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Making a Living Off of Cocaine: One Town’s Struggle to Survive
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In the town of Guerima, which is a remote Colombian settlement, the residents are desperate to get their livelihood back…their livelihood of course being the production and sale of cocaine. You see, ever since Colombia deployed a national army to create a stranglehold around the town of Guerima, there is now no Marxist rebels […]
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Save Money by Decriminalizing Drugs!
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According to a recent article published by STLtoday.com, American taxpayers would save more than $46 billion if drug addicts (who are in prison now) were treated for their addictions instead. This is based on a study that was released at the end of May 2008.
The study from the Urban Institute in Washington found that […]
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Is Cocaine Use Growing?
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It’s no secret that Colombia is one of the biggest markets for producing/supplying cocaine to the rest of the world. In recent years, there has been cause for concern that the instances of cocaine use are actually increasing. In the United States, we battled cocaine perhaps the most heavily in the 1980s shortly […]
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Have You Ever Driven Drunk? Tell the Truth!
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Have you ever driven your vehicle or another person’s vehicle after you had consumed an alcoholic beverage? Most people skate around the truth either denying it completely or justifying it to themselves by downplaying it to “not a big deal”. If you think hard enough, you could probably think of at least two […]
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Seeing the Future With New Eyes: How Gene Therapy is Helping
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According to a recent article that was published in The Independent, a young man by the name of Steven Howarth can now see again thanks to gene therapy. Howarth, an 18 year-old from Bolton in the UK, had a rare eye disorder that left him with extremely poor vision as well as the […]
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Drugs in Sewage
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Do you ever think about what happens when you flush the toilet? Most people don’t think twice about flushing the toilet. However, scientists all over are beginning to develop an increasing interest in sewage because as it turns out, sewage contains a plethora of information about a community of people and their waste habits […]
