Stan and Barb Rutner had already had bouts with cancer earlier in their lives. Barb overcame breast cancer with orthodox treatments and her version of visualization twice. And Stan managed to get through non-Hodgkin lymphoma after six months of treatment. But this time, they were older, and it looked like the end for Stan. Stan Rutner, a retired dentist and storage facilities owner, was diagnosed with lung cancer which had metastasized into his brain. The diagnosis had surprised him. He thought he had come down with the flu with his chronic cough. He was ... [Video Embedded Here]
[retrieve this message]

---

  TheAntiMedia Union Carbide, later bought by Dow Chemical, operated a chemical facility in Bhopal. On December 2nd, 1984 the plant that was not properly maintained leaked a toxic chemical gas. Thousands died. The death toll estimates from the first week range between 7,000 and 15,000. Compensation was paid to the survivors in the amount of $500 for a lifetime of disability or loss because, as Dow spokesperson Kathy Hunt said You can’t really do more than that, can you? $500 is plenty good for an Indian. There was also a fine levied against the massive mult ... [Video Embedded Here]
[retrieve this message]

---

Henry Cockburn was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2002 at the age of 20. Before that he was a heavy cannabis user. His father, Patrick Cockburn, has long wondered whether the two were linked and spent months speaking to the world’s leading experts in the field. In a four-part series prompted by his son’s condition, he will examine the medical evidence linking sustained cannabis use with schizophrenia, before going on to look at the way the mentally ill have been let down by the health service and stigmatised by public opinion, and concluding on Thursday with his manifesto for a more h ...
[retrieve this message]

---

Here’s the article he wrote which he references in the interview: http://davidhealy.org/psychiatry-gone-astray/ Apparently, it caused quite a stir with plenty of outrage from the usual corners. On 6 January 2014, I published the article “Psychiatry Gone Astray” in a major Danish newspaper (Politiken), which started an important debate about the use and abuse of psychiatric drugs. Numerous articles followed, some written by psychiatrists who agreed with my views. For more than a month, there wasn’t a single day without discussion of these is ...
[retrieve this message]

---

A senior executive with Britain’s biggest drugs company has admitted that most prescription medicines do not work on most people who take them. Allen Roses, worldwide vice-president of genetics at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), said fewer than half of the patients prescribed some of the most expensive drugs actually derived any benefit from them. It is an open secret within the drugs industry that most of its products are ineffective in most patients but this is the first time that such a senior drugs boss has gone public. His comments come days after it emerged that the NHS dru ...
[retrieve this message]

---

More than one in five psychologists aware of children under five on drugs These include Ritalin to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder National Institute for Clinical Excellence states ‘drug treatment is not recommended for pre-school children with ADHD’ Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2884297/The-children-two-drugs-hyperactivity.html#ixzz3MqKy3JWG   [End]
[retrieve this message]

---

A study just published in JAMA Jan 5, reported that SSRI antidepressants are no better than placebo for most cases of depression. The authors reviewed 30 years of data and concluded that "the benefit of antidepressant medication compared with placebo may be minimal or nonexistent in patients with mild or moderate symptoms". Of course, this is old news, and reminds me of the famous scene in 1942 film, Casablanca, where Captain Louis Renault declares, " I am Shocked, Shocked ... to find gambling here....Here is your winnings... Oh thank you."  ... [Image Embedded Here]
[retrieve this message]

---

My oncologist is in complete agreement with this study and recommends it as part of his treatment.  Main stream medicine might finally be coming around to the same view. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/25/marijuana-cancer_n_4158865.html Marijuana Compounds Can Kill Some Cancer Cells: Study Posted: 10/25/2013 12:23 pm EDT A scientist in the United Kingdom has found that compounds derived from marijuana can kill cancerous cells found in people with leukemia, a form of cancer that is expected to cause an estimated 24,000 deaths in the United ...
[retrieve this message]

---

  “Global Tel* Link. You have a collect call from: ‘Tim.’ An inmate in Shelby County Correctional Facility…. If you wish to accept and pay for this call, dial zero now.” I don’t know how many times I heard the same robotic voice speak these words since last fall. I was researching the story of Timothy McKinney, a Memphis man facing his third death-penalty trial for the killing of an off-duty police officer in 1997. Tim would call from Shelby County Jail, to answer my questions and to do what anyone facing trial would want to do: air ... [Image Embedded Here]
[retrieve this message]

