Mexican Drug Violence Spills Into Arizona
Mexican Drug Violence Spills Into Arizona – Violence in Mexico escalates and starting to spill into the US. It’s only a matter of time when we’re facing the same horrors from the drug cartels.
Purple Sweet Potato A Contender To Replace Artificial Food Dyes
Filed under: Drug Use Arizona
Back in 2011, a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel found that the current scientific data did not show that artificial food dyes cause hyperactivity in most children. Still, food advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest asked …
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Federal Prosecutors Told Not To Focus On Marijuana Users
Filed under: Drug Use Arizona
Federal prosecutors are being told by Attorney General Eric Holder to focus on cartels, criminal enterprises and those who sell the drug to children, not on casual marijuana users, a Justice Department official tells NPR's Carrie Johnson. Holder today …
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Going To Pot: The Marijuana Sequel
Filed under: Drug Use Arizona
In my last post, also on marijuana, I wondered why science writers hadn't used Sanjay Gupta's announcement of his apostasy from the anti-Cannabis contingent as a reason for examining the marijuana steamroller we are about to experience. I had been …
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