Posted in Courts & Justice System, Family, International, Law, Parenting, People in the news, celebrities, children, tagged addict, Anna Nicole Smith, Bahamas, criminal charges, Daniel Smith, Dannielynn, death, drugs, hospital, Howard Stern, inquest, Larry Birkhead, mysterious death, non-dependent drug use on March 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A jury in the Bahamas, after hearing testimony in an Inquest regarding the cause and manner of death of 20-year-old Daniel Smith, son of Anna Nicole Smith, has determined that the young man died from an accidental drug overdose. The seven-member jury deliberated for two hours, after weeks of testimony spread out over [...]
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Posted in Entertainment, STFU, celebrities, humor, insanetertainment, media, music, torture, tagged Always Something There To Remind Me, American Idol, bad American Idol, Bathwater, Beatles, Bee Gees, Blondie, Call Me, Carmen Rasmusen, Eight Days A Week, Elton John, Entertainment Weekly, Gloria Estefan, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Gwen Stefani, Harley Scarnato, Jive Talkin, John Stevens, Josh Gracin, Kevin Covais, Kristy Lee Cook, Love Will Lead You Back, Mikalah Gordon, Music of My Heart, Naked Eyes, Nikki McKibben, No Doubt, Part Time Lover, Sanjaya Malakar, Season Five, Season Four, Season One, Season Seven, Season Six, Season Three, Season Two, Stevie Wonder, Turn The Beat Around, Vicki Sue Robinson on March 31, 2008 | No Comments »
Ah, an article after my own heart. Regular readers are aware of how much I love the bad American Idol auditions, and Entertainment Weekly must have read my mind, because it has made a list of the Top Ten worst appearances by American Idol contestants. These aren’t the auditions, folks. These are [...]
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Posted in Cops Gone Wild, Courts & Justice System, Law, Lies and the lying liars who tell them, Master of the Painfully Obvious, People in the news, Science, corruption, crazy claims, crime, health, law enforcement, local politics, military, obituaries, personal responsibility, politics, unusual behaviors, tagged accident, administrative leave, arrest, circling the wagons, cops, cruiser, disparity in prosecution, Family, Guy Thomas, hit and run, investigation, Ironton, Ironton Police, Navy Veteran, Ohio, Ohio Bureau of Investigation, patrolman, pedestrian, police, police cruiser, police station, positive identification, Richard Fouts, rookie cop, shoe, vehicular homicide, vehicular manslaughter, wallet, WSAZ on March 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I previously covered this story, back when it first broke, and updated readers again when the cops were trying to blame it on the man who died.
Here is my statement from my second blog article, on the matter of whether he was killed by the cop:
Lawrence County Coroner Burton Payne said there were was no [...]
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Posted in Entertainment, International, Master of the Painfully Obvious, People in the news, Shine on you crazy diamond, celebrities, humor, insanetertainment, women, tagged belly dancer, belly dancing, dance, dancing, Miss Turkey, Paris Hilton on March 30, 2008 | No Comments »
…. that Paris Hilton would take some dancing lessons. I have seen a number of videos of Paris “dancing”, and if I “danced” as badly as she does, I’d be too embarrassed to even dance in my house alone.
Here, a contestant on “Miss Turkey” invites Paris onto the stage during her belly dance. What a [...]
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Posted in Entertainment, insanetertainment, libertarian, media, music, politics, tagged American Idol, Cilla Gatties, immigration, Jason and Cilla, Jason Gatties, Live From Court Street, politics on March 30, 2008 | No Comments »
I just finished appearing on “Live From Court Street with Jason and Cilla” - what a blast!
We talked about American Idol, and politics. We even talked about immigration for a minute or two.
Jason and Cilla are very nice folks, and they’re doing a great job with their show despite the technical problems they ran [...]
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Posted in Entertainment, humor, tagged Meme on March 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was tagged by Dee
What time did you get up this morning? I’m not sure, but it was very late.
