“I’m going to check here,” [the officer] says as the camera is activated. “Hold on.” He then walks to the scene and acts like he’s looking around. Finally, he comes to the spot where he put the pills, picks them up, and says, “Yo!” The other officers appear to play along with his fake discovery,…
[The lawmaker and those police who] support [the bill] should come as no surprise, given that the law will allow police to keep any vehicle they seize … and it could send people to prison for drug crimes even if no one finds so much as a single joint or fentanyl tablet in their possession…
…he would force drug dealers inside the National Bilibid Prison to eat the plastic parts of their cellphones. I don’t know if it’s edible, maybe the plastic. If I still see plastic there, that’s what you’ll eat for the day. You won’t eat any rice,” Mr. Duterte said. At one point, President Duterte reminded policemen…
She maintains that Jawara sees it as his duty to share his father’s message of equal rights and justice for all. It’s also quite clear that Niambe is carrying on Peter Tosh’s legacy. Legendary singer Peter Tosh was murdered 30 years ago, and now his son is in critical condition after allegedly being attacked while…
Lisa Monteggia, professor of neuroscience at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, has studied how ketamine works to fight depression. Based on her own research, she thinks the trippy effects can be dissociated from the therapeutic ones. The right dose of the right compound, correctly timed, could “enable the design of treatment…
“While psychedelic drugs rose to prominence in the 1960s, the attendees at an Ashland conference say the nation and world would be a better place if the non-addictive drugs regained their footing in society.” The “peace and love” message of the ’60s — inspired in part by psychedelic drugs — hasn’t changed over the last…
Medical marijuana is incredibly popular with voters overall. A Quinnipiac poll conducted in April found it was supported by 94 percent of the public. Nearly three-quarters of voters said they disapprove of the government enforcing federal marijuana laws in states that have legalized it either medically or recreationally. Original Article (Washington Post):Jeff Sessions personally asked…
“Only long after his [President Nixon’s] presidency did he acknowledge that the War on Drugs had probably been a mistake,” Stone said. “But he only acknowledged that when I showed him the statistics.” Stone, who remained close to Nixon after the disgraced president resigned from office midway into his second term, said his former mentor…
*students listening to a Drug Symposium … sponsored by the Philippine National Police and the Guidance Office. Mr. Duterte has described how, when prescribed fentanyl, he had used a whole patch at a time instead of cutting it into four pieces as recommended. “There was a time that I used the whole thing because, more…
“This is political persecution. Every day that I am here is an injustice,” she said, dressed for the simmering 93-degree heat in what is now a kind of uniform: beige sandals, black shorts that stop modestly above the knee and a black-and-white T-shirt. When a Philippine senator called for an investigation into President Rodrigo Duterte’s…
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