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Opioid Commission Mistakenly Blames Pain Treatment for Drug Deaths

by Jacob Sullum | Nov 3, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice

The panel wants to make prescription analgesics even harder to obtain. In the report it published yesterday, the President's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, chaired by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, endorses what has become the standard...

5/23/17 Jacob Hornberger on the drug war and his upcoming conference on JFK

by Scott Horton | May 23, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott interviews Jacob Hornberger with the Future of Freedom Foundation at FFF.org. Jacob talks about his upcoming conference, “The National Security State and JFK”, at the Dulles Airport Marriot in Northern Virginia on June 3rd, 2017, at which both Ron Paul and...

Reverse Gateway Drug: Opioid Deaths Plummeting in States with Legal Weed

by James Holbrooks | Mar 29, 2017 | Blog

This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. As Attorney General Jeff Sessions continues to lament what he views as a blight on society, a new study is showing that states with medical marijuana programs are seeing drastic reductions in opioid-related...

Family Says Son Was Victim of FBI Informant’s Plot

by Scott Horton | Dec 8, 2016 | Blog

Interesting. This time it's Hezbollah instead of al Qaeda or ISIS. From Middle East Eye: A US resident was sentenced on Wednesday to five years and three months in prison for lying to a federal agent about plans to join Hezbollah in Syria. His lawyer and family argued...

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Op-Ed Writer Freed by Federal Judge

Federal judge orders Trump administration to release Tufts University grad student Rumeysa Ozturk from ICE lockup. Ozturk, who had a valid student visa from Turkey, was only guilty of writing an op-ed. Secretary of State Marco Rubio vilified her and Department of...

The Pier With No Peer in First World Militaries

*** I have been at a business conference all week that has consumed my attention. *** The IG Report (May 2025) appended below reveals many shortfalls in the Gaza pier disaster from 2024. Trillions spent on so many toys and then we they receive the items and systems...

What’s Happening w/Buck Johnson

Buck joined me to discuss fentanyl, drug addiction, boomer cons, media treatment of Trump, and what is going right and wrong in the Trump administration. ALP

100 Memers vs One Pamela Anderson

The social media feed gruel has switched it’s serving of slop from the speculation about the potential outcome of one hundred men versus a gorilla. The content creators who recycle the same shit, because of algorithms and trends now concern themselves with the...

Anti-War Blog – Too Thirsty to Cry

In the photo essay, Ethiopia : The Scorched Earth, Mary Anne Fitzgerald writes in the caption beneath a photo of a young girl crying, “Tears of hunger are a good sign. During the final stages of malnutrition children are too weak to cry.” There was Live Aid and U.S.A....

RIP: Remembering Edward Lozansky, Towering Prophet of Sanity, Decency, and Peace

Our friend Edward Lozansky left this world last week. He was a long-time writer for Antiwar.com. His many articles can be found here and on our blog here. He was president and founder of the American University in Moscow and the U.S.-Russia Forum. He is also a...

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