The woman who was the RSVP contact for Senator John McCain’s reelection fundraisers has been busted for running an operational meth lab after a package containing 250 hits of Ecstasy was delivered to her house and signed for by her boyfriend. Authorities in Maricopa County, Arizona, served a search warrant at the home following the…
Yesterday I wrote a piece about a California assemblywoman who wants to set up supervised clinics where hard drug addicts can consume those drugs safely. I was of the opinion that taxpayer money should not be used for something like this and that private means of financing the program would be worth looking at. The article generated an…
Guy Bentley If you’re heading to Europe and looking to escape nannying rules on smoking, drinking, eating and vaping, the Czech Republic is the place for you. The Czech Republic is the freest country in Europe when it comes to choices people can make about what, where and when they consume their favorite vices,…
By JP Carroll Two Mexican cartel smugglers were caught jumping the border wall on live TV by Mexican reporters doing a story on Arizona side, a video posted Wednesday shows. The smugglers were only in Nogales, Arisona, U.S.A. for 90 seconds when they realized they were being filmed by Azteca Noticias. Rather than keep going into the…
Voters in Massachusetts are set to decide on the legalization of cannabis for recreational purposes this fall, prompting the state’s governor, attorney general, and the mayor of Boston to come out against the idea in a recent op-ed for The Boston Globe. While it’s unlikely these officials actually wrote the op-ed – the real author is…
Things are becoming so nationally okay for diverse marijuana use that even West Virginia politicians are starting to warm up to it. In a recent report from the local Charleston Gazette, it was revealed that new delegate Bill Flanigan’s very first speech on the House of Delegates floor. The Gazette reported that Flanigan had a…
By JP Carroll El Chapo is so exhausted from being incarcerated in the prison he escaped from in 2015 that he is letting his lawyers plead guilty on his behalf to speed up his extradition to a US prison. Chapo’s chief lawyer, Jose Refugio Rodriguez, has said that he “will not question the veracity” of the…
New research published this week in the journal JAMA Psychiatry discounts the links – often put forward by the federal government to show the “dangers” of cannabis – between marijuana use and anxiety and depression disorders. Researchers looked into the records of those who participated in the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions…
By Ethan Barton Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents didn’t always properly track or record information about seized narcotics, which opened the evidence to tampering, theft and loss, a government watchdog reported Thursday. The DEA didn’t always report seized drugs or their weights, and would neglect to inform laboratories of incoming narcotic shipments, according to a…
Guy Bentley Utah vapers could be hit with an 86.5 percent tax on e-cigarettes if a bill proposed Friday passes the state legislature. State Rep. Paul Ray introduced the bill HB333, which would tax e-cigarettes at the same rate as other non-cigarette tobacco products, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. E-cigarettes “are not taxed now because they are…