The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it was preparing to ban flavored e-cigarettes along with all flavored non-tobacco vaping products, according to USA Today. “We are going to have to do something about it,” the president told reporters at the White House, describing vaping as a “new problem in the country, according to USA Today….
You can’t believe the shock. I was sitting in a living room drinking absinthe with friends, and I said in passing something like: “This is delicious but wouldn’t it be great if the original recipe with wormwood were legal again?” My friend, the economist George Selgin, said; “This has wormwood in it just like the…
By Mike Maharrey I’ve been fighting federal overreach for years, but now it’s getting personal! I’ve been working with the Tenth Amendment Center for almost a decade. That’s a lot of activism. It should be pretty obvious that I am passionate about the work and that I believe deeply in the principles. You don’t work…
The opioid crisis is one of the most important issues facing the United States today. In 2018, the Trump administration signed a bipartisan bill aimed at fighting the opioid crisis through coordinated action and expanded access to medical treatment. Politicians from both sides of the aisle are extremely concerned about the rising number of opioid-related…
For a brief moment, marijuana decriminalization in Texas was a bipartisan possibility. The Texas House recently approved a bill that would have prohibited the arrest of individuals for possession of an ounce or less of marijuana. But when it was passed on to the state Senate, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick immediately gathered a Republican majority…
The state of Colorado has never shied from taking unprecedented moves toward ending the drug war. In 2013, it became the first state in the country to legalize the recreational use of cannabis. Wednesday night, the Centennial State made history once more by becoming the first state to have one of its cities vote to decriminalize…
Wednesday night, the St. Paul City Council voted 6-1 in favor of “supporting legalization and decriminalization of recreational cannabis in Minnesota and expungement of Minnesotan records of convicted cannabis crimes.” The one vote in opposition to the resolution came from Council member Dan Bostrom, who would announce his retirement later on during the same meeting….
Evie Fordham Coca-Cola and Canadian cannabis company Aurora Cannabis Inc. are in “serious talks” about a potential marijuana-infused product, Canadian news website BNN Bloomberg reported Monday. The partnership would focus on a health drink designed to ease cramps and other ailments rather than give consumers a buzz, reported BNN Bloomberg, citing multiple sources familiar with the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Jonah Bennett U.S. Navy veteran Eric Walker was told to go home and take care of his cocaine addiction when he went to the emergency room at the Dorn Veterans Hospital in South Carolina over serious stomach pains. It turns out 47-year-old Walker, who served in the Navy during the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Nick Givas The marijuana movement is picking up steam, Krista Whitley, CEO of Nevada-based cannabis company “Altitude Products,” believes and predicts that 35 states will have legal marijuana by the year 2020. “I would hope by 2020 we would have at least 35 thriving regulated cannabis states,” she told The…