Diamonds or pearls? Both
What is your favorite TV show? The Office
What do you usually have for breakfast? I don’t eat breakfast.
What is your middle name? Sue
What food do you dislike? Rice. I think it [...]
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Posted in Courts & Justice System, Family, Law, Lies and the lying liars who tell them, Master of the Painfully Obvious, Parenting, People in the news, children, crazy claims, crime, human rights abuses, obituaries, personal responsibility, prisons, religion, torture, unusual behaviors, tagged Ana Maudlin, Ana Mauldin, Beelzebub, Charleston, child, child abuse, child neglect, death penalty, devil made me do it, disabled, elderly, Eva Maudlin, Eva Mauldin, exorcism, insanity, Jan David Clark, Joseph Edwin Dawson, Joshua Maudlin, Joshua Mauldin, Kanawha County, life without parole, microwave baby, murder, Nixzmary Brown, personal responsibility, Satan, St. Albans, violence, West Virginia on March 28, 2008 | 12 Comments »
I previously wrote about Joshua Mauldin, who was convicted of microwaving his infant daughter; yesterday he was sentenced to 25 years in prison. His wife, Eva (who wasn’t there when it happened, so she wasn’t charged), claimed that the devil made him commit that crime, and he pled insanity. In another unrelated case, [...]
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Posted in Entertainment, humor, insanetertainment, internets, libertarian, libertarianism, music, politics, tagged American Idol, blogtalk radio, Cilla Gatties, Entertainment, internet radio, Jason and Cilla Gatties, Jason Gatties, Live From Court Street with Jason and Cilla, news, sports, WWE Ring Announcer on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Regular readers may recall that I was going to appear on last week’s episode of “Live From Court Street with Jason and Cilla“, but the show had to be canceled due to circumstances beyond their control. This is just to let you know that the show is on for tomorrow, Saturday, March 28th.
The show [...]
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Posted in Elections '08, Libertarian Party, POTUS '08, War On Drugs, elections, libertarian, libertarianism, politics, war, tagged Aaron Russo, abortion, Activism, African-American, anti-tax, anti-war, Badnarik, ballot access, Bernard Schoenburg, Bill Clinton, blogosphere, brochures, campaign brochures, candidacy, candidate, Candidate Endorsement, Cedar Rapids, Chris Bennett, civil liberties, civil rights, college, Colorado, concentration camps, Constitution, constitutional rights, credit card, debit card, declaration of war, Denver, donation, Drug War, Economics, education, Evonne Bennett, fair tax, First Amendment, Fuhrer Bush, George Phillies, goal, government control, health care, Heritage high School, Hitler, Illinois, Internal Revenue Service, Iowa, IRA, Iraq War, IRS, Jesse Jackson, legalize drugs, Legislative Chair, libertarian, Libertarian Convention, libertarian movement, Libertarian Party, Libertarian Party Convention, Libertarian Party of Illinois, libertarian philosophy, Littleton, LP, Marrou, Matt Stone, media, Military Commissions Act, Minorities, nomination, North American Union, Oral Roberts, Patriot Act, PayPal, Political studies, politics, presidential campaign, pro-life, race relations, Real ID, Richard Boddie, Richard Roberts, Ron Paul, Scheduling Coordinator, Second Amendment, South Park, Springfield, Springfield State Journal-Register, Steve Kubby, Taxation, television evangelist, third parties, third party, University of Illinois, US Government, Vice President, volunteer, vote, war, women on March 26, 2008 | No Comments »
[NOTE: Originally posted on Last Free Voice]
As you are hopefully all by now aware, longtime LFV contributor Chris Bennett is seeking the LP’s Vice Presidential nomination. While he would have my support simply for being an LFV contributor and a great guy, there is so much more to his candidacy that I have decided [...]
