Category: Drugs & Drink,

Shaheen: Money to Fight Opioid Epidemic Coming to N.H. 

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Money that Congress approved last year to help states combat the opioid epidemic is headed to New Hampshire. 

Shaheen has been urging President Donald Trump’s administration to revise the formula used to allocate the funding so it prioritizes states like New Hampshire that are hardest hit by the crisis. She says she’s pleased officials have indicated that they will review the formula ahead of distribution next year.

Shaheen: Money to Fight Opioid Epidemic Coming to N.H. | New Hampshire Public Radio

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Officers rue the return of US ‘war on drugs’ 

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Then as violent crime rates fell under George W Bush and prisons became clogged, prosecutions eased. The war on drugs fell out of fashion. Barack Obama called it “unproductive” and sent memos guiding prosecutors away from pursuing low-level offenders.

Now a new administration looks set to turn back the clock. Attorney General Jeff Sessions likes to reminisce about the aggressive law enforcement of the 80s and 90s and recently labelled cannabis “only slightly less awful” than heroin.

…Between 1980 and 2015, the number of people in prison for drug offences increased more than 10-fold, from 40,900 to 469,545, and the average sentence more than tripled, according to data compiled by the Sentencing Project. The majority of them were low-level offenders with no criminal record.

…A 2013 study published in the British Medical Journal found that since 1990 US drug prices nationwide had fallen while purity increased. And a 2012 study by the University of Florida found that the threat of severe punishment was “generally weak and insignificant” at deterring drug crime or lowering addiction rates.

Officers rue the return of US ‘war on drugs’ – BBC News

It is beyond hard to belive that Sessions or any of his cronies could possibly be that stupid. They the War on Drugs didn’t do the country any favors but they simply seems not to care. Just another way for the old, rich, white guys to beat down and separate everyone else.

Incompetent, asinine, racist hacks.

Colorado’s Governor John Hickenlooper warily learns to live with pot

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“We were worried about everything,” Hickenlooper tells Yahoo News. “We were worried about kid usage going up, people coming into work high, the branding of the state. We haven’t seen anything negative in regard to any of those things.”

…”Reefer Madness and all the hysteria that surrounded marijuana in the 1950s and earlier made us so cynical about the whole thing — and that lesson tempers how we market the risks to teenagers so that they’ll hear it.”

…The attorney general just ordered the Justice Department to review its policy on pot. What are you going to do if Sessions tries to crack down on marijuana in your state?

Well, you know, Amendment 64 passed 55 percent to 45 percent here. Polls show it’s over 60 percent approval now. I took a solemn oath to uphold the Constitution of the state of Colorado. Our voters put marijuana into our Constitution. I don’t really have too much choice, the way I look at it.

Colorado’s Governor John Hickenlooper warily learns to live with pot

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Artificial leaf captures light to power drug production 

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Drug production is generally a matter of big factories churning out millions of aspirin or ibuprofen tablets a day, but there’s a lot to be said for manufacturing common drugs on a small scale, close to where they’re used.

…We now have a powerful tool at our disposal that enables the sustainable, sunlight-based production of valuable chemical products like drugs or crop protection agents,” said Noël in a TUE news release. “Using a reactor like this means you can make drugs anywhere, in principle, whether malaria drugs in the jungle or paracetamol on Mars. All you need is sunlight and this mini-factory.”

Artificial leaf captures light to power drug production | TechCrunch

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Medical Marijuana and Gun Laws Collide

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Because it can make them “irrational and unpredictable.”

If you have a medical marijuana card, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says that you can’t buy a gun.

The court ruled 3-0 on Wednesday that a ban preventing medical marijuana card holders from purchasing firearms is not in violation of the Second Amendment, the Associated Press reports. There are nine western states under the appeals court’s jurisdiction, including Nevada, where the case originated.

Medical Marijuana and Gun Laws Collide

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Portland Startup Maps Cannabis Genome to Protect Weed from Monsanto Patenting 

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…The data collection will also help with patent protection, a legal anxiety that has been leeching onto growers since the first cannabis plant was patented in August 2015.

Marijuana is subject to the same statutes as any other agricultural patents—simply, that the genome must be characteristically different than the naturally occurring counterpart.

Marijuana growers are worried about protecting intellectual property rights, especially from the patent techniques of seed-trade powerhouse Monsanto.

Portland Startup Maps Cannabis Genome to Protect Weed from Monsanto Patenting – Willamette Week

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Drug maker thwarted plan to limit OxyContin prescriptions

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The warning signs of what would become a deadly opioid epidemic emerged in early 2001. That’s when officials of the state employee health plan in West Virginia noticed a surge in deaths attributed to oxycodone, the active ingredient in the painkiller OxyContin.

