“Shouldn’t a community hospital’s $171 million profit be used to help the people of Lane County?” So not-for-profit Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend is the ninth-most profitable hospital in the United States (“Sacred Heart at RiverBend is No. 9 on profitability list,” May 3). Isn’t that an oxymoron? I’m a retired oral and maxillofacial…
“No, the U.N. leadership is not that open to reform (in 2016)… the U.N. was confiscating copies of the letter calling for the end of the drug war that were being handed out in front of the U.N.” UN Security was apparently ordered to confiscate the letter, and attendees were ordered to hand over their…
“We are calling on [The President] to end the war on drugs by taking the first step: deschedule cannabis.” Support veterans risking arrest! They will lead a mass die-in calling for an end to the war on drugs. US Official Harry Anslinger lead the charge to ban cannabis in 1937. His racist, xenophobic justifications for…
“It could come very quickly; the President, Attorney General or DEA Director could do it in a matter of minutes, literally. They have the authority delegated to them by Congress.” And what would that mean for the industry as a whole? If the legislature does it, that could take another decade or so. But the…
“Terence Mckenna might be proud — if only he’d lived to see the day.” Demonstrators flooded the Dag Hammarskjold Plaza daily, located near a U.N. headquarters, calling for reform. These advocates have a point; given the daunting dilemmas coming to define our century. Humanity will need to consider radical new lines of thought in the…
“We didn’t get into this business for Kratom. Kratom found us,” said owner Ethan Franc. Franc said customers swear the powdered leaves, used for hundreds of years in Asia, are the answer to their physical and emotional ailments. “Pain relief or getting off opioid addiction,” said Franc. “We’ve had customers use it to get off…
“The process itself of creating regulations and dispensing licenses is probably going to take; we’re estimating a best case 12 to 13 months and probably 18 months before licenses are issued.” Under the law, anyone seeking a prescription for medical marijuana must be suffering from a “serious medical condition” defined as cancer, HIV or AIDS,…
A mature marijuana industry could generate up to $28 billion in tax revenues for federal, state, and local governments, including $7 billion in federal revenue: $5.5 billion from business taxes and $1.5 billion from income and payroll taxes…estimated marijuana prohibition costs $3.6 billion. The debate over marijuana legalization is just one of the many ways…
“Central to Russia’s interventions was an insistence that the words “harm reduction” not be included in the document.” “Russian approaches to drug dependence are in contradiction to virtually all international scientific standards,” said Daniel Wolfe, director of the International Harm Reduction Development Program at the Open Society Foundations. “Russian narcologists — their version of drug…
“No, the U.N. leadership is not that open to reform… the U.N. was confiscating copies of the letter calling for the end of the drug war that were being handed out in front of the U.N.” UN Security was apparently ordered to confiscate the letter, and attendees were ordered to hand over their copies upon…
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