Tag Archives: Brookings Institution
What Truth-Telling Liberals Say About Roe v. Wade
Connected? Big Government, Labor Decline and Opioid Addiction
There is a great deal of talk about America’s opioid crisis and what can be done about such drugs. This has led to a focus on narcotic painkillers. In reality, America has an addiction problem. “What might be some of the factors leading to such addictions?” is a slightly different twist to a lot of the attention placed upon the types of drugs being abused. Could certain trends be connected to this dependent behavior?
In 1960, only 3 percent of men in their prime were not in the U.S. labor force. Today, that number has risen to 11 percent. …
Terrorist Collaborator Says Pot Made Him Do It
As the American people prepare to vote on marijuana ballot measures in three states and the District of Columbia, measures which would make the mind-altering substance more freely available, more bad news keeps coming for the well-funded pothead lobby.
In a major terrorism-related case, a participant in the cover-up of the Boston Marathon bombing conspiracy, Robel Phillipos, claimed the drug had so many bad effects on his brain that he lied to federal agents.
The key question, however, is whether the major media will ever start reporting on the substantial evidence linking “cannabis” and mental illness, violence and terrorism.…
