Cartoon – Drug Warnings
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Cartoon – Pill Pushing Doctors
Dehumanizing Hispanics as illegals
The Republicans have a euphemism for undocumented workers— illegals — said Peter Beinart. With a tone of disgust, that single, dehumanizing noun has become the GOP presidential candidates’ preferred way to describe the millions of human beings picking our produce, cooking our food, cutting our lawns, and watching over our kids. It’s “the latest in a long line of euphemisms […]
Read moreCannabis and Pregnancy – Effects on Children
Cannabis and Pregnancy – What are the potential health effects? The combination of cannabis and pregnancy can be harmful to your baby’s health. The chemicals in marijuana (in particular, tetrahydrocannabinol or THC) pass through your system to your baby and may harm your baby’s development. Although more research is needed to better understand how marijuana may affect you and your […]
Read moreDr. Fred Oerther Quote – Should We Believe…
“Should we believe self-serving, ever-growing drug-enforcement and drug-treatment bureaucrats, whose pay and advancement depend on finding more and more people to arrest and “treat”? More Americans die in just one day in prisons, penitentiaries, jails, and stockades than have ever died from marijuana throughout history. Who are they protecting? From what?” – Dr. Fred Oerther
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Marijuana Cracks Colombia Bazuco Addiction
The country of Columbia is now trying to combat the use of Bazuco a crack like drug by cultivating marijuana. People that have become addicted to the drug are now being given medicinal marijuana to help them to relieve the anxiety and jitters from the withdrawals. Columbia is now trying to get rid of their negative reputation as drug lords. […]
Read morePolice sick from marijuana fumes
■ A police station in northern France is storing so much seized marijuana that officers are getting high off the fumes. “The odor is really strong” said one officer. “After a day, you are stoned.” About 88 pounds of weed has piled up at the Roubaix station because of a strike at the agency that is supposed to dispose of […]
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Too Many Pain Pills
Over the past decade, more Americans died from overdoses of prescription painkillers than from heroin and cocaine use combined, according to government health officials. Most of the deaths were due to misuse of the medications— not to treat pain but to achieve a narcotic high. Recreational abuse has fueled a 300% surge in sales since 1999 of drugs like oxycodone, […]
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