Tag: heroin

(36 posts)
February 20, 2013
02/20/2013
MT Legislator: Marijuana, “The Most Dangerous Drug There Is”

MT Legislator: Marijuana, “The Most Dangerous Drug There Is”

Cigarette smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. Alcohol causes violent behavior and deaths by liver cirrhosis and alcohol poisoning. People die...
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November 30, 2012
11/30/2012
Marijuana Legalization Favored in US, Canada

Marijuana Legalization Favored in US, Canada

03:14pm A new Angus-Reid Public Opinion poll has majorities favoring marijuana legalization in both Canada and the US. According to the poll, 57% of Canadians and 54% of...
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November 26, 2012
11/26/2012
Uruguayan Deputies Say Legalize All Drugs

Uruguayan Deputies Say Legalize All Drugs

02:57pm Even as Uruguay considers a groundbreaking proposal from President Jose Mujica to legalize state-regulated marijuana cultivation and sales, parliamentarians from most of the leading political...
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November 5, 2012
11/05/2012
Utah Undercover Cops Kill Woman Heroin User

Utah Undercover Cops Kill Woman Heroin User

03:41pm Undercover police officers in West Valley, Utah, shot and killed a relapsed heroin user in the parking lot of an apartment building Friday afternoon. Police...
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October 3, 2012
10/03/2012
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.10.02)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.10.02)

07:37pm It’s been a fairly quiet week on the corrupt cop front, but we’ve still got some Missouri jail guards in trouble, a Houston cop accused...
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September 26, 2012
09/26/2012
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.09.25)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.09.25)

04:55pm It’s been a fairly quiet week on the corrupt cop front, but we’ve still got some Missouri jail guards in trouble, a Houston cop accused...
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September 24, 2012
09/24/2012
Colombia Okays Prescriptions for Addicts in Bogota

Colombia Okays Prescriptions for Addicts in Bogota

02:09am President Juan Manuel Santos has given the go-ahead to Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro’s plan to prescribe otherwise illicit drugs to addicts in the Colombian capital,...
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September 19, 2012
09/19/2012
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.09.18)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.09.18)

04:28pm A Virginia prison guard smuggles heroin, a Pennsylvania cop steals and uses it, and a New Jersey cop pays off a prostitute with it, and...
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September 5, 2012
09/05/2012
Danes Want Heroin Pills for Addicts

Danes Want Heroin Pills for Addicts

03:27pm In remarks reported by the Copenhagen Post Sunday, Danish Health Minister Astrid Krag announced that she is proposing that heroin in pill form be made available to...
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August 23, 2012
08/23/2012
Did You Know Bayer Made Heroin?

Did You Know Bayer Made Heroin?

That’s right, Bayer made Heroin. Well chemically, Heroin is diacetylmorphine and diacetylmorphine was first synthesized in 1874 by C. R. Alder Wright, but the name ‘Heroin’, that’s...
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August 8, 2012
08/08/2012
Infographic: Arguing Against Schedule I Marijuana

Infographic: Arguing Against Schedule I Marijuana

Here’s a great infographic from RehabToday, commenting on the Schedule I marijuana by going straight to the Schedule I definition and then demonstrates how cannabis does not...
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August 8, 2012
08/08/2012
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.08.07)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.08.07)

07:02pm It never stops, does it? Here’s another seven bad apples. Let’s get to it: In Los Angeles, an LA County sheriff’s deputy was charged last Tuesday with...
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July 8, 2012
07/08/2012
Drug War Snapshot: Nueces County, Texas

Drug War Snapshot: Nueces County, Texas

06:00pm, (Issue #742) Nueces County, Texas (pop. 340,000), sits on the Gulf Coast halfway between Houston and the Mexican border, astride drug trafficking corridors headed from...
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July 2, 2012
07/02/2012
What Would Marijuana As a Schedule II Drug Mean?

What Would Marijuana As a Schedule II Drug Mean?

    Senator Perry B. Clark ( D-Louisville) is scheduled to hold a press conference at 2pm EDT on Thursday, July 5 to introduce  the Gatewood Galbraith Memorial Medical...
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June 21, 2012
06/21/2012
DEA Agent Prefers to Sound More Like Mr Mackey

DEA Agent Prefers to Sound More Like Mr Mackey

During a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing yesterday, DEA agent Michele Leonhart preferred to squirm and sound much more like South Park’s Mr. Mackey instead of honestly answering...
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June 19, 2012
06/19/2012
Please Help Me With My Gateway Drug Math 101 Homework

Please Help Me With My Gateway Drug Math 101 Homework

Even if racial profiling, pharma loving, reefer madness politicians want to ignore the countless scientific studies rolling out debunking the marijuana gateway theory, we can all perform...
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