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WEST CHICAGO, IL -- A West Chicago man faces up to 50 years in prison after police reportedly caught him with 462 grams of cocaine, 26 grams of fentanyl, 90 grams of mushrooms, and multiple duffel bags stuffed with nearly 3,000 grams of cannabis. Jason...

ALSIP, IL -- An Alsip man was arrested after an off-white powder tested positive for heroin and fentanyl at the Illinois Crime Lab, prosecutors said. Jeffrey Oakes, 51, appeared before Cook County Judge John Mahoney on a charge of possession of a controlled substance. Oakes...

Edmonton's city police Chief Dale McFee said the drug is disproportionately showing up in calls for service — contrasting meth, a stimulant, with opioids like fentanyl, which are depressants and often make the user drowsy. Calgary Edmonton city police Chief Dale McFee knows that right now, fentanyl...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The 420 smoke-out in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park brought huge crowds out to Hippie Hill to celebrate the city's biggest unofficial holiday. Almost 19,000 people gathered for the event Saturday. As the clock struck 4:20 p.m., thousands of...

SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) - Between 13,000 to 14,000 people gathered at a "Four Twenty" marijuana celebration at Hippie Hill in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park Saturday.This is the first year celebrations have fallen on a Saturday after recreational marijuana use was legalized statewide in 2016. Social media...