face the parole board no earlier than 25 years. Out of thousands of prisoners up for parole, California has only paroled a handful, so freedom is unlikely. [continues 66 words]
In regard to the May 5 article "School paper carries story on rave drug," I just wonder if I am the only one who sees the irony in this article. Parents were upset at the one-sided argument for the use of ecstasy; however, since the beginning the drug-war propaganda has been one-sided against drug use. The real reason people were mad wasn't because it was one-sided, but because drugs were portrayed as being something other than completely evil. Laurie Berger Anaheim [end]
Colombian attorney and anti-drug crusader Victor Tafur will not be extradited to his homeland to face drug-trafficking charges, a judge in Philadelphia ruled Wednesday. Tafur had been sought by Colombian authorities since September on charges he helped finance the largest cocaine shipment ever-seized in Colombia, a 7-ton cache intercepted in the Caribbean port of Cartagena in December 1998. But U.S. Magistrate Judge Charles Smith, who had expressed doubts about the government's case from the start, said prosecutors failed to show probable cause. [end]
The Placer County trial of medical marijuana patients Steve Kubby (former Libertarian gubernatorial candidate) and his wife Michele was delayed on Monday and will have its fifth judge, John L.Cosgrove,when it resumes today. Whether the case will actually begin in earnest is anybody's guess based on progress of the case to date. On Monday, Carolyn M. Hagin, a representative from the office of San Francisco attorney J. Tony Serra, asked Judge James Roeder for a brief delay. Mr. Serra, she explained to the judge, was in San Jose, handling a case where the judge had ordered him to be there because the client was in custody, and neither he nor the Kubbys' new associate counsel, J. David Nick (who represented Marvin Chavez in his Orange County case), was ready for trial. [continues 123 words]
OTTAWA - An infuriated Canada said Monday that it was freezing all ministerial ties with Vietnam to protest Hanoi's reluctance to explain why it executed a Canadian woman on drug smuggling charges. Ottawa also said it was suspending talks on furthering Canada's development assistance to Vietnam, which amounts to $11 million a year. Foreign Minster Lloyd Axworthy said Vietnam had not responded to requests to explain why it had refused to review evidence that Canada said cast doubts on the conviction of Nguyen Thi Hiep. [continues 171 words]
University of California, Irvine, researchers said Monday that they've created a marijuana-like chemical to treat psychiatric disorders. The brain naturally creates marijuana-like anandamide to block the production of dopamine - a suspected culprit in schizophrenia and Tourette's syndrome. UCI researchers created an anandamide analogue that has a similar affect on dopamine, said UCI pharmacology professor Daniele Piomelli. The drug has been tested on rats and is probably a long way from human consumption, but Piomelli hopes it will eventually be an alternative to current sedating dopamine blockers on the market. [end]
Most public schools continue to use taxpayer-funded drug-prevention programs that have proven to be largely ineffective in reducing drug use among students, according to a study released on Monday. Programs like DARE - or Drug Awareness and Resistance Education - that send police officers into schools to lecture students are used in eight in ten schools despite studies showing they do little to combat drug use, researchers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill said. The U.S. Department of Education spent $566 million - or about $5 per child - - on drug prevention programs last year. Under a policy adopted in 1998, schools will have to prove the programs have been effective in reducing drug use. But in recent surveys, about half of the seniors say they drink, while a third say they have been intoxicated and nearly one in four say they have smoked marijuana. [end]
Marvin Chavez,founder of the Orange County Patient Doctor Nurse Support Group for medical marijuana patients, returned to Orange County and he's ready to resume his work - with a few key differences. Mr. Chavez, readers might recall, came home April 21 after serving 15 months in state prison for marijuana sales. He was released on bail pending his appeal. "I almost feel as if I haven't broken stride," he told us Thursday. "I've found a new nurse to review applications, I'm catching up on paperwork and making plans to get the group going again." [continues 171 words]
