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Associated Press
2 days ago
- Politics
- Associated Press
TERRY COLE FIX IT! DEA Blocks FDA Cannabis Trials While Contaminated Marijuana Floods State Markets
Terrance Cole's Choice: Reformer or Cover-Up Artist? New DEA Administrator Terrance Cole stands at a crossroads: Quotes From Inside the Agency Reveal Systemic Corruption, Regulatory Negligence, and Public Health Betrayal. The DEA's war on cannabis research is not just a failure of policy-it's a failure of morality. WASHINGTON, DC / ACCESS Newswire / August 10, 2025 / While patients suffering from Huntington's disease, Multiple Sclerosis, and other debilitating conditions await life saving cannabis based treatments, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) continues to flaunt its profound ignorance, regulatory negligence, and outright corruption. The agency's mission claims to 'ensure an adequate and uninterrupted supply of controlled substances for medical and scientific needs,' but internal statements and actions reveal a shocking pattern of incompetence, deceit, and deliberate obstruction. From field agents to senior leadership, the DEA's handling of cannabis research applications has devolved into a circus of bureaucratic malpractice -one that prioritizes power over patients, red tape over science, and self preservation over public health. The DEA's Greatest Hits: A Compilation of Cluelessness and Corruption Here are actual quotes from DEA officials tasked with overseeing cannabis research-exposing an agency that is either catastrophically inept or intentionally sabotaging medical progress: The Bigger Scandal: A Culture of Corruption These quotes are not isolated incidents-they reflect a systemic rot within the DEA's Diversion Control Division: The Human Cost: Patients Left to Suffer While the DEA plays bureaucratic games: The Solution: Dismantle the DEA's Obstruction Machine Congress, the courts, and the White House must act now: Terrance Cole's Moment of Truth (2025) New DEA Administrator Terrance Cole faces a choice: America doesn't need more anti-science bureaucrats-it needs leaders who put patients over politics. The DEA's cannabis obstruction isn't just incompetence-it's institutional malpractice. MMJ is represented by attorney Megan Sheehan. CONTACT: Madison Hisey [email protected] 203-231-8583 SOURCE: MMJ International Holdings press release
Yahoo
05-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Is Britt's Research on GH About Huntington's Disease?
General Hospital brought Britt Westbourne back in the most mysterious way. For months, viewers have tried to figure out what Professor Henry Dalton was working on. Being on the WSB radar doesn't just happen for no reason, so our interest was piqued. Now that we know Britt is also involved in some way, there are even more questions than answers. Is Britt Working on a Cure For Huntington's? Britt's (Kelly Thiebaud) link to Dalton (Daniel Goddard) has us questioning whether her research deals with the fact that she was experiencing signs and symptoms of Huntington's disease before she 'died.' Dalton was flagged by the WSB and tested on animals in California before being transferred to Port Charles. Why he ended up at PCU was unclear, but given Britt's home there, the pieces are starting to come together. After learning she carried the gene for Huntington's, Britt was worried about the quality of her life. She inherited it from her father, Fasion (Anders Hove), and when her hands got shaky and other signs popped up, Jason (Steve Burton) became her confidante. Her reaction to the paperwork she received via courier from Dalton suggested she wasn't pleased with his work so far. Having it tied to genetics or a cure for the disease would make sense, but the part where the WSB is concerned is still murky. Will the WSB or Jason Find Britt first? Now that Jason has an idea that he saw Britt (and he did) get on a plane, he is determined to find out whether she is alive. He, of all people, knows all about being resurrected from the dead. He's been 'dead' twice over the last decade. After his conversation with Liesl (Kathleen Gati), he isn't convinced that Britt is dead. Liesl did a good job covering if she knows that Britt is alive, but given that she's been away from Port Charles, we suspect she might know the truth. The WSB is supposed to be the best of the best, but after the courier's tracker was lost, they aren't much closer to learning what Dalton is up to. However, with their extensive resources, Jack Brennan (Chris McKenna) may be quicker than Stone Cold. What do you think? Who will solve this case first? Your soap prediction could spark our next big debate — email amber@ now! Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
05-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
General Hospital Fan Theory: Brad Helped Britt Fake Her Death
