Three years ago a four-year-old girl in upstate New York survived a brutal car crash when her father drove stoned. The remarkable recovery of Peyton Bean, who survived, is testimony to the advances in modern medicine and the skills of doctors at who treated her. However, her story illustrates the need to changes laws. Continue reading Crashes show need to change laws about stoned driving
Student pot use rises at DC middle, high schools
Marijuana use among students rose after the District of Columbia decriminalized pot in 2014 and legalized it for ages 21 and over in 2015. Now we have some statistics about middle schools and high schools. After troubling information came out about increased usage, The Blunt Truth campaign launched as an underage prevention initiative.
In Ward 7, for example, there was a three-fold increase in 30-day use of marijuana among surveyed middle school students from 2013 to 2015, from 2.5% to 7.8%. For high school students surveyed, there was a 28% increase from 2013 to 2015, from 24% to 30.7%. Parental acceptance of the drug use was 15% in 2013, but grew to 32% in 2015. Continue reading Student pot use rises at DC middle, high schools
Washington Sheriff Urquhart Pushed Marijuana Cover-up
TV Ads for Other States Promote Deception
When Oregon had a ballot to legalize marijuana in 2014, King County Sheriff John Urquhart appeared on TV ads claiming that legalization hadn’t created problems in Washington. However, on November 4, 2013, King County experienced a massive butane hash oil (BHO) fire explosion that required 100 police and fire fighters to extinguish over a 7-hour period. What a cover-up!
BHO labs are marijuana labs and today they’re far more common than meth labs. This type of fire was extreme, having completely damaged at least 10 apartment units, killing a woman. Other sheriffs rebuked Sheriff Urquhart when he went on TV the first time.
Last year Urquhart repeated his deception, appearing in ads for Massachusetts. Colorado doesn’t coverup its pot problem so well. Continue reading Washington Sheriff Urquhart Pushed Marijuana Cover-up
Letter from Fairbanks: Enough is Enough
By Diane Hutchison (Published in the Daily News-Miner, Fairbanks, Alaska, September 10, 2017)
It’s just pot” — words that haunted my memory recently and prompted this letter.
A young couple with a baby, pulling their car to the curb, then getting the baby out of its car seat, holding it in the front seat as the young man proceeded to first light a joint, then get out a glass pipe, heating it with a hand-held torch, inhaling till he started coughing and I interrupt them: “You shouldn’t be doing that around the baby.”
The young lady opened her door and answered, “It’s just pot. It’s legal. At least it’s not as bad as meth!” Continue reading Letter from Fairbanks: Enough is Enough