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Saturday marks marijuana culture’s high holiday, 4/20, when college students gather — at 4:20 pm�— in clouds of smoke on campus quads and pot shops in legal-weed states thank their customers ...
by Associated Press
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on Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 05:57 AM PDT
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A sermon from ‘self appointed rabbi’ Arnstein on why you can’t vote for the GOP. I think their whole concept and crusades against trans gender and the people streaming to our borders for the problems we've created and the 'American way of life' we've...
by iarnstein
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on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 02:13 PM PDT
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President Joe BIden sat down with Univision reporter Enrique Acevedo in the Oval Office for an wide-ranging interview that ran Tuesday evening. The interview comes after months of well-deserved criticism over an “exclusive” puff-piece interview Acevedo...
by Walter Einenkel
55 comments
on Wed Apr 10, 2024 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Mar 15, 2024 at 09:34 PM PDT
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I get that he’s talking about the President, but really- what an incredible lack of self-awareness. This is a short post. All I wanted to do was make sure this particular campaign slogan from Trump gets all the attention it deserves. Now Kossacks can...
by Not Taken
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on Sat Mar 09, 2024 at 09:55 AM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Feb 23, 2024 at 09:17 PM PST
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[This piece will be appearing as a newspaper op/ed this week.] **************************** A question I sometimes ponder: would humankind be better off, or worse off, if alcoholic beverages had never been available for people to use? On the one hand,...
by AndySchmookler
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on Tue Feb 20, 2024 at 08:33 AM PST
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I’ve had it! The comedians joke about it. Bernie Sanders railed against it on Seth Meyers the other night but with “Citizens United” in effect, evidently no one can do anything about it. Back in the day when many corporations couldn’t advertise on...
by hardlocked
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on Wed Feb 07, 2024 at 02:13 PM PST
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A new investigative report from the Tampa Bay Times and KFF Health News shows how Publix Super Markets Inc. became a major player in Florida’s opioid distribution game. The report documents how even as the “volume of prescription opioids dispensed in...
by Walter Einenkel
46 comments
on Tue Feb 06, 2024 at 08:55 AM PST
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Mike Males Rampaging mobs looting stores, streets littered with drug-stuffed bodies, cars smashed, failed gun laws… all blamed on “Soros”-installed district attorneys, left-wing legislators, softheaded judges, and “progressive” local policies. It’s so...
by mmales
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on Tue Jan 23, 2024 at 02:04 AM PST
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CNBC has a story here that Florida has been granted FDA approval to import pharmaceuticals from Canada. This is the first of multiple states that have submitted importation plans to the FDA to be approved. This has the potential to afford massive...
by tjlord
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on Fri Jan 05, 2024 at 11:50 AM PST
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Al-Monitor-18 Dec 2023 - Jordan’s official Petra news agency reported on the drug war plaguing both countries. In addition to the Captagon, ...12,858 palm-sized sheets of hashish … rocket launchers, rifles and mines… ... The trade of...
by mettle fatigue
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on Wed Dec 20, 2023 at 02:45 PM PST
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American adults cannot handle drug legalization OR drug criminalization By Mike Males Just in the last five years, a staggering 771,000 Americans ages 21 and older have died from drug and alcohol abuse. That’s the entire adult population of a major...
by mmales
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on Mon Dec 11, 2023 at 11:02 AM PST
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Have you heard of Nitazine? It is the new kid on the illegal drug block. And a wall is not going to stop it. Here is the story. Once upon a time … On January 17, 1920, the 18th Amendment kicked in. The US went dry. And Americans quit drinking. In 1971,...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Sun Dec 10, 2023 at 03:18 PM PST
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DoubleBlind, an online magazine promoting the responsible use of psychedelics and selling kits for growing medicinal mushrooms, published a though-provoking article a little while back titled How the War on Drugs Fuels Environmental Destruction. Even...
by cadebryant
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on Sun Dec 03, 2023 at 10:25 PM PST
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In a recent proposal concerning individuals who use drugs, San Francisco’s mayor, London Breed, suggests the implementation of substance abuse screening and treatment as a prerequisite for low-income residents to access welfare funds. Earlier this...
by frankfaiola
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on Sat Oct 21, 2023 at 03:19 PM PDT
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Remember Madison Cawthorn , the one-term GOP wonder boy who flamed out in a flurry of scandals, not the least of which was claiming he had been “ invited to what he described as cocaine-fueled ...
by xaxnar
50 comments
on Fri Oct 06, 2023 at 10:45 AM PDT
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Arabian countries have the morality police to enforce religious laws. We in the U.S. also have the morality police. We just call ours the vice squad. Here in the 21st century, it's about time we legalize, tax and regulate all vices. That includes...
by Art Smart
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on Mon Sep 25, 2023 at 10:24 AM PDT
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Very heavy heart this morning. My friend John in Ghana told me last night that Anabel’s mother passed away. Anabel is the little girl who was abandoned at three years of age and found wandering the streets by homeless children who took her to John....
by McCrowlerr
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on Mon Sep 18, 2023 at 07:56 AM PDT
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With his campaign flailing and poll numbers plummeting, Florida’s tarnished golden boy, Ron DeSantis, must find some magic to reverse his political death spiral. He does not have the cojones to go toe-to-toe with the MAGA godhead, so his strategy has...
by TheCriticalMind
31 comments
on Fri Aug 18, 2023 at 04:38 PM PDT
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