Tag Archives: For The Children

6-year-old Colorado girl in national spotlight over medical marijuana

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“Charlotte Figi suffers from a rare form of epilepsy called Dravet Syndrome. She’s endured violent seizures since she was a newborn. Most weeks, she’d have about 300 seizures a week. After countless emergency room visits, trips to specialists and children’s hospitals, and more than a dozen pharmaceuticals, nothing worked. Then, a year-and-a-half ago, as a last resort, her mom tried cannabis oil. The medical marijuana worked immediately. ‘It’s potent, it’s strong, it’s spicy, it’s got some kick,’ her mother, Paige Figi, told FOX31 Denver as she showed us a syringe full of the cannabis oil. It’s diluted with olive oil, and mixed with food.”

http://kdvr.com/2013/08/08/6-year-old-colorado-girl-in-national-spotlight-over-medical-marijuana/

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Common Core Exams: New York Schools Get an F

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“No one knows what to do. They are in panic mode. Watch the videos. Parents are outraged. School officials are in hunker-down mode. The top educational official in the country is the Secretary of Education. She says this: no problem! Parents should not be alarmed, she says. The test results will ‘give a clear picture of where our students are on the trajectory toward college and career readiness.’ Yes, they do. The kids are not ready.  Then, she added, don’t blame tax-funded education. No, no, no. ‘The lower proficiency rates that we will see . . . do not reflect that teachers are teaching less or students are learning less.'”

http://www.ronpaulcurriculum.com/public/424.cfm

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New York fails Common Core tests; more states to follow

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“The political fight over the Common Core academic standards rolling out in schools nationwide this fall is sure to intensify after New York reported Wednesday that students across the state failed miserably on new reading and math tests meant to reflect the more rigorous standards. Fewer than a third of students in public schools passed the new tests, officials reported. And, in a twist that could roil education policy, some highly touted charter schools flopped particularly badly. Critics fumed that the state was setting kids up to fail — and failing to acknowledge that crimped budgets, crowded classrooms and high student poverty rates have all played a role.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/new-york-fails-common-core-tests-95304.html

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17-year-old tased to death by Miami cops after spray-painting abandoned McDonald’s

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“Miami Beach Police Chief Ray Martinez told The Miami Herald that Israel Hernandez-Llach — who was known as ‘Reefa’ in the local graffiti and skateboarding scene — began running when officers confronted him about ‘tagging’ an abandoned McDonald’s.  ‘The officers were forced to use the Taser to avoid a physical incident,’ Martinez explained.  Hernandez-Llach collapsed after being hit once in the chest. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital and later died.  One witness told WFOR that police were ‘congratulating’ each other and ‘making fun’ of Hernandez-Llach after he was shocked by the Taser.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/08/17-year-old-immigrant-graffiti-artist-dies-after-being-tased-by-miami-cops/

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America’s Foster Care System: Test Lab For Big Pharma, Cash Cow For Caretakers?

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“Of the more than 400,000 children in the U.S. foster care system, it’s estimated that more than 50 percent are on some sort of psychiatric drug. Money is part of the reason. Foster parents are paid more to take care of a child with mental health issues. On average, a foster family earns about $17 a day for taking in a child who needs a basic level of care. But a child who is taking drugs such as antidepressants, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, anxiety medications or anticonvulsant medications is worth around $1,000 a day. And foster parents are not responsible for paying for the medicines, either, as they are covered by Social Security.”

http://www.mintpressnews.com/america-foster-care-system-psychiatric-drugs-depression/166065/

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Marijuana stops child’s severe seizures

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“The marijuana strain Charlotte and now 41 other patients use to ease painful symptoms of diseases such as epilepsy and cancer has been named after her. It’s called Charlotte’s Web. ‘I didn’t hear her laugh for six months,’ Paige said. ‘I didn’t hear her voice at all, just her crying. I can’t imagine that I would be watching her making these gains that she’s making, doing the things that she’s doing (without the medical marijuana). I don’t take it for granted. Every day is a blessing.’ Matt added, ‘I want to scream it from the rooftops. I want other people, other parents, to know that this is a viable option.'”

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/07/health/charlotte-child-medical-marijuana/index.html

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For Smoking Marijuana, the Government Ruined This Man’s Family Forever

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“For the simple crime of smoking marijuana, Texas man Joshua Hill’s family is destroyed forever. The government took Hill’s two-year old daughter away from him because he was caught smoking pot while she was asleep. But under the watch of Child Protective Services (CPS), Hill’s child was abused and eventually murdered by foster parents. Was Hill’s ‘crime’ of smoking marijuana worse than the state’s prescription of removing his child from the home and placing her into a foster system with as much as 10 times higher risk of abuse?”

http://libertycrier.com/for-the-simple-crime-of-smoking-marijuana-the-government-ruined-this-mans-family-forever/

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Chinese baby ‘sold by doctor’ reunited with parents

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“Zhang Suxia, the doctor responsible for the birth, allegedly persuaded the parents to give up their child last month after informing them he had serious congenital diseases.  The paper reported that a farmer with three daughters bought the baby boy from the alleged traffickers for 60,000 yuan ($9,800).  Trafficking of children is a serious problem in China, blamed in part on the ‘one-child’ policy which has put a premium on baby boys, with girls sometimes sold off, abandoned or put up for adoption. Chinese police rescued 89 children and arrested 355 suspects in December after breaking up a series of child trafficking rings.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/06/chinese-baby-sold-by-doctor-reunited-with-parents/

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China Is Ending Its “One-Child Policy” – Here Are The Implications

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“The one-child-policy is very unpopular. [..] Currently, a second child is permitted if both parents are singletons. Rural families can have a second child if the first-born is a girl. Some provinces have even looser policies for rural families. There are also other exceptions for a second child, and minority ethnic groups are allowed to have two or even more children. Families which have more children than the policy allows are subject to fines under the name of social maintenance fees. The fee amount varies across the nation, but usually is at least 2-6 times of the higher of annual family income and average local household disposable income.”

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-04/china-ending-its-one-child-policy-here-are-implications

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Court sides with lovers of boobies: School cannot ban breast cancer awareness bracelets

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“A full U.S. appeals court ruled Monday that a Pennsylvania school district could not ban ‘I (heart) Boobies!’ bracelets under the First Amendment. With help from the American Civil Liberties Union, two middle schoolers filed a free-speech lawsuit against the Easton Area School District in 2010 after being suspended for wearing the breast cancer awareness bracelets on the school’s Breast Cancer Awareness Day.  School officials said the ‘I (heart) Boobies!’ slogan was lewd and distracted students. The school district also argued the bracelets violated the Title IX right to be free from sexual harassment.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/05/court-sides-with-lovers-of-boobies-school-cannot-ban-breast-cancer-awareness-bracelets/

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