---

Cannabis found to lower IQ of young www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5hQiO9zkGprJ_mlQVjWGZBq66aG_w Cannabis can lower the IQ of young teenagers and may cause permanent mental impairment, research has shown. [How was the cannabis administered? Was there a control group that used raw cannabis? Or vapourization? What kind of cannabis was used? Were toxic pesticides used on the cannabis? Were artificial petrochemical fertilizers used?] The most persistent users suffer an average eight-point decline in IQ between adolescence and adulthood, according to the ...
[retrieve this message]

---

The history and benefits of hemp Everything you ever wanted to know -- and maybe more -- about hemp. by Scott Roussel Hemp is another word for the plant Cannabis sativa L. Marijuana comes from this same plant genus -- and so do broccoli and cauliflower. But the strains of hemp used in industrial and consumer products contain only a negligible level of the intoxicating substance delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC. Thus, industrial grade hemp is not marijuana. Hemp is the most useful and beneficial plant in nature. Hemp as food Hemp seeds are drug-free and extremely nutriti ...
[retrieve this message]

---

According to a new report from  Brandeis University , prescription painkillers — opioid or narcotic pain relievers like Vicodin (hydrocodone), OxyContin (oxycodone), Opana (oxymorphone), and methadone — are now responsible for more fatal overdoses in the U.S. than heroin and cocaine combined. “An epidemic of prescription drug abuse is devastating American families and draining state and federal time, money and manpower,” Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said in a media statement about the study. “Law enf ...
[retrieve this message]

---

Low crime rates bad for business for white-owned private prisons; they demand states keep them full The prison-industrial complex is so out of control that private prisons have the sheer audacity to order states to keep beds full or face their wrath with stiff financial penalties, according to reports. Private prisons in some states have language in their contracts that state if they fall below a certain percentage of capacity that the states must pay the private prisons millions of dollars, lest they face a lawsuit for millions more. And guess what? The private prisons, which ...
[retrieve this message]

---

The rate of psychiatric drug prescriptions has increased by more than 1000% in the last decade or so, and antidepressants or anti-anxiety medications are making pharmaceutical companies more money than a successful day at the race track. But have they told you the truth about the effectiveness of their medications? In a telling study published by the New England Journal of Medicine, it was reported that drug companies selectively published the true results of their drugs on our well-being. Nearly all the studies that showed the benefit of these drugs were published, and ...
[retrieve this message]

---

Alternet – by Susan Ferriss Marijuana — it’s one of the primary reasons why California experienced a stunning 20 percent drop in juvenile arrests in just one year, between 2010 and 2011, according to provocative new research. The San Francisco-based Center on Juvenile & Criminal Justice (CJCJ) recently released a policy briefing with an analysis of arrest data collected by the California Department of Justice’s Criminal Justice Statistics Center. The briefing, “  California Youth Crime Plunges to All-Time Low ,” identifies a new ...
[retrieve this message]

---

This article should be sent to all congressmen, and senators, as well as the UN.   [End]
[retrieve this message]

---

I have to say that the illegality of marijuana/hemp is one of the biggest crimes against humanity in all of history. That it continues in this day and age is beyond imagination. That people are in jail for it is 1000 times more criminal than any ”crime” they committed. Until marijuana/hemp is legal in the country the USA is a flat out joke. A complete fraud. Freedom my ass.   [End]
[retrieve this message]

---

I believe this is a liver issue. I have discovered that cannabis exacerbates my rash, which is due to toxic overload. I also experienced a near seizure several years back when I was taking antibiotics along with several other prescriptions and I smoked some cannabis. You may or may not have a parasite problem, but I suggest that adding THC to your system is contributing to the toxemia that your liver is simply unable to handle. I would bet you are taking some powerful prescription meds as well, aren’t you. Best advice I can give: avoid all meds that are not absolutely necessary to keepi ...
[retrieve this message]

---

Use of prescription drugs continues to increase in America.   A new study published by The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that 59 percent of U.S. adults reported using a prescription drug in 2011-12. That’s up from 51 percent in 1999-2000.   A study conducted by Medco Health Solutions found that 3 out of 4 U.S. adults aged 65 and older were taking at least one prescription medication in 2008, while 22 percent of men and 28 percent of women were taking five or more prescription drugs regularly.   Dr. David ...
[retrieve this message]

---

Prescription opioid painkillers are responsible for more fatal overdoses in the U.S. than heroin and cocaine combined, according to a new study out of Brandeis University. Opioid painkillers include prescription narcotics such as like Vicodin (hydrocodone), OxyContin (oxycodone), Opana (oxymorphone) and methodone. "An epidemic of prescription drug abuse is devastating American families and draining state and federal time, money and manpower," Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said in a press release. The authors recommended th ... [Image Embedded Here]
[retrieve this message]

