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This is the list of Schedule I drugs as defined by the
United States
Controlled Substances Act.[1]
The following findings are required for drugs to be placed in this schedule:[2]
The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.
The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision.
Except as specifically authorized, it is illegal for any person:
to manufacture, distribute, or dispense, or possess with intent to manufacture, distribute, or dispense, a controlled substance; or
to create, distribute, or dispense, or possess with intent to distribute or dispense, a counterfeit substance.[3]
The complete list of Schedule I drugs
follows.[1]
The
Administrative Controlled Substances Code Number for each drug is included.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Schedule_I_drugs_%28US%29
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June 22: Jerry Falwell Jr. poses with Donald
Trump near a Playboy cover, and holy heck breaks loose
Christian leader Jerry Falwell Jr. was so happy to pose with Donald Trump on
Tuesday that he tweeted the photo to the world.
Then the world started casting stones.
Because hanging on the wall behind Trump,
Falwell and Falwell’s wife, Becki, was a framed
Playboy magazine cover.
It was the March 1990 Playboy, to be exact, with Trump and Playmate Brandi
Brandt on the front. Brandt is also known for her failed marriage to Motley Crue
bassist Nikki Sixx and for being
jailed for her involvement in a cocaine smuggling syndicate that hid drugs in
the toilets of airliners.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article85250202.html
October 17: Nation Fears Drug Test Would
Reveal Trump Not on Drugs
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/nation-fears-drug-test-would-reveal-trump-not-on-drugs
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October 19: The Drug Trafficker Donald Trump
Risked His Casino Empire to Protect
The Donald and his sister, federal judge Maryanne Trump Barry, both took
helicopter flights with a guy who had a lot of ways to get people high.
This relationship between the Republican presidential nominee and a major drug
trafficker [Trump's helicopter pilot], revealed in court filings and other
public documents, has never been explained by the candidate. Trump should be
asked in every venue right up to Election Day for a complete and detailed
accounting of this relationship.
... [a] case [against the helicopter pilot] somehow ended up in New Jersey—and
in not just any courtroom ... It came before Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, Trump’s
older sister ... After three weeks Judge Barry recused herself ...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-drug-trafficker-donald-trump-risked-his-casino-empire-to-protect
December 22: What the Drug War Could Look
Like Under President Trump ... "With Trump in the White House and Sessions in
the Justice Department ... it's hard to be optimistic," says Drug Policy
Alliance head
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/what-the-drug-war-could-look-like-under-president-trump-w457192
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January 30: How Drugs Will Get Under, Over,
and Around Trump's Wall
A wall may be a powerful symbol, but it won't be a useful tool in the war on
drugs.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bmdnmv/how-drugs-will-get-under-over-and-around-trumps-wall
January 31: Trump Signals Willingness to
Weigh Pharma Concerns
Softening his tone on the drug industry, the president focused on cutting
regulations and expanding jobs.
President Donald Trump
has in the past advocated government intervention in setting drug
prices, but on Tuesday ahead of a meeting with pharmaceutical executives he
appeared to balance his position by focusing on the benefits drug companies
could get from changes ahead, including accelerating the process by which
medicines hit the market.
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-care-news/articles/2017-01-31/after-vilifying-drug-companies-donald-trump-meets-with-executives
February 9: Trump Orders Crackdown on Drug
Trafficking and Anti-Cop Violence
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-orders-crackdown-drug-trafficking-anti-cop-violence-n719001
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February 16: In
a press conference Thursday, President Donald Trump touched on the important
matter of narcotics use in the U.S., calling America a “drug-infested nation.”
“We’ve ordered the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice
to coordinate on a plan to destroy criminal cartels coming into the United
States with drugs. We’re becoming a drug-infested nation. Drugs are becoming
cheaper than candy bars,” he said to illustrate his point.
http://time.com/4673878/trump-drugs-cheaper-than-candy/
February 28: Trump: Overpromising on Drugs
... this president can’t, as he as forcefully remarked, expect much fairness
from the national media, and if he keeps promising draconian reductions in crime
and especially drug abuse, and doesn’t act accordingly, it will haunt him.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445309/donald-trump-drug-war-strategy
March 1: Drugs, crime, and immigration:
Nicer words from Trump, still bad policies
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2017/03/01/drugs-crime-and-immigration-nicer-words-from-trump-still-bad-policies/
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March 18:
America’s pot industry
shrugs off Donald Trump’s harder line on drugs
A business that is well used to risk sees greater
opportunities ahead
https://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21718826-business-well-used-risk-sees-greater-opportunities-ahead-americas-pot-industry
March 28: What the Unemployment Drug-Testing
Bill That Trump Just Signed Means for States
The legislation undoes an Obama-era regulation about who can be drug tested.