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Posted in Courts & Justice System, Family, Humanity, Law, Lies and the lying liars who tell them, Parenting, People in the news, children, crazy claims, crime, health, human rights abuses, personal responsibility, religion, torture, unusual behaviors, tagged adoption, amputation, Ana Mauldin, baby, burn, Eva Mauldin, guilty, Heather Croxton, infant, Joshua Mauldin, judge, jury, microwave, physical therapy, prosecution, sentence, sentencing, victim impact statement on March 26, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Joshua Mauldin, previously discussed on this blog, has been found guilty of felony injury to a child. He had pled not guilty, and claimed he was insane when he committed the crime. His wife, Eva, had previously stated that he was possessed when he punched the baby, put her in a hotel safe, [...]
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Posted in Entertainment, People in the news, celebrities, insanetertainment, music, tagged Alone, Amanda Overmyer, American Idol, Anne Wilson, Billie Jean, Bonnie Tyler, Brooke Adams, Carly Smithson, Chikezie, David Archuletta, David Cook, Dog the Bounty Hunter, Every Breath You Take, Fragile, God Bless The USA, Heart, If I Were your Woman, If Only For One Night, Jason Castro, Kristy Lee Cook, Lee Greenwood, Luther Vandross, Michael Jackson, Michael Johns, Queen, Ramiele Malubay, Randy Jackson, Ryan Seacrest, Simon Cowell, Stephanie Mills, Sting, Syesha Mercado, The Police, Total Eclipse of the Heart, We Are The Champions, We Will rock You, You Are The Voice on March 26, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Tonight is the first night for the Top Ten. For those of you who don’t normally follow this crap competition, the Top Ten go on tour together during the summer, so they all make some major moolah simply for having gotten this far.
To refresh your memory, last week Amanda “Vampira” Overmyer was eliminated. [...]
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Posted in Courts & Justice System, Humanity, International, Law, Science, civil liberties, constitutional rights, health, nanny state, personal responsibility, politics, torture, women, tagged animal euthanasia, assisted suicide, autopsy, barbituate, Belgium, Chantal Sebire, cure, disease, disfigurement, doctor, ethics, euthanasia, France, French, Gilles Antonowica, indignity, kevorkian, morality, Oregon, overdose, pain, patient, pentobarbital, physician, suffering, suicide, Switzerland, teacher, terminal illness, treatment on March 23, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Chantal Sebire, a 52-year-old French schoolteacher, suffers from a rare disease which has left her disfigured with facial tumors, and which will eventually damage her brain and kill her; there is no cure, and no treatment. She could suffer horribly for years before dying, in the meantime becoming [...]
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Posted in Courts & Justice System, Family, Judges Gone Wild, Law, Parenting, children, civil liberties, constitutional rights, crime, nanny state, police state, tagged abuse, California, child abuse, children, college, constitutional right, credential, criminal charge, DCFS, degree, Department of Children and Family Service, education, Education Code, home school, homeschool, independent study, Judge H. Walter Croskey, juvenile court, Los Angeles, neglect, public school, school, Second District Court of Appeals, Sunland Christian School, teaching on March 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A court in California has ruled that parents cannot homeschool their children, unless they have a teaching degree. Strangely, this ruling would prevent even parents with a doctorate in another discipline from teaching their own children, unless they go back to college to get a teaching degree. Yet I once even taught public [...]
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Posted in Courts & Justice System, Law, People in the news, Science, crime, health, human rights abuses, unusual behaviors, tagged active-duty, anesthesia, Army, arrest, assault, blood-borne disease, Captain, chief warrant officer, cirrhosis, commanding general, controlled substance, drugs, El Paso, Fentanyl, Fort Bliss, fraud, gunnery sergeant, hepatitis, Hepatitis C, investigation, Jim Darnell, Jon Dale Jones, liver, liver cancer, Marine Corps, military, nurse, painkiller, prescription, prosecutor, surgery, Texas, Washington DC on March 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
From TIME Magazine:
At least 15 military service members or their relatives are believed to have been infected with hepatitis by a nurse suspected of stealing their painkillers during surgery.
