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Drug War Sea Change in the US Congress?
15 hours ago ago from One Penny Sheet
OPS_admin | Dec 17, 2009 | Comments 0 Domestic Initiatives Are Cause for Hope; Foreign Drug War Funding Remains Unchanged For Now The United States Congress set its sights on the drug war this week. Legislators have or will consider several important bills that address the drug war at home and abroad. According to decriminalization advocates, the news is mostly good. On Tuesday, the US House of Representatives unanimously voted ...
Related contentTeens: Smoking is risky, but drugs and alcohol? Not so much
18 hours ago ago from Picture of Health
We're never surprised by the attitudes of teens, but new research has us at Picture of Health scratching our heads. Adolescents perceive cigarette smoking to be riskier than using drugs and alcohol, according to a new government report . On one hand, it's good news for the work that public health officials have put into anti-smoking campaigns. Nearly 70 percent of kids 12 to 17 years old said there was a great risk from smoking one ...
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14 hours ago ago from Love My Country, Loathe My Government
Today we will take a break from health care reform and wasteful spending projects from the DC political class and talk about something different, namely illicit drug money. The basis of this discussion is an online Associated Press article that appeared today, "U.S. Drug War Crackdown Misses The Money." The essence of the article is that the Mexican drug cartels have virtually no problem taking their profits from selling illegal drugs on the ...
Related contentWar at Home
13 hours ago ago from Not Before Coffee
Hello Washington D.C. are you blind to what is going on across our border in Mexico, as well as in our own country? People are dying by the thousands. On ABC News it was reported that Mexican security forces have shot and killed a leading drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva in their largest strike yet, the fear is that his death could trigger more bloodshed. Beltran Leyva had a price on his head of $ 2.4 million in Mexico for organized ...
Related contentDeal with Big Pharma haunts Democrats
21 hours ago ago from Colorado Independent
Democratic leaders face a major decision now on health care reform yet another one this year that will throw into relief the interests that compete in American representative democracy. They have to choose between either closing the doughnut hole and offering full coverage for millions of low-income seniors on Medicare who need to buy prescription drugs or sticking to a deal they made with the nation's major drug companies . According to the ...
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BBC News - The legacy of South Africa's 'Dr Beetroot'
19 hours ago ago from BBC
By Karen Allen BBC News, Johannesburg Manto Tshabalala-Msimang promoted healthy eating to fight HIV The death of former Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang marks the end of an era - a period which many South Africans feel deeply embarrassed about. Without doubt, Dr Tshabalala-Msimang was a brave liberation fighter, a deeply loyal comrade in the ruling ANC, and a woman with a formidable ...
Related contentStalking Tzipi Livni: British Law Emboldens Court in 'War Crimes' Crusade
2 hours ago ago from Politics Daily
Just when you thought there might be some glimmer of hope for the Middle East peace process, things got a little more complicated. Earlier this week, the public learned that a U.K. court had issued an arrest warrant for former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni for alleged war crimes in Gaza earlier this year. A diplomatic conflict between the two nations has been escalating ever since.
Related contentBehind the Murder of a Drug Czar
1 day ago ago from TIME.com - World
SEARCH TIME.COM Full Archive Covers Videos Behind the Murder of a Drug Czar By Ioan Grillo / Tegucigalpa Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009 A picture stands on top of General Julian Aristides Gonzalez's casket during his funeral in Tegucigalpa on December 9, 2009, after Hitmen traveling on a motorbike shot Gonzalez dead. Orlando Sierra / AFP / Getty Share ...
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