Decades of anti-drug films taught our grandparents — and some current politicians — that one tiny toot on the first spliff you encounter will transform you into a gibbering dance-in-the-puddles-of-the-fresh-blood-you-just-spilled psychotic. But there was an even stranger, sleazier subgenre of drug paranoia films that boiled down to “DRUGS WILL RUIN OUR LADYFOLK! And in the […]
Battle lines between liberal politicians and the president intensified this week as Trumps administration targeted cannabis, immigrants and the environment In the first hours of 2018, Californians largest legal pot market in the world. Three days later, Donald Trumps administration announced a California’s marijuana muddle video explainer The federal governments war on the Golden State […]
Midlands Live: Birmingham set for Commonwealth Games 2022; Man found in front of bus dies As well as drugs with a street value of £35,000, the drones carried needles, SIM cards and phone chargers. A bag found on the drone seen flying over the prison walls on 29 October, 2016, was forensically tested. Edward Parton, […]
Law enforcement is always mixed up with politics. It’s hard to so much as mention the police without someone bringing up racism or corruption. We’re not here to tackle those issues today. We’re just plain not smart enough. Instead, we’re here to tackle much simpler subject matter: bumbling doofus cops, and the dingus mistakes they […]
(CNN)Goodbye, 2017. Get ready for hundreds of new state laws that go into effect on the first day of 2018. Here’s a look at some of them: What you earn and your workplace In California, employers can no longer ask about your prior salary. Job applicants can volunteer that information, if they wish. The new […]
The long read: Since it decriminalised all drugs in 2001, Portugal has seen dramatic drops in overdoses, HIV infection and drug-related crime When the drugs came, they hit all at once. It was the 80s, and by the time one in 10 people had slipped into the depths of heroin use bankers, university students, carpenters, […]
Over the past few weeks, you might have seen some media reports proclaiming a Colorado infant has become the “first marijuana overdose death” ever recorded. If that got your “fake news” radar tingling more than the President’s morning read of his Twitter feed, then you might have been onto something. Here are the facts and […]
The van hit a police car and other parked vehicles on Hasfield Road before it was driven at the officer, detectives said. Related Topics Merseyside Police Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-42126356
Semanal LLC, the secretive buyer that formed for the sole purpose of purchasing LA Weekly last month, closed on the sale Wednesday and promptly laid off nine of the 13 members of the alternative weekly’s editorial staff, sending shock waves across an industry already rattled by unexpected reductions and closures. “In an era of rampant […]
Fears had been raised that a crackdown on payday lenders, who are regulated and licensed by the City watchdog, could lead to some people being turned down for loans following stricter affordability checks and turn to loan sharks instead. True stories These are some of the stories told by debt advisors and others during the […]