The Britch is back on General Hospital, and we are here for it! It turns out she isn't dead after all. But did she fake her death, and if she did, did someone help her? Britt And Brad: BFF Fans are thrilled to see Britt (Kelly Thiebaud) back on their screens. It's quite a turn of events, being that she died in her mother's arms. She wasn't missing and presumed dead; we actually saw her take her last breath, but that doesn't always mean much on GH. Next to Liesl (Kathleen Gati), the person most affected by losing Britt was her bestie, Brad (ex-Parry Shen). The two were partners in crime (yes, some were actual crimes) and were always there for each other. She was the only friend he had left in the world after the Wiley (Viron Weaver) switching debacle. They were both getting back on track right before her 'death'. She was Chief of Staff and helped to rehire him as a lab tech. Brad was devastated after Britt was killed. Or was he? Brad would do anything for his bestie, plus he has no problem being unethical. The two could have set the scene with drugs from the hospital. It wouldn't be the first time something like this happened in Port Charles. Maybe this could bring back our beloved Brad. What is Britt without him? But Why Britt? We have yet to discover the reason Britt wants all of Port Charles to believe she is dead. It may have something to do with her Huntington's Disease. She could be trying to find a cure, and needed to disappear to do so. Professor Dalton (Daniel Goddard) is up to something, possibly performing some kind of experiment. We know he was doing testing on animals, maybe he switched to humans, and Britt is his latest guinea pig? It looks like someone will find her sooner than she thinks. Jason (Steve Burton), Josslyn (Eden McCoy), and Vaughn (Bryce Durfee) are all on their way to the Five Poppies Resort & Spa in Croatia, where she is hiding (or being hidden). Fans may get answers soon. Oh, who are we kidding? This will probably drag on for a while longer. Do you agree with the fan theory that Brad helped Britt, or was it something else? Let us know in the comments section. Got thoughts that could stir up the soap world? Share them at news@
New York Times
30-07-2025
- Health
- New York Times
We're More Likely Than Ever to See Ourselves as Sick. Why?
In 1983, nearly a decade before the Human Genome Project was even started and two decades before it was completed, scientists mapped the chromosomal abnormality responsible for Huntington's disease. The disease was then, as it is now, both incurable and intolerable: typically an inexorable descent into cognitive and neurological dysfunction, usually beginning in middle age and ending only after a long period of profound decline — often involuntary movements, followed by the inability to talk or communicate or, eventually, move. When a predictive test was first introduced in 1986, it was expected that perhaps as many as three-quarters of those at risk would choose to take it to discover what lay ahead for them — to be relieved or to begin planning, but in either case resolving uncertain anxiety into a more concrete sense of medical fate. Instead, the Irish neurologist Suzanne O'Sullivan writes in 'The Age of Diagnosis,' published this spring, roughly nine out of every 10 at-risk people offered the test around the world decline it — preferring to live with ignorance. Perhaps, she suggests, we'd all be better off if we followed their lead, embracing uncertainty and ambiguity rather than always rushing to diagnose every deviation from 'normal.' A collection of intimate case studies somewhat in the tradition of Oliver Sacks, 'The Age of Diagnosis' ranges widely, recounting the stories of patients reckoning not just with Huntington's but also with cancer and Lyme disease and long Covid. But it delivers its takeaway message boldly: that in our eagerness to help, we have grown too promiscuous in our impulse to pathologize. For certain conditions, O'Sullivan suggests, you can tally the cost in excessive, sometimes counterproductive care: Reports have indicated that perhaps one-third of breast cancer treatments are unnecessary, that certain prostate-cancer screening programs have saved relatively few lives, and that what is now called 'prediabetes' may resolve itself without any intervention in nearly 60 percent of cases. In the realm of mental health, some clinicians and researchers worry that diagnosis can be 'self-fulfilling,' through what is technically called 'iatrogenic' risk: that the very fact of identifying a disorder can make patients feel less well, less capable, more burdened and less independent than when they walked into the doctor's office wondering what the hell was going on. Some researchers, though, have emphasized the inverse phenomenon: that patients are relieved to have a name and feel empowered by a diagnosis, even if there isn't anything for them to do about it. And for me, 'The Age of Diagnosis' is too broad a polemic — given how many afflictions remain mysterious, how much suffering endures without a name, and how often we underdiagnose and undertreat even well-understood conditions. But the book very helpfully puts its finger on what is, I think, a key to understanding an awful lot of modern social panic. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Washington Post
26-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
The Woody Guthrie tapes you weren't supposed to hear
In 1951, his health worsening, Woody Guthrie flipped the switch on his new T-100 reel-to-reel tape recorder to lay down several songs for his publisher. His days as a recording artist were done. This was strictly business. The Huntington's disease that would force Guthrie into the hospital the following year had diminished his voice. He sometimes slurred so much that those who didn't understand his condition gossiped that he was drinking too much. Howie Richman, a music publisher, knew otherwise. He signed the songwriting legend of 'This Land Is Your Land' to a publishing deal and sent him the recording machine.