---

Although its capital is notorious among stoners and college kids for marijuana haze–filled "coffee shops," Holland has never actually legalized cannabis — the Dutch simply don’t enforce their laws against the shops. The correct answer is Portugal, which in 2001 became the first European country to officially abolish all criminal penalties for personal possession of drugs, including marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine. At the recommendation of a national commission charged with addressing Portugal’s drug problem, jail time was replaced with the of ...
[retrieve this message]

---

I don’t know if you’re aware of the recent medical breakthroughs concerning marijuana’s ability to kill cancer cells. A world in which cancer can be healed with a natural, non-toxic plant that we can grow ourselves? It’s not just a stoner’s fantasy. After working on this film, we are now convinced it is indeed possible. ”What if Cannabis Cured Cancer” is a documentary from Len Richmond Films that will blow people’s minds - with some stellar talent involved, including voice-overs by Peter Coyote, Roseanne Barr, and Malcolm McDowell. FROM THE HUFFINGTON POST “I recommend an excellent ...
[retrieve this message]

---

some european pseudo scientists hypothesize that food choices contributed to the split in the evolutionary tree between apes and humans and those that chose to incorporate psychotropic plants into their diets evolved into human beings the reason for the altered states of consciousness is that psychotropic chemicals nurture the portion of the brain stem that gives you the ability to comprehend spiritual concepts which would make the banning of psychotropic substances a movement towards a more animalistic human species does anybody know if horses and cows like to munch on hemp? jus ...
[retrieve this message]

---

I couldn’t agree more. We consider ourselves the most refined people on the planet who fight to create a more fair and balanced system. The truth is - corporations create more chaos, depression and starvation everyday, all day long, than any pot-schlepper or consumer EVER could. To equate hemp or pot with anything synthetic (which incidentally has had the government’s backing and ’inadvertent’ participation since just after the ’free love’ era) is insulting. War on Drugs. War on Terror, blah blah blah. Ya know what really gets me going? The majority of people who stand tall to spe ...
[retrieve this message]

---

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=3774 The Marijuana Trick Doug Yurchey – 2005 And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land. – Ezekiel 34/29 Where did the word ’marijuana’ come from? In the mid 1930s, the M-word was created to tarnish the good image and phenomenal history of the hemp plant...as you will read. The facts cited here, with references, are generally verifiable in the Encyclopaedia Britannica which was printed on hemp paper for 150 years: * All schoolbooks were made from hemp or flax paper ...
[retrieve this message]

---

Rasquera. (Tarragona) (EFE). - The mayor of Rasquera , Bernat Pellisa (ERC), said that five or six projects interested in collaborating with the city after the full last night approved a land lease Barcelonesa Association cannabis for own use (ABCDA) to plant marijuana. At a press conference after the plenary Pellisa explained that "there are five or six projects behind" the adopted today, "not all about cannabis, but on hemp seeds" as those sold in specialty stores -grow-shops are all imported, and "want to produce in Rasquera". Pellisa has det ...
[retrieve this message]

---

Misuse of prescription drugs means taking a medication in a manner or dose other than prescribed which is totally illegal. The most common is ”opioids” which usually treat for pain. When these are used long-term, opioids may lead to drug abuse with physical dependence and addiction and overdoes can lead to a human death.   [End]
[retrieve this message]

---

Homeopathy is truly a unique way to treat illnesses. It can be utilized even on travels. https://medicaltravelling.com/2018/03/30/homeopathy-for-vaccine-injury-autism-cfs-me-and-travels/   [End]
[retrieve this message]

---

Men account for 80% of opiate deaths.   [End]
[retrieve this message]

---

Ebook Conversion Services Ebook Conversion Services- Print2eforms is a Publishing Services and GIS mapping and Epub conversion services company where we work with industries like health, education, BFSI, Governments, Telecom, Data etc http://www.print2eforms.com/   [End]
[retrieve this message]

---

ozone injections and C60. not necessarily in that order. just sayin.   [End]
[retrieve this message]

---

Don’t have much hope for an answer, but were you, by chance, on nitazoxanide for the Hep C? I have schistosomes and fasciola hepatica, so my doctor is trying to get me on that. I also get those creeping sensations when I smoke, but I get the same sensations elsewhere. I do not have hep C and all my liver enzymes are textbook perfect, but I do have liver pains and occasional swelling. The increased high for me is caused by berberine, though, not blocked or damaged pathways. Testing confirmed that.   [End]
[retrieve this message]

