Steve Birr Hospitals are becoming flooded with cases of newborns addicted to heroin in Ohio, where the opioid epidemic is also causing a sharp spike in the number of children in foster care. Social services in the greater Cincinnati region are sounding the alarm on the damage the opioid epidemic is having on children. Officials…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Dries Van Thielen “Today we’re waist-deep in another unwinnable war, and many political leaders want to push on. This time it’s a war on drugs. About 23 million Americans use illicit drugs every month, despite annual federal outlays of $3.9 billion. Even the arrests of 824,000 Americans a…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Steve Birr The federal prohibition of marijuana is blocking medical experts from studying weed’s uses in treating Alzheimer’s Disease, a problem facing a growing body of medical research. Scientist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California are finding early success in looking at marijuana extracts as a treatment…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Paul Meekin “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” -Ronald Reagan “I’m a drug dealer?! No, you’re the f******g drug dealer,” Spits Ron Woodruff to a DEA crony at a Town Hall meeting. If it were anyone else, this would…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Steve Birr The Trump administration is threatening to interfere with state pot laws and it could cost the marijuana industry hundreds of thousands of jobs. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s comments teasing a crackdown on state pot laws Thursday are continuing to stir anxiety among those financially dependent…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Fear and Loathing the New Federal Marijuana Policy By Sean McCaffrey When President Obama’s Justice Department signed a memo in 2013 that told U.S. Attorneys to relax their prosecution of recreational and medical marijuana crimes, two things happened. Conservatives, afraid of pot-smoking hippies and drug trafficking cartels taking to the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Dries Van Thielen I did not think it was a necessity to combat the war on drugs in 2017. As recently as November 2016, the states of California and Nevada loosened the use of recreational marijuana and other countries are rethinking their stance on drug use as well….
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Steve Birr Police discovered four children living in a home used for cutting up heroin with the often fatal painkiller fentanyl during a drug bust Wednesday in Detroit, Mich. Authorities made the shocking discovery amid a broader investigation by the Michigan State Police Department of a drug ring. A…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman A dozen airport and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees were arrested in February for allegedly operating a massive cocaine smuggling ring. “During the course of the conspiracy, the defendants smuggled suitcases, each containing at least 8 to 15 kilograms of cocaine, through the TSA security system at the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Steve Birr Former football players spent Super Bowl week lobbying the NFL to allow marijuana as an alternative to addictive and destructive opioid painkillers. Players, including former Super Bowl champion Jim McMahon, gathered at the Cannabis in Professional Sports forum in Houston to raise awareness regarding prescription painkillers and to tell…