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Sheldon Adelson and his 2nd and current wife Miriam Is worth $28 billion, and the 18th wealthiest person on the planet.  Is a casino and media magnate and philanthropist. - chairman and chief executive officer of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, which owns the Venetian and the Palazzo in Las Vegas, Nevada, the Sands  Bethlehem in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania , Sands Macau in Macau, China, and the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore and the parent company of Venetian Macao Limited which operates The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino and the Sands Expo and Convention Center . - owner of the Israeli daily newspaper Israel Hayom , and the Las Vegas Review-Journal . [3] - donates to a variety of causes, with his wife's initiative, the Adelson Foundation . - a former supporter of the Democrat Party who now supports the Republican Party, who describes himself as "liberal on several social issues" Rabidly opposes any liberalization from drug prohibition status quo. Is quite anti Marijua...

'well regulated' need not be so well regulated, with Court assuming that a substances status as 'illegal' renders any assumptions valid. 922  (d) It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or otherwise dispose of any firearm or ammunition to any person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such person—   (3) is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance (as defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act ( 21 U.S.C. 802 )); http://reason.com/blog/2016/09/01/9th-circuit-says-medical-marijuana-cardh#comment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Ninth_Circuit https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2016/08/31/14-15700.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jed_S._Rakoff http://alchetron.com/Jed-S-Rakoff-349686-W Jed Saul Rakoff (born August 1, 1943) is a United States District Judge on senior status for the Southern District of New York . [1] Judge Rakoff was born in Phil...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitragyna_speciosa http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dea-kratom-schedule-i_us_57c5c263e4b0cdfc5ac98b83?section http://www.dictionary.com/browse/sociopathic noun , Psychiatry. 1. a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial , often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience. http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html DSM-IV Definition. Antisocial personality disorder is characterized by a lack of regard for the moral or legal standards in the local culture. There is a marked inability to get along with others or abide by societal rules. Individuals with this disorder are sometimes called psychopaths or sociopaths . some points: Manipulative and Conning They never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors as permissible. Th...

Green Party Candidate Jill Stein makes sense on vaccine issue: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2016/07/jill-stein-promotes-homeopathy-panders-on-vaccines/ Jill Stein wrote:  I don’t know if we have an “official” stance, but I can tell you my personal stance at this point. According to the most recent review of vaccination policies across the globe, mandatory vaccination that doesn’t allow for medical exemptions is practically unheard of. In most countries, people trust their regulatory agencies and have very high rates of vaccination through voluntary programs. In the US, however, regulatory agencies are routinely packed with corporate lobbyists and CEOs. So the foxes are guarding the chicken coop as usual in the US. So who wouldn’t be skeptical? I think dropping vaccinations rates that can and must be fixed in order to get at the vaccination issue: the widespread distrust of the medical-indsutrial (sic) complex. Vaccines in general have made a h...

The media hysterics against opioids, such as The New York Times, ought to be ashamed of themselves! http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/opioid-epidemic-drug-mix-overdose-death Bob Bee- It's prohibition that serves to ensure opioids are more dangerous than they otherwise would be, due to uncertainty of purity and dosage of unregulated, black market drugs. Thus prohibition makes fatal OD's more likely, not less. Opioids should be legalized, regulated, and taxed like tobacco and alcohol. That way, users would know exactly what they were buying and the dosage. Also, opioid legalization would mean good, old, natural opium would be legally available. Users could opt for opium (active ingredients include morphine & codeine. It can be eaten, smoked, or consumed as a tea) as a safer alternative to ultra-potent pharma-junk powders & pills. Opium's safer as it's less concentrated and is harder to fatally OD on. End the counter-productive,...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shill A shill, also called a plant or a stooge, is a person who publicly helps or gives credibility to a person or organization without disclosing that they have a close relationship with the person or organization. Shills can carry out their operations in the areas of media, journalism, marketing or other business areas. Shill typically refers to someone who purposely gives onlookers the impression that they are an enthusiastic independent customer of a seller (or marketer of ideas) for whom they are secretly working. The person or group who hires the shill is using crowd psychology to encourage other onlookers or audience members to purchase the goods or services (or accept the ideas being marketed). Shills are often employed by professional marketing campaigns. "Plant" and "stooge" more commonly refer to any person who is secretly in league with another person or organization while pretending to be neutral or actually...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/21/health/opioid-prescriptions-drop-for-first-time-in-two-decades.html?_r=0 (excerpts) "...for each of the past three years — 2013, 2014 and 2015 — prescriptions have declined, a review of several sources of data shows." " IMS Health, an information firm whose data on prescribing is used throughout the health care industry, found a 12 percent decline in opioid prescriptions nationally since a peak in 2012. Another data company, Symphony Health Solutions, reported a drop of about 18 percent during those years. Opioid prescriptions have fallen in 49 states since 2013, according to IMS, with some of the sharpest decreases coming in West Virginia, the state considered the center of the opioid epidemic, and in Texas and Oklahoma. (Only South Dakota showed an increase.)" ... ... One important development that may have helped propel the decline came in 2014, when the federal government tightened prescribing rules for one of the most c...