As cities across the US reject legalized heroin injection sites and needle exchanges, the Rhode Island General Assembly has passed legislation to open the first injection sites in the US. The bill would authorize a two-year pilot program to create harm reduction centers, which is another term for heroin injection sites.
“Drug-impaired driving is significantly under detected,” Statistics Canada wrote in a report called Impaired Driving in Canada, according to Blacklock’s Reporter. “Drugs may be involved as often, or maybe more often, than alcohol in impaired driving incidents.”
Advocates for a safe supply of drugs handed out heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine outside the Vancouver Police Department Wednesday (July 14) afternoon.
Investigators at King’s College in London followed 411 males between the ages of eight and fifty-six years old beginning in 1953 observing them for over 50 years for the purpose of assessing the connection between long-term cannabis use and violence. Violence was defined by two outcomes: criminal convictions and self-reported data.
Asian organized crime has never been this prevalent on an international scale. Like in the historical West, crime revolved around gangs and thugs. But globalization, economical and political changes in the mid-20th century in China and Asia-Pacific created conditions for a new form of organized crime: transnational organized crime.
Transnational organized crime is characterized by cross-border activities. Stiff bureaucracy, tunnel-visioning on economic growth and the flexibility of transnational crime syndicates, has made it insanely hard to combat organized crime.
According to the Gilbert Centre and other outreach groups, the local overdose rates skyrocketing during the pandemic. They say for people unable or unwilling to access mental health services and support; punishment only sends them spiralling further out of control.
Delta 9’s “Joints for Jabs” program is giving away three grand prizes of a one-year supply of cannabis to those who have received two doses of vaccine.
It works out to $100 worth of cannabis per month.
Adults can claim a complimentary joint of marijuana in Washington state this week when they receive a COVID-19 vaccine shot.
New York City has devolved from a once-thriving metropolis into a crime-infested slum thanks to the disastrous leadership of Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio and the left’s destructive anti-police rhetoric.
The StatsCan report also found that the top reasons Canadians cited for using cannabis include increased stress, boredom and loneliness.
The son of the man currently residing in our White House saved several of his phone calls on his laptop, and in one of them he brags about smoking crack with former Washington D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, The Daily Mail reported in an exclusive story.
Normalizing drug use is no longer an idea, it’s a reality. And if you want to see what that reality looks like, take a walk through once-thriving downtown Denver.
h/t Marvin
Opioid toxicity deaths were falling across the country prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. But then came lockdown in March 2020.
Officials in a Chicago suburb on Monday approved a first-of-its-kind reparations program that will provide housing grants to black residents as compensation for past municipal segregationist policies, with the money coming from donations and tax revenues from sales of recreational marijuana.
According to recently disclosed cabinet records, then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau had in 1981 prepared a bill, complete with a three-year publicity campaign, but it never materialized because of cabinet infighting. Trudeau Sr., according to Blacklock’s Reporter, also committed to purging criminal records of those who had been convicted for possessing cannabis.
