IRONY: “Letter From Home” / Russmo

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MARIJUANA AND WHITE PRIVILEGE: “Chris Hayes Takes Down Bill O’Reilly’s Anti-Marijuana Nonsense” / “I Was Nearly Arrested For Weed” / Chris Hayes



“I can tell you as sure as I am sitting here before you that if I was a black kid with cornrows instead of a white kid with glasses, my ass would’ve been in a squad car faster than you can say George W. Bush.”

CANNABIS: “Leading Anti-Marijuana Academics are Paid by Painkiller Drug Companies” /

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VICE has found that many of the researchers who have advocated against legalizing pot have also been on the payroll of leading pharmaceutical firms with products that could be easily replaced by using marijuana. When these individuals have been quoted in the media, their drug-industry ties have not been revealed.

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As ProPublica reported, painkiller-funded researchers helped fuel America’s deadly addiction to opioids such as OxyContin and Vicodin. These academics, with quiet funding from major pain pill firms, encouraged doctors to over-prescribe these drugs for a range of pain relief issues, leading to where we stand today as the world’s biggest consumer of painkillers and the overdose capital of the planet.

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