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Study: No Association Between Cannabis Smoke and Risk of Lung Cancer

Numerous preclinical studies have documented that cannabinoids possess potent anti-cancer properties, including the inhibition of lung cancer cell growth.

(LOS ANGELES) - Investigators from the University of California, Los Angeles provided the latest data reaffirming that cannabis consumption is not associated with an elevated risk of lung cancer.

The study included data from six case-control studies conducted from 1999 to 2012 in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand...

Activists Protest LA Times Takeover Rumors by Kochs

A spokesperson for the Kochs has dismissed the talk as rumors...

(LOS ANGELES) - Rumors are swirling that the Koch Brothers may be making moves to purchase the LA Times and that possibility has progressive activists concerned about the editorial future of the paper.

Last week protests were held outside of the LA headquarters of Tribune’s largest shareholder, Oaktree Capital Management.

Student Researchers on Front Lines of Marijuana Issue

"It feels like one of those things you'll look back on in 20 years and say to your kids, 'I was there when this was happening.'" - Emily Hamilton

(LOS ANGELES) - In the midst of a raging national debate on how Americans use marijuana, a team of student researchers from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs is collecting data that could help separate marijuana fact from fiction.


While the work is academic, the issue has real-world implications.

EXCLUSIVE: Diane Downs Never Held a Weapon, How Could She Have Shot Her Kids?

Though her appeals are used up, Downs' advocates have unearthed 4700 pages of evidence the prosecution did not share during the trial.

(EUGENE, OR) - It's hard to say exactly what convicted Diane Downs in the shooting of her children, a terrible event that played out on a dark night in 1983.

If one word plays into the scenario over and over, it is "emotion" and that is indeed a raw, powerful determiner of guilt in many cases, sometimes appropriately, sometimes not.

Activist Violently Arrested For Filming At Oregon Rodeo

SHARK’S video of horse tripping at the 2012 Big Loop Rodeo inspired Sen. Mark Hass, D-Beaverton to introduce a horse-tripping ban.

(JORDAN VALLEY, OR) - Animal Rights volunteer Adam Fahnestock was monitoring the Big Loop Rodeo Saturday when rodeo personnel and a deputy approached him.

After a very brief conversation, the deputy suddenly grabbed Fahnestock and threw him violently to the ground where rodeo personnel then also set upon him.

California Residents Observe Sri Lankan Tamil Genocide

For the voice of Justice for Eelam Tamils (Candle light Vigil @ SantaMonica Beach in remembering 146,679 people including 25,000+ children)

(SANTA MONICA) - Any western parent who comprehensively understood what the government of Sri Lanka did to its own population in May 2009, would demand the U.S. end all support of this war crime state.

Children were butchered, countless women and children were raped, soldiers with white flags were shot dead in their tracks. Sri Lanka is dangerous.

Letting Murderers Go Free

If you are outraged that Florida’s serial killer Rick Scott and his legislative toadies are able to distort justice in these ways, take action.

(MIAMI) - Breaking News: In Florida, a murderer has made public his plans to kill three individuals in the next six weeks.

If all goes according to his plan, Elmer Carroll will die on May 29th, William Van Poyk will die on June 12th, and Marshal Gore will die on June 24th.

Justice Dept. Won`t Say Why it Seized Reporters` Phone Records

Boy, Big Government sure looks warm and cuddly this week.

(HARRISBURG Watchdog) - It’s one of those days where those of us who worry about handing too much authority to the federal government were proven right. Again.

The Associated Press this afternoon reports that the U.S. Justice Department seized records for more than 20 telephone lines assigned to AP journalists during 2012.

Admiral Joe Sestak for U.S. Senate

Admiral Sestak always supported our veterans when he was in Congress, and we need him now in the U.S. Senate.

(MEDIA, PA) - When Admiral Joe Sestak declared he would be running for the U.S. Senate this week, I was happy to hear it.

This is primarily because of one reason: he will take care of the veterans our Senators and Congressmen voted to send them to war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Bombing Kills 15 in Kabul, 6 Americans: Is this What Winning Looks Like? (+ VICE video)

A sad and realistic view of the Afghan war now.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Gulbuddin Hikmatyar’s Hizb-i Islami [the Islamic Party] guerrilla group bombed a military convoy in Kabul this morning, killing 15, including 6 Americans.

The Reagan administration gave Hikmatyar billions in the 1980s because he was effective in fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan, but in 2001 the old guerrilla switched sides and allied with the Taliban in an effort to get the US back out of his country.