A scion of the internationally known Rothschild family collapsed on a Manhattan sidewalk and died of an apparent drug overdose after a downtown party, officials said. Authorities said Raphael de Rothschild, 23, died on the afternoon of April 22 outside a Chelsea loft. William Corbin, a friend of Rothschild, was later arrested and charged with heroin possession, according to police. The Rothschilds played a major role in French business and culture. The helped make Paris on of the most significant financial capitals in Europe. [end]
The trial of former Libertarian gubernatorial candidate and cancer patient Steve Kubby and his wife Michele on numerous counts of marijuana sales and conspiracy is slated to begin today at the Placer County Courthouse in Auburn, just east of Sacramento. The Kubbys were arrested after a long surveillance on Jan. 19, 1999 in the house they rented near Lake Tahoe, and more than 200 marijuana plants were seized. The Kubbys, both of whom are medical marijuana patients with a physician's recommendation, published an online winter sports magazine. [continues 278 words]
PROBE: The government will review all federal prosecutions involving Los Angeles officers who have been implicated in the scandal. LOS ANGELES - the federal government has ordered a review of all federal prosecutions involving city police officers implicated in the continuing corruption probe. The review was ordered about two weeks ago and announced Friday by U.S. Attorney Alejandro Mayorkas, who said he believed "only a handful" of potentially tainted cases were involved. Federal Public Defender Maria E. Stratton said she hopes the U.S. Attorney's Office will work with public defenders to identify more cases. [continues 282 words]
NEWS FOCUS: Critics say it's the attorney general's duty to set up statewide guidelines. Before being sworn in as California's top cop, Bill Lockyer made fun of what he saw as his predecessor's stodginess."I joke that there are days when I thought Dan(Lungren)had a copy of(the anti-marijuana movie) 'Reefer Madness' at home," Lockyer said. Lockyer, a Democrat, promised to be a breath of fresh air in law enforcement, and to do something Republican Lungren refused to do: find a way to make Proposition 215, California's problematic medical-marijuana law, work. [continues 730 words]
HOSPITALITY: Inn for medical marijuana users opens in pot friendly Santa Cruz. They're calling it the world's first "bed,bud and breakfast." Or you could call it hotel hemp- Santa Cruz's latest paean to pot. Having debuted Thursday in a restored, 1860s Victorian with a cannabis-leaf mosaic on the walk, the Compassion Flower Inn invites the ill the smoke medicinal marijuana openly. "They don't have to be in the closet," said co-owner Maria Mallek-Tischler. "They can be comfortable here." [continues 346 words]
From their inception in the 1840s, urban police departments have been organized along a military model. Widespread public drunkenness, high crime rates, race and ethnic riots and labor strife that often turned violent resulted in law enforcement agencies that "patrolled" city streets on a continual basis. There is nothing inherently wrong with structuring police departments along military lines; agencies so designed exist in many democratic countries committed to the "rule of law." However, a problem arises when an organization with a militaristic orientation entrusted with significant power comes to believe that it is literally engaged in combat. [continues 798 words]
Critics Say It's The Attorney General's Duty To Set Up Statewide Guidelines. Before being sworn in as California's top cop, Bill Lockyer made fun of what he saw as his predecessor's stodginess. "I joke that there are days when I thought Dan (Lungren) had a copy of (the anti-marijuana movie) 'Reefer Madness' at home," Lockyer said. Lockyer, a Democrat, promised to be a breath of fresh air in law enforcement, and to do something Republican Lungren refused to do: find a way to make Proposition 215, California's problematic medical-marijuana law, work. [continues 730 words]
Judge Thomas Borris, who presided over Marvin Chavez's trial almost 18 months ago and imposed a harsh six-year prison sentence, surprised most of those in the courtroom last Friday by allowing the medical-marijuana activist to be released on bail pending his appeal. It took a bit longer than expected for his supporters to raise the bail bond money, but Mr. Chavez should be back home in Orange County sometime today. Mr. Chavez founded the Orange County Patient, Doctor, Nurse Support Group in 1997 to provide medical marijuana to patients after the passage of Proposition 215. He was convicted in late 1998 of selling marijuana to undercover police officers and has spent the last year in state prison in Susanville and Vacaville. [continues 516 words]
