Drugs

Carrie Fisher had cocaine, methadone, heroin and ecstasy in her system when she died in December, according to an autopsy report released Monday.  The coroner’s report listed sleep apnea as the primary cause of death, with drug intake as a contributing factor. The report stated that Fisher’s family objected to a full autopsy, and coroner’s investigators had access to limited ...

A Buddhist monk in Myanmar has been caught hiding more than 4m methamphetamine pills in his monastery, police said, following a record haul of stimulant seizures last year.  The monk, named Arsara, was put into custody after police said they discovered hundreds of thousands of tablets in his car as he was driving from Shwe Baho village in the town ...

This week, prolific writer and counterculture icon Hunter S. Thompson’s widow Anita Thompson announced that she was able to save a stash of Hunter’s cannabis from when he was alive, and that she will be using the plant matter to create a new strain of cannabis that will carry his legacy.  According to Anita, she will be extracting the DNA ...

An overdose crisis in the past week has left police and emergency responders here drained and without clues.  It has also underscored that this region does not have resources to treat all of people addicted to opioids, including heroin.  Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying the source of heroin sold here that caused scores of overdoses, including at ...

Officials in several states are scrambling to deal with a series of heroin overdose outbreaks affecting dozens of people and involving at least six deaths.  The spikes in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia over the past few days have seen rescue workers rushing from scene to scene to provide overdose antidote drugs.  While it’s unclear if one dealer or ...

The infamous video of former Toronto mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine has been released to the public after an extortion charge laid against Ford’s friend Sandro Lisi was withdrawn in court on Thursday.  The former mayor’s brother Doug Ford, who unsuccessfully ran for mayor in 2014 in his brother’s stead, told Global News from Chicago he thought the release ...

A hallucinogenic chemical found in magic mushrooms has successfully lifted severe depression in previously untreatable patients.  Scientists at Imperial College London induced intense psychedelic trips in 12 people using high doses of the banned substance psilocybin.  A week after the experience all the volunteers were depression-free, and three months later five still had no symptoms of the condition.I wouldn’t want members of ...

Sally Miller was a former Miss Arkansas (1958) and one of Bill Clinton’s alleged mistresses. Miller allegedly had an affair with Clinton in 1983, while he was still governor of Arkansas. During that period of time, according to the Washington Post, Miller said that she began receiving threatening messages from Clinton affiliates. Both the Post and the London Sunday Telegraph ...

Marijuana users are more likely to say it’s acceptable to drive while stoned if they’re asked the question while high, a new study finds.  Researchers surveyed 865 marijuana users in Colorado and Washington who said they had used marijuana or hashish in the past 30 days. More than 16 percent said they were high at the time they completed the ...

Contrary to what many advertised drug tests might promise, not all substances leave their telltale chemical signature in the body for the same amount of time. The moment we take a drug — whether we snort, smoke, or swallow it — our bodies begin to break it down. In the process, metabolites, or byproducts, of the drug are produced, which can linger in our blood, urine (and even in our hair) for ...

Nuns cultivating marijuana. Pretty strange right? Some people would say that these nuns are really working for a higher power!  [1] The Sisters of the Valley in Merced, Calif., grow medicinal marijuana in their garage for various pot-laced health products.  While Sisters Kate and Darcy don traditional habits, they are not Catholic. But they still consider themselves nuns with a ...

The owners of a marijuana dispensary raided last month in ‘the OC’, the California county known as Orange, now say the premises was becoming a church that uses cannabis as part of its ceremonies.  Attorney Matthew Pappas said the Oklevueha Native American Church was in the process of turning the location in Costa Mesa into a branch of one of ...