HEALTHThese are articles previously published by Toward Freedom related to this category.
Mind Games
Are cyberspace and psychiatric drugs messing with our heads?
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The High and the Mighty: Legalizing Marijuana?
Source: Al Jazeera
Cannabis is California’s number one cash crop. This fall, voters will decide whether or not to fully legalize the drug and transform US drug policy.
The implications are huge if it passes. It will have a profound effect on the state’s struggling economy, the overburdened criminal justice system and even the raging drug war in neighboring Mexico that has claimed nearly 30,000 lives.
In the meantime, no politicians running for statewide office are supporting the measure. What does that say about the politics of cannabis?
US Nurses Rising Up
Nurses around the United States are standing up for themselves and their patients, both through local labor disputes and the strengthening of a new national union. The Real News looks into the new union, a labor victory in Philadelphia, and a looming strike in Washington, DC.
Produced by Jesse Freeston.
Cuba Provides a Model For Health Care Reform in the US
US President Barack Obama made passage of health care reform a major effort of his first year in office. He claimed that the cost of health care in the US was rising so rapidly that it was threatening the whole economy. The president is certainly correct in saying that the cost of health care in the US is high. In 2006, for example, the cost of health care in the US was 15.33% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), or $6,714 per capita. This high expense does not lead to relatively good healthcare. Cuban Community Clinic
Corporate Profits and the Real Dangers Behind the H1N1 Virus
As in most other areas of the world, Hungarians feel that the H1N1 virus is nothing more than a scare campaign in order to help generate profits for multinational pharmaceutical corporations. Sadly, this view is often reinforced by some sobering facts.
Selling Out Health Care Reform
The battle for health care reform is heating up in Congress. The House has already passed one bill, and the Senate is debating another version. But as Dr. Andy Coates explains, both bills will fail in solving the health care crisis--and, in fact, place a greater financial burden than ever on working people.