A Judge Reverses Marvin Chavez's Conviction And Orders Him Released On Bail Pending Appeal There was a moment of shock. Then the courtroom erupted in whoops and cheers as the judge - who last year sentenced medical marijuana activist Marvin Chavez to six years in state prison - unexpectedly freed him Friday, pending appeal. "I'm so surprised!" said Linda Chavez, his ex-wife. But Chavez must post $25,000 bail. In the elated atmosphere outside the courtroom, some 20 supporters dug into their pockets to help raise the $2,500 needed for his bail bond, collecting nearly $600 on the spot. Attorney J. David Nick, who's representing Chavez for free, forked over $60 of his own and vowed to personally drive the bail bond to the Vacaville prison, wait until Chavez is released, escort him to the airport, and put him on a plane home. Chavez should be in Orange County by Monday. [continues 180 words]
PROP.215: The medical marijuana advocate hopes to get out of prison while his conviction is appealed. Marvin Chavez didn't have to go to prison for his zealous dedication to medical marijuana. A judge offered him five years of probation if he would plead guilty to selling pot. "My answer was no," Chavez wrote in a recent letter from state prison, where he has been for more than a year. "To have taken the deal, I would have sold my integrity." [continues 720 words]
I am puzzled by the circular logic of "Ethnic profiling ruled invalid" [News, April 13]. Under the decision, the Border Patrol can consider race, but only if there is probable cause besides race to stop a suspected illegal alien. In Southern California that's like saying, "Ignore the ski mask. The guy at the teller's window is probably just on his way to the slopes." Richard Deight Buena Park [end]
The state assembly has begun to take steps toward modifying California's uniquely onerous three-strikes law with the passage of AB 2447 by the Assembly Public Safety Committee last week.If the issue could be divorced from partisan politics and political campaigns-which unfortunately is not very likely-reform would probably be a cinch.But it is a political issue and at least in public certain positions have become set in stone. When the voters approved the three-strikes law in 1994 they thought they were enhancing penalties for violent crimes. But California's law turns out to be more stringent than the national law or than any other stat's law. It includes not just violent crimes but any felony. Most states stipulate that the three strikes occur within a time frame of five to 10 years, the idea being to get genuine career criminals. In California there is no time limit; a juvenile offense can be counted as a strike 20 years later. [continues 502 words]
Illinois Rep.Phil Crane has returned to his congressional duties after completing a 21-day treatment program for alcoholism, receiving warm applause from colleagues on the House floor Tuesday. Crane, the most senior House Republican and a former presidential candidate, declared he is back and "in good health." "I feel better, mentally and physically," said Crane, a 16-term congressman from Chicago's northwest suburbs. "I look forward to the hard work. ... This has been a deeply humbling experience for me." [continues 51 words]
The most interesting aspect of the passage of a $13 billion supplemental appropriation passed by the House last week, including emergency spending for the failed Kosovo operation and a hefty $1.7 billion for aid to Colombia, was the emergence of a growing bipartisan skepticism about overseas adventures. The coalition of skeptics - or should that be realists? - didn't carry the day. But it showed surprising muscle. And the bill could run into more trouble in the Senate in coming days. [continues 456 words]
CRIME: Twenty Four Experts Are Named To The Rampart Independent Review Panel. LOS ANGELES- In the wake of a massive scandal in which officers are alleged to have framed innocent people, the city Police Commission on Wednesday named an independent panel to investigate the department and make recommendations. "The citizens of Los Angeles have rightly sought an independent body to investigate the corruption within the police department," said Gerald L. Chaleff, president of the Police Commission. The Rampart Independent Review Panel, 24 experts including attorneys, professors, management consultants and veterans of the Christopher Commission probe of the Los Angeles Police Department, plans to issue its recommendations in the fall. [continues 196 words]
