Jordan Smith

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Tort-Reform Folly
According to new report on state's tort-reform measures, Perry's promise that frivolous lawsuits and high medical-malpractice insurance rates for docs are down and that the recruitment of specialists is apparently on the rise are promises that haven't panned out

News, Feb. 16, 2007

Prevention First
Legislation filed on Capitol Hill would expand family-planning funding, require health insurers to include contraceptive coverage, and more

News, Feb. 16, 2007

Reefer Madness
Corporate America, say hello to your new partner, NORML

News, Feb. 16, 2007

Naishtat Files Medi-Pot Bill
Naishtat to Lege: Protect Pot Patients

News, Feb. 15, 2007

NoDak Officials Urge Feds to Acknowledge Benefits of Hemp
NoDak officials urge Congress to get DEA hip to industrial hemp

News, Feb. 14, 2007

Paul Files Legislation to Legalize Hemp Farming
Paul Files Legislation to Legalize Hemp Farming
Paul to Congress: Bring back the hemp!

News, Feb. 14, 2007

DEA Won't Waive Registration Requirement for NoDak Farmers
The DEA wants to keep the hemp all to themselves. Selfish bastards.

News, Feb. 12, 2007

Fabricant's Drug War Rule No. 1: Don't Pull A Wendy Watson
Fabricant's Drug War Rule No. 1: Don't Pull A Wendy Watson
The Busted! Mantra: Reading is Fundamental....

News, Feb. 9, 2007

Criminal-Justice Officials Get Spanked
Officials with Texas Department of Criminal Justice and Board of Pardons and Paroles get tongue lashings during Lege hearing, where agency leaders were questioned about communication and coordination problems

News, Feb. 9, 2007

Reefer Madness
Reefer Madness
North Dakotans still fighting for hemp-farming approval

News, Feb. 9, 2007

More Madness from the Mouth of ONDCP Flack Tom Riley
Sounds like ONDCP spokesman Tom Riley's been smokin' the whacky weed....

News, Feb. 8, 2007

That Our Program Is Worthless Is NOT What's Important Here …
That Our Program Is Worthless Is NOT What's Important Here …
Whether the ONDCP's anti-drug media campaign actually works apparently isn't what concerns the White House. What's more important is who writes about the failed ad campaign.

News, Feb. 8, 2007

Dutton Proposes Easing Pot Penalties
Dutton Proposes Easing Pot Penalties
State rep wants possession of small amounts reduced to misdemeanor.

News, Feb. 7, 2007

Taking Aim at the Tijuana Drug Cartels
With their trusty slingshots at the ready, Tijuana police strike out to combat violent drug cartels

News, Feb. 6, 2007

Perry's Vaccination Order Raises Questions
Perry Orders HPV Vaccine

News, Feb. 5, 2007

Pitonyak Trial: From Court TV to You
Pitonyak Trial: From Court TV to You
Jury finds former UT student Colton Pitonyak guilty of "knowingly and intentionally" murdering Jennifer Cave, gives him 55 years

News, Feb. 2, 2007

Criminal Justice Policy Folly
Perry signs executive order creating state Criminal Justice Statistical Analysis Center, basically reconstituting Texas' Criminal Justice Policy Council, which he axed back in 2003

News, Feb. 2, 2007

They're Baaack: DEA Stealing from the Sick in Los Angeles
DEA back to bogartin' the stash in L.A.

News, Jan. 31, 2007

Kickin' in Vancouver
Kickin' in Vancouver
Vancouver's mayor has a plan to help his city's chronic coke and meth heads kick for good

News, Jan. 31, 2007

No Real Alternative
No Real Alternative
In the name of "promoting childbirth," the state finds yet another way to deny health care to thousands of Texas women

News, Jan. 26, 2007

Report Calls for Texas Death Penalty Reform
And people in hell want ice water

News, Jan. 26, 2007

TPCN: Ask Us No Questions
An organization funded entirely by tax dollars insists it is a "private business" free from public scrutiny

News, Jan. 26, 2007

Innocence Commission Back in Lege
Ellis renews quest to create independent commission to examine wrongful conviction cases

News, Jan. 26, 2007

Real Alternatives: The Pennsylvania Connection
Texas' "abortion alternative" has roots in the Keystone State

News, Jan. 26, 2007

Dinos in the Dome
Dinos in the Dome
NARAL hopes these five legislators are headed for extinction

News, Jan. 19, 2007

Who's in Charge at APD?
Who's in Charge at APD?
It's difficult to say who's running the cop shop these days

News, Jan. 12, 2007

New Twist in Anthony Graves Saga
Former death row inmate freed on federal bond then rearrested because he didn't have the dough necessary for freedom on state bond set last month

News, Jan. 12, 2007

Mental Illness and Execution: Supremes to weigh in
Supreme Court will hear appeal of Texas death row inmate Scott Panetti, to address question of how mentally ill a person has to be for an execution to be considered cruel and unusual punishment

News, Jan. 12, 2007

Drug Policy on Colbert Report

News, Jan. 8, 2007

Graves Released and Re-Arrested
Latest stunning twist to long, strange case

News, Jan. 7, 2007

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