States will likely get more say over the matter, but not just yet.
http://www.governing.com/topics/health-human-services/gov-congress-drug-testing-unemployment-states-trump.html
March 29: Here’s what Trump’s new executive
order means for opioid addiction
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will lead a new national opioid commission
created Wednesday by an executive order from President Donald Trump that also
maps out his administration’s latest strategy to combat the public health
crisis.
“Addiction is a disease, and no life is disposable. We can help people by giving
them appropriate treatment,” Christie said.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/heres-trumps-new-executive-order-means-opioid-addiction
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April 3: Trump’s Opioid Plan and the Bones
of the War on Drugs
The administration’s opioid plan gives us a sobering reminder of which lives
have been marked as worthier than others.
https://psmag.com/news/trumps-opioid-plan-and-the-bones-of-the-war-on-drugs
April 26: Trump’s Wall Won’t Stop The Drugs
“The drugs pouring through on the southern border are unbelievable,” Trump said.
“We’re becoming a drug culture, there’s so much. And most of it’s coming from
the southern border. The wall will stop the drugs.”
Trump may be right that most illicit drugs trafficked into the U.S. enter
through the U.S.-Mexican border. But history suggests he is wrong that a wall
would stop that flow. Decades of failed efforts show that enforcement at the
border and interdiction efforts alone have minimal impact on flow of drugs in
the country and consumption overall.“The notion that we’re going to fix
America’s drug problem by building a wall is just a fantasy,“ said Ethan
Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, an advocacy
organization in support of drug policy reform.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trumps-wall-wont-stop-the-drugs/
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May 5: Trump's war on drug users ...
Obama made headway in ending failed war-on-drugs policies, but Trump is undoing
that.
During the campaign, President Trump committed to addressing America’s drug
crisis. He called it “a crippling problem” and “a total epidemic,” which it is.
An average of
144 people a day die of drug overdoses.
Trump’s rhetoric suggested a continuation of President Obama’s approach, which
was founded on a rejection of the failed 45-year-old war on drugs, which treated
drug use and addiction mainly as criminal problems. Obama called that war
“counterproductive” and an “utter failure.” His administration emphasized
treatment-and-prevention programs based on scientific advances that have
demonstrated that
addiction is a brain disease with biological, psychological and
environmental determinants.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/05/05/trump-war-drug-mental-health-reform-column/101252422/
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May 23:
Trump Called Rodrigo Duterte to Congratulate Him on His Murderous
Drug War: “You Are Doing an Amazing Job”
In a phone call from the White House late last month, U.S. President Donald
Trump heaped praise on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, one of the world’s
most murderous heads of state, for doing what Trump called an “unbelievable job”
in his war on drugs. Trump offered an unqualified endorsement of Duterte’s
bloody extermination campaign against suspected drug dealers and users, which
has included open calls for extrajudicial murders and promises of pardons and
immunity for the killers.
https://theintercept.com/2017/05/23/trump-called-rodrigo-duterte-to-congratulate-him-on-his-murderous-drug-war-you-are-doing-an-amazing-job/
June 1:
Donald Trump’s white nationalist campaign attracted anti-immigrant, pro-Russia
politicians from across Europe. In particular “Brexit” leader Nigel Farage, the
proudly racist and sexist former head of the nationalist UK Independence Party,
made an unprecedented trans-Atlantic push for Trump. Farage attended the
Republican convention, did media appearances to support Trump, joined in raising
the rabble at Trump rallies, and even defended Trump’s ugly Access Hollywood
statements as just the bragging of an “alpha male.” Farage is also an admirer of
Trump adviser Steve Bannon, with a Breitbart-friendly relationship that extends
back at least three years. And now Trump and Farage have
something else in common:
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Nigel Farage is a “person of interest” in the US counter-intelligence
investigation that is looking into possible collusion between the Kremlin and
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, the Guardian has been told.
