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Big Pharma: Evil, or Not Evil?

Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:51 am PDT

The 3 Monkeys Guide to Health blog has an excellent post about the enormous fines levied against the drug company Pfizer, and the distorted claims being made about the situation: Pfizer Pleads Guilty, Pays $2.3 Billion For Off-Label Use of Bextra, Zyvox, Geodon and Lyrica. In this case it ...

Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Drugs, Medicine

No More War

Fri, May 15, 2009 at 3:21 pm PDT

The war has been going on for about 40 years, with no victory in sight; now the Obama administration is preparing to call it quits. Or at least, preparing to quit calling it a “war:” White House Czar Calls for End to ‘War on Drugs’. WASHINGTON — The Obama ...

Drugs, War on drugs, Barack Obama, Kerlikowske

Time to Legalize Weed?

Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 8:19 pm PDT

So let’s try a non-controversial subject for a change. Like legalizing marijuana. Carlos Santana is in favor of it. Doesn’t that count? (I’m kidding, of course.) The US is currently spending more than $10 billion every year trying to stop people from consuming marijuana, and getting absolutely nowhere. Is it ...

Drugs, War on drugs, Marijuana

Mumbai Terrorists Hopped Up?

Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:28 pm PST

British tabloid The Mirror has a curious report that says the Mumbai terrorists were hopped up on cocaine and LSD. The Mumbai terrorists may have pumped themselves full of drugs to keep going during their murderous three-day rampage. Indian police sources say tests on the bodies of dead Islamic ...

Terrorism, India, Bombings, Mumbai, Militant Islam, Pakistan, LSD, Drugs

Holy Books Used for Smuggling Narcotics

Sat, Sep 1, 2007 at 6:57 pm PDT

Should we expect a surge of outrage from the Islamic world over this? Holy books used for smuggling narcotics. My guess is no. RAWALPINDI: The Customs Collectorate, Rawalpindi, has recovered huge quantity of heroin and hashish, concealed in the Holy Quran and religious books being parcelled to United Kingdom ...

LGF, Pakistan, Militant Islam, Smuggling, Drugs, Koran, Blasphemy