People don’t just smoke marijuana. They vaporize it, bake it into brownies, use it in eye drops, and rub extracts of it onto their skin. In states that have legalized pot, regulators have struggled to make sure the bewildering array of products on dispensary shelves...
When Eric Hicks, a Tennessee plastic molding plant manager, suspects that an employee develops a drug addiction, he asks them about it, tells them about treatment options and assures them their job awaits them when they get clean, The USA Today Network Tennessee reports. In...
Death row inmates in Texas are given at least an hour a week outdoors. Hardened criminals in California’s San Quentin prison get 10 hours. Kids at a Dallas County correctional center for boys went months, sometimes more than a year, without going outdoors more than...
An Associated Press analysis of homicide data shows how some large cities seem to be getting safer and more dangerous at the same time. Slayings in Chicago, St. Louis and Indianapolis are becoming concentrated into small areas where people are dying at a pace not...
Drug overdoses killed 4,329 Ohioans in 2016, the second-highest death rate in the nation. That’s up 24 percent over the 3,310 drug deaths the previous year, according to a report released Thursday by the federal government, reports the Columbus Dispatch. Despite increased government spending, Ohio’s...
As we spend time with family and loved ones over the holidays and reflect on the year that’s passed and the year to come, all of us in Venable’s Adlaw practice wish you a Happy Holiday and Prosperous New Year....
Emily Martin is general counsel and vice president for workplace justice at the National Women’s Law Center. She was part of an amicus brief in support of the unions in an earlier public-sector “agency fees” case, Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association. The challenge to the constitutionality...
Citing a spike in overdose deaths, growing demands for drug treatment and a strained budget, officials in Akron, Ohio’s Summit County filed a lawsuit Wednesday against companies that make or distribute prescription opioids. On Monday, Smith County in Tennessee did the same. On Tuesday, nine...
When Donald Trump was elected president, it was a safe bet—considering his campaign-trail rhetoric—that we were headed back to a tough-on-crime era in Washington. Just how tough, however, no one could imagine. The hardline makeover of the Justice Department clearly preoccupies readers of The Crime Report, who...
A 29 percent decrease in Milwaukee non-fatal shootings is part of a significant decrease in crime since a surge in traffic enforcement, says Police Chief Edward Flynn, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The stepped-up enforcement for dangerous driver behavior, such as speeding, driving recklessly and...