Biography/Memoir

Colorado-based marijuana company not buying One East Broadway in downtown Eugene, after all; it has already bought another downtown building for a pot shop

“We’ve never had any interest in One East Broadway,” Chris Woods, chief executive for Terrapin Care Station in Boulder, Colo., said. A Colorado-based marijuana company will indeed open a pot retail store in downtown Eugene, but it won’t be at the location the company initially announced. Terrapin Care Station on Thursday said that on Tuesday…

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Feds arrest[ed] 6 former Insys execs for allegedly bribing doctors

The Department of Justice (DOJ) alleges that the executives took part in a “nationwide conspiracy” to give healthcare providers kickbacks in exchange for the improper prescribing of Subsys—an opioid medication containing the highly addictive substance fentanyl, which is considered even more dangerous than painkillers like Vicodin. “As alleged, top executives of Insys Therapeutics, Inc. paid…

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Indicted Insys executives face October 2018 trial

Accused of bribing doctors to prescribe a spray version of the opioid fentanyl intended to treat cancer pain, often to patients without cancer… Subsys is meant to provide pain relief to cancer patients who are going through particularly excruciating pain episodes. It’s reserved for these neediest of patients due to its potency and addictive qualities.…

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Jeff Sessions wages war on natural weed, as he grants maker of fentanyl a monopoly on synthetic THC

Instead of allowing people to use a natural form of a plant that can cure them, Jeff Sessions will use taxpayer dollars to continue cannabis prohibition while his DEA grants a monopoly on the exact same substance—only synthetic—to Insys [who has attempted to stop the natural marijuana market and were arrested for allegedly bribing doctors]. Along with the executives,…

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