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A 2014 study by the Journal of the American Medical Association found that every state that had legalized medical marijuana between 1999 and 2010 also had significantly fewer deaths from painkiller overdoses. In all it was found that there was a 25% reduction in deaths related to the overdose of legally prescribed opioids. The study’s co-author Colleen Barry, a health policy researcher at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, said the the difference was ‘quite striking’. She also noted that the trend became visible in every state a year after the pot was legalized.

As troubling as Japan's deflationary, and now negative interest rate, economic quagmire is, the biggest threat facing Japan has little to do with its balance sheet and everything to do with its demographics, for the simple reason that not only is Japan's population the oldest it has ever been, as well as the oldest on average in the entire world, but is now also officially shrinking.

The private security firm G4S is to sell its UK children’s services business, including contracts for two youth detention centres just weeks after an undercover report revealed damning footage of its staff using excessive force on children. The contracts to be sold include the management of Medway secure training centre in Kent, where five men were arrested in January after a BBC Panorama investigation exposed the alleged abuse of “trainees”.

More Sandy Hook Unanswered Puzzles

I do not know what to make of these:

Sandy Hook dress rehersal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-aWGbGpatI

Here is a video showing that Sandy Hook school victim Noah Pozner was killed a second time in an attack on a Pakistani school: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkBe66x2zb4

The number of homeless people sleeping on the streets across England has doubled since 2010. 3,569 people are sleeping rough on any one night, which is a 30% increase compared to the last year’s figure, new data shows. Press TV reports: “Scandalous” and “shocking,” were how British charities described the figure urging the government for new measure to deal with the situation. “There are practical and immediate measures the government can take to tackle rough sleeping and other forms of homelessness”, said Crisis, a charity working for homeless.