Anabel Hernandez, an award-winning Mexican investigative journalist, said the drug war has led to incomprehensible amounts of corruption in her home country and around the world. She referenced Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera, also known as Chapo Guzman, who has headed one of Mexico’s largest and most ruthless drug cartels, the Sinaloa Cartel, for years. Guzman was serving time in a Mexican prison until he escaped in 2001. According to Hernandez, his escape was made possible because the Mexican government helped him escape.
“What I learned in all these years is Chapo Guzman exists because the Mexican government wants his existence,” she said.
According to Andrew Kennis, a journalist and UTEP professor, the Sinaloa Cartel receives anywhere from $17 billion to $39 billion in drug revenues each year. Some of that money, he said, is laundered in El Paso.
With marijuana still illegal under federal law, hospitals are weighing the balance of serving their patients and protecting billions of dollars in federal funding.
Cambridge UK medical technology pioneer GW Pharmaceuticals has started trials of a cannabis-based drug designed to treat a notably aggressive form of brain tumour.
Three Utah doctors, including the University of Utah’s top pediatric neurologist, have come out in support of families seeking access to a cannabis extract that has proven successful at stopping seizures.
America faces a plethora of social problems in its inner cities: Crime and gang violence. A growing disrespect for the law. A prison system bursting at the seams. Children growing up without their fathers.
In the basement of his Bridgeport tank removal business, Joseph Palmieri opens the door to a shipping container. A very bright light pours out and reveals hundreds of tomato plants.
A quadriplegic man who takes legal medical marijuana to help deal with muscle spasms was terminated from his job after failing a random drug test.Brandon Coats was fired as a customer service representative at satellite TV provider Dish Network Corp.
After Staff Sargent Mike Whiter returned home from serving his country, he tried to kill himself three times. Whiter served in the US Marines for 11 years, including combat tours in Kosovo and Iraq...
SEATTLE -- Some fear the legalization of marijuana in Washington could diminish the state's medical marijuana industry significantly. Green Ambrosia, in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood, is about to close down despite a profitable year.
In a small town in Germany, activists have decided to rogue-plant cannabis seeds as an act of defiance against the ‘demonization’ of the healing plant.
The cannabis craze in Colorado is taking another turn, and this time it's involving our pets. FOX21's Kristyn Leon reports on what's being called "Pot Therap...
In 1632 the Catholic Church convened a case against Galileo on the grounds that his work using the telescope to explore the nature of the heavens contradicted the church’s teaching - the culmination of…...
PHOTO: Sam Sabzehzar/Medical Marijuana 411:The Daily Dose I met author Martin Lee during the New Jersey stop on his book tour for Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana – Medical, Recreationa...
David Nutt: Science now allows us to develop a safer way to get drunk. But before we can sober up in minutes, the drinks industry needs to embrace this healthier approach
Worth a read… In a new article for the Guardian, Prof. David Nutt (Co-founder of the Beckley / Imperial Psychopharmacological Research Program and early member of the Beckley Scientific Advisory Board) talks about promising advances in the search for an alcohol substitute which can effectively be switched on and off.
By isolating the part of the brain that is responsible for the pleasant effects of alcohol (the Gaba neurotransmitter system), it should be possible to create a compound which affects this particular system - giving a pleasurable feeling of being a little bit drunk - but which cuts out the bad parts, like addictiveness or aggression.
Delving even deeper into what seems like the realms of science fiction, Nutt goes on to suggest that alongside this new 'alcohol surrogate' we could sell… the antidote! This opens up the possibility of drinking and driving - legally. Or going to bed having taken the perfect pre-emptive hangover cure.
And how many decades must we wait for such an innovative solution to move from theory to reality? Well, Professor Nutt has already tried one of his five alcohol substitutes and the accompanying antidote… it sounds quite successful.
On Thursday afternoon, veterans sought signatures on petitions for medical marijuana. They set up outside the VA clinic on Little Road in New Port Richey as ...
Photos courtesy of Steve and Maria Green After weeks of court-ordered separation, Bree Green has finally been returned to the custody of her parents. Things are going better for the Green family no...
The federal Food and Drug Administration has taken a sensible step toward curbing the abuse of prescription painkillers. Adopting the recommendation of an expert panel, it recently proposed classifying...
Lee Vance, an assistant police chief with the Jackson Police Department, participated in a roundtable discussion at the Mississippi Black Leadership Summit, under way at the Jackson Convention Center.
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