Florida investigators arrested rapper Kodak Black Wednesday alleging that he was trafficking in MDMA last year.
A year after San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie shifted the city away from its long-standing "harm reduction" strategy toward what he calls a tougher, intervention-focused approach, the city is preparing to open a new facility intended to disrupt open-air drug markets and steer people into treatment.
Supervisor Matt Dorsey is proposing legislation that would require San Francisco to only fund new supportive housing sites that prohibit the use of illicit drugs, making drug use grounds for eviction. However, critics are concerned that it will perpetuate homelessness.
San Francisco Public Health officials are warning about a new synthetic opioid called cychlorphine. "We believe it is more potent than fentanyl. It was found we believe in someone using a counterfeit pill," said Daniel Tsai, director San Francisco Department of Public Health.
More than 40 members and associates of the Mexican mafia were arrested Thursday morning during an early-morning raid across Southern California.