Get the Lead Out! Stop supporting destructive drugs.

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Sometimes the public, and government leaders, don't know as much as they think they do. Here are a couple of examples:

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/08/murder-rate-down-40-Jamaica

Kevin Drum has been following an interesting correlation for a couple of years now: that the reduction of lead in gasoline and paint has led to the reduction of violence and this story shows it in Jamaica. No, Ray Kelly (police commissioner of NYC) it might not be 'stop & frisk'.


I haven't (and won't) read this next story. The idea is too depressing. But, if you live somewhere methamphetamines and other drugs area a big problem you might be interested. Congress certainly should take notice.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/meth-pseudoephedrine-big-pharma-lobby


Does the pharmaceutical industry actually support illegal drugs?


Another thing the public doesn't know much about is their own government. They regularly think 'foreign aid' is huge when it's tiny and they apparently don't know much about the way the Obama administration has been spending and cutting spending.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/08/deficit-opinion-reality-poll

I suppose this also shows how woefully inadequate our news media are at educating everyone.