Troubled times for Texas hallucinogen harvesters
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RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas  - Mauro Morales has chickens in his yard, deer antlers hanging from the fence and a shed full of peyote behind his house.
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Farmers fed up with methamphetamine cooks stealing their fertilizer may soon catch them pink handed, thanks to a new dye developed by a Southern Illinois farmer.
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By Laura Griffith, The Telegraph, Alton, Ill.  Sep. 7--Illinois is taking the fight against methamphetamines to the manufacturing level with a grant program meant to heighten security and safety measures at anhydrous ammonia facilities.
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ON THE RIO GRANDE, Texas  - The riot of green vegetation that lines both sides of the Rio Grande river along the southeast Texas and Mexican border can give a canoeist the impression of gliding past unbroken wilderness.
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When Romelia Vargas was gunned down in the catering truck where she fried taquitos, police had few answers for her husband. Maybe the mother of twin baby boys got into trouble selling drugs &#151; that was the best they could offer.
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By Max B. Baker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Jun.
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By Gordon Dickson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep. 14--A lawsuit has been filed to stop three Central Texas residents from claiming that they can protect property owners from losing land to the Trans-Texas Corridor, Attorney General Greg Abbott announced Wednesday.
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Illegal psychedelic drugs, long disparaged as medically useless, are increasingly being studied as effective treatments for anxiety and other emotional disorders.
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By COLLEEN DISKIN, STAFF WRITER The state's environmental cops are often handcuffed as they try to protect the public from health risks that lurk beneath old industrial properties.
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INVERCARGILL'S Hazardous Substance Group is anxious to track down a container of sodium hydroxide, destined for a drycleaners, believed to have fallen from a vehicle in Invercargill six weeks ago.   The chemical is a key ingredient in the manufacture of methamphetamine, or "P" .
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TIJUANA, Mexico -- Californians shopping for cheaper prescription drugs may have gotten a break when the state Legislature voted to ease access to low-cost medicines from Canada, but south of the border, bargain-hunters can pay an unexpected, traumatic cost -- time in a Mexican jail.
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Thirty-four people have died so far this year in Travis County from a heroin overdose, up from 23 last year. Authorities believe a particularly potent strain of heroin being smuggled into the United States and circulating on the streets of the Texas Capital is partly to blame for the highest number of heroin deaths in Austin since 1992.
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By TANIA SOUSSAN For the Journal A six-year battle over a patch of southern New Mexico known as Otero Mesa took a turn recently with calls from the state's congressional delegation for a moratorium on oil and gas development.
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Farmer Phil Prutch isn't sure about putting Colorado convicts to work in his fields this summer. But then again, he says, he doesn't have much of a choice.
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Two poisoning cases 10 years apart illustrate what happens when nations fail to police the global pipeline of drug ingredients.
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States try to limit access to a key meth ingredient, but some drug companies and consumer groups oppose the move.
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By Staci Matlock, The Santa Fe New Mexican  Jan. 30--A proposed tax break to help a Texasbased company build a coal-fired power plant on Navajo land south of Farmington was tripped up Monday by a New Mexico legislative committee.