It appears inevitable that marijuana policy will radically change at both the state and federal levels in the near future. A recent Pew Research Center poll reveals that for the first time since marijuana attitudes have been measured, a majority of Americans now favor...
Month: April 2013
Prescription Drug Fraud: The “White Collar Crime” of the Drug World
A recent bust of a South Central Pennsylvania prescription drug ring by the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office is a perfect illustration of why prescription drug fraud is the "white collar crime" of the drug world. Prescription drug fraud often involves active...
DUI Arrests Will Increase as Apartments Move Further from Penn State Campus
At one time, almost all Penn State students either lived on campus or a stone's throw away. Those days have been gone since the 1980s. As enrollment increased, so too did the need for student housing. Developers met this demands by creating student apartments at...
Sequester is Slowing Down the Wheels of Justice
Amid all the talk of the effects of the sequester, the mainstream media has provided surprisingly little coverage of the sequester's effect on the federal justice system. Both the Department of Justice, which prosecutes federal criminal cases, and the Federal...
Drug War is a Game of Whac-A-Mole
A recent drug bust in Huntingdon County illustrates the Whack-A-Mole nature of the War on Drugs. On March 28, 2013, the Pennsylvania State Police arrested three people at Huntingdon Motor Inn, recovering 751 stamp bags of heroin, four ounces of cocaine and more than...
Hunting Deer at Wal-Mart Could Send Man to Jail
In a case, which will outrage card-carrying NRA members and anti-gun, suburban soccer-moms alike, a Westmoreland County man found out the hard way that it is not merely a Game Law violation to hunt deer without a license in a Wal-Mart parking lot. In addition to being...