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The Sacklers: (Some Dirty Words – HBO)

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This might make you mad

Critics Rage as Purdue Pharma Settlement Won’t Send Sacklers to Jail

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As opioid epidemic raged, drug company executives made fun of West Virginians

This might make you mad

‘Longest-serving cannabis offender’ to be released early from 90-year prison sentence

The War needs to stop

The Science behind the DEA’s Long War on Marijuana

Oregon decriminalizes possession of street drugs, becoming first in nation

Cops do 20,000 no-knock raids a year. Civilians often pay the price when they go wrong.

This is a long war we have never come close to winning. It has come at a great cost financially and to people across the country. From drug raids going horribly wrong,

Killing John Adams: Another Wrong House Drug Raid

A fatal Houston drug raid is a familiar story of needless violence, death and destruction

Door-Busting Drug Raids Leave a Trail of Blood

We need to focus on this:

Wall Street, bribery and an opioid epidemic: the inside story of a disgraced drugmaker

Your Guide To The Massive (And Massively Complex) Opioid Litigation

Walmart Was Almost Charged Criminally Over Opioids. Trump Appointees Killed the Indictment.

There has to be a better way

Want to Win the War on Drugs? Portugal Might Have the Answer

LA County DA Moves To Dismiss 66,000 Marijuana-Related Convictions

We need some regulations!

Las Vegas man sentenced to 5 years for killing CHP officer

Driver accused of hitting, killing California officer suspected of being under influence of pot, alcohol

Legalized marijuana linked to a sharp rise in car crashes

Drugs and Crime?

Drug & Alcohol Crime & Offenses

The REAL Cost!

This Ohio county may need a second morgue to handle the number of fentanyl overdoses

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This story is sad on so many levels!!!

‘We are just destroying these kids’: The foster children growing up inside detention centers

F.D.A. Failed to Ensure Safe Prescribing of Opioids, Documents Show

6 States That Could Legalize Marijuana Sales in 2020

State Marijuana Laws in 2019 Map

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LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ARE TRYING TO MAKE THE CANNABIS INDUSTRY LESS RACIST

Mexico set to legalise recreational use of cannabis in days

Marijuana Reform Should Focus On Inequality

Trump doesn’t inhale, but the cannabis industry is betting his supporters do

Maine on track for legal marijuana sales by spring 2020

POLITICO PRO CANNABIS

NY finds $1B in hidden transfers by family behind OxyContin

Luther Strange’s role in the Purdue Pharma opioid settlement embraced by GOP states

Nation’s failed weed war turned many into prisoners and others into moguls

Life in Prison for Selling $20 of Weed

This man is sentenced to die in prison over marijuana

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War on Drugs

Thirty Years of America’s Drug War

A Short History of the War on Drugs

to long prison sentences for recreational pot users.

Pot Prisoners: Meet Five Victims of the War on Drugs

Top 10 Non-Violent Marijuana Life Sentence Cases

Life in prison for selling marijuana: Meet the people new pot laws forgot

My Plan?

Take marijuana off the Schedule One Controlled Substances List

Removing Marijuana from the Schedule of Controlled Substances

It’s Time To Remove Cannabis From The Federal Drug Schedules

When I ran for State Senate I commented how every dollar we spend on putting a violent felon in prison saves two dollars in costs from everything from medical care to insurance. Key is the word VIOLENT felon.

Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2019 

People addicted to drugs need rehabilitation, not a jail cell!

Drug Rehab Instead of Prison Could Save Billions

Stop the War on Drugs and Start A Plan to STOP Drug Traffic, both illegal and legal drugs, from their sources. Don’t punish their consumers, help them instead.

Four Decades and Counting: The Continued Failure of the War on Drugs

We have to address the Opioid Crisis!!!

U.S. Rep. Ralph Abraham’s Pharmacies Dispensed Nearly 1.5 Million Doses of Opioids in Two Rural Louisiana Towns With a Combined Population of 6,000 People

76 billion opioid pills: Newly released federal data unmasks the epidemic

How to stop the deadliest drug overdose crisis in American history

THE DRUG INDUSTRY’S TRIUMPH OVER THE DEA

How the Johnson & Johnson Ruling Could Affect the Opioid Cases

Purdue Pharma offers $10-12 billion to settle opioid claims

Sacklers to Remain Billionaire Family If Purdue Settles Opioid Lawsuits

The makers of OxyContin are reportedly offering up to $12 billion to settle 2,000 lawsuits on their role in the opioid crisis. Meet the Sacklers, who built their $13 billion fortune off the controversial prescription drug.

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I Promise To …

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Twitter Shares Here is what I promise: I promise to always tell the truth. I promise to always try to what is the right thing to do. I promise to

“The First Step In Solving Any Problem Is Recognizing There Is One”

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ALEC should Scare You! (And You are asking “Who is Alec?”)

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Twitter Shares Who is ALEC? John Oliver explains (some dirty words, HBO) Ask Bill Moyers, Naming and Shaming the Organizations, Corporations, and Billionaires Behind Voter Suppression “One report has identified