The feds gladly fund development of anti-opioid vaccines for Big Pharma profits, but continue the war on a plant that is already proven to reduce opioid use.
After 20 years of patented opioid painkillers flooding America thanks to the pharmaceutical industry and careless doctors, the United States finds itself in a raging opioid epidemic.
As pain pill prescriptions have surged, overdose deaths from these legal drugs now total about 15,000 every year. When people can’t afford patented pills anymore, they turn to heroin, which killed almost 13,000 people in 2015—a 23 percent increase in one year. . . . Read Complete Report
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Confirmed: Opioid Use Plummets in States with Legal Cannabis, and HowGovt Ignores this Truth
Yesterday we reported how Congress’ “opioid bill,” or Comprehensive Addiction & Recovery Act (CARA), was a hollow achievement, as it ignored medical cannabis alternatives and said nothing about the role of Big Pharma in the opioid abuse epidemic
Among the information missing from the conversation was an eye-opening study done last year. A JAMA Internal Medicine study looked at ten years of data in all 50 states, concluding that states with medical cannabis laws had significantly lower rates of opioid overdose mortality. . . . Read Complete Report
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Why Big Pharma is Blocking Marijuana Legalization in Arizona
Mike Papantonio discusses the reasons why the marijuana legalization effort failed in Arizona and speaks with Justin Strekal, Political Director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, about what pharmaceutical companies have to gain from keeping marijuana illegal.
Medical marijuana research comes out of the shadows
It was an unprecedented meeting of the minds and it happened at Harvard Medical School. The subject of April’s confab? Medical cannabis. Researchers suspect cannabis can do so many things, from fighting cancer to easing concussions and Crohn’s disease. There are still tight restrictions but weed is increasingly coming into the scientific mainstream. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien reports.
In 1992, Jim Gray, a conservative judge in conservative Orange County, California, held a press conference during which he recommended that we rethink our drug laws. Back then, it took a great deal of courage to suggest that the war on drugs was a failed policy.
Today, more and more Americans are coming to the realization that prohibition’s costs—whether measured in lives and liberties lost or dollars wasted—far exceed any possible or claimed benefit
Americas Now— Private Prisons in the U.S. Make Big Profits 04/04/2016
“THE FIGHT AGAINST legalized pot is being heavily bankrolled by alcohol and pharmaceutical companies, terrified that they might lose market share.
On the heels of a filing last week that revealed that a synthetic cannabis company is financing the opposition to legal marijuana in Arizona comes a new disclosure this week that a beer industry group made one of the largest donations to an organization set up to defeat legalization in Massachusetts.
The Beer Distributors PAC, an affiliate that represents 16 beer-distribution companies in Massachusetts, gave $25,000 to the Campaign for a Safe and Healthy Massachusetts, tying it for third place among the largest contributors to the anti-pot organization.”
A long time coming. We are slowly getting there. If you live in a state that is still fighting the inevitable let your voice be known loudly to your state county and city governing bodies that you KNOW this is not a criminal question, its time for a change! . . . Your Editor Dennis Crenshaw
America Finally Liberated: Marijuana Legalization Inevitable
The DEA is approving a synthetic marijuana that could potentially be deadly. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, the hosts of The Young Turks, tell you how the DEA is in the pocket of big pharma. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. CLICK HERE to become a Wolf PAC member.
The International Church of Cannabis is about to open. Ana Kasparian, Brian Unger, and Amberia Allen, the hosts of The Young Turks, tell you how you can be a parishioner. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. https://www.tytnetwork.com/go
It’s no surprise that the pharmaceutical industry is heavily regulated – after all, lives are on the line. But who writes these regulations, and how much, if any, influence does the industry have on the legislators passing the laws? According to industry critics, the worlds of private money and public policy are closer than you might assume. Watch this Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know video to learn more about the intersection between politics, money and pharmaceutical powers.
Sandy Hook’s real bond to Columbine, Big Pharma’s horrific studies laid bare for the first time and a peek into the village of eternity. Seek truth from facts with psych med victims, the man who unearthed the industry’s deadly find, Irving Kirsch, US government whistleblower Allen Jones, the world’s top happiness Professor Andrew Oswald, and Tracey Lawson, author of A Year in the Village of Eternity.
. . . ““The president is going to act,” Biden progressed. “There are executive orders, executive actions that can be performed,” the vice president said. His statement clears the notion about whether the president will continue acting as a dictator, making up laws and regulations that he has no power to enact.” . . .
. . . “The regulations in force in New York against assault weapons were enacted after another mass shooting, the one in Columbine in 1999, where two students took the lives of 12 students and a teacher. More violent shootings have happened after Columbine; a fact which demonstrates two things: bans on firearms do not end shootings anywhere, and government cannot protect a disarmed population.” . . . Read Complete Report
One of the great myths of modern society is that the police are heavily armed and have both ammo and personnel in huge numbers. In reality, it’s quite the opposite: police and sheriffs are dangerously under-staffed all across the country in nearly every city and town.
Furthermore, severe budget cuts have left law enforcement with dwindling ammunition supplies. In some departments, it’s so bad that nearly the only ammo available is what officers are carrying on their duty belts.
Vice President Joe Biden announced Thursday that he will recommend new gun control measures to President Barack Obama, which include more comprehensive background checks on gun buyers and limits on the sizes of ammunition magazines. The proposal could lead to the most significant move on guns in 20 years, but one regulation highly coveted by gun control advocates was notably missing: a ban on assault weapons.
In 1994, President Bill Clinton managed to push through a sweeping ban on certain kinds of semi-automatic weapons, dealing a crushing blow to the National Rifle Association and other gun lobbyists and sparking a political backlash that helped Republicans reclaim the House and Senate for the first time in 50 years. . . . Read Complete Report
That’s what’s on the minds of gun owners and lobbyists and activists on both sides of the gun control debate – will President Barack Obama call for an assault weapons ban in the wake of a spate of deadly mass shootings or not?
Politically, such a ban doesn’t stand much chance of passing Congress, with a Republican House. It’s not even clear a ban would pass the Senate, despite its Democratic majority.
“As I’ve dug into it, I’m not sure that’s the answer because the definition of an assault weapon has not much to do with what it actually does but more with what it looks like,” says Maine Sen. Angus King, an independent who caucuses with Democrats. . . . Read Complete Report
Confirmed: Opioid Use Plummets in States with Legal Cannabis, and How Govt Ignores this Truth
Why Big Pharma is Blocking Marijuana Legalization in Arizona
Medical marijuana research comes out of the shadows
Dig a Little Deeper: Border Wars, Drug Wars & Pot Prohibition