The nurse, retired Army captain Jon Dale Jones, was arrested this month in Miami on federal charges of assaulting three of those patients and possession of a [...]
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Posted in Entertainment, children, music, tagged arts, arts training, attention span, brain, change, child, childhood, children, cognition, cognitive skills, Dana Foundation, dance, education, geometric representation, intelligence, language, learning, long term memory, memory, mimicry, music, neuroscientist, observation, performing arts, reading, short term memory, theater, training, university on March 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
From Scientific American:
Are smarter people drawn to music, theater and dance? Or does arts training in childhood change the brain in positive ways? In 2004, the philanthropic Dana Foundation created a consortium of neuroscientists from seven universities to address those questions. On March 4, the group released a report, Learning, Arts, and the [...]
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Posted in Courts & Justice System, Family, Humanity, Law, People in the news, children, crime, health, human rights abuses, law enforcement, obituaries, prisons, torture, unusual behaviors, tagged abuse, addict, aggravated and heinous battery, Alton, Army, assault, at risk, autopsy, battery, BB gun, Benny Wilson, blood, Chad Hudson, charged as adult, child, cocaine, conspiracy, conviction, David Hayes, death, deep tissue burn, defendant, dehydration, developmental disability, developmentally disabled, die, disability check, disability compensation, distribution, Dorothy Dixon, drill sergeant, drug, drug treatment, fatal, fetus, first-degree murder, foraging, glue gun, housing, Illinois, immune system, infant, infection, injuries, intentional homicide of an unborn child, investigate, investigation, investigator, judy Woods, LeShelle McBride, Lieutenant Hayes, malnutrition, medical noncompliance, mental disability, methamphetamine, Michael Elliott, Michelle Riley, pellet gun, police lieutenant, pregnancy, pregnant, prolonged abuse, Quincy, remorse, social services, social worker, St. Louis, starvation, starve, starving, Steve Atkins, target practice, teenage, teenager, teens, Terri Brandt, theft, torture, tortured to death, unlawful restraint, weapon, wound, x-ray on March 23, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The website for Alton, Illinois - located about 15 miles north of St. Louis - says that it’s “a great place to live, work, grow, and prosper”.
It wasn’t any of that for Dorothy Dixon (pictured at left), who relocated there last fall from Quincy, about 100 miles from St. Louis.
Ms. Dixon, a 29-year-old mentally disabled [...]
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Posted in Elections '08, Federal Election Commission (FEC), Lies and the lying liars who tell them, POTUS '08, Shine on you crazy diamond, US Government, crazy claims, elections, health, humor, insanetertainment, politics, religion, taxes, unusual behaviors, war, tagged abortion, Alabia, Archangel, arrest, Aryan, Asia, attempted murder, Austria, Barack Obama, Belaurs, Belgium, birth control, Britain, Bulgaria, childbirth, children, CIA Top Secret Ultra-Grade, Congress, Cosmic Reserve Bank, Croatia, Czech Republic, Daniel Imperato, David Icke, Death Dealers, debt, debt forgiveness, demon, Denmark, devil, Doug Kenline, employment, Estonia, Europe, execute, execution, FEC, Federal Reserve, Finland, Florida, foreclosure, France, gay marriage, Gene Chapman, George Bush, Georgia, Germany, god, Governor, Greece, Greek, health care, Heavenly Banknotes, Hecate Witch, Hillary Clinton, Hiungarian, Holy Spirit, homicidal, homosexual, humanitarian, Hungary, impalement, involuntary, Ireland, Italian, Italy, Jesus, Jewish, John McCain, John Taylor Bowles, Jonathan Sharkey, Jonathan The Impaler Sharkey, Jonathon Sharkey, Jonathon The impaler Sharkey, judges, Kathleen Sharkey, Knight of Malta, Knight of the Orden Bonaria, Latvia, libertarian, Lithuania, mainstream, Michael, Mike Tyson, Minnesota, modeling, money, mortgage, Neo-Nazi, Netherlands, non-white, Norway, OJ Simpson, Old Testament, Osama bin Laden, pagain, paintball, Papal Knight, Poland, political experience, Portugal, Portugese, president, presidential campaign, presidential candidate, prophesy, psychiatric care, relocation, Romania, Russia, Saint, Satan, Satanic Priest, Satanic Vampire, Satanic Vampyre, Serbia, shapeshifter, Slovakia, Slovenia, smoker, soldiers, Spain, Spanish, sperm, stalking, stipend, storm trooper, suicidal, Sweden, Switzerland, tax, The Impaler, tobacco lords, Ukraine, vampire regiment, war, White People's Candidate, women on March 22, 2008 | 5 Comments »
We’re all familiar with John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama. However, have you ever wondered what other presidential candidates are out there? Are you longing for a presidential candidate who is really and truly different? If so, one of these guys just might be your man.
