Tag: Drug Enforcement Administration
U.S. Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control Targets Synthetic Drugs
On Wednesday, September 25, the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control held a hearing on unregulated analogues of synthetic drugs and recent legislation proposed to address growing concern. Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) led the hearing that included testimony from Michael Botticelli, deputy director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, and Joseph Rannazzisi, deputy assistant administrator at the Office
Operation Hemisphere: the White House's secret program to spy on citizens in the name of drug prevention
The New York Times revealed on September 1 that the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) — the same folks who brought us ads about marijuana users eating their own fists and other reefer madness messages — has secretly run a program that provides vast access to phone data records spanning a 26 year period. The program offers
