If stillbirth is murder, does miscarriage make pregnant women into criminals?
If stillbirth is murder, does miscarriage make pregnant women into criminals?
A 25-year study that followed babies born to crack-addicted mothers found that while children were slow to develop, the determining factor was not their mothers' gestational cocaine use so much as the poverty in which they were raised. This is not to … Read more on The Guardian
Huntington woman sentenced for heroin trafficking
Federal prosecutors say from 2012 to 2013, Thacker allowed drug dealers from Detroit to store and sell heroin at her home and allowed addicts to use heroin. In return, she received heroin for her own use. Agents found heroin and more than $ 1,000 from … Read more on Charleston Gazette
LePage's 'war on drugs' plan spurs effort to vote on legalizing, taxing marijuana
… said he wants 22 new state positions — 14 new Maine Drug Enforcement agents, four new prosecutors in the attorney general's office, and four new District Court judges in Lewiston, Presque Isle, Bangor and Portland — to crack down on drug … Read more on Bangor Daily News