Unlike most mainstream presidential candidates, God The Great Holy [...]
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Posted in Entertainment, libertarian, media, politics, tagged American Idol, blogtalk, Jason and Cilla, Live From Court Street, Live From Court Street with Jason and Cilla, politics, radio on March 22, 2008 | No Comments »
I previously posted that I would be on “Live From Court Street with Jason and Cilla” this afternoon, discussing American Idol and politics.
However, due to circumstances beyond their control, they were not able to have a show today, so it has been rescheduled to next Saturday, March 29th, at 6:30 (the show starts at 5:30).
I’ll [...]
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Posted in Science, US Government, Veterans Administration (VA), health, military, war, tagged amputee, Dilaudid, Dr. Jack Tsao, Dr. V.S. Ramachandran, illusion, medication, mirror, Navy, neurologist, phantom limb pain, phantom pain, Uniform Services University, Walter Reed Army Medical Center on March 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Dr. Jack Tsao, a Navy neurologist with the Uniform Services University, was looking for ways to help soldiers like Paupore. He remembered reading in graduate school a paper by Dr. V.S. Ramachandran that talked about an unusual treatment for amputees suffering “phantom limb pain,” using a simple $20 mirror.The mirror tricks the brain into [...]
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Posted in Entertainment, Master of the Painfully Obvious, People in the news, celebrities, humor, insanetertainment, media, music, torture, tagged A Day in the Life, AI, Amanda Overmyer, American Idol, AT&T, Back in the USSR, banana, Beatles, Blackbird, boring, Brooke White, Carly Smithson, Chikezie, cooliosis, country, David Archuletta, David Cook, Daytripper, dreadlocks, drunk, earpiece, Eight Days A Week, electric guitary, guitar, harmonica, here Comes The Sun, I Should Have Known Better, I've Just Seen A Face, impersonator, iPhone, Janis Joplin, Jason Castro, john Lennon, karaoke, Kristy Lee Cook, Lennon/McCartney, Let's Get It On, Long and Winding Road, Marvin Gaye, mediocre, Michael Johns, Michelle, Motorhead, Muzak, painful, Paul McCartney, Paula Abdul, Peter Frampton, Ramiele Maluaby, Randy Jackson, Reese Cups, ringer, Ryan Seacrest, Scrubs, Simon Cowell, Slurpee, sun, Syesha Mercado, tattoo, The Office, underwear, Vampira, Vampira Overmyer, voicebox, wedgie, yellow, Yesterday, Yoko Ono, You've Got To Hide Your Love Away on March 19, 2008 | 6 Comments »
It’s Beatles night. Again.
I guess that explains why Randy Jackson was yawning when Ryan went to introduce him. That’s never a good sign. Then he plugged Paula’s new song by working it into a comment. How corny.
As usual, I’ll just type what I’m thinking. I do not go back [...]
