| Feb 7, 2024 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyHundreds of pages of recently released documents provided by the Department of Health and Services affirm what the overwhelming majority of the public has known for decades: Marijuana is therapeutically useful. And its harms are not on par with those of heroin — which...
| Nov 1, 2017 | Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyDonald Trump recently declared the opioid epidemic a national public health emergency. At first I thought, is this the first time I approve of something Trump has done? Alas, no. And here’s why: Nine years ago, I lost my brother to a heroin overdose. My brother...
| Mar 22, 2017 | Environment / Health“We will give people struggling with addiction access to the help they need,” Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail in 2016. We’re in the midst of the worst opioid epidemic our country has seen. More people died last year from opioid overdoses than...
| | Environment / HealthAttorney General Jeff Sessions recently called marijuana use a “life-wrecking dependency” that is “only slightly less awful” than heroin. Really? If that were true, maybe my little brother would be alive. I don’t know the full story of my...
| Nov 5, 2014 | Peace / SecurityI have breaking news from the frontlines of the war. No, not the new war in Iraq. That really is Iraq War III for us — our nation’s third trip there in just 25 years. Maybe the third try will be the charm, though I really don’t think there’s anything...
