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Lil Xan has been very open about his drug addiction, and now that he’s reportedly clean, he’s calling out his ex-manager, who Xan says used to enable him. In an Instagram Live session now saved as a post captioned “The Dangers of The Music Industry,” the 25-year-old compared his own situation to Lil Peep’s, who died in […]
The Scottsdale Police Department held a press conference on Thursday to announce a record narcotics seizure. Working in tandem with the Phoenix Field Division of the DEA, Scottsdale police undertook an investigation involving Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, resulting in the seizure of 1.7 million fentanyl pills, which has an estimated street value of $9 million. “The Sinaloa Cartel primarily […]
A Michigan man has been sentenced to life in prison after putting a fatal dose of heroin in his wife’s cereal. Jason Harris was convicted of first-degree murder, solicitation of murder, and delivery of a controlled substance causing death in November, for the death of his wife, Christina in September 2014, Fox 2 Detroit reports. […]
A high school student was arrested Tuesday for exposing two school resource officers and a nurse to fentanyl, per Alabama Local News. All three faculty members at Sequoyah High School who were exposed through the 17-year-old’s vape pen, which contained fentanyl, were given Narcan, and appear to be “stable and doing well.” According WVLT, the vape cartridge was free of fentanyl. Instead, the powerful drug […]
Former HBO CEO Jeff Bewkes told James Andrew Miller in his new book, Tinderbox: HBO’s Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers, that some network executives were worried about James Gandolfini‘s well-being while filming The Sopranos, per Insider. “We were concerned about Gandolfini staying alive. Occasionally he would go on a bender or a coke binge. We had to stop […]
Juicy J is opening up on the fall of Three 6 Mafia. The rapper spoke with Nas and radio personality Minya “Miss Info” Oh during the latest episode of Spotify’s The Bridge: 50 Years of Hip Hop podcast, explaining that “drugs really broke Three 6 Mafia up.” After Nas asked which drugs did it, Juicy explained that it was “the […]
Police last week seized roughly 500,000 pounds of marijuana during a single drug bust in southern Oregon’s Jackson County, CNN reports. The Oregon State Police Southwest Region (OSP) Drug Enforcement Section team announced in a news release Saturday that a search warrant at five industrial-sized warehouses in White City, OR turned up 250 tons of illegal marijuana with an estimated […]
Connecticut officials are urging cannabis smokers to exercise caution, after health experts reported the first documented case of fentanyl-tainted marijuana. The State Department of Public Health issued the warning earlier this week, about five months after Connecticut legalized recreational marijuana use. According to CBS News, officials have confirmed nearly 40 opioid overdoses in the state from July through October. Each […]
El Chapo’s wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro, might be facing a 4-year prison sentence for drug trafficking and money laundering charges. CBS News reports that the Department of Justice asked for this sentencing, with prosecutors also requesting she has five years of supervised release and pays a fine of $1.5 million. Aispuro previously pleaded guilty to the […]
Overdose deaths soared to a new record in 2021, topping 100,000 for the first time in a calendar year, the New York Times reports. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 100,300 Americans died of drug overdoses between May 2020 and April 2021, a nearly 30 percent uptick in fatalities from the previous […]
