The Influence Staff

“Methadone made me a prisoner,” said Francine, a former patient of mine, who was on and off methadone for 10 years. “That’s the only way I can sum it up. I couldn’t go anywhere because I had to go to the program six days a week. Even when there was a time I was going three days a week, I was still a prisoner. If you go one day a week, you’re still a prisoner.”

Last year, legal marijuana sales from dispensaries in Washington State the day after Thanksgiving—a day which is apparently now known in the industry as “Green Friday”—were 13 percent higher than the average Friday, reports Bloomberg. And cannabis companies in other states where it’s legal reported bumper sales too.

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A doctor in the suburbs of Chicago had his license suspended after he was found to be concocting his own “vaccines”—from cat drool and vodka.

Solitary Watch, an advocacy group for inmates in solitary confinement, reports that prisoner William Blake has been denied the right to read his own work.