Says cop in 2014 case who arrested woman for standing between him and her dog, refusing to let him kill her kids’ pet.

I don’t believe they’re afraid of these family pets.  I believe they get off on using their weapon.

“Traffic shaping” is the technique that allows the NSA to divert US internet traffic overseas, which allows unrestricted data collection on US citizens.

45%, according to Gallup poll.

Senate committee approves of medical marijuana for veterans.

U.S. Attorney’s office looks to swindle Brown out of more of his earnings.

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.

“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.”

Has potential to be one of the brightest objects in night sky, to the annoyance of pretty much everyone.

WSWS

What’s the point of a $20,000 dog if you can’t use it?