Author William Breathes

As we wrote earlier this week, some have come to blame the rise in heroin production south of the border on legalized cannabis in the United States. It’s a bunk assertion, and the problem was created by an epidemic of pharmaceutical abuse… but either way, we’re left with cartels producing heroin to keep up with a growing demand in the U.S.
A Washington Post article this week reported on the rise of heroin coming into the United States and mentions Mexican drug traffickers’ “shrewd marketing strategy”: targeting areas where prescription-drug abuse is high, including St. Louis.

Thanks to a few bad parents who let their children get into marijuana edibles that shouldn’t have been left out, Colorado lawmakers now feel the need to play parents. Under a proposed bill, any marijuana edible that resembles a commercially-available food (thing gummy bears, lozenges, and cookies) would be banned.