Month: July 2017
Yemen’s cholera epidemic is now worst on record
360,000 suspected cases in a three-month period. The next largest case on record occurred after the earthquake in Haiti. Yemen’s epidemic, however, is man-made.
More people are finally beginning to ask this question
“Is marijuana a secret weapon against opioid epidemic?”
Important sentences: “According to research from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Maron explains, the majority of people who use marijuana do not go on to use harder drugs. Meanwhile, nearly half of young people who inject heroin first abused prescription opioids. University of Georgia public policy professor W. David Bradford has studied how legal medical marijuana impacts prescription use by enrollees of Medicare, the federal health insurance program for seniors and the disabled. “What we found … was significant reductions in prescription use, most notably among pain medications, and the largest plurality of those would be opiates,” he says.”
Russia launches ‘artificial star’ into orbit
Sadistic cops let their K9 attack handcuffed, subdued man
Colorado brought in over half a billion dollars in marijuana tax revenue
Fixing healthcare requires more than just Obamacare repeal
Will ecstasy be legal soon?
Psychedelics as medicine sounds like a new idea, but shouldn’t, considering their effectiveness at treating depression, PTSD, and many other mental, as well as physical, ailments.