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Is cannabis really less dangerous than MDMA and Adderall? Experts warn of psychosis and heart risks as officials move to downgrade drug

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Doctors have declared the Government’s push to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a ‘political move that goes against science’ and ‘glosses over’ serious risks of addiction and psychosis. 

The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is announced plans to downgrade marijuana from a schedule one substance to schedule three, putting it in the same safety category as some types of Tylenol and steroids. 

If the rule is officially adopted, marijuana will be considered less risky than LSD, ecstacy, codeine, Adderall

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Black Alabamans Urged Officials to Stop a Plant Polluting Their Neighborhood – Mother Jones

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Walter Moorer observes fumes emitted from the Hosea Weaver asphalt plant near Chin Street in the historic Black community of Africatown.Patrick Darrington/Inside Climate News

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Walter Moorer likes to say he lives at 411 “Death Row Street.” At least that is what he compares his living conditions to as he is bombarded with the stench, pollution, noise, and dust that

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WHO do you think you are? MPs fear ‘unelected’ UN officials could dictate Britain’s lockdown policy in future pandemics under controversial new treaty

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World Health Organization (WHO) chiefs could be given power over Britain’s future pandemic policies, MPs fear.

Under plans for a new global pandemic treaty, the UN agency is considering making dozens of amendments to its legally-binding rulebook. 

Critics worry member nations might be made to comply with advice in future health crises, such as enforcing lockdowns or vaccine passports.

A group of Conservative MPs have now warned the UK risks ‘signing away’ its powers to ‘unelected’ WHO bosses, complaining about

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Witness to Kenneth Eugene Smith’s historic nitrogen execution described it as ‘horrific’ and heard audible ‘gasps’ from officials as he took 22 minutes to die while he ‘convulsed’ against the restraints

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A witness to the first ever nitrogen hypoxia execution described the ‘horrific’ moment Kenneth Eugene Smith writhed in agony as he suffocated to death. 

Smith, 58, had a tight gas mask placed over his face before a stream of 100 percent nitrogen gas suffocated him inside the execution chamber at the William C. Holman prison in Atmore, Alabama. 

The moment was the ‘worst thing’ spiritual guider Jeff Hood said he had ever seen, claiming prison officials gasped in shock

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MMR vaccine pop-up clinics to be set-up in schools in bid to thwart measles outbreak as officials urge ‘Wakefield generation’ to come forward for jabs in unprecedented catch-up campaign

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Pop-up clinics dishing out MMR jabs are being set up in schools in a push to boost vaccines as cases of measles surge.

The NHS has sent letters to parents of six to 11-year-olds in England urging them to make an appointment with their GP if their child has not had both doses.

They have also issued reminders to 1million people aged 11 to 25 in London and the West Midlands, the two epicentres of the outbreak, encouraging them to

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Did coast guard plane pilot or air traffic control blunder cause Japan Airlines crash? Captain – and sole survivor – on smaller aircraft insists he had permission to take-off but officials say he was told to stay off runway

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A Japanese air traffic controller and the captain of a Coast Guard plane that collided with a passenger jet on Tuesday have given competing accounts of the deadly crash.

Japan’s transport authorities began inspecting the charred remains of the two planes on Wednesday and retrieved the Coast Guard plane’s black box, while local media said police were investigating possible professional negligence in the case.

All 379 people aboard the Japan Airlines (JAL) Airbus A350 had a miraculous escape after it

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Two senior royals ‘mistakenly’ identified in Omid Scobie’s book as having ‘concerns’ over Archie’s skin colour are now named on UK TV: Monarchy ‘utterly dismayed’ as officials take legal advice – fury grows at ‘translation error’ and ‘spiteful’ stunt

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The monarchy is understood to be ‘utterly dismayed’ after Piers Morgan named the two senior royals who Omid Scobie claimed had ‘concerns’ over Prince Archie’s skin colour on UK television last night.

Meghan Markle first made the claim in the Sussexes’ infamous 2021 Oprah Winfrey interview when she revealed there were ‘several conversations’ between herself, Harry and Royal Family members about ‘how dark’ Archie’s skin would be. 

While the Duchess of Sussex chose not to name them amid fears it

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SPECIAL REPORT: Meet the Oakland A’s fans, investors and officials planning to STEAL baseball back with launch of Oakland Ballers phoenix team ahead of Las Vegas relocation

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While it may lack the beauty and polish of its more progressive counterparts, former A’s outfielder Eric Byrnes once perfectly summed up why the archaic Coliseum wobbling tall in Oakland still means so much to the city.

‘It’s a giant concrete toilet bowl,’ Byrnes said bluntly back in 2018. ‘But it’s their toilet bowl.’

Even the most die-hard Oakland Athletics supporters would struggle to deny that their home stadium is an age behind others across the country. A decaying building

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Hamas officials say Israeli strike has hit another refugee camp, ‘massacring’ 15 people – as IDF tanks and troops close in on Gaza City

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Hamas officials today said an Israeli air strike slammed into another refugee camp, ‘massacring’ at least 15 people with dozens more trapped under the rubble.

The large explosion ripped through clusters of homes in the densely packed Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, leaving a deep, debris-littered crater in its wake.

Exhausted Palestinians desperately searched through the rubble of their homes for loved ones, their screams piercing the air as they found the lifeless bodies of their mothers and children.

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Israel withholding visas for UN officials after Hamas comments: ‘Teach them a lesson’

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Tensions between Israel and the United Nations are heightened after a series of comments about Hamas led to U.N. visas being denied.

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said Tuesday during a meeting of the Security Council the terrorist attacks against Israel Oct. 7 “did not happen in a vacuum.”

Supporters of Israel took offense to the assertion, and critics claimed the U.N. was blaming the Jewish state for the slaughter of its own civilians by Hamas.

UN LEADER RESPONDS TO ISRAEL

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