Columnist Nat Hentoff's description of the events that occurred at Windsor Forest High School and the intimidation of the teacher,Sherry Hearn, is terrifying["Teacher upholds Constitution,"Opinion,April 12]. It reminded me of the Stalinist and Nazi tactics of the past. But to have this happen in a high school in the United States shows the utter disregard for the rule of law and the Constitution by the police and the school district. The only thing these fascists did not do to this brave teacher was send her to a "re-education camp." David Young, Irvine [end]
LOS ANGELES - In a potentially far-reaching decision contradicting a 25-year-old Supreme Court opinion, a federal appeals court has ruled that in most circumstances, law-enforcement officials cannot rely on ethnic appearance as a factor in deciding whether to stop someone suspected of a crime. In a strongly worded decision, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declared Tuesday that because of the growth in the Hispanic population in the region, ethnicity was an irrelevant criterion for law officers to stop a person, without other specific information identifying the suspect. [continues 236 words]
In 40 years of traveling around the country, speaking at high schools and middle schools on the Bill of Rights and the rest of the Constitution, I have found only a few teachers who can bring the words off the page and into the lives of their students. One of the most passionately knowledgeable of those teachers is Sherry Hearn. Voted Teacher of the Year at Windsor Forest High School in Savannah, Ga., she has taught social studies and constitutional law there for 27 years. [continues 679 words]
Britain's Labor government now plans to legalize cannabis(or marijuana)for medical uses, according to a March 24 report from Reuters. The move surprises some, but is said to be a compromise between Mo Mowlam,the cabinet minister in charge of anti-drug strategies,who wanted a study on full decriminalization of marijuana,and Prime Minister Tony Blair, who preferred no change. Meantime,in California,the people voted for medicalization of marijuana in 1996 and patients still have trouble getting authorities to recognize their rights. [end]
At first glance,the photograph of helmeted, assault-rifle-toting military personal on the front page of Saturday's Register looked like a photograph of peacekeeping forces in Bosnia. But a closer look revealed that the invasion force was a SWAT team descending on an Anaheim neighborhood. The Anaheim SWAT team, the county bomb squad, Irvine police and FBI agents raided the home of 70-year-old surgeon Jerry D. Nilsson, an associate of Dr. Larry Ford, the Diofem founder who killed himself last month. [continues 496 words]
The Clinton administration blasted a plan by Senate leaders to delay a $13 billion emergency spending bill that includes money for combating drugs in Colombia, peace keeping in Kosovo and cleaning up after Hurricane Floyd. Meanwhile, the top U.S. military commander for Latin America implored Congress not to delay action on the portion of the package that would help Colombia and its neighbors fight drug traffickers. Marine Gen. Charles Wilhelm, commander in chief of the U.S. Southern Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the House-passed spending measure, which designates $1.7 billion for drug interdiction, "is crucial." [end]
Not everyone will count the $5 million of taxpayers' money just awarded to the family of Donald P. Scott of Malibu as part of the cost of the war on drugs. But it should be included as part of the price society pays for keeping prohibitionist policies in place - and the money could be viewed as only a small part of the cost. Mr. Scott, who was 61 at the time, was shot to death by a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy in October 1992. The deputies, along with officers from other local and federal law enforcement agencies, raided Mr. Scott's 200-acre ranch in hopes of finding evidence of marijuana cultivation. When Mr. Scott emerged sleepily from his bedroom carrying a pistol during a forced entry by officers, deputies opened fire. No drugs were found on the property. [continues 185 words]
An army colonel commanding the military's anti-drug operation in Colombia knew his wife - who has admitted dealing drugs - was involved in money laundering but failed to turn her in, prosecutors revealed Monday. In a letter to a federal judge, prosecutors said James Hiett, 48, has agreed to plead guilty to ignoring a felony committed by his wife, Laurie. The charge carries up to three years in prison. It was the first time the colonel was at all connected to the scandal, but prosecutors refused to detail the case against him. His attorney, Abraham Clott, did not return a phone call. [continues 56 words]
