July 1st, 2011
Danish Company Reins in Death Penalty Drug
Prisons using lethal injection as a means of execution may find their supplies running dry.
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 16th, 2011
Washington Medical Marijuana Users Under Fire
Medical marijuana users in Washington state are under fire…(somewhat) literally. Though Washington state law protects authorized medical marijuana users from prosecution, the court ruled today that a company is still legally allowed to fire an employee for medical marijuana use. This ...
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 ...
June 1st, 2011
New Drug Developed to Erase Bad Memories
We all have memories that we all would like to forget. Mistakes made in the past, poor choices, we all realize our problems and do our best to forget them, but sometimes the strength of our memory does not permit us to. This may all be coming to a change. Around a week ago, researchers […]
May 23rd, 2011
House-sitter Feeds Child Marijuana-laced Margarine
To be fair, the label on the tub was correct when it said “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter.” However, it was correct for all the wrong reasons, as it contained not butter, but marijuana-laced margarine. That was what was found in the refrigerator of Stevie C. Hickey, a ...
May 9th, 2011
Growing weed? Caught by Police? Pay a fee, get off scott free! (relatively)
Mendocino County, CA, is undergoing a unique shift in its marijuana policy which is causing some controversy, according to Press Democrat. The idea, implemented by Mendocino County District Attorney David Eyster, allows those who’ve been charged with felony marijuana cultivation to knock ...
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 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
Delaware approves medical marijuana
Perhaps its a sign of the times when a state decides to legalize medical marijuana and it doesn’t feel like a big deal. Delaware has joined the plethora of other states who have similarly legalized pot for medical purposes, including Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, ...
March 30th, 2011
Three Inmates, Two Civilians Caught Smuggling Drugs in Coloring Books
Authorities have charged two civilians and three inmates of the Cape May County Correctional Center for a familiar situation: attempting to smuggle drugs into the facility. What makes this particular incident unique, however, is the
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 ...
March 25th, 2011
More Ecstasy-Users Checked Into Hospitals
According to a recent study published by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, more people have been checked into Hospital Emergency Rooms in recent years due to complications from MDMA, otherwise known as Ecstasy. The rate of such incidents have been climbing at a ...
March 24th, 2011
United States and Russia promises better communication in Future Afghan Drug Raids
The United States has claimed today that it would attempt better communication with its partners during heroin raids in Afghanistan. For two years the U.S. has joined a co-operative effort with Russia to clamp down on heroin production in the country, which produces roughly 90 percent of the ...
