Illegal Drugs

EVANSTON, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming authorities say they’ve seized 242 pounds of marijuana from a truck hauling cars. Troopers stopped the truck Tuesday on eastbound Interstate 80 near Evanston, near the Utah border. They inspected it after finding one of the cars wasn’t listed in the truck’s shipping records...

DENVER (AP) — Medical marijuana is legal in 17 states, but the industry has a decidedly black-market aspect — it’s mostly cash-only. Banks won’t touch pot money. The drug is illegal under federal law, and processing transactions or investments with pot money puts federally insured banks at risk of drug-racketeering charges...

RAWLINS, Wyo. (AP) — A Rawlins man has admitted to selling and distributing cocaine for 10 years in Carbon County. Fifty-six-year-old John Sanchez pleaded guilty on Tuesday to conspiracy to deliver cocaine under a deal with prosecutors...

Only a small number of states currently have laws on the books allowing medical marijuana, but help may be on the horizon for patients in other states who could benefit from the ingredients in cannabis plants — clinical trials are currently underway for the world’s first pharmaceutical developed from raw marijuana instead of synthetic equivalents.

POWELL, Wyo. (AP) — Authorities say they have arrested two people in Powell after an investigation led to the seizure of more than 100 grams of cocaine — worth more than $10,000 on the street. Powell Police Chief Roy Eckerdt says a search of a home in the northeastern part of town Wednesday turned up 108 grams of the drug, $6,500 in cash and packaging materials and drug paraphernalia...

GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) — A Gillette physician says contaminated methamphetamine may have killed two people who were hospitalized over the past three weeks. Two other meth users also were admitted to Campbell County Memorial Hospital recently with respiratory failure...

Like most medical marijuana dispensaries, Granny Purps in Soquel, CA sometimes struggles with an image problem. While it genuinely believes it’s helping people, pot remains illegal at the federal level and the “stoner” culture often stigmatizes what is otherwise a legitimate operation. However, Granny Purps is trying to redeem itself in the eyes of the public. For the second year in a row, it’s fe

Fresh off his first NL MVP award, Milwaukee Brewers’ star outfielder Ryan Braun is in hot water after testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug, and he could be hit with a 50-game suspension at the start of the 2012 campaign. Braun maintains that he’s innocent of the charge.