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The Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control (OBN), often shortened to Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics, is an agency of the government of Oklahoma charged with minimizing the abuse of controlled substances through law enforcement measures directed primarily at drug trafficking, illicit drug manufacturing, and major suppliers of illicit drugs.
About six years ago, Oklahomans voted to legalize medical marijuana in the state. Now, the U.S. Drug and Enforcement Administration is debating reclassifying weed as a less dangerous substance.
Oklahoma State Question 820 was a voter initiative to legalize adult purchasing, possession and consumption of cannabis in Oklahoma, but it was rejected by the majority of voters after appearing as the only statewide issue on the ballot in a March 7, 2023 special election.
But thanks to a 50-year-old federal law called the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, better known as ERISA, ... Oklahoma has passed a law to lower drug costs. But a federal law from 1974 is ...
The Drug Enforcement Administration was established on July 1, 1973, [4] by Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1973, signed by President Richard Nixon on July 28. [5] It proposed the creation of a single federal agency to enforce the federal drug laws as well as consolidate and coordinate the government's drug control activities.
Senate Bill 458 would allow nurse practitioners to prescribe drugs without doctor supervision. Legislators say its a way to improve health care access.
The Governor of Oklahoma appoints the Commissioner of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to serve as the chief executive officer of the Department. The current Commissioner is Carrie Slatton-Hodges, who was appointed Commissioner in January 2020 by Governor Kevin Stitt. The Department was established in 1953 by the Mental Health Law of ...
An Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation test lab later found that five and a half of the pills Giraldi brought with him tested as clonazepam, a Schedule IV drug. One partial tablet tested as ...