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Posted in Courts & Justice System, Family, Law, Lies and the lying liars who tell them, Parenting, People in the news, STFU, children, crazy claims, crime, health, human rights abuses, obituaries, personal responsibility, prisons, torture, unusual behaviors, women, tagged abnormal psychology, animal, Cesar Rodriguez, child abuse, child death, child murder, child torture, conviction, death, death penalty, juror, jury, life sentence, manslaughter, mug, murder, New York, Nixzaliz Santiago, Nixzmary Brown, prosecution, sentencing, sick behavior, torture, trial, world's greatest dad on March 18, 2008 | 11 Comments »
I have written about the case of Nixzmary Brown several times. Nixzmary was a little 7-year-old girl in New York who was treated like an animal, tied to chairs, forced to use a cat litter box, starved, and eventually beaten to death for taking a yogurt out of the refrigerator.
Although I first heard and [...]
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Posted in Entertainment, humor, insanetertainment, internets, tagged baby, big brother, cartoons, child, childhood memories, chocolate, infant, little kid, milk, orange juice, peanut butter, Quik, tagging friends, television, toddler on March 18, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I was tagged by Dee. I am tagging: Kent, Sandy, Blessed1, Yuriko, Tyler, Paulie, Miche, Danny Vice, Stupid Evil Bastard, Jake, everyone at Last Free Voice, and everyone else who’s reading this (if I left you out, I’m sorry, it wasn’t on purpose!)
List 5 things you still do, that you did when you were a baby/little [...]
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Posted in Entertainment, Libertarian Party, insanetertainment, internets, libertarian, libertarianism, media, politics, tagged American Idol, blogtalk, Jason and Cilla, Live From Court Street, Live From Court Street with Jason and Cilla, politics, radio on March 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Just to give everyone a head’s up, I’m going to be on the cool new “Live From Court Street with Jason and Cilla” this Saturday, March 22nd.
The show starts at 5:30, I’ll be on around 6:30. You probably want to listen in early, though, because their first guest is a former WWE Ring Announcer. [...]
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Posted in Constitution, Courts & Justice System, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Finances, Humanity, Law, Lies and the lying liars who tell them, Science, Tax Consumers vs. Taxpayers, US Government, War On Drugs, constitutional rights, crazy claims, crime, health, human rights abuses, law enforcement, megabitchery, nanny state, police state, prisons, taxes, unusual behaviors, tagged accusation, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, admission, advocate, Africa, Agent, AIDS, AIDS-defining illness, anonymous call, antiretroviral, anxiety, arrest, black market, bodily fluid, catastrophic, CD4, CD4 cell, CDC, cells, Centers for Disease Control, chemotherapy, children, Circuit Judge, Combivir, Constitution, cooperate, cooperative, corrections department, criminal record, cruel and unusual punishment, cultivation, cure, daughter, deadly disease, dehydration, delicacy, developing countries, DNA, doctor, doctor patient relationship, dormant, Dr. Traub, drug abuse, drug cocktail, drug cost, drug distribution, drugs, effectiveness, Eight Amendment, electron microcope, enzyme, Epivir, expensive, fatal, felony possession, finance, financial, fine, fungal infection, fusion, gastrointestinal, gay, genes, genetic, guilty plea, hearing, Herpes, HHV8, HIV, HIV envelope, homosexual, human, human immunodeficiency virus, illegal, illicit, illicit purpose, immune system, immunity, inadvertent infection, incarcerate, incarceration, increased cost of incarceration, infection, infectious, infectious disease, Infectious Disease Specialist, integrase, integrase inhibitor, interests of justice, interference, intravenous drug users, IV drug users, jail, Jerome Eckrich, John Griswold, Kaposis Sarcoma, legislature, life threatening, liver, Los Angeles, lung, marijuana, Marinol, Meade County, Meade County Investigator, medical marijuana, medication, mercy, messenger RNA, Michael Walker, misdemeanor, Misosuri, molecular structure, monkey, monkey meat, nationwide, natural health, nausea,