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Holder's Baby Step On Medical Marijuana

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Obama's plan is good news for medical marijuana advocates, but although this is a historic shift in the War on Drugs, it does not go far enough because it does not resolve the illogic of the underlying legal issue.

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Pfizer-Wyeth Merger Tentatively Approved By FTC

AFP | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Europe, Divestiture, Federal Trade Commission, Anticompetitive, Drug, Eu, Wyeth, Divest, ftc.gov, Pharmaceutical, Merger, Ftc, Pfizer, Conditions, Business News

NEW YORK (AFP) -- US regulators gave tentative approval Wednesday to a deal allowing Pfizer to buy pharmaceutical Wyeth, boosting the size of the worl...

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More Than Half Million Kids React Badly To Drugs

AP | LINDSEY TANNER | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Hospitalization, Kids, Children, Prevention, Health, Side Effects, Prescription Drugs, Antibiotics, Medical Treatment, Drugs, Medicine, Penicillin, Children's Health, Drug, Wellness, Living News

CHICAGO — More than half a million U.S. children yearly have bad reactions or side effects from widely used medicines that require medical treat...

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An American Retiree, Jailed In Morocco For 13 Months, Shares His Story

GlobalPost | Posted 09.06.2009 | World

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RABAT, Morocco -- When Moroccan guards came to release Illinois retiree James Douglas Willson from prison, he believed that they'd come to shoot him. ...

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The Benefits To Legalizing Pot You Haven't Heard About (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Ami Cholia | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green

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The war on drugs may be a noble intention, but the illegal growing of marijuana is destroying our environment and we need to step in. Primarily run...

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Face The Inquisition

Dean Becker | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

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Dean Becker

Today's "compassionate" drug warriors have fractured the futures and pulverized the possibilities of more than 37,000,000 US citizens.

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Who Are the Drug Lords?

Dean Becker | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

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Dean Becker

The real kingpins are bankers, pharmaceutical house CEOs, weapons manufacturers and a thousand other corporate interests whose gross profits depend on violence, hatred, distrust and deception.

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Are We Totally Blowing Our New Media Freedom? My 10 Health Care Reform Videos

Lee Stranahan | Posted 07.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Public Service Announcements, Lobby, Video, Bob Cesca, Morning Joe, Twitter, Grassroots, Lobbyists, Health, Max Baucus, Youtube, Lawrence Lessig, Healthcare, Drug, Media News
Lee Stranahan

I made 10 short videos about health care reform. I wasn't hired to do it, I wasn't asked to do it. I just did it because the issue is important to me personally, to my family and to my country. And I did it because I could.

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Barney Frank Introduces Marijuana Legislation

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

How many Democrats do we need to elect to Congress before such commonsense laws are passed to rein in some of the excesses of past eras?

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American Violet: A Powerful Movie about Race and the Drug War

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Review, Frontline, Movie, Drugs, War on Drugs, Michael O'Keefe, Racial, Prejudice, Injustice, Drug, Boyd, Systemic Racism, Tim Blake Nelson, Institutionalized Racism, American Civil Liberties Union, Erin Brockovich, District Attorney, Racism, Drug War, Confidential Informant, Justice System, Nicole Beharie, Regina Kelly, Graham Boyd, Texas, Film, American Violet, John Paschall, Chris Weigant, Sydney Poitier, Aclu, Mississippi Burning, Plea Bargain, Xzibit, Beharie, Kelly, Hearne, Paschall, Da, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Without spoiling the ending, American Violet is an excellent movie, and tells the story in a moving and heart-wrenching fashion.

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Question For Obama: How About A Science-Based Drug Policy?

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics

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Medicare Should Just Say No to Unproven Drugs

Jim Jaffe | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health, Medicare Prescription, Prescription Drugs, Drug, Cutting Federal Budget, Universal Health Care, Medicare, Health Insurance, Politics News
Jim Jaffe

For a new administration committed to fixing the US health system by only paying for medicine we know works, Medicare's decision to pay for off-label drugs presents a challenging question.

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FDA: Another Government Regulatory Disaster -- II of III

Deirdre Imus | Posted 11.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Toxins, Antidepressants, Fda, Vioxx, Drug Companies, Green News, Bpa, Health, Pharmacueticals, Environmental Health, Children's Health, Drug, Children's Environmental Health, Politics News
Deirdre Imus

Besides a complete overhaul, a few prosecutions might be just the medicine the FDA needs.

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Obama's Drug Past Isn't Hurting Him -- But Thousands Aren't So Lucky

Vince Beiser | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics

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Vince Beiser

Many currently incarcerated for drug use are no different than the young Barack Obama, or millions of other Americans like him -- curious kids experimenting with intoxicants for kicks.

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Supreme Court Asked To Hear Zoloft-Murder Case

AP | MEG KINNARD | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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Attorneys have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case of a teen sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing his grandparents when he was 12, ar...

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