Maine just got a lot closer to allowing recreational weed. Both the House (112-34) and Senate (24-10) passed a bill within a couple of days of one another that would regulate marijuana sales.
How many years have we known that abstinence-based programs like D.A.R.E. fail to truly educate young people about drugs and that we need a replacement?
Somewhere around 60,000 people a year are succumbing to fatal overdoses from opioids, according to the latest statistics from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.