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NC hemp commission considers joining lawsuit against DEA http://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article142568559.html RALEIGH The state commission charged with fostering an industrial hemp industry in North Carolina is considering joining a lawsuit against a government agency that it agrees is making things difficult: the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration The N.C. Industrial Hemp Commission, which was created by the General […]

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Donald Trump’s Pick to Oversee Big Pharma Is Addicted to Opioid-Industry Cash https://theintercept.com/2017/04/04/scott-gottlieb-opioid/#comment-381880 Newly-released financial disclosure documents show that Dr. Scott Gottlieb, President Trump’s nominee to the lead the Food and Drug Administration, has received significant payments from the opioid industry — while attacking attempts to deter the explosion of opioid pill mills. The FDA has some of […]

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The maker of the EpiPen is being sued under a law that’s typically used to take on organized crime http://www.businessinsider.com/mylan-class-action-lawsuit-over-epipen-2017-4 Christina Kollmeyer’s son has a allergy that requires him to carry an EpiPen, the emergency auto-injecting devices available that can be used to treat severe allergic reactions. When Kollmeyer, who has a high-deductible health plan, picked […]

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Hint of a Trump Marijuana Crackdown? DEA Probes Colorado Cannabis Cases www.medicalmarijuana.com/hint-of-a-trump-marijuana-crackdown-dea-probes-colorado-cannabis-cases/ While Attorney General Jeff Sessions was busy publicly reminding America just how much he hates marijuana legalization—facts, data and public sentiment be damned—federal law enforcement officials with Sessions’s Justice Department were probing pending marijuana-related court cases in Colorado, the International Business Times is […]

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Levaquin Lawsuit In Minnesota Moves Forward http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/3292665 A number of lawsuits are currently running that involve Avelox, Cipro, and Levaquin, in which the plaintiffs all claim that the drugs contributed to the development of peripheral neuropathy. The U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota, has recently moved forward another Levaquin lawsuit and provided an update on […]

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The DEA’s case against Mallinckrodt has odd parallels to the gun industry http://hotair.com/archives/2017/04/03/the-deas-case-against-mallinckrodt-has-odd-parallels-to-the-gun-industry/ This is one of those stories which has been percolating on the back burner of national news coverage for years and may now be coming to a close. Beginning early in the Obama administration, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) began pursuing possible […]

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Woman’s online journal of disorder paves way for new medical courses http://www.kpaddock.org/ Robert Paddock is a quiet man with a single mission in life – to tell the story of his late wife’s struggle with chronic pain and raise awareness of her illness. He also wants people to know her suicide wasn’t meaningless. That she […]

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“Opioid painkillers cause chronic pain” stories leave physician reader in agony www.healthnewsreview.org/2016/06/opioid-painkillers-cause-chronic-pain-stories-leave-physician-reader-in-agony/ When writing in 1953 of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), Watson and Crick concluded: “It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing that we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.” Words like “postulated,” “suggests,” […]

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