Drug diversion backfires in Calif.
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Non-violent drug offenders who were diverted to rehabilitation programs under Proposition 36 had higher rates of rearrest than those who remained in the criminal-justice system, a UCLA study released this week says.
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People who sell drugs near schools or use children to help them could get tougher  sentences under a new law.
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By Nicole C. Wong, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb.
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A new UCLA study released Nov. 26 reports higher arrest rates among drug offenders diverted to treatment during the first six months of California&#39;s Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act (SACPA), commonly known as Proposition 36.
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By Constance Loizos, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun.
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Two drug dealers - one from Wisconsin and one from Maine - are at the center of a legal dispute that has brought the federal criminal justice system to a near standstill.
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During some of the bloodiest years of the drug wars of the 1980s, crack was seen as far more dangerous than powdered cocaine, and that perception was written into the sentencing laws. But now that notion is under attack like never before.
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Alleged medical marijuana distributors arrested in San Francisco say policed should have been obtained warrant for search of cell phone.
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Nonviolent drug offenders who were diverted to rehabilitation programs under Proposition 36 had higher rates of rearrest than those who remained in the criminal-justice system, a UCLA study released today says.
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Californians who a decade ago voted in a landslide for a "Three Strikes" measure imposing long prison terms on career criminals are being asked to scale back that law by those who say it has unjustly snared small-time offenders.
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Records show the agency has taken a less aggressive approach toward policing drugs in the past four years.
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A methamphetamine dealer who gunned down a deputy during a traffic stop in Southern California. A man in Arizona who killed his ex-girlfriend's parents and brother and snatched his children. A man who suffocated his baby daughter and left her body in a toolbag on an expressway overpass near Chicago.
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By Therese Poletti, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb.
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By Sophia Kazmi, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Sep. 7--ALAMEDA COUNTY -- The Alameda County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday destroyed 1,500 marijuana plants discovered this week in the hills between Pleasanton and Fremont.
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An alleged leader of a powerful drug gang was caught near the border with California, Mexican officials announced Monday, calling it a blow to a syndicate they say is smuggling nearly half the illegal drugs crossing the U.S.-Mexico frontier.
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By Chuck Mueller, San Bernardino County Sun, Calif.  Feb.
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The spate of bad news about painkillers has dealt a major setback to what had been a highly promising effort to use the drugs to prevent a host of leading killers.