NBC Nightly News Airs Heartbreaking Story About Marijuana’s Link to Psychosis in Teens

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On Thursday NBC Nightly News ran a heartbreaking story showcasing how high-potency marijuana is linked to psychosis in teenagers.

As states move to legalize marijuana, NBC says doctors have noticed more teens “suffering from psychotic events that they attribute to the increased potency of the drug.”

All of this comes as a proposed marijuana amendment is vying for the 2024 ballot in Arkansas — raising serious questions about what could happen in Arkansas if the state goes the same route as others.

You can watch the NBC News segment below.

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What Would It Look Like to Ban TikTok in America?

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Congress is considering legislation that would ban TikTok or force its Chinese parent-company to sell the social media platform.

With an estimated one billion users worldwide and 150 million in the U.S., TikTok is considered by some to be the most popular social media platform in the world — especially among teens and young adults.

The company has struggled to protect private user data from entities in China, and the platform has faced criticism for letting its algorithm serve users what some call a steady “diet of darkness” online.

As U.S. Congressman Bruce Westerman wrote last month,

Although TikTok executives claim that it does not share any data collected by the app, there are several Chinese laws in place that provide CCP officials access to all user data collected by Chinese-owned tech companies, like TikTok. This means the CCP has access to sensitive data, like the location of every TikTok user worldwide, including the over 210 million Americans who have downloaded the app.

The Wall Street Journal recently published a story explaining what it would look like if TikTok were banned in the U.S. You can watch that story below.

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Abortion Lawsuit in Ohio Serves as a Warning for Arkansas

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The ACLU and abortionists have joined in a lawsuit challenging common-sense abortion restrictions in Ohio.

If successful, the lawsuit would overturn informed-consent laws that require abortionists in Ohio to give women information about abortion and provide them with at least 24 hours to consider their options before proceeding with the abortion.

Since Ohio enshrined abortion in its state constitution last year, the lawsuit claims the informed-consent requirements unconstitutionally “delay” abortions in the state. The case provides a glimpse of what could happen if the Arkansas Abortion Amendment of 2024 passes this year.

The proposed Arkansas abortion measure would write abortion into the state constitution, and it says the state cannot “prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion” during the first five months of pregnancy — allowing thousands of elective abortions every year and paving the way for taxpayer-funded abortions in Arkansas.

The Arkansas Abortion Amendment also contains sweeping health exceptions for abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy, and it nullifies all state abortion laws that conflict with the amendment — jeopardizing informed-consent laws that offer women critical information about the abortion procedure.

In 2015, the Arkansas Legislature passed Act 1086, the Woman’s Right to Know Act, requiring abortionists to explain the abortion procedure — including its risks, its consequences, and its alternatives — before performing an abortion.

The Woman’s Right to Know Act passed with strong, bipartisan support in the Arkansas Legislature.

Data from the Arkansas Department of Health indicates that from August 1, 2015, to June 24, 2022, over 3,500 women chose not to have abortions after receiving the information outlined in this one law.

The lawsuit in Ohio illustrates how informed-consent requirements in Arkansas could be challenged and nullified if voters write unrestricted abortion into the Arkansas Constitution by passing the proposed abortion amendment.

You can download a copy of the amendment here.

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