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Jeff Sessions’ War On Drugs Is A Huge Win For Private Prisons

Jeff Sessions’ War On Drugs Is A Huge Win For Private Prisons

Posted by | May 20, 2017 | , , |

Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently issued new sentencing rules to help fill prisons, and his renewed attack on marijuana is certain to  put more and more people behind bars.  The only people who benefit from this are private prison owners, and they are currently celebrating Sessions’ moves because they know it’ll only serve to make them even richer. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.   Transcript of the above video: Attorney General Jeff Sessions has made it clear that his focus, as Attorney General of the United States, is going to be to renew the failed war on...

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Mike Papantonio Exposes the Deadly Prescription Painkiller Crisis in America – America’s Lawyer

Mike Papantonio Exposes the Deadly Prescription Painkiller Crisis in America – America’s Lawyer

Posted by | May 4, 2017 | , , , |

Via America’s Lawyer: Mike Papantonio discusses the role of pharmaceutical companies in creating the current opioid crisis in the U.S. and speaks with attorney Peter Mougey about the lawsuits being brought forward against these companies. Transcript of the above video: Papantonio: According to the data for the Centers of Disease Control, 91 Americans die every day from overdosing on opioids in the form of both prescription drugs and drugs like heroin, but now opioid painkillers are becoming one of America’s people killers. The opioid painkiller Oxycontin was approved by the FDA in 1995 and it made it’s way on...

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Chris Christie Says Legalizing Marijuana As Bad As Legalizing Heroin

Chris Christie Says Legalizing Marijuana As Bad As Legalizing Heroin

Posted by | May 4, 2017 | , , |

It’s 2017 and by now, most Americans know quite a few things that we didn’t know a decade ago: marriage equality is the law of the land, climate change is a factor in our everyday lives, and smoking weed is really not a big deal. And yet daily, we have ignorant elected officials who choose to pander to the lowest of the low in brain cell count in order to argue against common-sense beliefs that have little political or practical benefit. The most recent suspect of such ignorance is none other than universally reviled New Jersey Governor Chris Christie...

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Papantonio: New Political Movement Takes On Washington’s Status Quo Candidates – America’s Lawyer

Papantonio: New Political Movement Takes On Washington’s Status Quo Candidates – America’s Lawyer

Posted by | May 2, 2017 | , , , |

Via America’s Lawyer: Mike Papantonio talks to Chris Nobel, Legal Strategist for Brand New Congress, about the legal obstacles of forming a new political movement and what it will take to change the status-quo in Washington. Transcript of the above video: Papantonio: The 2018 mid term elections are still more than 19 months away, but there’s already an emerging political movement working to upend the status quo, a political action committee called Brand New Congress is seeking to select and run more than 400 candidates in congressional races across the country that support a progressive political platform. The goal...

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Big Pharma Wants to Own Marijuana: They’re Lobbying For Criminal Laws

Big Pharma Wants to Own Marijuana: They’re Lobbying For Criminal Laws

Posted by | Apr 20, 2017 | , , |

Via America’s Lawyer: Mike Papantonio discusses the reasons why the marijuana legalization effort failed in Arizona and speaks with Justin Strekal, Political Director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, about what pharmaceutical companies have to gain from keeping marijuana illegal. Transcript of the above video: Papantonio: The marijuana industry has a lot of enemies. The tobacco industry wants cannabis out of the way because it hurt’s their profits. The private prison industry even lobbies against legalizing marijuana because it would reduce the number of prisoners they receive each year. Even billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson...

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