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Who Killed the Capo?

The October 18 Los Cabos party was also crashed by an uninvited guest: a clown who strolled into the festivities without the slightest interference.

(LAS CRUCES , NM) - Celebrating his 63rd birthday, “retired” Mexican drug trafficker Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix was enjoying friends, family and the fun-loving company of the Mexican farandula, or entertainment set.

Held at the Marbella Hotel in the popular international tourist destination of Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, a resort long promoted as an island of safety in a sea of insecurity, the party drew about 100 guests.

Costa Rican Journalist Calls for Re-Examination of CIA-Contra Drug Links, DEA Agent`s Murder

Lafitte Fernández claims that in the 1980s, the administration of U.S. President Ronald Reagan went into league with the largest drug traffickers of the era to ship copious quantities of cocaine through Costa Rica and El Salvador to the United States to help support the Contras.

(SAN JOSE) - A crusading Costa Rican journalist working in El Salvador has challenged fellow reporters in Costa Rica to get to the bottom of the presence of Mexican drug kingpin Rafael Caro Quintero in Costa Rica in 1985.

Tico journalist Lafitte Fernández claims new evidence suggests Quintero was part of a wide-ranging conspiracy to arm and train Nicaraguan Contra rebels with the proceeds of cocaine trafficking through Central America.

Former CIA Pilot Plumlee Says Reagan Administration Responsible for Death of DEA Agent

Plumlee insists the CIA did not murder Camarena as a number of news outlets have reported.

(LAS CRUCES , NM) - Robert Tosh Plumlee, a pilot who flew clandestine CIA flights, told Infowars today that Fox News, who interviewed him last September, is attempting to shift blame for the 1980s Contra resupply network to the CIA.

The network was the work of the Reagan administration, then Marine Col. Oliver North, and the NCS, Plumlee contends. The covert operation was in direct violation of the Boland Amendment, a legislative effort to prevent the United States government from funding and assisting the Contras...

FDA Accused of `Pay to Play` Involving Universities of Rochester and Washington; Experts Connect Epidemic of OxyContin Addiction

Pain Medicine News is mailed to "the highest-prescribers of pain medication." Why would they target the highest prescribers? Could it possibly be to keep the flow of painkillers in the US and Canada to increase the profits to Purdue Pharma and other pharmaceutical companies riding the addiction and death train?

(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) - My interest has been peaked by a newspaper called Pain Medicine News advertising itself as THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER FOR PAIN MANAGEMENT.

There are problems here though. First at the top of the page of Pain Medicine News very proudly displayed is the "Purdue Pharma" insignia with an invitation for the reader to visit PurdueHCP.com.

`Pain Drug Champion` Under Senate Investigation for Financial Ties to the Pharmaceutical Industry

Part 2 in a series...

(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) - In December 2012 the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) wrote an article about Russell K. Portenoy, MD "appearing" to have second thoughts about pushing opioids for chronic pain.

Since Portenoy is under U.S. Senate investigation for financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry to potentially benefit financially in encouraging the medical profession to prescribe opioids disregarding the dangers of addiction, death and abuse - are his second thoughts "the fire is raging and my hose is out of water?"

Why Did Purdue Pharma Miss Court Deadline in Kentucky Lawsuit?

The Kentucky lawsuit against Purdue Pharma deals with the marketing of the narcotic OxyContin to physicians in Kentucky and whether the company masked the addictive properties of the painkiller.

(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) - Purdue Pharma, the maker of the deadly drug OxyContin, missed a recent court deadline in the six-year lawsuit brought by the Commonwealth of Kentucky -- and word has it that this legal maneuver could cost the drug maker in a big way.

I'm not so sure. Could Purdue Pharma have not met the court deadline intentionally? You decide.

Marijuana Ignorance and Marijuana Laws

Dr. Mark Kleiman scores financially Big Time!

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - These people know nothing about marijuana use and marijuana users.

I was under the impression that the epidemic of “reefer madness” had subsided until I read the NYT article that “US Won’t Sue to Reverse States Legalization of Marijuana” (8-28-2013) and then the story of Dr. Kleiman totally snookering Washington State’s marijuana advisory board half-wits on how to regulate marijuana for a total of about $800,000 with probably more costs to come at $292/per hour.

Marijuana Dangers and the Oregonian Newspaper: Petty, Puerile, Pernicious Propaganda

Hoorah for the new marijuana laws!

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - The Oregonian has been bitching about marijuana as medicine from the word “GO”. Every step toward allowing patients to use medicine has been met with a barrage of falsities and half-truths which their staff purported as fact. There have been a few factual statements but then some negative aspect has been thrown in.

Apparently the words pot, pothead, pot doctors and pot patients is at the front of their dictionaries because they use them so much.

Hawaii Cannabis Minister Granted the Right to Assert Religious Defense in Federal Proceedings

Three Years in a Federal holding facility, now Rev Christie will finally have his day in court.

(COTTAGE GROVE, Ore.) - Reverend Christie is the founder of "The Hawaii Cannabis Ministries" (THC Ministries). He has been sitting unwillingly in a federal jail in Hawaii awaiting trial due to his teachings, encouragement and use of cannabis as a sacramental substance with his congregation.

Reverend Christie has been illegally detained in the Hawaiian Federal Correction system despite the promise of Due Process and the right to Speedy Trial in the US court systems since 2009, when his ministries were raided at the hands of state and federal authorities.

L.A. Times Reveals that Purdue Pharma Knowingly Concealed Database of Bad Doctors

Purdue Pharma has reaped close to $30 billion in profits since the launch of OxyContin in 1996. Some of these profits were gained from the doctors on a list that Purdue Pharma has not released to authorities.

(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) - This week "L.A. Times" reporters Scott Glover and Lisa Girion broke a news story that the maker of the deadly drug, OxyContin, Purdue Pharma, has a list of "about" 1,800 doctors who may have recklessly prescribed the highly addictive drug to addicts and dealers.

The problem is Purdue Pharms has not been alerting authorities to their list of "bad docs."