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Want to know where the Unabomber is doing time? Not a problem. How about the American Taliban, the Olympic Park bomber, or the only man convicted of conspiring in the Sept. 11 attacks? All of that information is in the public record and readily available on the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ website. But when it…

Lagos — Despite the rate at which offenders are being caught and ‘hopefully punished’, pushers of hard drugs are not seemingly discouraged. If anything, instead of giving up on the nefarious act of pushing hard drugs like cocaine, heroin and the rest, they seem to be devising new means to beat security especially at the…

Ecstasy (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine [MDMA]) is an illegal synthetic amphetamine used as a stimulant and hallucinogen (1–3). On January 4, 2010, the Los Angeles County (LAC) Department of Public Health (DPH) learned of six MDMA-related emergency department (ED) visits and one death, all linked to a New Year’s Eve event attended by approximately 45,000 persons. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5922a1.htm?s_cid=mm5922a1_w

What seems like a carefree night of revelry at a “rave” can quickly turn tragic when the club drug ecstasy is involved, finds a new report on one such event from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Bad reactions to ecstasy, in some cases mixed with alcohol or other drugs, were implicated in…

For decades, marijuana growers in Northern California have received reports of pending police raids from a local community radio station and citizens wary of the drug war. Now, police — citing a boom in marijuana production and a possible influx of armed illegal drug traffickers — say the practice needs to stop. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127538267

Fourteen states and the District of Columbia allow people to use marijuana to treat a wide variety of ailments. Each law is different — but if you look at them in chronological order, a pattern emerges: The laws are becoming stricter. The states passing laws today include more regulation than the early adopters did. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127012745

The drug is being cut with anti-worm medicine, a mix linked to two deaths. Those may just be the start. http://www.startribune.com/local/95786899.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUac8HEaDiaMDCinchO7DUs

A second man who attended a Cow Palace rave died after a weeklong effort by doctors to bring him back from the brink, officials said Monday. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/08/BARR1DRATQ.DTL#ixzz0qShkz7Wf

One in five high school students in the United States has taken a prescription medication that was not prescribed for them, a new survey shows. Conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the survey http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/639796.html

Reporting from Mexico City — More than half of the “breathtaking” sums of money earned by Mexican drug cartels in the U.S. and smuggled into this country dissolves into Mexico’s cash-based economy, eluding detection and funding vast criminal operations, according to a new U.S.-Mexican government study released Wednesday. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jun/03/world/la-fg-mexico-cash-20100603