The family of a North Dakota college student who was a confidential informant for a drug task force filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday accusing a sheriff's department, a deputy and the county of failing to ensure the 20-year-old's safety. Read article here: High Times
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Death to the Gateway Theory
With all of the progress made in pot politics over the last two decades, electing a President with a Stone Age view of cannabis would be a disaster on many fronts — especially in light of a study conducted by the University of Victoria (Canada) and published in Drug… Read article here: High Times
French Health Minister: Botched Drug Trial Causing “Brain Death” Had Nothing to Do With Cannabis
Although a number of media reports have suggested that an experimental cannabis-based painkiller is what caused a “serious accident” during a clinical drug trial this week in France, leaving one person brain-dead and hospitalizing at least five others, the nat… Read article here: High Times
China Moves to Restrict Death Penalty—But Not For Drugs
LastFriday, UnitedNations human rights experts welcomed a recommendation by India to abolish the death penalty, as well as a decision to reduce the number of crimes subject to capital punishment in China, the world's top executioner by far. Read article here: High Times
Napalm Death Frontman to Indonesia: Don’t Execute Grandma!
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Cali Hospitals Have Been Sentencing MedCan Users To Death
Over this past weekend, California's leading medical body voted unanimously to end a certain kind of discrimination against medical marijuana users that has been quietly preying on the most vulnerable amongst our community. High Times
Marijuana Blamed in NASCAR Driver Death
Yesterday, a grand jury in Ontario County, NY, voted not to indict Tony Stewart in the desth of Kevin Ward Jr. County district attorney, R. Michael Tantillo revealed that Ward was under the influence of marijuana at the time of the accident — “enough to impair… High Times
The Death Of Johnny Winter
Last night, blues guitar legend Johnny Winter died in a hotel room in Switzerland. He was 70 years old. High Times
Five Teens Charged With Murder After ‘Synthetic LSD’ Death
Five Minnesota teens have been charged with murder after a 17-year-old girl overdosed in January on a synthetic form of LSD, prosecutors say. High Times
Newt Gingrich Proposed The Death Penalty Bringing Marijuana Into The US
Introduced on September 25, 1996 — late in the second year of Gingrich's term as Speaker of the House — the bill directed courts to sentence anyone who brought more than 2oz of weed into the US to life in prison or death. High Times