---

Everybody knows that marijuana is safe, except the governments. I hope such studies will help legalize it everywhere   [End]
[retrieve this message]

---

Great tool, thanks. Marijuana must be legal, no questions. But I don’t agree with the statement about racial injustice. The fact that more black people are arrested for marijuana means nothing, because we don’t know the ratio between white and black users. Maybe black people are arrested more just because more of them use pot. For fair conclusion, we have to compare the proportions of the arrested people among the total numbers of black and white marijuana users.   [End]
[retrieve this message]

---

That’s great news, Nelson That is what this forum is all about, getting information out that can help without having to do the chemo, and radiation thing that more times than not doesn’t help, and does more harm than good. I’m happy for you, and will pass your good news to Mike Adams ”the heath Ranger” who wrote the article. Thanks for the feed back,   [End]
[retrieve this message]

---

  ( Natural News ) A recent study published in  International Journal of Oncology  revealed that cannabinoids, the active chemical in cannabis, can destroy leukemia cells either alone or in combination with other cancer treatments. The scientific community has long-established that cannabinoids may show potential in cancer treatment, with certain varieties known to promote cell death, curb cell growth, and inhibit tumor-inducing blood vessel development. In order to evaluate the compound’s efficacy against leukemia, a team of researchers at th ... [Image Embedded Here]
[retrieve this message]

---

(NaturalNews) When Big Government goes off the rails, it’s almost like they’re smoking crack. In this case, that’s not far from the truth: The Albuquerque Police Department now plans to manufacture crack cocaine so they can sell it to people who are then arrested for “possession of crack.” (See court documents below for proof.) Wait a sec… Crack cocaine is an illegal substance, right? So now the police are going to possess it, manufacture it, sell it and then arrest citizens who buy it from them? Yep. That’s how some police tell ... [Image Embedded Here]
[retrieve this message]

---

Idaho is having a hard time letting go of Reefer Madness. Despite being bordered by four states with legal medical cannabis, Idaho’s prohibition is so complete that it crushes the hopes of kids suffering from epileptic seizures. An investigation by Eric Boehm at Reason.com found that “cops, prosecutors, and lobbyists conspired to restrict a promising cannabis-derived seizure treatment.” In Idaho, a bill to allow people like Josh Phillips to access CBD oil was passed by the state legislature in 2015, only to be defeated by a group of powerful special i ...
[retrieve this message]

---

By Waking Times Media Posted on November 18, 2016 The health benefits of cannabis are vast, with multiple medical and scientific studies to confirm them. Arjun Walia, Collective-Evolution Waking Times Media Cannabis has been making a lot of noise lately. Multiple states across the United States, along with many countries around the world, have successfully legalized medical marijuana, and the Uruguay parliament recently voted to create  the world’s first legal mariju ... [Image Embedded Here]
[retrieve this message]

---

There is nothing quite so horrendous and heartbreaking as a baby with a malignant brain tumor, especially for parents and family. But at the same time, there is little as joyous and uplifting as seeing those tumors go away – and without the costly "assistance" of the corporate medical industry. Recently, the father of an eight-month-old baby decided he would shun traditional radiation treatment and chemotherapy and instead push for an alternative treatment using cannabis oil. The baby’s physician, Dr. William Courtner, who was initially skeptical earlier in hi ...
[retrieve this message]

---

In the two years since recreational marijuana sales became legal in Colorado, the state has seen economic growth two times greater than the U.S. national average, according to a new in-depth analysis. "The Economic Impact of Marijuana Legalization in Colorado," released by the Marijuana Policy Group in October 2016, was created using a new "Marijuana Impact Model" designed to accurately measure the cannabis industry’s economic impact on the state. As it turns out, the positive impact has been enormous. The state saw nearly $1 billion in marijuana sale ...
[retrieve this message]

---

  Last week, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Edith Ramirez, chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), requesting that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FTC look into some makers of prescription drugs and how they price insulin. Sanders and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) wrote that though the original insulin patent expired 75 years ago, “three drugmakers who make different versions of insulin have continuously raised prices.” In “numerous instances,” the letter continued, ...
[retrieve this message]

---

Absolutely... I was hospitalized recently for an infection the spiraled out of control. My pulse and blood pressure were high - from either the stress of school, taking adderall to keep up, or both. I hesitated to mention it, knowing how I’d been treated before when I was forthcoming. But after they were concerned and wanted to run more tests to determine the cause of the high vitals, I confessed. The RN said the same thing to me - ”I used to take that stuff too, but it’s basically crystal meth. It will cause all the same damage. Please try to stay away from it”. My discharge papers includ ...
[retrieve this message]