Farage says he’s never even been to Russia … though he refuses to say if he’s
received payment from RT or other Russian state media. Farage has met with
Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, with Assange-friendly whackadoodle Roger
Stone, and seems to have just incidentally been involved with a lot of people
whose names keep showing up on the FBI radar.
“He’s right in the middle of these relationships. He turns up over and over
again. There’s a lot of attention being paid to him.”
Farage has some recent FBI experience. In July, the FBI
nabbed Farage’s top aide, for laundering drug money through the dark net.
The aide, George Cottrell, previously ran the UKIP offices as well as Farage’s
personal blog. He was arrested by the FBI when Farage and Cottrell came to the
US for the Republican Convention. Cottrell was later found guilty of wire fraud
for offering to help criminals launder funds.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/6/1/1667871/-Nigel-Farage-joins-other-Trump-associates-as-person-of-interest-in-FBI-investigation
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August 8: After three weeks Judge Barry
recused herself
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-stop-opioid-crisis-kids-drugs-no-good-article-1.3394648
August 21: How Jeff Sessions and Donald
Trump have restarted the war on drugs ... Under Obama, America’s addiction to
mass incarceration seemed to fade. But then came Trump and a hardline attorney
general
For those with prior convictions, even relatively minor ones, mandatory minimum
sentences can be doubled, adding decades of additional punishment. Third
offenses for drug crimes can result in a mandatory minimum penalty of life
imprisonment.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/21/donald-trump-jeff-sessions-war-on-drugs
August 22: Redefining 'Drug Bust': German
Police Seize 5,000 Pills In Shape Of Trump's Head
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/22/545282672/redefining-drug-bust-german-police-seize-5-000-pills-in-shape-of-trump-s-head
August 29:
Trump Says Border Wall Will Stop Drugs. Here’s What a DEA Intel
Report Says.
Many of the illegal drugs flowing into the United
States come by air or sea.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/29/trump-says-border-wall-will-stop-drugs-heres-what-a-dea-intel-report-says/
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September 27: Donald Trump largely accurate
about drugs catapulted across the U.S.-Mexico border
Reports from U.S. Customs and Border Protection about catapults date back at
least to 2011.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/sep/27/donald-trump/trump-largely-accurate-claim-about-drugs-catapulte/
October 17: Trump's Nominee for Drug Czar Is
Out
Representative Tom Marino withdrew from consideration after a recent news report
detailed how a law he helped pass benefited narcotics distributors.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/trumps-nominee-for-drug-czar-is-out/543108/
October 26: Trump: “Really great
advertising” will keep kids off drugs ... Trump shared the personal story of his
brother's alcohol abuse and offered a solution to the opioid crisis: "Really
tough, really big, really great advertising so we get to people before they
start." His prediction: "If we can
teach young people not to take drugs ... it's really, really easy not to take
them."
https://www.axios.com/trump-really-great-advertising-will-keep-kids-off-drugs-1513306471-2552cabb-2972-45c5-9761-0b0fed1a7b77.html
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October 26: Trump declares health emergency
on drugs, but no money
http://www.dispatch.com/news/20171026/trump-declares-health-emergency-on-drugs-but-no-money
October 27: While Vowing to Take on Opioid
Crisis, Trump Cuts Drug Treatment Options
GOP’s Cuts to Medicaid, ACA, Mean Millions Lose Access to Drug Treatment
Programs
https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/10/27/while-vowing-take-opioid-crisis-trump-cuts-drug-treatment-options
November 17: Venezuela's Maduro Offers to
Help Trump Fight Drugs
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, whose top political allies have been
accused by Washington of dealing in illegal narcotics, on Friday offered to help
U.S. President Donald Trump in fighting the drug trade.
