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Earlier this year, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced it is “streamlining” a research application process for studying Schedule I drugs, including ecstasy and LSD. The news release failed to mention cannabis, which has also been lumped into the classification the federal agency created for substances having “no accepted medical use …

Logan Paul said he is trying to do better after the backlash from his controversial December 31st video, which showed a man’s body hanging in Aokigahara, Japan’s suicide forest. “It’s been tough because ironically, I’m being told to commit suicide myself,” he said during a pre-taped interview with Good Morning …

Former USC football player Owen “O-Dog” Hanson was sentenced to 21 years and three months in prison on charges of drug trafficking and racketeering last Friday. The athlete-turned-drug-kingpin pleaded guilty to the charges in January. In addition to the prison sentence, Hanson was subjected to a court-mandated forfeiture of $5 …

Major League Baseball‘s tectonic plates moved early Saturday morning as the Miami Marlinsreached a deal to send star outfielder Giancarlo Stanton to the New York Yankees, according to the Associated Press. Stanton, the National League’s reigning MVP and baseball‘s 2017 home run leader, had spent his entire career with the …

In the first episode of “No Script,” Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch spends the day doing Marshawn Lynch things at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. That includes blowing out the tires on an expensive race car by keeping his foot on the gas for too long – “They told …

Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Joliehaveaccused Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment, The New York Times reports. The allegations from the two Oscar winners come days after Weinstein was fired from his own company following the publication of a comprehensiveTimes reportalleging the film executive had a history of sexual assault that spanned …

Vice President Mike Pence, who attended Sunday’s Indianapolis Colts game, left the game early after several players staged an anthem protest. “I left today’s Colts game because President Trump and I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our Flag, or our National Anthem,” Pence said in a …

President Donald Trump called the protesting NFL players a “son of a bitch” during a rally last week, and the players themselves aren’t the only ones upset about it. A group of NFL moms wrote an open letter to the President of the United States, expressing their dismay at his …

The fatal shooting of a transgender student late Saturday evening rocked Georgia Tech – and left the LGBTQ community searching for answers. Scout Schultz, who identified as non-binary and used gender neutral pronouns, called 911 around 11 p.m. on Saturday, September 16th to report a suspicious figure on the Atlanta …

Scout Schultz, the Georgia Tech student who was fatally shot Saturday night, was also the person behind a call to Georgia Tech campus police earlier that evening to report a suspicious person on campus. According to a statement from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Georgia Tech Police officers received a …