drug policy
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Josh Gordon Is Either a Subject of His Own Stupidity or a Tragic Victim of Drugs and Mental Health Issues… Or Both
New England Patriots wide receiver Josh Gordon is leaving the game he played all his life for the umpteenth time. Gordon said Thursday that the break was to focus on his mental health but sources tell ESPN that Gordon is facing another suspension for violating the conditional reinstatement terms under the NFL’s drug policy. The…
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White House Opioid-Crisis Plan to Include Death Penalty for Drug Dealers: Report
The White House is proving that when it comes to drugs destroying white communities, there are no limits to what it is willing to do to stop the threat, including death: to the dealers, not the users. Because the White House is completely invested in solving the opioid epidemic, which disproportionately affects white people, it…
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Why Is Kellyanne Conway in Charge of the Opioid Crisis? Then Again, She Does Lie Like a Crackhead
Continuing his tradition of placing unqualified, mediocre white people in jobs for which they have no expertise, President Donald Trump has moved Kellyanne Conway from her Cabinet-level position in the Department of Lying Motherfuckers and put her in charge of the opioid crisis. Needless to say, it is not going well. Politico reports that Trump’s…
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Opioid Crisis Intervention Court Is a New Kind of Drug-Court Program Looking to Stop People From Dying
Drug court is a common diversion program across the nation that attempts to help nonviolent drug addicts charged with crimes by placing them in a supervised treatment plan in lieu of the traditional justice system. In exchange for successfully completing the program, participants can often get a reduced sentence or have charges dismissed entirely. The…
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2 White Cops Steal Weed From Evidence Locker, Sell It and Get Off With Probation Because Their Families Had ‘Already Suffered’
Imagine being a sheriff’s deputy and being so white that after you and your fellow deputy confess to stealing weed from the sheriff’s office’s evidence locker, selling it in the community with the help of a former snitch who puts it out on the street for you, and then sharing the profits in a three-way…
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Jeff Sessions Just Made It Easier for Law Enforcement to Seize Your Assets Even if You Haven’t Been Convicted of a Crime
The Justice Department announced Wednesday that it will be restarting the controversial “adoptive forfeiture” program, which allows local police departments and law enforcement agencies to seize the property of people suspected of a crime, even if they haven’t been charged with or convicted of one. This particular federal asset-forfeiture program, which is a very lucrative…
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Jim Crow Laws Alive and Well in de Blasio’s NYC: Black and Brown People Still Targeted, Arrested at Higher Rates Than Whites, Report Finds [Retracted]
RETRACTED (6/12/18): This story has been removed because we have discovered it was in breach of our editorial standards. If you’d like to know more, you can read an editor’s note here. A cached version of the story is available here for transparency.