---

As the evidence supporting marijuana’s healing properties continues to grow, the number of businesses getting involved with the commercialization of the plant also continues to expand. And despite the DEA’s refusal to reschedule cannabis and relax federal laws surrounding marijuana, states continue to vote on and enforce their own laws surrounding the cannabis plant – particularly to acknowledge its medicinal properties. So far, a number of states have legalized marijuana for medical use, and some have even legalized recreational use. The expansion of marijuana’s ...
[retrieve this message]

---

At least three states legalized marijuana Tuesday, and now the Reefer Revolution has spread to the East Coast. AlterNet November 8, 2016   New England has become the first region of the country outside the West to embrace marijuana legalization, with voters in Massachusetts approving an initiative Tuesday, while as of early Friday morning, a similar measure in Maine was still too close to call. At this juncture in the vote count, with 84% of the vote counted, Maine’s  Question 1 initiative was winning with 51% of the vote, while Massachusetts’ Que ...
[retrieve this message]

---

Waking Times  As the U.S. government continues to fight its futile war on drugs, marijuana possession arrests have now become more common than all other crimes combined, according to a new report focused on showing the human toll of criminalizing drug use and published by Human Rights Watch ( HRW.org). The war on drugs in the U.S. is a palpable failure. Drug-possession arrests more than doubled between 1979 and 2016. The prison population now includes more than half a million Americans jailed for drug offenses, in comparison to only 41,000 in 1980. Over the las ...
[retrieve this message]

---

Wolf Street     The ravenous price increases that pharmaceutical companies slap on their medicines are part of the reason the US health care system is eating an ever larger slice of consumer, corporate, and government spending, and why the rest of the economy has trouble moving forward. Some of the price increases have turned into scandals with plenty of mouth-wagging by politicians. Mylan got raked over the coals in Congress for raising the price of its autoinjector EpiPen seven-fold since buying it in 2007. Last year, Turing Pharmaceuticals, ...
[retrieve this message]

---

Although U.S. traffic fatalities have decreased overall during the past couple of decades, there has recently been a "disquieting" upward trend which may be at least partly due to an increase in drugged driving. In fact, the percentage of fatal car crashes in which at least one driver tested drug-positive has nearly doubled over the past ten years, raising concerns among state and federal regulators. From USA Today: In 2015, 21% of the 31,166 fatal crashes in the U.S. involved at least one driver who tested positive for drugs after the incident — up from 1 ...
[retrieve this message]

---

It’s a topic that has sparked debate across the nation over the last few years - legalizing marijuana. In Idaho, recreational and medical marijuana is still illegal. Last month, Kelsey Osborne, a Gooding mother of two, had her children taken from her after she gave her daughter a smoothie with marijuana in it as an attempt to stop her seizures. A month later, the two children - Madyson and Ryker - are still living with their father and Osborne is still trying to get them back. "I didn’t ever think it would come down to this, but it did," Osborne told ...
[retrieve this message]

---

For decades, the pharmaceutical industry poured millions into the pockets of crony lawmakers as they lobbied to keep marijuana illegal. We understand if marijuana — a plant that can clothe, fuel, shelter, feed, and medicate — was readily available, it would destroy Big Pharma’s profits. For decades, the antidepressant industry poured millions into the pockets of corrupt politicians as they lobbied to classify psychedelics as Schedule I drugs with ‘no currently accepted medical use’. We understand if psychedelics — psychoactive substances th ...
[retrieve this message]

---

The rise and advancement of progressive thought in the modern age has led to the adoption of ever-more-baffling social experimentation, and few have been as controversial as handing out illicit drugs to addicts and then giving them a "safe place" in which to use them. The United Kingdom is one of the latest to engage in such buffoonery. As reported by the BBC, a new plan has been adopted in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, to provide drug users an area in which to inject "safely," and under supervision (good luck with ’supervising’ a bunch of people wip ...
[retrieve this message]

---

Ever wondered how Big Pharma has managed to tightly control so many aspects of conventional medicine’s healthcare system, even to the point of imposing limitations on our medical freedom? Before answering, first, here’s a little background. In spite of growing truth revelations in recent years from alternative media sources that just about every subject under the sun is steeped in fraud, lies and deception, the majority still blindly continue to support and act on false, limiting or even destructive paradigms. In effect, the human race is its own worst ... [Image Embedded Here]
[retrieve this message]

