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Mexican Police Find Improvised Marijuana Cannon Near The Border
Joe | Feb 26, 2013 | Comments 1
Mexican police in the city of Mexicali near the California border have found an improvised cannon that was being used to launch marijuana into The United States.
Police told the Televisa network that the device was made up of a plastic pipe and a crude metal tank that used compressed air from the engine of an old car.
The apparatus fired cylinders packed with drugs that weighed as much as 30 pounds, police. It was confiscated last week after U.S. officers told Mexican police that they had been confiscating a large number of drug packages that appeared to have been fired over the border. Mexican police on the border have recovered a series of similar devices in recent years.
As long as prohibition keeps pumping profits to the cartels in Mexico, they will continue to find a way to get marijuana into The U.S. Whether it be tunnels or catapults or cannons, a way will be found.
The key to stopping marijuana smuggling is getting the price of cannabis low enough that it won’t be worth it to the cartels to smuggle. This will lessen the violence and danger along the border while freeing up border agents to look for real crime and not worry about bales of marijuana being launched into this country like missiles.
This can only be accomplished through legalization.
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New Poll Results Find New Yorkers Favor Legalization
A recent Quinnipiac University poll revealed that New York State voters support marijuana legalization. The poll found that 51-44 percent believe pot should be made legal in New York. Men support marijuana legalization by a wider margin (56-41 percent), while women were less emphatic (47-46 percent).
As one might expect, support for legalizing pot is strongest among voters age 18 to 29. Support dropped in each successive age group – however, only voters over 65-years-old oppose …More
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Scientists Find Links Among Parkinson’s, Cancer and Family History
TUESDAY Sept. 4, 2012 — People with Parkinson’s disease and their relatives may be at increased risk for prostate cancer and melanoma, and people with those cancers may be at increased risk for Parkinson’s, a new study suggests.
University of Utah researchers estimated the risks for cancer among nearly 3,000 people in Utah who died of Parkinson’s disease between 1904 and 2008, and in their relatives. They also analyzed data from the Utah Cancer Registry on more than 100,000 people diagnosed with cancer.
The study was published online Sept. 3 in the Archives of Neurology.
The researchers found that men with Parkinson’s disease and their male relatives had a significantly increased risk for prostate cancer. They also found that prostate cancer patients and their male relatives had a significantly increased risk for Parkinson’s, according to a journal news release.
Parkinson’s disease is a neurological condition that can include tremors, stiffness, slurred speech and trouble walking.
The study also found that Parkinson’s patients and their relatives had a significantly increased risk of melanoma, and that melanoma patients and their relatives had a significantly increased risk of Parkinson’s.
The findings suggest that there is a shared genetic risk for Parkinson’s and certain cancers, according to Dr. Seth Kareus and colleagues.
Identifying and understanding this relationship could help doctors better assess cancer risk in Parkinson’s disease patients, prove helpful in counseling their relatives, and influence strategies for skin and prostate cancer screening, the researchers said.
While the study found an association between family history, Parkinson’s disease and cancer risk, it did not prove a cause-and-effect relationship.
More information
The U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke has more about Parkinson’s disease.
Posted: September 2012
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