The Los Angeles police-corruption probe has expanded beyond the poverty-stricken zone where it began and now includes allegations of wrongdoing in at least three other neighborhoods, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. The newspaper also said a high-level immigration official has charged that many Hispanics arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department were falsely accuse of belonging to gangs and handed over to immigration officials. The Times said authorities are now investigating officers at the Central, 77th Street and Southeast stations in addition to the Rampart station where the scandal began. Posted By Allan Wilkinson [end]
But Varying Data-Compiling Methods Means The Information Will Be Of Little Help In A Statewide Analysis SACRAMENTO - Fifty-nine law-enforcement agencies have heeded Gov. Gray Davis' call to voluntarily track the race of people pulled over for traffic stops, using methods that range from state-of-the-art to a No. 2 pencil. Of those agencies, 32 say they will turn their information over to the California Highway Patrol for a report to the Legislature this summer. But the data won't give an accurate answer about whether police are using "racial profiling" - the practice of pulling over drivers who are minorities at a disproportionate rate, said state Sen. Kevin Murray. [continues 283 words]
Leftist rebels in Colombia lobbied Friday against a controversial aid package moving through the U.S. Congress, inviting American legislators to visit them in the jungle. The rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, called for lawmakers to tour coca plantations and see how rural poverty underlies the South American country's booming cocaine trade. The statement said it would be more effective to legalize drugs. The U.S. House of Representatives approved a $1.7 billion emergency aid package Thursday aimed at helping Colombia regain control of the country's south, where the FARC taxes drug traffickers and peasants who grow coca plants. The Senate must still consider the plan. [end]
LAW: Memos show he wanted to indict officers in the Rampart Division scandal. LOS ANGELES - A prosecutor who urged his superiors to file conspiracy charges against several police officers was pulled of the task force investigating corruption days later, the Daily News of Los Angeles reported Sunday. District Attorney Gil Garcetti had denied on a radio talk show that Deputy District Attorney George Rosenstock sought approval to indict officers involved in a station-house beating. But when faced Saturday with confidential memos obtained by the Daily News, Garcetti's spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons acknowledged Rosenstock wanted to file the first criminal charges against officers other than Rafeal Perez, the central figure in the Rampart Division scandal. [continues 209 words]
Santa Cruz residents would no longer need a doctor's note or prescription to smoke marijuana for medical problems under a new proposal being considered by city leaders. The proposed ordinance says that people who are being treated for cancer,anorexia,AIDS,chronic pain,spasticity,glaucoma,arthritis,migraine headaches "or any other illness for which marijuana provides relief" will be allowed to grow and use pot. [end]
Medical marijuana activist Todd McCormick,29,was sentenced to five years in prison for growing thousands of pot plants in a rented Bel-Air mansion.McCormick had pleaded guilty to federal drug charges. [end]
The Senate passed legislation Monday that puts new curbs on the federal government's ability to seize private property suspected of being linked to crime. The voice vote in the Senate sends the asset-forfeiture bill to the House where it has the backing of House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde, R-Ill. The aim of the legislation is to alter a crime-fighting practice that has resulted in the seizure of hundreds of millions of dollars in property, mainly from suspected drug traffickers,but has also led to cases where innocent people are deprived of their homes, cars and boats. The legislation would shift the burden of proof in asset forfeiture cases from the property owner, where it now lies, to the government. [end]
Health: U.S. Asks That Companies' Motion To Dismiss The Suit, Filed Last Year, Be Denied. WASHINGTON - The Justice Department urged a federal judge Friday to keep its massive lawsuit against the tobacco industry alive because the cigarette companies "pose a continuing threat to the health and well-being of the American public." In several documents filed with U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler, the department argued that the companies made "multiple legal errors" in their December motions to dismiss the lawsuit. [continues 218 words]
