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Haggard Bought Meth, Massage…

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Drugs, Religion, Sexuality

…but not sex. This is as I suspected. It’s much easier to live down a drug problem then a so-called sexual deviance. And unless any other evidence comes out, it will always be a he said/he said scenario. So it appears as if Haggard could be off the hook when it comes to the sex [...]

November 3rd, 2006 | Permalink| 9 Comments »

Ted Haggard Admits Some Claims

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Drugs, Religion, Sexuality

Listen, I don’t usually get into the politics of personal destruction, but this is one of those rare instances where somebody is revealed as an incredible hypocrite. Plus, this the guy who says he talks to the White House every Monday morning, and that’s non-trivial From KKTV: A sudden about-face in the scandal facing New [...]

November 3rd, 2006 | Permalink| 16 Comments »

“For a Democrat who wants to run in 2008, smoking may well be a tactically perfect vice.”

By amba | Related entries in Drugs, Elections, General Politics

And guess who smokes? Barack Obama. As the scrutiny of every little detai about the junior senator from Illinois begins, Michael Currie Schaffer writes in The New Republic that Obama’s nicotine habit could furnish a welcome populist touch in a party infamous for upscale, Whole(Foods)ier-Than-Thou elitism: [A]mong the healthy living smart-set types who represent the [...]

October 26th, 2006 | Permalink| No Comments »

Are large sums of cash illegal?

By Sean Aqui | Related entries in Bad Decisions, Discuss, Drugs, Law

Apparently, yes. A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that if a motorist is carrying large sums of money, it is automatically subject to confiscation. In the case entitled, “United States of America v. $124,700 in U.S. Currency,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit took that amount of cash away from Emiliano Gomez [...]

August 21st, 2006 | Permalink| 12 Comments »

Outsourcing Health

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Drugs, Foreign Policy, Health Care, The World

Apparently we’re looking overseas for more than just customer service: “Twenty years ago, drugs were dropping the cardiac mortality rate from 20 percent to 15 percent,” says Dhiraj Narula, medical director of Quintiles ECG, a contract-research firm that organizes trials for major multinationals. “Today we’re looking at drugs that will take you from 6 percent [...]

March 6th, 2006 | Permalink| 5 Comments »

The Real Costs Of Medical Marijuana

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Drugs, Foreign Policy, Law

Some in our government would like to know. Eleven states have passed laws making it legal for patients to use marijuana for medical purposes. The Supreme Court in Gonzalez v. Raich (2005) held that states could still pass and continue to maintain their own medical marijuana laws. However, the same decision also held that the [...]

March 5th, 2006 | Permalink| 9 Comments »