“A Kentucky man high on marijuana and drunk on whiskey put his 5-week-old son in the oven Sunday and left him there overnight, police said.” http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/16/kentucky.oven.baby/index.html?hpt=Sbin

“A powerful drug cartel is buying off journalists in northern Mexico to work as spies and smother coverage of a spike in killings on the U.S. border in the latest attack on the media in Mexico.” http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62A3CU20100311

“A controversial group is hitting the streets of Honolulu, Hawaii with cash in their pockets in hopes of persuading drug addicts and alcoholics to get sterilized or go on long-term birth control.” http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,588927,00.html

“Iran has publicly hanged a man, convicted of drug trafficking, in the western city of Ahvaz, the ISNA news agency reported on Friday.” http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5geiZkSuXKhFpcNQkJY3RCId7qyIg

“A 7-year-old was found with drugs at a southwest Houston elementary school on Thursday, officials told KPRC Local 2.” http://www.click2houston.com/news/22812566/detail.html

“A recent uptick in reported use of the date rape drug Rohypnol, or “roofies,” is alarming and has authorities searching for an assailant they know won’t be easy to find, Pitkin County Undersheriff Joe DiSalvo said today.” http://abcnews.go.com/US/aspen-colo-sees-increase-reports-date-rape-drug/story?id=10012176

“A move from New York to Iowa was supposed to save Kevin Glenz from his heroin addiction. The star high school and college lacrosse player had a seven-year addiction that started with the prescription pain reliever OxyContin.” http://www.qctimes.com/news/local/article_0ee34690-29a0-11df-99c4-001cc4c03286.html

“The three al-Qaeda agents assured the Colombians that they would have no problem moving their shipment of European-bound cocaine through the Islamist badlands of the Sahara. As supporters of the terrorist organisation’s North African branch, they would guarantee shipment of the drugs through territory they controlled – so long as they were paid fee of…

“2 percent of the medical marijuana patients actually had cancer, AIDS or glaucoma. The other 98 percent had reported some form of pain or anxiety. The overwhelming majority of medical marijuana patients were males younger than 40.” http://www.qctimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/columnists/article_e942f244-295b-11df-abaa-001cc4c03286.html

“Young people often don’t believe that using a clean-looking pill like OxyContin or its generic equivalent is harmful to them or that overdoses can happen even during those few experimental uses of the drug. “The drug is so much more lethal, and the kids just don’t get that,” Mosher-Garvey said.” http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/article_830ed0ec-2a28-11df-ab3e-001cc4c002e0.html