They quickly decided to do something about it: OxyContin prescriptions would require prior authorization. It was a way to ensure that only people who genuinely needed the painkiller could get it and that people abusing opioids could not.

But an investigation by STAT has found that Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin, thwarted the state’s plan by paying a middleman, known as a pharmacy benefits manager, to prevent insurers from limiting prescriptions of  the drug.

The financial quid pro quo between the painkiller maker and the pharmacy benefits manager, Merck Medco, came to light in West Virginia court records unsealed by a state judge at the request of STAT, and in interviews with people familiar with the arrangement.

Drug maker thwarted plan to limit OxyContin prescriptions

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DEA Delays Ban on Kratom 

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“Kratom is not an opiate. It is not addictive,” the groups said.

…Including kratom on the list of drugs that includes marijuana, heroin, and LSD would ban not only its use but likely strictly limit scientific studies for a possible medical use. Such a move would ban the plant for at least two years.

…The drug agency said it will now wait for a recommendation from the Food and Drug Administration and take more comments from the public before deciding on kratom’s fate. The public has until Dec. 1 to comment.

DEA Drops Ban on Herbal Supplement Kratom – Scientific American

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A 7-year-old told her bus driver she couldn’t wake her parents. Police found them dead at home.

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No, Kiessling, that’s not right. You totally fucking missing what is right in fucking front of you. Drug dealers aren’t the ones responsible for these deaths. Drug companies that push opiates onto the population so they develop addictions which lead them to abuse illegal drugs are the fucking murderers.
….You ignorant, self-righteous, dumbass!

Source: A 7-year-old told her bus driver she couldn’t wake her parents. Police found them dead at home. – The Washington Post

New Hampshire pushes to clear medical marijuana card backlog 

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Some medical marijuana patients in New Hampshire are waiting more than 40 days before they receive authorization to use cannabis dispensaries

New Hampshire pushes to clear medical marijuana card backlog – Brown County Democrat

Because the fucktard state of NH would rather have them turn to opiates for pain relief and end up dead in an alley somewhere.

#nhpolitics

As Kratom ban looms, New Hampshire users push back

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Last year, the New Hampshire legislature passed a bill banning the sale of kratom to minors. Rodler showed up to testify and was surprised to see dozens of people in Goddard’s case who used kratom for pain.

Especially given the state’s heroin crisis, she says she sympathizes with people looking for pain management options that don’t involve opioids.“

Those who are trying to do a safer, legal alternative to opiate medication, this was a great substitute,” she said. “Maybe schedule I is too harsh.”

As Kratom ban looms, New Hampshire users push back

Yah, think? You soulless fucking nanny-state hack. Do you think making more people criminals and the tying up of scarce state resources on something that is basically no worse than an energy drink is too harsh?

You think the DEA is being interested in putting people in jail than keeping the public safe is a problem?

No shit, Sherlock?

Trust assholes like the ones who passed the NH bill to make things worse in a cruel and dehumanizing way and act holier than thou like they are fucking saints for doing so.

Assholes!

humansofnewyork

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“It got to the point where I was stealing from stores, breaking into car windows. Everything but prostitution. I was living in the streets. Sometimes I wouldn’t shower for weeks at a time. Then one day I was walking down 149th by Lincoln Hospital, and I bumped into a drug counselor named Mr. Crespo. He took me to get some food. He gave me a few dollars. And he told me that I didn’t have to live like this anymore. I went to the methadone clinic the next day. And now I’m hooked on that instead of heroin. It’s a mixed blessing. At least it’s coming from a doctor and not a pusher. I always know where my next fix is coming from. I can work now. I can pay bills. I can be reliable and productive. It doesn’t get you high like heroin, but it takes away the urges. But it’s like liquid handcuffs because the withdrawals are just as bad. If I stop for twenty-four hours, it feels like fire in my bones. And they only give you one dose a time. So I get to the clinic every morning at 6 AM, and there are already one hundred people in line.” [emphasis: mine]

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Sigh….

Marijuana Can Fix Hillary Clinton’s Biggest Problem

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If Clinton wins over millennials, she’ll almost certainly win the White House. And the best cure for millennial apathy is legal weed.

Marijuana Can Fix Hillary Clinton’s Biggest Problem

Mmmmmmm, well….

Perhaps she’d be better if came out for state’s right to legalize and federal decriminalization approval of medical mj. She could pivoting to how it (non-opiate pain relief) could help prevent the opioid crisis from snowballing (if people don’t start opiates, they don’t get addicted to opiates) and how it free up criminal justice budget dollars to fight violent crime when pushed on law and order.