Inconvenient truths for prohibitionists. Number 10. Marijuana use has no effect on mortality: A massive study of California HMO members funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) found marijuana use caused no significant increase in mortality. Tobacco use was associated with increased risk of death. ... MORE
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Ten Pot Studies Government Wished It Hadn't Funded
Inconvenient truths for prohibitionists. Number 10. Marijuana use has no effect on mortality: A massive study of California HMO members funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) found marijuana use caused no significant increase in mortality. Tobacco use was associated with increased risk of death. ... MORELisa Crivelli: The New Faces Of Marijuana
Nothing short of a miracle treatment for epilepsy. Two years ago, Charlotte Figi was losing a lifelong battle to epilepsy. Her parents were using a hospice program at home because she wasn’t eating, had chronic pneumonia, and couldn’t swallow water. At the age of five, Charlotte was suffering up to 50 seizures a day. Two years ago, ... MOREJohn Stossel: Bullies Rule
We're told government protects us, but protectors quickly become bullies. Take the Food and Drug Administration. It seems like the most helpful part of government: It supervises testing to make sure greedy drug companies don't sell us dangerous stuff. The FDA's first big success was stopping thalidomide, a drug that prevented the ... MOREFamilies Move To Secure Medical Marijuana For Kids
by Lisa Bernard-Kuhn. Moving to Colorado. The Bentons will move as soon as Addyson comes off the waiting list, which they hope will be October – leaving behind the home in Liberty Township, Ohio, that they built less than a year ago and the friends and family who have supported them. "It's so sad to know that Addyson won't be able to see ... MOREMarijuana Research Hampered By Government And Politics
by Ariana Eunjung Cha. Millions of ordinary Americans are now able to walk into a marijuana dispensary and purchase bags of pot on the spot for a variety of medical ailments. But if you’re a researcher like Sue Sisley, a psychiatrist who studies post-traumatic stress disorder, getting access to the drug isn’t nearly so easy. That’s because the ... MOREAlex Greig: Six Year Old Dies From Medical Pot Prohibition
Another victim of the drug war. A little girl has died just days after a Utah bill, HB104, was named Charlee's Law in her honor. Six-year-old Charlee Nelson died on Saturday after battling a debilitating neurological disorder called Batten disease. On Thursday, the Utah Legislature passed a law named for Charlee that allows children ... MORE
How Kids Are Bringing Medical Marijuana to the States
by Emma Roller. In conservative states like Alabama, Georgia, and Utah—where medical-marijuana bills would have sputtered and died on the floor ten years ago—legislatures are now passing pot measures with nearly unanimous support. What gives? "When you couldn't get bills introduced for a decade, and now they're passing like they're on ... MORE
Nick Gillespie: Kill The FDA (Before It Kills Again!)
Death by government. If you haven't seen The Dallas Buyers Club, which took home three Oscars last Sunday, you should. It's the most flat-out libertarian movie since Ghostbusters and one of the best message movies I can think of (of course, like all quality message movies, it's first and foremost a powerful piece of art). Specifically, it shines a ... MORE50 Reasons This Is The Greatest Period In History
by Morgan House. Other than losing our liberties, life is good. I recently talked to a doctor who retired after a 30-year career. I asked him how much medicine had changed during the three decades he practiced. "Oh, tremendously," he said. He listed off a dozen examples. Deaths from heart disease and stroke are way down. Cancer survival rates ... MOREVIDEO: When Caution Kills, The Most Dangerous Monopoly
Why a laissez-faire economy best serves the public.
How Legal Pot Could Be The Next Great American Industry
The new gold rush. As legalized marijuana sales take off in Colorado, here's what a pot business model and mature marketplace might look like. Twenty states and the District of Columbia allow medical marijuana—and
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a medical marijuana plan in his
State of the State speech last week. ... MORECaution: New ObamaCare Fees To Be Deployed In 2014
by S.A. Miller and Geoff Earle. Here comes the ObamaCare tax bill. The cost of President Obama’s massive health-care law will hit Americans in 2014 as new taxes pile up on their insurance premiums and on their income-tax bills. Most insurers aren’t advertising the ObamaCare taxes that are added on to premiums, opting instead to ... MORENo, You Can't Keep Your Drugs Either Under ObamaCare
by Scott Gottlieb. The President famously promised that you could keep your health plan and doctor. For many people, both of those pledges are turning out to be false. And now, you might not be able to keep your medicine, either. There are two reasons why. The first has to do with the higher out of pocket costs patients will face. The second issue ... MOREA New Flu Season Of Pain, Profit And Politics
by Gary Null & Richard Gale. According to all official health reports, we are now fully in flu season. It is that time of year when public health officials, physicians pediatricians and pharmacists warn that everyone over 6 months of age should protect themselves and get vaccinated. Most Americans, believing the government’s ... MOREFDA Seeks To Make Prescription Painkillers Harder To Get
Government steps up war on drugs. A big change to legal drug policy is in the works. After years of
pressure from public-health and addiction advocates, as well as the U.S.
Drug Enforcement Administration, the Food and Drug Administration has
recommended that access to drugs containing the highly-addictive opiod
narcotic hydrocodone ... MORE
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