Snow added that he pays his own employees above the minimum wage, and many are working their first jobs and drive nice cars, because you know, they're not drug addicts, like poor people.


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Duterte: I am not beholden to Obama, my master is the Filipino people


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Mexican police accused of cover-up after killing 22 cartel suspects

Country’s human rights commission alleges bodies were moved and guns planted after 2015 ranch confrontation


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EpiPen maker Mylan has become the new boogeyman of the pharmaceutical industry.

Following complaints from consumers that the company had hiked the price of the emergency auto-injector by $100 in recent months for no obvious reason, members of Congress are calling for an investigation. The price has increased 450 percent since 2004, when a dose ( Read more... )

She’s expressing strong support for loosening restrictions.

On Thursday, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) announced it won’t reschedule marijuana from a Scheduled I controlled substance, meaning that in the eyes of the feds it’ll continue to be regarded as dangerous drug with no medical value, akin to heroin and bath salts ( Read more... )

Marijuana advocates who hoped the cascade of states moving to legalize medical marijuana would soften the federal stance on the drug faced disappointment Thursday as the Drug Enforcement Administration announced it will keep marijuana illegal for any purpose.

Marijuana will remain a Schedule 1 substance under the Controlled Substances Act. ( Read more... )

'Go ahead & kill' drug addicts, Philippines president says

New Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, who has recently declared "a bloody war” on drug cartels, has called on willing Filipinos to “go ahead and kill” drug addicts, amid concerns that “getting their parents to do it would be too painful.”

Duterte, who said during his campaign that ( Read more... )

Canada is lurching toward marijuana legalization, but the Liberals aren't being blunt about what the new law will mean for the average pot-friendly Canadian ( Read more... )

Last week, the global drug company Pfizer announced sweeping new restrictions on the distribution of seven of its products, preventing them from being used to carry out the death penalty. Pfizer came into possession of those products, which include sedatives, paralytics, a pain medication, and a drug used to prevent or treat low levels of potassium ( Read more... )

Drugs are dangerous, but current narcotics policies are an even bigger threat because punishment is given a greater priority than health and human rights. It's time for regulations that put lives and safety first, argues former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

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