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Karl Theodor

How a #racist #hatemonger #masterminded America’s #WaronDrugs
#HarryAnslinger conflated #drug use, #race, and #music to #criminalize #nonwhiteness and create a #prisonindustrialcomplex

youtu.be/IffacdsVsG4

In this edition of #Cannabis #Conversations, Dr. #EthanRusso discusses clinical #endocannabinoiddeficiency and ways to target the #endocannabinoidsystem for #therapeutic benefit with Martin A. Lee, Co-Founder of Project #CBD. youtube.com/redirect?event=vid

medium.com/timeline/harry-ansl

05.05.2025 ... Those who first spread its use were musicians. They brought the habit northward with the surge of “hot” music demanding players of exceptional ability, especially in improvisation. Along the Mexican border and in southern seaport cities it had long been known that the drug has a strangely exhilarating effect upon the musical sensibilities. The musician who uses it finds that the musical beat seemingly comes to him quite slowly, thus allowing him to interpolate improvised notes with comparative ease. He does not realize that he is tapping the keys with a furious speed impossible for one in a normal state. Anslinger found several cases where people had committed violent offenses purportedly while high, and presented them to Congress. The case that seemed to seal the deal was that of Victor Licata, a young Italian man who had hacked his family to death. Anslinger consulted 30 doctors to confirm his claim that weed was linked to violent crime. Of those, 29 said there was no connection, so he peddled the message of the one dissenting doctor to anyone who would listen. Anslinger’s appeal to fear appeared to be working. ... https://medium.com/timeline/harry-anslinger-racist-war-on-drugs-prison-industrial-complex-fb5cbc281189
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blog.TO

That time rock legend Jimi Hendrix was put on trial in Toronto
Toronto has seen its fair share of music stars roll through Pearson Airport over the decades, but no one has made an entrance quite like rock and roll legend Jimi Hendrix.Landing at Toronto International Airport (now Pearson) ahead of a sold-out 1969 show at Maple Leaf Gardens, Hendrix was stopped by customs for a susp...
#music #law #drug #Toronto #Detroit #LosAngeles
blogto.com/music/2025/05/jimi-

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Matteo Cesari

Concerns about the approval of #lecanemab for Alzheimer’s disease

"...We are concerned about the approval of this #drug with uncertain net benefit that might foster false hope and expectations among people with #Alzheimer’s disease and their #carers and which might further overburden already overstretched #healthcare systems in Europe..."

#Medicine #Health #Geriatrics #Neurology #Care #MedMastodon

bmj.com/content/389/bmj.r778

The BMJ · Concerns about the approval of lecanemab for Alzheimer’s diseaseThe European Medicines Agency (EMA), after initial rejection based on an unfavourable risk-benefit balance, recently recommended approval of lecanemab for treating people with mild cognitive impairment and early dementia because of Alzheimer’s disease.1 This approval raises serious concerns for four reasons. Firstly, the reported difference between intervention and placebo in the primary outcome, the clinical dementia rating scale-sum of boxes (CDR-SB), was small (0.45 points) in a mixed group with mild cognitive impairment and …
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CBC Top Stories

'Years of history': Who is the former drug dealer banished from Haida Gwaii?
Scared neighbours. An atmosphere of "fear, mistrust and continual disruption." People "upset and anxious and worried in their own homes." A Skidegate band councillor told a provincial court judge years ago that banishment was a possibility for Frank Young, as she describ...
#history #crime #drug #HaidaGwaii #News #Canada
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CBC Canada

'Years of history': Who is the former drug dealer banished from Haida Gwaii?
Scared neighbours. An atmosphere of "fear, mistrust and continual disruption." People "upset and anxious and worried in their own homes." A Skidegate band councillor told a provincial court judge years ago that banishment was a possibility for Frank Young, as she describ...
#history #crime #drug #HaidaGwaii #News #Canada
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Nonilex

…The group has argued #tariffs would undermine efforts to boost domestic manufacturing, a goal of #Trump.

#Pharmaceutical products have long been spared from trade wars due to the potential harms, but he has repeatedly threatened a 25% tariff on pharmaceutical imports.

Last week, the Trump admin announced probes into pharmaceutical imports, citing [BS] #NationalSecurity concerns over reliance on foreign #drug production.

#economy#PersonalFinance#medicine
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Nonilex

Exclusive: US #pharma #tariffs would raise US drug costs by $51B annually

A 25% #Trump #tariff on #pharmaceutical imports would increase US #drug #costs by nearly $51 billion annually, boosting US #prices by as much as 12.9% if passed on, a report commissioned by the industry's US #trade group & reviewed by Reuters shows.

#economy #PersonalFinance #medicine #drugs #pharmaceuticals #inflation #recession
reuters.com/business/healthcar

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Nonilex

US #FDA suspends #milk quality tests amid workforce cuts

The #Food & #Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk & other #dairy products due to reduced capacity in its #FoodSafety & nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.

#Trump #Musk #RFKJr #HHS #PublicHealth #idiocracy #kakistocracy
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Nonilex

Both sources, who were not authorized to speak publicly, said they expected the policy to come from the agency that oversees #Medicare and #Medicaid health programs.

The first source said he had been told directly by govt #health officials that they were exploring such a policy, which he described as a mid-level priority for the #Trump Administration as it tries to lower #drug prices.

#BigPharma#medicine
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