Carey Wedler | The Anti-Media Both anecdotal evidence and clinical research are beginning to show the promise of cannabis in treating a variety of health issues. According to one family in the U.K., cannabis helped a dying teenage boy recover fully from complications from leukemia. The family recently appeared on the British talk show, This … Read more
05/05/17 WITCHITA, KS — A distressing report has surfaced according to which a grandmother in need of chemotherapy was prevented from receiving it because she was jailed for marijuana. Angela Kastner suffers from colorectal cancer and occasionally takes Marinol to relieve symptoms like nausea and lack of appetite. The amount of Marinol she was taking … Read more
Carey Wedler | The Anti-Media Macon, Georgia — Though states around the country are legalizing both medicinal and recreational cannabis, many Americans in need of the plant still face difficulties obtaining it. In Georgia, for example, which approved a medical marijuana program in 2015, only 1,300 patients qualify, and they are not actually allowed to obtain it. … Read more
WORTH COUNTY, GA — Parents are outraged after finding out that the Worth County Sheriff’s Office conducted a search on as many as 900 children in school. The search is alleged to have been illegal, but the cops are saying that it was done to find drugs. The searches included patdowns of the children and … Read more
4/26/17 WASHINGTON, DC — The war on drugs is being questioned on yet another front. A breakthrough study has found that medicinal marijuana may provide positive benefits for children with autism, according to reports. Subjects in the study were given liquid drops of cannabis oil with low levels of THC, or a placebo. Although the … Read more
Before the heroin epidemic became a nationwide problem, claiming thousands of lives, Plano, Texas, was already entrenched. And like many of the places caught in the crosshairs of the continuing heroin crisis, Plano is the last place that one would expect to be swept into the opioid tidal wave. Alex Thomas | The Anti-Media 04/26/17 Anti-Media … Read more
Whitney Webb | True Activist Drug addiction in America is an ever-growing epidemic and a “war” that we are losing. Throwing addicts in jail has proven ineffective given the nature of drug addiction and so hundreds of police departments around the US have started using drug treatment as an alternative to imprisonment. For instance, the … Read more
Jack Burns | The Free Thought Project Lexington, KY — Samuel Girod, an Amish farmer from Lexington, Kentucky, will go to trial on February 27th, charged with conspiracy, distributing misbranded drugs, and threatening a witness. The reason: he makes a healing salve, an ointment he’s been producing for over 20 years, and the Food and Drug … Read more
Jack Burns | The Free Thought Project We’ve been warning our readers for years that cops will kidnap, cage, and often kill someone if they suspect they’re in possession of the healing plant known as cannabis. But now, it seems, we have to add losing a portion of one’s skull to the list. Undercover NYPD … Read more
Department of Justice – For Immediate Release On February 8, 2017, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a superseding indictment against twelve defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. During the course of … Read more
The Mind Unleashed 2017/01/29 At 10 months of age, Kalel Santiago of Puerto Rico was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called neuroblastoma. He endured chemotherapy, radiation treatments, and surgery for two years—and survived. Then he was diagnosed with something permanent: severe autism that disabled him from speaking. “While he was in the hospital, we … Read more
Claire Bernish / The Free Thought Project After the DEA moved to further constrain, Americans’ access to medically miraculous CBD oil by classifying it alongside heroin and cocaine, Britain chose compassion and common sense — and just classified Cannabidiol (CBD) as a medicine. On Monday, Britain’s Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) decided CBD … Read more