Top Venezuelan officials including Vice President Tareck El Aissami and Interior
Minister Nestor Reverol have been blacklisted by the U.S. Treasury on
allegations they have helped move drugs from neighboring Colombia into North
America.
https://www.voanews.com/a/venezuela-maduro-offers-to-help-trump-fight-drugs-/4122214.html
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January 6:
Countries that are “very harsh” on
drug epidemics and “take it very seriously” have less difficulty curbing
the problem, claimed President Donald
Trump
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-says-countries-are-harsh-drugs-have-less-difficulty-773168
January 10: Trump says 'I think I know
answer' to drug crisis, adds US may not be ready
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/10/trump-says-think-know-answer-to-drug-crisis-but-us-may-not-be-ready.html
January 11: President Trump signs bill to
reduce fentanyl, other drugs brought to U.S. illegally
The goal of the bipartisan Interdict Act is to reduce the amount of fentanyl and
other drugs being illegally brought into the country by giving U.S. Customs and
Border Protection access to more devices that can detect the illicit substances.
https://www.wvnews.com/news/wvnews/president-trump-signs-bill-to-reduce-fentanyl-other-drugs-brought/article_8b7677e4-19de-5db2-9557-1069397266e6.html
January 30: Trump: US must get 'much tougher
on drug dealers and pushers'
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/371540-trump-us-must-get-much-tougher-on-drug-dealers-and-pushers
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January 31: Trump Didn’t Bother to Say What
Happened to the Biological Mother in His Cop Adoption Anecdote
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/01/trumps-cop-takes-homeless-fetus-anecdote-handily-synthesizes-the-gop-stance-on-women-and-babies.html?via=recirc_engaged
February 3: Trump threatens aid to countries
that don’t stop drugs at the border
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/372137-trump-threatens-aid-to-countries-that-dont-stop-drugs-at-the-border
February 9: llinois
Gov. Bruce Rauner has denied clemency for a Chicago veteran who is facing
deportation after serving two tours in Afghanistan with the US Army,
CNN affiliate WLS reported.
"It's not appropriate to go into detail on reason for a decision, but we take
every review of clemency and pardon very seriously," Rauner told WLS. "We made
the decision not to grant it in that case."
Miguel Perez Jr., 39, has been detained at an US Immigration and Customs
Enforcement detention center in Kenosha, Wisconsin, since last year. ICE began
deportation proceedings while Perez was serving a sentence for a felony drug
charge.
http://www.cnn.com/2018/02/09/us/veteran-facing-deportation-clemency-denied/?iid=ob_lockedrail_topeditorial
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February 28: Trump Goes Full Duterte,
Suggests “Death Penalty” for Drug Dealers
Five sources say he is deadly
serious about the issue.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/trump-suggests-death-penalty-for-drug-dealers
March 9: Philippine President Duterte Mimics
Trump's Racism and Sexism in Defensive Insults at the U.N. ... Duterte attacked
human rights officials this week.
When it comes to disturbing rhetoric, Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte is no
stranger to the practice of stunning his viewers with a diverse range of
obscenities. Be it misogynist invectives, promising cash prizes for killing
rebels or boasting about committing murder, Duterte is notorious for openly
uncouth proclamations. Keeping his record of indelicacy alive,
Duterte recently attacked human rights officials, including reportedly
mocking the race of a black prosecutor at the International Criminal Court.
On Wednesday, Duterte made flippant remarks about international human rights
agencies seeking to investigate the rising death toll that has reportedly
occurred in his drug war. "Human rights, human rights, son of a bitch, human
rights," Duterte said in front of a crowd. According to Human Rights Watch, at
least
12,000 people have been killed in the Philippine president's brutal drug war
since June 2016. The
official government under Duterte denies this.
Unsettling as his comments may be, Duterte enjoys unwavering support and praise
from the leader of the world's most powerful country, Donald Trump.
https://www.alternet.org/philippine-president-rodrigo-duterte-hurls-racist-sexist-insults-un
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March 19: Trump praises anti-overdose
program backed by Clinton Foundation
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/379180-trump-praises-anti-overdose-program-backed-by-clinton-foundation
March 27: Accused Mexican kingpin 'Gordo'
trafficked enough fentanyl to 'kill millions' in New York City, officials say
Francisco Quiroz-Zamora, 41, was nabbed on Nov. 27 when he arrived by train at
the city's Penn Station to personally collect a payment for drug deals he
unwittingly negotiated with an undercover officer, authorities said. His five
alleged accomplices were busted earlier.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/accused-mexican-kingpin-gordo-trafficked-enough-fentanyl-kill-millions-new-n860486
May 24: The nation's opioid epidemic has
been attributed to many factors, including the over-prescription of painkillers
and the availability of cheap synthetic opioids like fentanyl.
