Painkiller deaths drop by 25% in states where medical marijuana is legal

Newsweek.  This should be the top headline in every major media outlet that’s been covering the painkiller/heroin/fentanyl epidemic.  The only solution to the opioid problem is the simplest solution imaginable: legalize marijuana.  Give people a safe, natural alternative for pain relief and they’ll stop buying black market heroin.  To repeat: legalize the drugs the US has been at war with for the past 70 years.  Drug Prohibition, by limiting the choices of people who want to get high for one reason or another, has created the opioid epidemic, in the same way it created the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980’s.  Conscripting doctors in the War on Drugs won’t work; blowing another hundred billion in tax dollars won’t work; further militarizing the cops won’t work.  Only liberty will correct the State’s screw-ups.

Another video of a cop killing a friendly dog

Cop Block.  Almost too hard to watch these videos, but we must.  This is a reality that must not be ignored.  Think of the mental state of someone that has no qualms about killing a loving pet.  In this particular video, the dog is clearly happy, and probably used to unfamiliar people at least being somewhat friendly in return.  This badged piece of garbage, however, is unique in society, in that he is willing to shoot the dog in the face.  So cops are trained to do this, I get it.  But why, in every video that depicts it, does each cop appear so eager to fire off a shot?  What type of people are applying for a position on the local PD?