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Ex-‘High Times’ Editor, Retired DEA Agent Debate Marijuana
May 9, 2010 – NEW BRITAIN, CT. — In the U.S., marijuana has been illegal since 1937. Should it be made legal again? That was the question Steven Hager, former editor of High Times magazine, and Bob Stutman, retired DEA agent, debated at Central Connecticut State University Thursday night, at an event sponsored by the…
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Drug Companies Shrug Off Criminal Penalties As Profits Balloon
When drug makers’ profits outweigh criminal penalties – just the cost of doing business in America’s lucrative drug market. March 21, 2010 – Prosecutor Michael Loucks remembers clearly when attorneys for Pfizer, the world’s largest drug company, looked across the table and promised it wouldn’t break the law again. It was January 2004, and the…
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Big Pharma Eyes Medical Marijuana
November 24, 2009 – Marijuana. It’s a small word that generates a large reaction (for better or for worse). People are polarized on the topic. Yes, there is a definite social stigma surrounding this infamous, leafy plant. Consequently, the potential for cannabis-based drugs has been greatly hindered by legal and political considerations – obstacles that…
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Merck’s $4.56 billion anti-cholesterol drugs no better than cheap B-vitamin
November 17th, 2009 – A widely prescribed and expensive cholesterol drug is not as effective as niacin, a cheap vitamin, in helping to unclog coronary arteries in people already taking statins, the standard medicines used to lower cholesterol, according to a new study. The research, which appears Monday in the New England Journal of Medicine,…