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- From New York to Arizona: Inside the head-spinning week of Trump’s legal drama
- U.S. drug overdose deaths top 100,000 in a year for the first time, officials say
- Column: Hapless House Republicans weaponized impeachment. It backfired
- Secret Service ends White House cocaine investigation with no leads
- Editorial: Reversal of Harvey Weinstein’s conviction is disappointing, but a fair justice system is important
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President Biden has issued mass pardons for marijuana possession offenses and urged the Drug Enforcement Administration to reschedule pot, so that it may be legally prescribed by physicians. The Food and Drug Administration has been teeing up clinical trials for MDMA and magic mushrooms. Lawmakers from both parties have endorsed “harm reduction” strategies to combat the opioid crisis. Compared to the zero-tolerance policies of the recent past, this emerging approach to drug control is less focused on criminal punishment and more attentive to the costs and benefits of different substances and interventions.

From New York to Arizona: Inside the head-spinning week of Trump’s legal drama
The pro-regulatory model of judicial review that liberals had championed ever since the New Deal, which demanded only a “rational basis” to justify most government measures, had not been designed to address policy failure. Many judges didn’t know what to do with a set of criminal justice and public health policies that were themselves alleged to be criminogenic and a threat to public health. The White House on Tuesday unveiled a new plan to address the growing presence of xylazine, a veterinary tranquilizer, in the country’s illicit drug supply.
U.S. drug overdose deaths top 100,000 in a year for the first time, officials say
Application of a cocaine solution — usually via a swab — would have provided immediate if temporary relief, and for the remainder of FDR's presidency, there were similar appointments with the same doctor. It was only in his later years that he started to rely on laudanum for relief from chronic diarrhea, and there's a footnote here, too. At the same time Jefferson was working on piecing together a whole new country, he was also overseeing the work being done at Monticello. That, of course, was actually being done by slave labor, but among the flowers he ordered planted there were poppies. Interestingly, it wasn't until 1992 that anyone really took notice of the fact, and after a nearby drug raid, the governing board at Monticello had all the plants, flowers, and seed packets destroyed.
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Column: Hapless House Republicans weaponized impeachment. It backfired
Meanwhile, Secret Service investigators put together a list of several hundred individuals who may have accessed the area where the drugs were found. Anyone who comes through the White House must give identifying information and pass through security before entering. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said President Joe Biden believed it was “incredibly important” for the Secret Service to get to the bottom of how the drugs ended up in the White House.
Both Senate and House Republicans are harrumphing that Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer of New York, and his fellow Senate Democrats, set a terrible precedent by dumping the impeachment case against Mayorkas without a full trial. Just more evidence that the Biden and Mayorkas impeachment crusades have been purely political exercises. Trump, in a post on his social media site last November, had derided Kardashian as the “World’s most overrated celebrity” based on anecdotes in a just-released book from ABC News journalist Jonathan Karl. "I think it's so important to share them an amplify them because there are so many people that are in your position that can use the inspiration." Four of the pardoned individuals attended the event with Harris and Kardashian Thursday.
In 2021, President Joe Biden's White House found itself facing questions similar to those that had been asked in the Clinton era, and it all went public with a report from The Daily Beast. That story alleged that prospective White House employees were initially told that past marijuana use would be overlooked, but were later fired or forced to resign over those same claims. In a press conference, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said only five employees were impacted. Another informant told The New York Times that there were other deciding factors that came to light when the employees were more closely examined for higher-level clearances. Modern medicine would treat chronic sinus infections with antibiotics, but since that wasn't an option in 1941, treatment was aimed at alleviating symptoms. Dr. Jordan S. Josephson is the head of the New York Nasal and Sinus Center, and explained what McIntire — a certified ear, nose, and throat doctor — probably would have done.
Editorial: Reversal of Harvey Weinstein’s conviction is disappointing, but a fair justice system is important
The one constant is that such laws have always been in deep tension with some of our nation’s deepest normative commitments. Some judges in the 1970s held that classifying marijuana as a narcotic, or together with narcotics, is so illogical as to violate the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause. That clause, the Supreme Court had instructed, requires criminal classifications to be at least minimally reasonable. Had this line of rulings prevailed, marijuana would have been removed from the most restrictive drug schedules—fifty years before President Biden’s plea to the D.E.A. to do just that.
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In addition to hypertension and heart disease in his later years, the president had chronic sinus conditions. Cocaine is a powerful vasoconstrictor, which means it tightens blood vessels, unlike many other topical anesthetics, which loosen blood vessels and can make bleeding worse. And in the 1930s and 1940s, when Roosevelt held office, the go-to treatment for nasal swelling was a watered-down cocaine solution, applied by a cotton swab, to quickly shrink and numb a patient’s nasal tissue, before inserting a needle to drain out sinus fluid. Chances are it’s not the first time – and the drug could well have been used by at least one past president, according to a leading presidential historian.
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He has also issued a sweeping pardon for those convicted of simple possession of marijuana, a proclamation that the White House says covers tens of thousands of people. Kim Kardashian met with Vice President Kamala Harris to discuss criminal justice reform. Today, China, India, and a few other nations dominate global production of generic drugs and ingredients. Department of Defense recently determined that more than half of its pharmaceutical supply chain is at “high” or “very high” risk.
We may never know for sure if Roosevelt was given cocaine, because his medical records went missing shortly after his death in 1945 – probably destroyed to cover up evidence that doctors knew how sick he was when running for a fourth term, Gillon says. But the president’s official schedule shows that he regularly met with McIntire for sinus treatments – including a session lasting over an hour on 7 December 1941, after learning of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. "The investigation will not be able to single out a person of interest from the hundreds of individuals who passed through the vestibule where the cocaine was discovered," Secret Service officials said.
And eight of the 10 drugs selected for this year’s negotiation program raised their prices in 2024 – after all 10 drugs were already priced three to eight times higher in the United States than in other countries. President Biden knows how the Inflation Reduction Act is delivering for American families, and his Administration will continue the fight to lower health care costs for more Americans. The event comes the day after President Biden used his clemency authority to pardon 11 people who were convicted of non-violent drug offenses and commute the sentences of five others. The White House says these individuals received disproportionately long sentences and would have been given shorter sentences under current laws and policies.