Zachary Edwards, former Obama campaign staffer, was arrested on Friday for attempted identity theft of the Iowa Republican Secretary of State, Matt Schultz. Edwards was a prominent member of a well known Democrat campaign consulting firm, LINK Strategies.
Police say he used, or tried to use, the identity of Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz in a scheme to falsely implicate Schultz in perceived unethical behavior in office.
If convicted, Edwards could face up to two years in prison.
A quarter-century after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first prescription drugs based on the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, additional medicines derived from or inspired by the cannabis plant itself could soon be making their way to pharmacy shelves, according to drug companies, small biotech firms and university scientists.
A British company, GW Pharma, is in advanced clinical trials for the world’s first pharmaceutical developed from raw marijuana instead of synthetic equivalents– a mouth spray it hopes to market in the U.S. as a treatment for cancer pain. And it hopes to see FDA approval by the end of 2013.
Sativex contains marijuana’s two best known components — delta 9-THC and cannabidiol — and already has been approved in Canada, New Zealand and eight European countries for a different usage, relieving muscle spasms associated with multiple sclerosis.
There’s a new inhaler on the market that isn’t just reserved for people with breathing problems. Breathable Foods Inc. just released AeroShot Pure Energy, an inhaler filled with a mixture of caffeine and energizing vitamins to enable your fix in one effortless puff.
Harvard professor David Edwards’ innovation allows you to inhale your caffeine.
According to the product’s website, a couple of its advantages are its ability to go anywhere and its instant effects. If you’re feeling groggy in class and you can’t leave, or you’re in a room where no drinks are allowed, you can now pull out the AeroShot device, take a hit and get back in the zone.
Cherubic cheeks framed with gentle ringlets – they are the faces of innocence and beauty.
But with cigarettes lingering between their fingers or pipes perched between their lips, their images are repulsive.
In an attempt to play the attractiveness and vulgarity of smoking off each other, Belgian photographer Frieke Janssens has captured 15 eerie images of children puffing on cigarettes, cigars or pipes in a collection entitled ‘The Beauty of an Ugly Addiction’.
RESIDENTS have won a bid to change the name of their home town – called Dog Shit Village.
It was originally just a nickname established when locals noticed it was so inaccessible that only dogs would go there to relieve themselves.
So the Chinese settlement got stuck with it, police and local government officials started using it and the unattractive moniker even began appearing on MAPS.
One said: “Gradually it became what everyone called us.”
After a road was built to link it to the outside world, disgruntled villagers were determined Goushi Zhai, in remote Guizhou province, no longer deserved its old reputation.
Local governors finally agreed to rename it Jinxin, meaning prosperous and happy.
Keeping cut flowers perky for longer is probably the last thing a man taking Viagra would think of.
But the drug designed to help revive his love life can have the same effect on a wilting bouquet.
Apparently just one milligram of Viagra can give cut flowers another week of life.
The latest Washington Post-ABC News poll has the bad news for Obama as he enters the last year of his first term: Nine percent of Americans believe the economy is in the middle of a strong recovery – and slightly more than half of Americans think Obama has accomplished little or nothing in his three years in office.
The WaPo story tries to put a good spin on it for Obama, noting that, while “twice as many say they are worse off financially since Obama became president than say their situations have improved,” at least “Obama has begun to recover from career lows in several important areas, including job creation, which is expected to be at the center of the debate in the general-election contest.”