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The Ohio Attorney General's office said that enough fentanyl to kill more than 4 million people was seized in a Clark County bust Monday night. The Miami Valley Bulk Smuggling Task Force seized about 20 pounds of fentanyl as part of an ongoing investigation, and four people were arrested. A large amount of marijuana and more than $100,000 in cash were also seized. Aguilar Reyes-Espinosa of New Carlisle, Omar Cantu-Garcia of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, David Cantu-Garcia of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, and Pedro Medina of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, are currently being held in the Montgomery County Jail on drug trafficking charges....

Neandertals Apparently Knew Medicinal Plants by Brian Thomas, M.S. * The Institute for Creation Research has long identified Neandertals as fully human.1 But for decades, evolutionists had labeled this extinct variety of humankind as sub-human, alleging that they had eaten mostly meat. A 1970 book titled Early Man illustrated a migrating Neandertal family wearing animal skins and carrying clubs. Part of the caption reads, "At left a man is carrying small game for provisions—a rabbit and a waterfowl—indicating that Neanderthalers hunted other creatures besides cave bears and woolly rhinoceroces."2 The book doesn't mention Neandertals eating plants for food or for...

It's almost a done deal. We are about to see herbal preparations disappear, and the ability of herbalists to prescribe them will also be lost. Big Pharma has almost reached the finish line of its decades-long battle to wipe out all competition. As of 1 April 2011—less than eight months from now—virtually all medicinal herbs will become illegal in the European Union. The approach in the United States is a bit different, but it's having the same devastating effect. The people have become nothing more than sinks for whatever swill Big Pharma and Agribusiness choose to send our way, and...

Of course, the Supreme Court decision has very little to do with wether or not pot is dangerous or helpful as medicine. It basically comes down to the question: Can the federal government tell the states which chemicals they have to ban? And yes, we fought a Civil War so that the federal government could tell the states exactly what to do - regardless of logic or local democracy. So last week the Supreme Court upheld Washington DC's unquestioned authority to create intrusive and illogical laws that are based on prejudiced perceptions above scientific reality. I can't really find any...

Critics say office leads to traffic, loitering, public pot smoking Several individuals, who declined to give their names, occupy the waiting room area for Resource Green, a medical marijuana club off Sonoma and Santa Rosa avenues in Santa Rosa, on Tuesday. While the club has a steady following, neighbors say members smoke pot on the street and cause traffic jams. It goes by names like Skywalker, Afghan Skunk and Trainwreck and sells for about $45 for an eighth-ounce bag. The pungent marijuana is offered at the Resource Green Caregivers and Patient Group, a Santa Rosa club where volunteers say pot...

What do you get with a Republican-dominated Statehouse, a governor's office with the usual slant against illegal drug use, and a proposal for a medicinal marijuana law? Maybe, just maybe, a marijuana pill, or even a spray. But a big "maybe" at that. Currently, Ohio medicinal marijuana proponents are ironing out some confusion within a bill they've been drafting for more than a year now. But as the time nears to present what they're calling the Ohio Medicinal Marijuana Act to the floors of the Statehouse, even proponents grudgingly acknowledge the prospects don't look good. Ohio is still a long...