In Minnesota during a 2007 Senate hearing on legalizing small amounts of marijuana for medicinal purposes a citizen gave the following testimony. Sh#%@$n Pak^*&n, of Brooklyn Park, suffers from Tourette Syndrome and admits he’s already using marijuana for medicinal purposes. Pak^&*n says traditional medication leaves him in a zombie-like state. “Smoking a little marijuana...
I’m still up here in the frozen tundra. It has been fun to see another part of the country and to see the differences between Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Ohio. In Minnesota you can make a U-Turn unless it specifically states you cannot. It’s the opposite in the land that I come from. There are...
Timothy Richard Lamere has been arrested in the death of Trevor Robinson. Both were at a party and Lamere allegedly provided the party goers with 2C-E a powerful hallucinogenic. Many at the party became sick and had to be hospitalized. Robinson was not as lucky. Recently, while I’ve been staying in Wisconsin I have...
The following advertisement was found in the back of the City Pages, a news and arts magazine that comes with the Sunday Pioneer Press. As I have written before, many nefarious entrepreneurs are selling poisonous materials under the guise that they are for something else. K2 is potpourri which mimics the sensation of marijuana...
In 2009 more Ohioans died of a drug overdose than in car accidents. It appears however, that a drug does not have to be illegal to kill. While I’m staying in Wisconsin and Minnesota I have read about several “designer” drugs which are legal and spreading across the country. K2 is a potpourri that...
I learned in an email from The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence today that Starbucks allows its customers to sit in their stores and openly display firearms. Over the past few months, more and more gun owners have been gathering at restaurants and coffee shops like Starbucks with guns strapped to their hips,...
A new organization called Forward Together thinks so. Today The Other Paper has an article about this new organization who will work to ensure the Blue Jackets stay in Columbus. You can sign a petition at their web site. This is my case for why the Columbus Blue Jackets are worth saving. Here’s what...
I’m not sure this is a good idea, but it was announced this afternoon that the Columbus Blue Jackets have fired coach Ken Hitchcock. Last year Hitchcock was the first coach to lead the Blue Jackets to the playoffs. My only guess is that the Jackets have been getting blown out in some of...
The Columbus Dispatch reported today on studies conducted locally and nationally regarding persons seeking emergency food. The last comprehensive study on food emergencies was in 2005. Here are the new numbers. People who received emergency food through the Mid-Ohio Foodbank in 2009 increased by 28 percent since 2005. Nationally the increase was 46 percent....
A new report by the Food Research and Action Center states that one in five Columbus area households faced a food emergency in 2008 and 2009. A “food hardship” is defined as not having enough money to buy needed food. The question pollsters asked was, “Have there been times in the past twelve months...
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