1.   The justices today agreed to consider the issue in connection with two similar federal drug prosecutions.

2.   Dole charges that the number of drug agents is down and that drug prosecutions are down.

3.   Drug prosecutions dropped in the first two Clinton years but rose again last year.

4.   Drug prosecutions are down.

5.   Meanwhile, citizens who are ill face drug prosecution if they turn to medical marijuana, as provided by state law.

6.   Silbering brings an uncommon background to drug prosecutions.

7.   The high court considered the dispute in connection with similar federal drug prosecutions.

8.   The second case, which is pending, has raised hackles among civil liberties groups and, like the Borders case, involves a drug prosecution.

9.   Weld had left office for the last two years of the report, which included onlytask force cases and not other US attorney drug prosecutions.