Pot More Popular with Teens, Study Shows
The chief anti-drug official of Barack Obama’s administration says that marijuana is becoming more popular with teenagers in the United States. He also says that teenagers are smoking fewer cigarettes, drinking less, and using fewer methamphetamines. The survey, released on Monday, covered a total of almost fifty thousand eighth, tenth, and twelfth graders. The study [...]
Program Aiding Truckers Attracts Drug Runners
A program offering trusted trucking companies quick passage across American borders has begun to attract drug dealers, due to the reduced chances of inspection. Most of the trucks enrolled in the program are held at the border for barely twenty seconds, and nine out of ten do so without their cargo being inspected. In that [...]
Driver Hits Biker, Was Texting About Drug Deal
Police say a New Jersey man who hit a bicyclist with his car was distracted by sending text messages for a drug deal. Forty-two-year-old Lisa Granert of Cherry Hill was riding her bicycle while wearing a reflective vest after six in the evening in Medford this Monday, authorities say. Twenty-eight-year-old Robert Sharrer of Pemberton was [...]
53 Charged in NYC Drug Probe
Federal prosecutors have charged fifty-three people in New York City for running an open-air drug market in a cluster of housing projects near Yankee Stadium. Authorities have said the gang was selling heroin and crack cocaine, and that some of the heroin being sold was labeled “American Gangster,” apparently after the 2007 film. Federal agents [...]
“Victimless Crimes” Should Be Decriminalized
A “victimless crime” is any activity that does not physically harm a person or property of another, or to which the act was in fact consented and is currently illegal if based on statutory laws. In a victimless crime, there is no apparent victim and no apparent pain or injury. The crimes most often described [...]
Time for Tiger Woods to Come Clean
Posted by Allen P Wilkinson on December 7, 2009 · Leave a Comment
At 2:30 a.m. last Friday morning, Tiger Woods got into his Cadillac Escalade SUV and proceeded to run over a fire hydrant and crash into a neighbor’s tree. His wife used a golf club to break the rear-seat passenger windows to get Tiger out. Tiger reportedly at one point was lying unconscious on the street, [...]
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