In Congress, lawmakers are trying to make it harder to buy fentanyl, in part by
forcing the U.S. Postal Service to make it more difficult to send narcotics
through the mail. But the measure has been languishing.
A Senate GOP aide who spoke to NPR blames the Postal Service for blocking the
measure in Congress by providing misinformation about the bill and suggesting
it's unworkable.
https://www.npr.org/2018/05/24/613762721/deadly-delivery-opioids-by-mail
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July 26: Colombian sniffer dog moved after
threats by drug gang
Intelligence sources said the Urabeños drugs gang had put a 200m-peso ($70,000;
£53,000) price on the German shepherd's head after she found almost 10 tonnes of
the gang's cocaine.
The Urabeños is considered Colombia's most powerful criminal organisation.
Sombra (Shadow) was moved from the gang's heartland to Bogotá airport.
The international airport is considered safer for her as it is outside the
gang's main area of influence, but the counter-narcotics force is taking no
risks.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-44965951
August 23: Authorities in Arizona discovered
$1 million in drugs during a traffic stop -- and officials say that led them to
a nearly 600-foot drug tunnel that runs between a former fast food restaurant
and a private home in Mexico.
The US-Mexico border above the tunnel is protected by two border fences,
according to court documents.
"This tunnel was very well constructed and would have taken this Drug
Trafficking Organization a long time to dig and would have been very expensive,"
court documents state. "This tunnel necessarily required a combination of
several individuals on both sides of the border, engaged in an intricate, risky
transnational conspiracy to construct such a secretive structure."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/23/us/drug-tunnel-arizona-mexico-trnd/
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October 24:
President
Trump has signed a wide-ranging bill into law aimed at reducing addiction and
deaths from opioids, an issue his administration has called a public health
emergency.
The 650-page-plus bill signed Wednesday is meant to tackle the crisis, giving
healthcare workers more latitude to respond, and allocates roughly $8.5 billion
in funding authorized in appropriations bills passed earlier this year.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/trump-signs-major-opioids-legislation-just-in-time-for-elections
December 3:
'Game changer': China agrees to crack down on fentanyl after pressure from Trump
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/3/china-declares-fentanyl-illegal-amid-trump-pressur/
December 19:
Frustrated opioid patients speak out: 'I now buy heroin on the street'
The national opioid crisis propelled a crackdown on prescription painkillers,
causing hundreds of doctors to abruptly reduce or completely cut off their
patients’ prescriptions, leaving many among the estimated 20 million Americans
who suffer from daily debilitating chronic pain to consider suicide.
One woman spoke of how her mother, at 72 years old, and in pain because of
degenerative bone disease, saw only one way out after her opioids were tapered
down. She committed suicide.
https://www.foxnews.com/health/readers-respond-to-special-report-about-the-opioid-crisis-unintended-victims-pain-sufferers-losing-access-to-painkillers
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February 13:
‘Alcatraz Of The Rockies’ awaits El Chapo's possible arrival; inmates include
Boston bomber and Ted Kaczynski
Guzman was convicted Tuesday in Brooklyn, N.Y., of running a massive drug
smuggling operation as head of Mexico’s notorious and murderous Sinaloa Cartel.
As a result, he is more than likely destined for ADX Florence — dubbed the
"Alcatraz of the Rockies" — when he is sentenced in June, given his background
of prison break-outs.
Even a prison escape artist like drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has no
chance of breaking out of the special hellhole where he's expected to be caged
once he's transferred to the custody of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.
Supermax opened in 1994 and as of Tuesday was holding 402 inmates, all men.
Inmates are confined to tiny single-person cells for all but one hour a day.
They have virtually no contact with the outside world.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/alcatraz-of-the-rockies-is-where-el-chapo-could-wind-up-serving-sentencealcatraz-of-the-rockies-awaits-el-chapos-possible-arrival-inmates-include-boston-bomber-and-ted-kaczynski
May 6:
Amid opioid epidemic, report finds more doctors stealing prescriptions
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amid-opioid-epidemic-report-finds-more-doctors-stealing-prescriptions/
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