CANNABIS CULTURE - Last October, when the Obama Administration moved so fiercely against medical marijuana collectives in California, everyone wanted to know why.
When a top Mexican or Colombian drug lord is captured, events normally go something like this: He gets extradited to the U.S. and makes a closed-door deal with prosecutors to give information on the drugs trade while getting a reduced sentence in return. The public finds out little to nothing of the details.
Outwardly, life seems normal; but as drug war kidnappings, extortion, and violence brush closer to the average citizen, experts say, the mental terrain looks like post-traumatic stress.
A top Justice Department official on Wednesday confirmed the existence of ongoing investigations where agents have laundered drug-proceed money to Mexican drug cartels as part of a sting run, but he defended those probes against Republicans’ attacks.
[img_assist|nid=29171|title=|desc=A man looks at a van containing the bodies of several men in Guadalajara, Mexico, on Thursday. Mexican authorities found 26 bodies in three vehicles abandoned near a major intersection, officials said.