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Chicago's city council approved on Wednesday a ban on the sale of synthetic cocaine, also known as bath salts. The ordinance follows a similar ban that went into effect in December for the sale of synthetic marijuana.In presenting the ordinance, Ald.

The e-commerce website Silk Road is being called the Amazon.com of illegal drugs.The goods it sells include cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and marijuana. The products are delivered through regular mail and shipping services to a buyer's front door.The site is not legal, and it is hard to find."

Kentucky and Tennessee have reportedly become the second and third states to turn over their supplies of an increasingly rare lethal-injection drug to the Justice Department.The drug, sodium thiopental, is one of three drugs that most states that enforce capital punishment use in their lethal inject