Author: Angel - NYC

New York Daily News – by Joel Landau

A former Alaska TV reporter who quit her job while on live air to advocate for medical marijuana is getting the fight she wanted.

Authorities searched the Alaska Cannabis Club on Friday after receiving multiple reports of illegal sales of pot and other derivatives at the medical marijuana dispensary, the Anchorage Police Department said in a statement. Police did not reveal any other information about the investigation.   Continue reading “Alaska cops search cannabis club owned by ex-TV reporter”

Huffington Post

LONDON (AP) — One of the world’s most popular weed-killers — and the most widely used kind in the U.S. — has been labeled a probable carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer.

The decision was made by IARC, the France-based cancer research arm of the World Health Organization, which considered the status of five insect and weed killers including glyphosate, which is used globally in industrial farming.   Continue reading “Popular Weed-Killer Is Probably Carcinogenic, WHO Says”

Huffington Post – by Ryan J Reilly

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to grant clemency to federal offenders “more aggressively” during the remainder of his presidency, he said in a sit-down interview with The Huffington Post on Friday.

Obama has faced criticism for rarely using his power to grant pardons and commutations. In December, he commuted the sentences of eight federal drug offenders, including four who had been sentenced to life. That brought his total number of commutations to 18.   Continue reading “Obama: I’ll Use Clemency Power ‘More Aggressively’”

Med Page Today – by Joshua Cohen MD, MPH

When President Richard Nixon signed the Controlled Substance Act (CSA) in 1970, a wide array of substances, natural and manufactured, instantly became illegal. Categorized as Schedule I drugs, they are those substances determined by the Drug Enforcement Agency (also created by the CSA) to have a high potential for abuse, no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the U.S., and a lack of accepted safety for use under medical supervision.   Continue reading “Cohen’s Brain Bits: Magical Mystery Medicine”

CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Psychedelic mushrooms are a banned substance, and are legally in the same category as some of the most dangerous drugs.

But as CBS2’s Kristine Johnson reported, they’re making a comeback under the supervision of doctors who are giving patients the “magic mushroom medicine.”

The ’60s counterculture decade was an era of rebellion and experimentation with drugs– including psychedelics. But now, doctors want to bring them back.   Continue reading “‘Magic Mushrooms’ Making A Medical Comeback”

AOL

MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Bob Kastenmeier, a liberal Democrat from Wisconsin whose 32 years in Congress were marked by his early and staunch opposition to the Vietnam War, died Friday. He was 91.

Kastenmeier, a World War II veteran who represented the liberal Madison area starting in 1959, had been suffering from heart problems and died at his home in Arlington, Virginia, said his wife Dorothy. She said her husband’s main interest had always been world peace, “and I think the people will remember him for that.”   Continue reading “Ex-Wisconsin Rep. Kastenmeier, early Vietnam critic, dies”

DNA Info – by James Fanelli

MORRISANIA — A Bronx mom of two who called 911 to ask police to come talk to her young son about why stealing is bad was wrongfully arrested and told by an NYPD officer “you black b—-es don’t know how to take care of your kids,” a new lawsuit charges.

Tyeesha Mobley, 29, is suing the city, the NYPD and the Administration for Children’s Services, claiming she was handcuffed, roughed up and had her two children taken away from her for four months — all because of an innocuous request to have officers teach her 9-year-old about right and wrong.   Continue reading “Mom Arrested After Asking Police to Talk to Young Son About Stealing: Suit”

New York Daily News – by ROCCO PARASCANDOLA

The two cops who flouted work rules by using NYPD computers to make Wikipedia edits on the Eric Garner case need to be investigated, according to a new complaint filed by a Brooklyn attorney on Tuesday.

Leo Glickman of the law firm Stoll, Glickman & Bellina filed his complaint with the Conflicts of Interest Board, demanding the agency and the Department of Investigation probe the “seeming violation of the New York City Charter.”   Continue reading “Brooklyn lawyer files complaint in NYPD Wikipedia editing controversy, demands investigation into cops altering Eric Garner entry”

Ammoland

PHOENIX, AZ –-(Ammoland.com)- The lamestream media told you:

WASHINGTON – The Food and Drug Administration announced sweeping rules on Tuesday that will require chain restaurants, movie theaters and pizza parlors across the country to post calorie counts on their menus. Health experts said the new requirements would help combat the country’s obesity epidemic by showing Americans just how many calories lurk in their favorite foods. Continue reading “Government Meddles With Menus, Defies First Amendment”

Don’t know how many Trenchers live in the area, but I thought I’d pass it along.

