Marijuana may not impact driving, according to a new study. From ENEWSPF: Subjects exhibit virtually identical psychomotor skills on a battery of driving simulator tests prior to and shortly after smoking marijuana, according to clinical trial data published in the March issue of the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs. Investigators from Hartford Hospital in Connecticut and [...]
From our friends at Media Matters for America.
From WTAE Pittsburgh: Michael Jackson’s doctor has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the pop singer’s death. Prosecutors announced the charge Monday against Dr. Conrad Murray, a Houston cardiologist who was with Jackson when he died June 25. He faces up to four years in prison if convicted.Murray’s attorney Ed Chernoff says. Murray will plead [...]
From ENEWSPF: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is enforcing the flavored cigarette ban provision of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control Act) by issuing several warning letters to companies continuing to sell illegal flavored cigarettes to consumers in the United States through their Web sites. The warning letters directed the [...]
From the Chicago Sun-Times: An alleged gang-member was fatally shot near his home Thursday night in the West Side’s Austin neighborhood. Brandon Chambers, 21, of the 100 block of North Lavergne Avenue, was pronounced dead at 9:41 p.m. Thursday at Mount Sinai Hospital, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office. Police News Affairs Officer [...]
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy If you missed Countdown tonight, at least watch the last 11 minutes of tonight’s show, which was dedicated in its entirety to a call for health care reform. I was expecting a rant. Instead, Keith personalized the issue by talking about his father. [...]
I absolutely feel nothing but profound regret learning of the death of Chris Kelly, one of the ex-governor’s closest friends and advisers. I fear that this terrible tragedy is only harbinger of things to come in the weird mess that is Rod Blagojevich’s soap opera. I can’t even comment on Blago’s response in the aftermath [...]
For four decades, the United States has been waging a war on drugs. Drugs won. Drug dealers won. The criminal justice system won. Millions upon millions of dollars have been directed toward the construction of prisons in the United States. Hundreds of thousands of young people and adults have found themselves behind bars for non-violent [...]
Mike Huckabee is only the latest inglorious ultra-conservative to exploit the death of Senator Ted Kennedy, claiming that Kennedy would have been urged to die earlier under ObamaCare. Win at all costs. Is that it, Mike? Just another hater waiting to dance on the Senators grave? From Sam Stein at the Huffington Post: Conservative media figures [...]
From ENEWSPF: Mexican President Felipe Calderon signed legislation last week decriminalizing the personal possession of small quantities of cannabis and other controlled substances. The legislation, passed by Congress in May, eliminates criminal penalties for the personal possession of up to five grams of marijuana. The possession of small amounts of other illicit substances, including heroin [...]
