A not-for-profit clinic in Maryland has been called-out for diagnosing addicts with mental illness–when they really didn’t have an underlying mental illness. Once addicts like crack-smoker Kevin Brown (who had been diagnosed with clinical depression and was receiving expensive treatment for both his addiction and mental illness), got off crack, the mental illness went away.

Driving while stoned is no different than driving while drunk. Marijuana has an impact on one’s motivation, ability to concentrate, and ability to distinguish between safe activities and harmful ones (whether or not it is smoked or imbibed in another manner).

Will Americans repudiate President Obama’s agenda of change by voting in the largest mid-term Republican majority in over fifty years, as some predict? Or, will we back President Obama’s pledge to continue to change the nation by supporting the Democrat candidates for the House and Senate, as others predict?