Ione Valley Land, Air & Water Defense Alliance

Tuesday, March 24th, at 1:30 pm, there is a Public Hearing at the County Center, 810 Court Street, Jackson, with the Amador Board of Supervisors to hear from all interested parties any objections to the project. The County has issued a response to the EIR, which ignores the environmental issues that the people of Amador County are so concerned about, despite the 545 signatures and 45+ letters from local citizens opposing the projects, in addition to the State and local Agency objections. The EIR response ignores all issues and offers the people of Amador County no mitigation for traffic congestion, toxic air pollution, wastewater and runoff, groundwater usage or biological resources devastation. The Quarry and Asphalt plant plans do not comply with local air or water rules. Continue reading “No on Newman Ridge! Important Public Hearing Tuesday March 24th, 1:30 pm”

AOL

EDMOND, Okla. (KFOR) – An Edmond father’s response to a student who was planning a mass casualty event is going viral.

Charles Martin’s son, Michael, is a freshman at Edmond North High School.

Martin reacted a little out of the box to the news of the mass casualty plot uncovered at his son’s school.   Continue reading “Dad’s letter to student accused of planning attack at school goes viral”

Politico – by JAKE SHERMAN, ANNA PALMER and JOHN BRESNAHAN

Illinois Rep. Aaron Schock resigned Tuesday, less than 12 hours after POLITICO raised questions about tens of thousands of dollars in mileage reimbursements he received for his personal vehicle.

Schock billed the federal government and his campaign for logging roughly 170,000 miles on his personal car between January 2010 and July 2014. But when he sold that Chevrolet Tahoe in July 2014, it had only roughly 80,000 miles on the odometer, according to public records obtained by POLITICO under Illinois open records laws. The documents, in other words, indicate he was reimbursed for 90,000 miles more than his car was ever driven.   Continue reading “Aaron Schock resigns after new questions about mileage expenses”

AOL

It’s a pretty common practice for churches to ask members to donate spare change to help the needy or improve the parish.

But one pastor in Atlanta was asking for $300 or more in donations from 200,000 people – that’s $60 million – for a private jet.   Continue reading “Preacher asking for crowd-funded private jet”

Yahoo News – by Susan Haigh

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Former Arizona U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords is coming to Connecticut to help promote the latest gun control proposals offered since the Newtown school shootings, but there are questions about whether the legislation is needed given an existing law on the books.

A bill, originally offered by Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy during his re-election battle last year, would require subjects of a restraining or protective order to surrender their firearms and ammunition within 24 hours of being notified of the order. But veteran Republican state Rep. Arthur O’Neil contends that an existing law, enacted 15 years ago after another Connecticut mass shooting, already allows police to immediately seize guns from people who pose a risk to themselves or others.   Continue reading “Gabby Giffords to push for Connecticut gun control bill”

Ammoland – by AWR Hawkins

Washington DC – -(Ammoland.com)-  On Sunday, CBS News Sunday Morning aired video of gun control proponents Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly shooting handguns and rifles, then panned to video of the couple sitting in their Tucson, Arizona, home where Giffords talked about the possibility of running for office again.

The CBS News segment opened with video of Giffords receiving a standing ovation upon returning to Congress to resign her seat after being shot in Tuscon. CBS’s Lee Cowan said “both she and Mark Kelly found themselves at a crossroads” at that point. Their old lives “gone, the future uncertain.”   Continue reading “CBS Spins the Tall Tale – Gabby Giffords, Mark Kelly are ‘Just Regular Gun Owners’”

CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a new high-tech pilot program that will help the NYPD determine where shots are fired, even if no one calls 911.

The technology is called Shot Spotter and it works like a GPS triangulation system, using antennas and coordinates to identify the location and direction the gunfire comes from, 1010 WINS’ Juliet Papa reported.   Continue reading “NYPD Roles Out Shot Spotter Pilot Program In Areas Of Bronx, Brooklyn”

DNA Info – by Murray Weiss

NEW YORK CITY — The NYPD has identified — but will likely only issue minor reprimands against — two veteran police officers who allegedly used department computers to change Wikipedia pages on several high profile police abuse cases, including the death of Eric Garner, officials and sources said on Monday.

“Two officers, who have been identified, were using department equipment to access Wikipedia and make entries,” Commissioner Bill Bratton said at an unrelated press conference on Monday afternoon. “I don’t anticipate any punishment, quite frankly,” he added.   Continue reading “2 NYPD Officers Who Edited Wikipedia Pages Face Slap on Wrist”

ABC News – by STEPHEN OHLEMACHER

Americans are getting older, but not this old: Social Security records show that 6.5 million people in the U.S. have reached the ripe old age of 112.

In reality, only few could possibly be alive. As of last fall, there were only 42 people known to be that old in the entire world.   Continue reading “Say what? Social Security data says 6.5M in US reach age 112”

New York Times – AP

NEW ORLEANS — Robert Durst, an eccentric millionaire from one of America’s wealthiest families, was arrested on a murder warrant just before Sunday’s finale of a serial documentary about his links to three sensational killings.

FBI agents arrested Durst Saturday at a New Orleans hotel on a warrant from Los Angeles for the murder of a mobster’s daughter 15 years ago, authorities said.   Continue reading “Rich NY Eccentric’s Family ‘Grateful’ for His Murder Arrest”