July 22nd, 2011
New Medical Marijuana Laws in Washington State
New medical marijuana laws take effect today in Washington State, after much debate and revision by the state government. While the new laws ultimately benefit medical marijuana users, they are also a current source of confusion. Many parts of the original laws were vetoed and revised by ...
July 8th, 2011
Legal Drug Overdoses in Florida
The death rate from illegal drugs is declining in Florida, but legal drug fatalities are more than making up for these gains.
July 7th, 2011
Tiger Woods’ Doctor Admits to Prescribing Human Growth Hormone
The well-known sports medicine doctor Anthony Galea, whose clients include Tiger Woods, Alex Rodriguez, and Carlos Beltran, pleaded guilty yesterday to smuggling illegal performance enhancing drugs into the country.
June 17th, 2011
Magic Mushroom Therapy
A recent study suggests that magic mushrooms might be a bit more magical than we’d all thought.
June 6th, 2011
Florida Drug Laws: An Addendum
When applying for a job, applicants must be prepared for a possible drug screening. But what about when applying for…welfare? Florida governor Rick Scott signed a bill last week that will make drug testing mandatory for state residents applying for welfare. This legislation is the first ...
May 17th, 2011
Pittsburgh Heroin use at record breaking levels
Generally perceived as an inner city drug, heroin has made its way to the Pitsburgh suburbs, breaking out of its former demographics, as well as breaking records. In one example given in an article by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, a substitute teacher for the Creative and Performing Arts high ...
May 10th, 2011
Mexicans protest against Calderon and the drug war
According to articles by the LA Times, the Mexican people are increasingly fed up with the violence that rages within their country. On May 8, the times reported to protest of “tens of thousands of demonstrators […] call[ing] for an end to the country’s unrelenting drug ...
April 21st, 2011
Teenager forces Grandmother to smoke Marijuana
In addition to forcing her to write him a check and threatening her life, Andrew Jordan Demkowich, a Pennsylvania teenager allegedly made his elderly grandmother smoke a marijuana cigarette with him. Demkowich is facing many criminal charges as a result of this incident. He was arrested from ...
April 18th, 2011
Medical Marijuana Industry Booming
With 15 states as well as the District of Columbia deeming it legal, medical marijuana has become a rising profitable industry in the United States. Medical marijuana has been shown to assist in alleviating chronic pain and hurtful symptoms of diseases such as AIDS or cancer, and patients in ...
April 13th, 2011
Heroin Addiction Growing in St. Louis
The St. Louis Metro area has seen a rise of heroin addiction in the recent years with an estimated one person dying a day due to overdose. To make matters worse, St. Louis treatment centers are becoming so overwhelmed with addicts that the necessary resources for aid are becoming scarce. For ...
April 12th, 2011
Drug Cartels Praise Drug War Outside of UN(Protest)
April 11th, 2011
Medical Marijuana banned from Campus
Rhode Island may be one of the handful of states where medical marijuana has been approved, but administrators at Brown University has continued to prohibit the smoking of cannabis on campus, saying that it is still against both state and federal law to do so. Medical marijuana legalization ...
April 8th, 2011
Drugs, Alcohol Use Rising For Teenagers
The latest report from The Partnership at Drugfree has shown that use of alcohol, marijuana, and ecstasy has been on an upward climb for teenagers in between the 9th and 12th grade. The statistics have shown that 68% of teenagers admitted to trying alcohol, and one-fourth of those had tried it ...
April 4th, 2011
Colorado Considering Marijuana DUI law
Everyone knows what a DUI is – if you are caught driving recklessly, and your blood is above your state’s blood-alcohol limit, then you are put in jail, sentenced in court, and the three letters that represent “Driving Under the Influence” will forever be on your record. ...
March 29th, 2011
Legal drug Bath Salts calling poison control
Poison control got a little more busy this year because of a new, legal drug called Bath Salts. Not to be confused with salts put into the bath for relaxation, Bath Salts are a particularly nasty drug which is either snorted, smoked or injected. The side effects included symptoms such as chest ...
March 29th, 2011
State Legislatures Considering Prescriptions for Cold Medicine to Fight Meth Problem
With a number of states facing problems with methamphetamines, bills are being drafted and proposed in legislatures across the country to help fight the problem. One of the many proposed ideas is to require a Doctor’s prescription for popular drugs such as Sudafed. Many of these drugs ...
