Georgia retailers soon will be banned from selling candy flavored to taste like marijuana to children. via NewsCenter 25

"She remains in custody. This is in connection with an investigation connected to footage passed to the Metropolitan Police on January 22"

Arrested: Amy Winehouse Troubled British soul singer Amy Winehouse was arrested on suspicion of possessing drugs, police and her spokesman said, after footage appeared of her apparently smoking crack cocaine. via Australian Broadcasting Corporation

U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey and drug czar John Walters are gathering with foreign officials in St. via KTVO

Colombia extradited one of the country's most feared paramilitary warlords to the United States early Wednesday to face drug trafficking charges, the government said.

Carlos Mario Jimenez was flown to Washington, D.C., via Miami on a Drug Enforcement Administration plane, according to President Alvaro Uribe's office. The announcement came just hours after Colombia's top judicial panel overturned a Supreme Court decision that had temporarily blocked the extradition.

The Supreme Court had ruled last month that Jimenez should not leave the country until he has confessed to crimes he committed as the leader of illegal far-right militias and paid reparations to his victims. Read more

"Then you send in troops with no capacity for assistance, no capacity for development, no capacity for aid, no capacity for governance."

The Marines of Bravo Company's 1st Platoon sleep beside a grove of poppies. Troops in the 2nd Platoon playfully swat at the heavy opium bulbs while walking through the fields. via MSNBC

By SONJA BARISIC Tuesday, May 06, 2008 A federal judge denied bond for former track star Tim Montgomery on federal heroin distribution charges. via WQXI-AM Atlanta