Medical marijuana gains traction in the Deep South
ATLANTA — Medical marijuana has been a non-starter in recent years in the Deep South, where many Republican lawmakers feared it could lead to widespread drug use and social ills. That now appears to be changing, with proposals to allow a form of …
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In The Wake Of Tragedy, The Possibility of Understanding
The death of the brilliant actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, killed by an apparent heroin overdose at the age of 46, is a frightening reminder of the torture that is addiction. After a bout with drugs when he was younger, Hoffman was clean for two decades …
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Let us not mourn this act of selfishness
But the book scared me enough to keep me from ever trying drugs. Heck, I've … I am going to say here what I said to someone on Facebook, who then called me an unfeeling bitch: Drug addicts may be diseased, but they are also selfish as hell. I'll give …
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