[The Department of Justice is fighting to strip the billionaire Sackler family of the sweeping legal immunity… according to Forbes, the Sackler family made $12 billion to $13 billion in profit from OxyContin manufacturer Purdue Pharma – much more than what was previously known, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing court records.] [Attorney General…
…urging the Department of Justice to open an investigation into whether members of the Sackler family personally engaged in criminal conduct in connection with Purdue Pharma’s role in the opioid epidemic. The Sacklers owned Purdue, which manufactured the powerful opioid OxyContin. The drug is widely seen as one of the spurs of an opioid epidemic…
U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (OR), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Edward J. Markey (MA), Maggie Hassan (NH), Elizabeth Warren (MA), and Joe Manchin (WV) in calling on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate… …whether members of the Sackler family personally engaged in criminal conduct in connection with Purdue Pharma’s admitted criminal wrongdoing in…
Casey Hardison is… running for president, “This is not a joke… I am not trying to be absurd. I am trying to cause transformation… you’ve imprisoned my body, but you can’t imprison my mind… I mean business, I am committed to this conversation, and I will be vindicated in time,” Hardison said. Though Hardison hopes…
Findings from the journal Scientific Reports suggest that psychedelic drugs can alter a person’s core beliefs about the nature of reality, consciousness, and free will. After taking psychedelics, participants’ views tended to sway from physicalism to supernatural beliefs, and these changes lasted up to six months… the extent that participants felt ‘emotional synchrony’ with other attendees predicted…
Members of the Sackler family have denied the allegations. Purdue’s bankruptcy judge has paused litigation against members of the Sackler family since 2019… If the Sacklers’ legal protection were allowed to expire, the family and Purdue would be swept up in a “a firestorm of uncoordinated litigation” [says Purdue Attorney]… Attorney Joe Rice, who represents…
After an online screening process, clients are set up with a nurse practitioner who determines dosing and takes a medical history… clients can proceed unguided after the second session, former clients said… many similar teleservices springing up, “They would say, ‘Thank you for sharing that with me.’ And that was what they said every time…
…had been selling the files for just $50, according to a search warrant and criminal charges filed in the trafficking investigation. Some government “paperwork” on a drug trafficking investigation in West Virginia was being leaked, including confidential information previously provided by the witness… Original Article (Forbes):Secret DEA files sell for just $5 on facebook – here’s how…
An Oregon woman told authorities a man tricked her into believing she was undergoing federal agent training for about a year, according to court documents. The man… in a criminal complaint filed last week [Feb. 2022] in U.S. District Court, was charged with impersonating a federal agent after police in Portland contacted the Drug Enforcement…
The average US-listed cannabis stock is down by more than a third since the start of 2021, compared with 20 per cent for the S&P 500, while the Canadian cannabis index is down roughly 50 per cent over the same period. …marijuana legislation has failed to gain support in the Senate, including the Safe and…
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