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President Donald Trump’s nominee for drug czar, Republican Congressmember Tom Marino, had to withdraw from consideration after a Washington Post/”60 Minutes” investigation found he led a drug industry-backed effort to pass a law that weakened the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s ability to crack down on addictive opioids. Meanwhile, calls are growing to look at the major pharmaceutical companies that have fueled the opioid crisis. A new investigation by Esquire magazine reveals how the secretive Sackler family, owners of the company that invented OxyContin, downplayed the risks of addiction and exploited doctors’ confusion over the drug’s strength. We speak with Christopher [More]

The Sacred Science | Documentary If you trace the origins of western pharmaceuticals, over 25% of their active ingredients comes from the rainforest. There is over 44,000 species of plants in the rain forest; and out of that 44,000 plants, only 1% have been studied by medical science for it’s medicinal value. Most ethnobotanists agree that this region is the most obvious place to look for the cure for cancer, M.S., Alzheimer’s, and more. “If we look at the Amazon rain forest as an encyclopedia of medicinal plants then the indigenous medicine men are certainly as index in table of [More]