On April 10th, 2014, the U.S. Sentencing Commission UNANIMOUSLY approved a 2 level reduction to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for ALL drug cases. This guideline amendment will likely be effective in November of 2014. In June of this year there will also be a...
Marijuana for Trauma is a program affiliated with the Canadian government that provides counseling and safe access to marijuana for recovering veterans. Founded in 2013 by Fabian Henry, who served 12 years as a combat engineer for the Canadian Armed Forces, Marijuana...
Earlier this month, at a conference hosted by the Community Oriented Correctional Health Services and the journal Health Affairs, I had the opportunity to speak with a distinguished group of policymakers, researchers and health care and criminal justice professionals...
Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez, testifying under oath Wednesday in the tax-evasion trial of his predecessor, acknowledged that he too had taken part in the city's “shadow” banking business that charged astronomical interest rates on loans. That under-the-radar...
April 2, 2014 -- A majority of doctors say that medical marijuana should be legalized nationally and that it can deliver real benefits to patients, a new survey by WebMD/Medscape finds. WebMD’s web site for health professionals surveyed 1,544 doctors as more than 10...
Miami-Dade police working an undercover detail Monday made a startling discovery: They spotted five men inside a silver 2009 Nissan Maxima, pulling on police gear and strapping on weapons. The real plainclothes cops observed the men place red and blue lights on the...
A western Pennsylvania woman heard "crazy voices" telling her to push her sons underwater before she sat on the boys in the bathtub, drowning her 3-year-old son and leaving his 6-year-old brother in critical condition, police said in a criminal complaint. Laurel...