ISSUES: This week, the city paid $400,000 to family of a man wrongly killed and was fined $10,000 in another case. DENVER -Despite a sharp decline in crime, Denver's finest are under the gun in the worst series of police scandals since the city was known as the "crooked-cop capital of the United States" in the 1960s. This week, the city paid $400,000 to the family of a man killed in a raid at the wrong house, was fined $10,000 by a federal judge for failing to cooperate with a police brutality investigation, and swore in a new cop who admitted he once used cocaine and LSD. [continues 710 words]
A Long Beach police officer admitted that he planned to sell 13 pounds of cocaine that he stole from an undercover agent posing as a drug dealer. Julio A. Alcaraz, 36, and 11-year veteran of the police force, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges that he participated in a conspiracy to possess cocaine with the intent to distribute. He faces a sentence of between 10 and 20 years in prison. Sentencing was set for June 23 by U.S. District Judge Dean D. Pregerson. Police said Alcaraz was arrested Jan. 27 after being caught in a sting operation conducted by undercover anti-narcotics agents. [end]
Woody Harrelson's marijuana possession case is headed back to a county court in Kentucky for trial now that he's lost his state Supreme Court appeal. Harrelson planted four hemp seeds in 1996, knowing he would be arrested, so he could challenge a Kentucky law outlawing possession of any part of the cannabis plant. Through three different courts, Harrelson has argued the statute is unconstitutional because it doesn't distinguish between marijuana and hemp, which contains only minute amounts of the substance that makes marijuana smokers high, tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC. The state's high court ruled Thursday that there's no difference between the two. [end]
Top export: Worldwide street sales of Colombian cocaine, heroin and marijuana reaped about $46 billion last year, equal to about 56% of domestic product. [end]
Children: She Says Too Many Youngsters Are Being Put On The Drug Without Testing. WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton used the power of the White House bully pulpit to call attention Monday to a troubling matter for parents of preschoolers - the use of Ritalin and other mind-altering drugs to treat youngsters' behavior. "We are not here to bash the use of these medications," Mrs. Clinton said. "But we do have to ask some serious questions about the use of prescription drugs." [continues 203 words]
Courts: Six Overturned Convictions From Rampart Probe Bring Total To 46 LOS ANGELES - A judge threw out six more criminal convictions Thursday as part of an ongoing probe into corruption in a Police Department anti-gang unit. The dismissals brought to 46 the number of convictions overturned in a scandal that has shaken the police force of the nation's second-largest city. Superior Court Judge Larry P.Fidler quickly dismissed the six cases at the request of the district attorney's office, which said the convictions were obtained by falsifying evidence, committing perjury and employing other illegal practices. [continues 272 words]
The prices of cocaine and heroin have fallen to record lows and the drugs remain widely available, federal officials say, while insisting that progress is being made against drug use in the United States. In remarks prepared for presentation today before a House Appropriations subcommittee in Washington, White House drug-control policy director Barry McCaffrey cites declines in youth drug use and drug-related crime during the past year. But he also notes that heroin has become more popular among young people and says methamphetamines have a "serious potential nationally to become the next 'crack' cocaine epidemic." [end]
It's not that Hillary Clinton was out of line when she raised concerns Monday at the White House about the increasing use of psychotropic drugs such as Ritalin and Prozac by children as young as two years old. That concern is certainly warranted. It's just that it's a little surprising coming from Mrs. Clinton. It was only last June, after all, that Mrs. Clinton, along with Vice President Al Gore's wife Tipper, hosted a highly publicized conference on mental health. That conference, as Sally Zinman, director of the California Network of Mental Health Clients, put it, seemed like "an infomercial for drugs. There was absolutely no mention of the potential risks." [continues 489 words]
