Subject: U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration

• Curb Your Cynicism, Pt. 3

  In which the music editor pithily enthuses about new releases and reissues he thinks will enhance your life and erode your cynicism about the state of music, circa now. Mikkel Metal Brone and Wait (Echochord; available through Forced Exposure) Release date: April 17, 2007 Mikkel Metal (Copenhagen producer Mikkel Meldgaard) takes his nom de musique from his predilection for banging, metallic drum & bass tracks. But around 1999, he shifted his angle of attack to techno's more aerodynamic 4/

  April 24, 2007

• Chuck DeVore on Hemp

  Last week there was a rumor goin' round that Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine), a lieutenant colonel in the National Guard and a Republican, was co-author of a bill to legalize industrial hemp. Not only that, but he was doing so with none other than Assemblyman Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), the openly gay Democrat who authored a bill to legalize gay marriages. Polar opposites. The matter and anti-matter of the California Assembly. So what gives? What exactly are they trying to do and why? Here'

  July 3, 2006

• Bad Medicine

  Fullerton is certainly full of something these days. Last month the Fullerton Planning Commission approved a resolution to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in their city. In fact, all the resolution woul accomplish is a violation of California law; that and a major buzz-kill to Jay's Paradise, the dispensary whose business license application inspired the last-minute "urgency ordinance". In 1996 California passed Proposition 215, the Compassionate Use Act, which orders cities to set up a "plan

  September 12, 2006

• Fight the War Against the War on Drugs

  Protest the failing war on drugs at noon on Friday, Sept. 29, at the Federal Courthouse in Santa Ana. Yesterday in Modesto the DEA raided the California Healthcare Collective, a medicinal marijuana dispensary. From the Americans for Safe Access (ASA), a pro-medipot NPO: The Modesto medical cannabis dispensary California Healthcare Collective (CHC) was raided Wednesday by a task force made up of local and federal agents. Law enforcement conducting the raid included the Modesto Police Department

  September 28, 2006

• ND Beats CA

  If, as the governor recently asserted, California is both the new Athens and the new Sparta, where the future of America is busily being created, then what the hell is North Dakota? Because in one patch of the future, North Dakota is set to leave California in the dust. The state best known for frostbite, Fargo, and the Lawrence Welk Birthplace museum (not to be confused the Lawrence Welk Museum in Escondido), is set to become to the first state to have a farmer growing hemp. Not the sort of h

  January 16, 2007

• Schou Mug Shot Hits LA Times

  Yes, OC Weekly investigative reporter Nick Schou got his mug shot in today's Los Angeles Times. No, he wasn't participating again in a riot, peeking inside an undercover DEA 18-wheeler or even driving solo in the HOV lane. A year or so ago, Schou thought it'd be fun to perform his normal work duties, raise an infant son, pamper his beautiful wife, teach a journalism class at UCI and write a book. Sure, he looks like a zombie most days now and is often heard mumbling to himself, but he can poin

  April 29, 2007

• Saturday's Headlines & Surprises: Pampering Predators

  To Catch--and Pamper!--a Predator: Where the hell is Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC? Why do I ask? Well, in Orange County, authority figures--particularly cops--nabbed for outrageous sexual conduct either get re-elected, promoted or pampered. The latest example is Jason David Rosewarne. The married Anaheim police officer used his job to meet and molest an underage girl, skipped bail to flee to England, lived as a felony fugitive for three years and returned to the U.S. in July 2006. Though

  August 11, 2007

• What Did the DEA Know & When Did They Know It?

