By Claire Bernish Controversy over genetically-engineered salmon intensified Thursday, as a “broad coalition of environmental, consumer, and commercial and recreational fishing organizations” filed a lawsuit against the FDA over safety and environmental concerns surrounding its approval of the fish. Food & Water Watch, Center for…
By Steven Maxwell To tell or not to tell. That is the dilemma and heated debate which is occurring in California over Bisphenol A (BPA) in some of the canned food products sold at grocery stores. The regulators are concerned that wording on the label…
By John Vibes McDonald’s workers have recently filed complaints stating that management told them to treat burns sustained on the job with condiments. In the past two weeks alone, employees in 19 different cities have filed 28 different health and safety complaints against the company….
By John Vibes An 11-year-old girl recently landed a million dollar deal with Whole Foods for her family’s lemonade recipe. The young girl Mikaila began her business by adopting her family’s lemonade recipe for a lemonade stand, and eventually was able to expand her small operation…
By Catherine J Frompovich One member of the U.S. Congress, Mike Fitzpatrick (PA-8), introduced the “E-Free Act” back in November of 2015 in order to stop the U.S. government from procuring a medical device that has harmed countless numbers of females, and also to remove…
By Brandon Turbeville As Easter approaches, one of the days for chocolate sales of the year, new concerns are emerging regarding levels of dangerous heavy metals and their presence in name brand chocolates. The news was brought out to the public as a result of…
By Brandon Turbeville In an interview conducted by Harper’s Dan Baum nearly 22 years ago, former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman admitted what many have known ever since the beginning – that the Nixon administrations’ War On Drugs was a giant lie. To clarify,…
By Brandon Turbeville If all goes well Pennsylvania may become the next state to pass a medical marijuana program allowing for restricted use and access to marijuana for medical purposes. This is because a bill has passed the Pennsylvania House by a vote of 149…
By Derrick Broze A new experimental cannabis-based drug has succeeded in treating children with Dravet syndrome, a rare form of epilepsy. A study conducted by GW Pharmaceuticals has shown that Epidiolex can successfully treat children with Dravet syndrome. GW claimed that a 120-patient trial showed…
By Brandon Turbeville According to an article by Tom Angell, of Marijuana.com, the New Hampshire House of Representatives approved a bill on March 10, that would decriminalize the possession of up to half an ounce of marijuana. Currently, New Hampshire state law considers the possession…
By Joe Wright Boy that was quick. Stir up a bit of fear in the media about a disease that is not even proven to be dangerous and what do you get? Several vaccine projects and mutant mosquitoes programmed to mate with Zika-carrying mosquitoes to…
By Brandon Turbeville It’s rare when a city council mayor, police chief and anti-drugwar activist can agree on a new marijuana proposal, but that’s exactly what’s happening in Tampa, Florida. Tampa council members passed a new ordinance in a 6-to-1 vote that will decriminalize the…
By Brandon Turbeville It appears that, after decades of oppressive and freedom-crushing drug legislation, even the state of Virginia is being forced to come to grips with the rising tide of public opinion that no longer views marijuana as the substance equivalent to al-Qaeda. Fresh…
By Brandon Turbeville Americans are only beginning to realize what a colossal mistake allowing the passage of the Affordable Health Care Act actually was. Far from being true universal health care delivery (a system that could easily be created by taxing Wall Street turnover), Obamacare…
Op-ed by Cate Schrödinger “It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti The obvious effects of the drug war are well known and understood by anyone paying attention: massive incarceration of non-violent citizens, black markets and…
Washington, DC – March 2016 – Because of CDC policy failures, mismanagement, and violations of Federal law, hundreds of thousands of Lyme patients experience a greatly diminished quality of life—a tragedy compounded by financial hardships from out-of-pocket costs and lost income. The burden on individuals as…
By ANH-USA …At the next meeting of the FDA’s Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee. If recent history is any indication, the outlook is not good—unless we push back. Action Alert! The Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee (PCAC) advises the FDA in writing new rules regarding what supplements and…
By John Vibes Below is a letter that Albert Einstein wrote to his daughter about the universal force of love. The letter was released in the 1980’s along with over a thousand other letters that he wrote to different people. Editor’s note: There seems to…
By Amanda Froelich When Norma was told she had cancer, she looked at her doctor squarely and said, “I’m 90-years-old, I’m hitting the road.” You have one life to live. So why sacrifice the sweetness of your later years when there’s still so much to…
By Heather Callaghan Did you see this recent picture of actor John Goodman on the right? He is no longer known as a jolly “fat guy” remembered for his hardworking, beer-guzzling Dan role on . Or even for his unhinged and exitable character, trading banter with…
