Puget Sound area residents with unused or unwanted prescription drugs are encouraged to drop them off Saturday at various collection sites as part of a national initiative.
Puget Sound area residents with unused or unwanted prescription drugs are encouraged to drop them off Saturday at various collection sites as part of a national initiative.
Read more: http://blog.thenewstribune.com/crime/2012/09/27/unused-prescription-medications-to-be-collected-saturday-for-drug-take-back-initiative/
Events aim to prevent pill abuse and fight identity theft.
MODESTO, CALIF. – A federal grand jury has indicted 13 people, including one from Tacoma and two from Kent, in a drug trafficking conspiracy that allegedly brought in more than $3 million.
More than a dozen people, many of them medical marijuana patients or providers, testified Monday against a measure to tax medical marijuana dispensaries, an effort to head off any black market when sale of state-taxed recreational marijuana starts at the end of this year.
FERNDALE - Residents can drop off unwanted prescription and over-the-counter drugs at Haggen Pharmacy and the police station.
Narcotics and other controlled substances must be taken in their original bottles to the police station, 2220 Main St. Other medicines can be dropped off at Haggen, 1815 Main St.
The city's new prescription takeback program is promoted as an alternative to throwing pills in unsecured trash bins, flushing them down the toilet or storing them after they expire. The aim is to prevent water contamination, accidental poisoning and the spread of illegal narcotics among drug addicts.
Franklin County commissioners are contemplating making it illegal under the county's zoning rules for medical marijuana patients to grow pot plants in collective gardens.
The county has had a moratorium -- renewed every six months -- on collective medical marijuana gardens since 2011 when the Legislature passed a reform of the state's law permitting use of the drug for authorized patients.
Commissioners Wednesday considered whether to extend the moratorium for another six months or to look for another option.
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