Study links soda, pancreatic cancer | Raw Story

Study links soda, pancreatic cancer | Raw Story: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People who drink two or more sweetened soft drinks a week have a much higher risk of pancreatic cancer, an unusual but deadly cancer, researchers reported on Monday.

People who drank mostly fruit juice instead of sodas did not have the same risk, the study of 60,000 people in Singapore found."

Which is why the Japanese with their tea and cigarettes (by the way check out the English blog Tea and Cigarettes) live longer than Americans with our anti-smoking crusades and soda. It is better to give your children tobacco before you give them Coke.

BBC News - 'Third-hand smoke' could damage health

BBC News - 'Third-hand smoke' could damage health: "Lingering residue from tobacco smoke which clings to upholstery, clothing and the skin releases cancer-causing agents, work in PNAS journal shows.

Berkeley scientists in the US ran lab tests and found 'substantial levels' of toxins on smoke-exposed material."

Great, more ammo for idiots who don't know how to mind their own business.

Morphine laws leave millions in pain - The National Newspaper

Cancer patients suffer needlessly in India due to drug war restrictions.


Morphine laws leave millions in pain - The National Newspaper: "ROHTAK, INDIA // Every day in his work at the regional cancer centre in Rohtak, in the north Indian state of Haryana, Dr Ashok Chauhan sees patients in the agonising pain that accompanies the final stages of cancer.

Most of them are too sick to be cured, so Dr Chauhan and his colleagues try to do the only thing they can – provide relief from the intense suffering.

To do this he needs morphine, a drug that has been the gold standard of relief from severe pain for centuries and which India produces in huge quantities.

The problem is that this centre, like many others in India, has run out of the drug and all Dr Chauhan can do is send the patients or their relatives to the nearest supplier in Delhi – ovber three hours away by road.

“It’s very sad. We are as frustrated as the patients,” said Dr Chauhan. “When they have to travel to Delhi to get it, it adds to their misery.”

The acute shortage of oral morphine in Haryana and many other Indian states is a result of complex Indian narcotics laws that are based on rules for the sale of opium that date back to the time of the British Raj.

In a report published last October, Human Rights Watch estimated that up to seven million Indians with diseases such as tuberculosis, Aids and cancer suffer excruciating pain unnecessarily every year because of restrictions on morphine and the lack of palliative care."

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Conway rules out end to wine-shipment ban - baltimoresun.com

Conway rules out end to wine-shipment ban - baltimoresun.com: "Conway rules out end to wine-shipment ban
Senator says direct sale to Marylanders poses underage-buying, tax problems"

I know plenty of people who just do it anyway, so what good is she doing?

Officer purchases food for man caught stealing - Daily Chronicle

A positive story about law enforcement for a change:Officer purchases food for man caught stealing - Daily Chroniclejavascript:void(0)

Pakistani ambassador rejected because his name is NSFW in Arabic | FP Passport

Pakistani ambassador rejected because his name is NSFW in Arabic | FP Passport: "Despite having served for years as a distinguished Pakistani diplomat, Akbar Zeb reportedly cannot receive accreditation as Pakistan's ambassador to Saudi Arabia. The reason, apparently, has nothing to do with his credentials, and everything to do with his name -- which, in Arabic, translates to 'biggest dick':"

«Bullshit. Ich glaube, wir machen einen Fehler» - News Ausland: Amerika - tagesanzeiger.ch

«Bullshit. Ich glaube, wir machen einen Fehler» - News Ausland: Amerika - tagesanzeiger.ch

I happened to be looking at a Swiss paper when I found this recent story from ABC News with new video of an anti-drug operation in Peru in 2001.



As part of a joint CIA/Peruvian operation, suspected drug runners were blown out of the sky. In this case a completely innocent family was murdered.

But even if this mistake had not been made, you must question the morality of firing on unarmed planes in the sky, even if they do carry contraband. Any way you try to frame it, it is murder. And everyone involved in taking down these unarmed small planes is guilty. The CIA, military, and drug agents behind this attack in 2001 and others before and after are just as guilty and are morally reprehensible as the terrorists who took down the Twin Towers.

Ad For Orleans Coroner Candidate: My Opponent Is Dr. Frankenstein! (VIDEO) | TPM LiveWire

Ad For Orleans Coroner Candidate: My Opponent Is Dr. Frankenstein! (VIDEO) | TPM LiveWire: "Check out this astonishing political ad in the upcoming New Orleans elections. The ad from Dwight McKenna, a candidate for Orleans Parish Coroner, attacks the incumbent coroner, Frank Minyard, as a Dr. Frankenstein who sells body parts -- complete with an assistant Igor, from out of the old Universal Studios movies!"

Drug Courts keep drug dealers in business

AP News | The Columbia Daily Tribune: "JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri wastes considerable money by putting nonviolent offenders in prison and mishandling those convicted of drug and alcohol crimes, Chief Justice William Ray Price told state lawmakers Wednesday while urging for a new crime-fighting strategy.

Price told a joint legislative session during his State of the Judiciary speech that Missouri officials have spent years to get tough on crime by putting more people in prison and that the state has spent billions of dollars while crime has not been reduced. He said that requires a new technique that uses special drug and drunken-driving courts and rehabilitation efforts to cut down on recidivism of nonviolent offenders."

They have drug courts in Maryland. They are useful at keeping people out of prison, but I still don't like them. What about a policy of freedom? Why is it so hard to allow adults to make their own decisions, their own mistakes, and to hold them accountable if those mistakes infringe on the rights of others? Drug Courts are just the softer side of prohibition, a nicer fascism. And they still keep the criminal gangs in business.

Try telling this guy that smoking isn't allowed

The snake who's hooked on cigarettes | Metro.co.uk: "You don't want to deny Po the pit viper his regular morning cigarette - he's guaranteed to throw a hissy fit."

Don't tread on him.