---

  ( Era of Wisdom) In 2008, a man named Michael Heston hung himself in incarceration at Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minnesota, after being forced to endure injections of psych meds involuntarily on a regular basis. He wrote to a medical freedom advocacy group called Mind Freedom begging for help, saying “I live in mortal fear,” and “The needle has me terrified, they just keep sticking me every two weeks and I feel like death.” Although the good people at Mind Freedom sent out a public request for help to assist h ...
[retrieve this message]

---

Big Pharma doesn’t want you to know about everything marijuana can do. More and more studies on the abilities of THC are being released recently, and the results are astonishing. Though many have suspected that the drug works wonders on the brain and central nervous system, studies on these theories have been few and far between because of marijuana’s legal status and a lack of funding for illegal drugs. That’s slowly starting to change as more states embrace the drug both medicinally and recreationally. As a result, more studies have been conducted to d ... [Image Embedded Here]
[retrieve this message]

---

By  Cassius Kamarampi ( Era of Wisdom) Did you know that Sigmund Freud played a strong role in popularizing cocaine? He worked with German pharmaceutical company Merck, now one of the world’s largest vaccine producers (the U.S. subsidiary which became its own company). Merck began importing thousands of kilos of “crude cocaine” to Germany for processing into cocaine hydrochloride, by the first few years of the 20th Century, after a major spike in cocaine profits 1885- 1886. According to Narconon: “In 1887, the US Surgeon Gen ... [Image Embedded Here] [Video Embedded Here]
[retrieve this message]

---

he billionaire mogul has turned his attention to keeping pot illegal, even as 60 percent of Americans support legalization. By Tana Ganeva / AlterNet October 19, 2016 In the past decade, billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has used his money to fund such noble ventures as Newt Gingrich’s doomed presidential run and starting a  war with Iran. Lately, he’s turned his attention to another strange (and equally doomed) campaign: stopping the legalization of marijuana in states where he doesn’t even live. Mas ... [Video Embedded Here]
[retrieve this message]

---

The media has ridiculed presidential candidate Donald Trump for suggesting the election is “rigged.” While his comments should always be taken with a grain of salt, a case of a missing amendment in a Florida ballot is raising some eyebrows. Anne Sallee, an Oakland Park resident and former city commissioner who lives in Broward, Florida, says she was shocked to notice her ballot had arrived in the mail without one of the most discussed amendments of the season. After spending a week trying to get the Broward elections office to listen, she decided to reach out to ... [Image Embedded Here]
[retrieve this message]

---

Opium production in Afghanistan has increased by 43% in the past year, United Nations officials have said. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said the area used to farm the poppy plant, the source of opium, increased by 10% to 201,000 hectares. But better farming conditions resulted in a higher yield per hectare, increasing overall production. Afghanistan is the world’s largest producer of the substance, which is the main ingredient in heroin. Growing opium is a crime in the country, but it is still a major cash crop for impoverished farming communities. Th ...
[retrieve this message]

---

Organic and Healthy   Germany-based pharmaceutical giant Bayer has finally sealed the deal with Monsanto, purchasing the seed giant for $66 billion following months of negotiations and various offers. The merger is reported to be one of the biggest of all-cash deal on record.   There are many effects of this huge merger but as usual, the consumer loses out. Firstly, it strengthens the monopolization of the world’s food supply. It also means more GMOs and chemicals to be sprayed on them.   Some are now predicting th ... [Image Embedded Here]
[retrieve this message]

---

It could be the hottest outgrowth of the pot-conomy — highly lucrative for both investors and cannabis companies. The industrial real estate that houses pot production is in high demand, and it is about to become the first opportunity for investors large and small to get in on marijuana. How? The biggest problem for cannabis growers and suppliers is an inability to get much-needed cash to grow both their products and their businesses. Since cannabis production and use is not legal under federal law, only state to state, most banks won’t lend to cannabi ... [Image Embedded Here]
[retrieve this message]

---

A strange new phenomenon is taking place in South Africa, where a group of children has somehow developed resistance to the progression of HIV into full-blown AIDS. According to reports, this rare bunch of youngsters will never develop AIDS, even without the usual antiretroviral treatments for HIV, and scientists aren’t entirely sure why this is the case. Despite harboring high amounts of HIV within their blood, these children all show a clean bill of health when tested, perplexed doctors say. Known as HIV non-progressors, it wouldn’t even be apparent that these children hav ...
[retrieve this message]

---