  From the Dec. 23, 1993, issue of Roll Call magazine in Washington, D.C.: Folks seem to have trouble getting Sen. Larry Craig's (R-Idaho) name right. Things started to go bad for Craig back in June, when he not-so-inadvertently referred to President Clinton in a floor speech as President Carter. The next week, Craig received a letter from the Drug Enforcement Administration addressed to "Sen. Mary Kraig." But perhaps it wasn't just the federal bureaucracy that was wise to Craig's double life

  September 2, 2007

• Diary of a Mad County

  June 20, 2002

• The Ecstasy Factor

  April 1, 2004

• Adderall Treats ADHD But Can Lead to Addiction. One Clinic Tries to Help OC Kick 'College Crack'

  August 28, 2008

• Letters

  'Save the music, y'all'

  January 3, 2008

• 'We Love Hunting Wetbacks'

  Costa Mesa Latino alleges Bizarre beatdown by OC Sheriffs Deputies

  February 22, 2007

• Let the Bastards Burn!

  May 4, 2000

• Letters

  'Im so sorry you were bored in the Tridentine mass. Im bored in Bishop Browns chintzy rock band masses with aging hippies doing modern dance in the aisles.'

  December 7, 2006

• Undercover of the Night

  July 27, 2006

• Bluehair Woodstock

  Welcome to America's Mazatlan

  February 2, 2006

• Ink-Stained Wretchedness

  April 21, 2005

• Indictment Imminent?

  March 10, 2005

• Live Previews

  March 10, 2005

• Confessions of a Border-Jumping Drug Smuggler

  September 5, 2002

• Tweekers Ball

  April 25, 2002

• Letters

  April 25, 2002

• Letters

  March 28, 2002

• Felony Foods

  March 21, 2002

• Letters

  November 29, 2001

• Crack Cop

  July 19, 2001

• True Lies?

  July 5, 2001

• Letters

  January 11, 2001

• Letters

  October 12, 2000

• A Gray Area

  June 3, 1999

• Message in a Baton

  April 29, 1999

• The Crack-UP

  November 12, 1998

• The Unsolved Murder of Joe Avila Is Only One of Many Loose Ends From OC's Coked-Out '80s

  September 24, 2009

• Crime Time: An Especially San Clemente/ Huntington Beach Edition

  It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local police calls--with an especially heavy emphasis on San Clemente and Huntington Beach. MONDAY, OCT. 5 He died for your remote. Who's the Patron Saint of Stupidity Again? A 50-inch Viso plasma TV was stolen out of the beer tent erected for the weekend Fall Festival at Sts. Simon & Jude Catholic Church, 20444 Magnolia St., Huntington Beach, some time before 3:30 a.m. What's more disturbing: the crime, leaving a plasma unattended in a tent overnig

  October 13, 2009

• TV Reporter Wrangles "Cannabis Cowboys" Tonight

  John Larson accompanied Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (C.A.M.P.) strike forces as they descended on illegal marijuana farms in Riverside County--and damn if he didn't have a camera crew along with him.   See, Larson is a correspondent with the KCET/Channel 28 program SoCal Connected, which is airing his footage from the 36-hour C.A.M.P sting operation. The "Cannabis Cowboys" segment airs at 8 tonight.  

  October 15, 2009

• Feds Finally Lighten Up on Those Who Light Up

  Flickr user theskywatcher​In a move that will likely increase President Obama's favorable rating even here in conservative Orange County, Attorney General Eric Holder ordered federal drug agents to stop prosecuting cases involving medical marijuana users and providers who obey state laws legalizing the drug for medical purposes. In other words, if you've got a doctor's license and a state medical marijuana ID card, you're not going to get fucked with by the feds. It's about time: California vo

  October 19, 2009

• Crime Time: Rapers! Robbers! Wife Killer! Bad Cops! And a Real Bozo!

  It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local police calls--a day late and many dollars short of paying off the creditors who won't stop calling! Top photos courtesy of Huntington Beach Police Department A BOZO NO-NO: Here's the original suspect description Crime Time received for the Oct. 5 robbery of the US Bank inside the Ralphs supermarket at Adams and Brookhurst streets in Huntington Beach: white, in his 30s, weighing 200 pounds with a stocky build and wearing a blue shirt and jea

  October 21, 2009