Running on Empty – Child Obesity and FII

Recent reports from the United Kingdom reveal hundreds of toddlers under three hospitalized with obesity. During the past five years forty babies under one were admitted to hospital for childhood obesity, with children obese, as young as six, suffering from strokes. Children under one have weighed as much as 19 kilos. The diets that these children are on are not nutritious or healthy – food includes pureed...

Freedom of Choice and Marijuana

Everyone in the world today is part of a global community. There are a few tribes in the Amazon rain forest that live in healthy, sustainable isolation, but otherwise we are all part of it. Recently issues have been raised concerning the welfare of these isolated people. Paulo Adario, an ecologist, and outspoken Greenpeace activist has stated that people today who don’t like the rules, simply don’t...

Runaway Kids Canada – and Drugs

According to Interpol statistics are, for Canada, in 1999 – a total of 60,360 missing children in Canada – of which 47,585 were runaway kids. Provinces with the highest numbers of runaway kids were British Columbia and Ontario. According to research, children leave home to assert independence or to get away from an abusive situation. It is not a criminal offence to run away from home, but it is not a...

Perils of Legal Pot

With a recent statement from the World Health Organization Global Commission coming out in favor of the decriminalization of drugs, and in particular marijuana, it would seem that we might be getting closer to the legalization of marijuana. The marijuana lobby has had a strong presence for years, and has produced many studies that find marijuana to be unharmful to the body, if not actually beneficial. Cannabis is a...

Synthetic Marijuana – Kronic, K2 and Spice

Synthetic marijuana, also known as Kronic, K2 and Spice has for over a decade been widely used and promoted as a legal, herbal drug with effects similar to cannabis. In 2008, testing revealed that the active ingredients in synthetic marijuana, such as the chemicals cannabicyclohexanol, JWH -018, JWH -073 and HU-210 are in fact synthetic cannabinoids.  With concerns raised, in places such as the mining industry,...