Category: States

  • Food Safety Inspection Funds Increase

    Food Safety Inspection Funds Increase

    U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced in a release today she will exercise the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) authority to provide a much-needed funding increase of $14.5 million in reimbursements to states for meat and poultry inspection programs. Without this funding, States may not have the resources to continue their own inspection

  • Analysis: Marijuana Legalization Associated With Declines in Prescription Drug Expenditures

    Analysis: Marijuana Legalization Associated With Declines in Prescription Drug Expenditures

    “Recreational cannabis laws result in significant relative declines in prescription drug claims. … The legalization of cannabis offers a potential substitute to traditional prescription drugs and alternative methods for health maintenance.” The post Analysis: Marijuana Legalization Associated With Declines in Prescription Drug Expenditures appeared first on NORML.

  • Letters to the editor

    Letters to the editor

    Joe Biden’s age It wasn’t Biden’s age that was the problem for me – I’ m older than Biden and Trump with more of my marbles than either and I would never presume to run to be POTUS.  I’m 86 and the pace of the campaign would kill me plus begging for money from every