President Joe Biden&#8217;s son, Hunter Biden, claimed in a podcast interview this week that &#8220;very sick&#8221; Republicans were &#8220;trying to kill&#8221; him to end his father&#8217;s presidency.
Hunter Biden suggested in a rare interview on the podcast &#8220;Moby Pod,&#8221; hosted by the musician Moby, on Friday that Republicans were &#8220;engaging in a public campaign to lure him into a substance abuse relapse in an effort to damage his father&#8217;s presidency,&#8221; NBC News <a href="https://archive.is/O3LBb#selection-1521.117-1521.237">reported</a>.
&#8220;I recognize that none of this is necessarily about me,&#8221; Hunter Biden claimed. &#8220;They are trying to in their most illegitimate way, but rational way, they&#8217;re trying to destroy a presidency. And so it&#8217;s not about me and their most base way, what they&#8217;re trying to do is they&#8217;re trying to kill me knowing that it will be a pain greater than my father could be able to handle and so therefore destroying the presidency in that way.&#8221;
&#8220;And so I realized that, that it&#8217;s not about me,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And then the second thing that I realize is that these people are just sad, very, very sick people that have most likely just faced traumas in their lives, that they&#8217;ve decided that they are going to turn into an evil that they decide that they&#8217;re going to inflict on the rest of the world.&#8221;
Hunter Biden also attacked X owner Elon Musk, claiming that he was a &#8220;very damaged human being&#8221; and that he was &#8220;the dumbest smart person I think that the world has ever known.&#8221;
&#8220;Elon Musk doesn&#8217;t care about the g*****n First Amendment,&#8221; he lashed out. &#8220;He doesn&#8217;t care about anybody but himself. And so all of this idea that he&#8217;s a champion for the First Amendment and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Elon Musk doesn&#8217;t care about democracy. Elon Musk doesn&#8217;t care about our freedom to vote. He doesn&#8217;t care about that. Is there any time that you&#8217;ve ever saw anything from him that has any rational defense of democracy of what we&#8217;ve created here as Americans as his adopted country?&#8221;

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Drug Addict Hunter Biden Lashes Out At GOP: They’re ‘Very Sick People’ Who Are ‘Trying To Kill Me’

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A man has been arrested on multiple charges after being accused of entering a Portland, Maine, school bathroom and offering a student hypodermic needles.
Police <a href="https://wgme.com/news/local/maine-man-accused-of-entering-portland-school-offering-student-hypodermic-needles-jacob-horwitch-king-middle-school-criminal-trespass-violation-of-privacy-refusing-to-submit-to-arrest">were notified</a> that a suspicious man, who has now been identified as Jacob Horwitch of Portland, Maine, allegedly entered the girls’ bathroom at King Middle School just before 9:00 a.m. on Monday.
After entering the girls’ bathroom of King Middle School, Horwitch, age 43, offered a female student hypodermic needles, police <a href="https://www.portlandmaine.gov/1355/Latest-News">explained</a>. It is not clear how the suspect first entered King Middle School, a local news outlet <a href="https://wgme.com/news/local/maine-man-accused-of-entering-portland-school-offering-student-hypodermic-needles-jacob-horwitch-king-middle-school-criminal-trespass-violation-of-privacy-refusing-to-submit-to-arrest">reported</a>, though police are still <a href="https://www.pressherald.com/2023/05/16/portland-man-arrested-for-entering-school-bathroom-offering-needles-to-student/">investigating</a> the incident.
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Although Horwitch had left the middle school before the police arrived, he was found and arrested at the entrance of Deering Oaks Park, about a quarter mile away from the middle school, according to police.
Horwitch was “arrested and charged with Criminal Trespass, Violation of Privacy and Refusing to Submit to Arrest or Detention, Physical Force” according to a <a href="https://www.portlandmaine.gov/1355/Latest-News">press release</a> from the City of Portland. After being arrested, Horwitch was then taken to Cumberland County Jail. 
Portland police reported that there had been a <a href="https://www.wmtw.com/article/portland-police-report-worrying-spike-in-drug-overdoses/43240605#">spike</a> in drug overdoses just months earlier, with three lethal overdoses happening within just five days. Six non-lethal overdoses occurred within the same period of time. The town of 68,000 experienced 96 overdoses and eleven related deaths from the beginning of 2023 up until the first week of March.
Police in Portland, Maine, made a <a href="https://www.wabi.tv/2023/04/12/police-make-fentanyl-bust-enough-kill-entire-population-portland/">fentanyl bust</a> in April, seizing 137 grams of the deadly drug. Officials added that the amount of fentanyl they seized was enough to kill the entire population of the city.

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A prominent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender activist</a> recently boasted online about plans to organize an international drug ring to illegally mail transgender hormones to children.
The criminality of Eli Erlick&#8217;s proposal is shocking, but so far, it&#8217;s unclear whether Erlick, a biological male who identifies as a woman, will face any legal consequences despite admitting to the scheme on social media.
Last week, Erlick posted on Instagram about &#8220;working with a distribution network&#8221; to get &#8220;trans youth&#8221; access to cross-sex hormones in &#8220;over 20 states trying to criminalize hormone therapy.&#8221;
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Erlick, who on Instagram claims to be &#8220;extremely queer and incredibly trans,&#8221; is the co-founder of Trans Student Educational Resources, where the infamous &#8220;<a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2017/07/elizabeth_hovde_meet_the_gende.html">gender unicorn</a>&#8221; originated. Erlick <a href="https://feministstudies.ucsc.edu/graduate/phd-directory.php?uid=eerlick">is also</a> a Ph.D. candidate in feminist studies at the University of California Santa Cruz.
After Erlick&#8217;s post went viral last week, critics on social media quickly <a href="https://twitter.com/Brandon39316596/status/1555660950048571395?cxt=HHwWhoC86YnZ6JYrAAAA">accused</a> the activist of admitting to orchestrating a criminal conspiracy to distribute pharmaceuticals to minors, potentially stretching back to last year and even internationally.
&#8220;Realistically, I can ship anywhere in North America,&#8221; Erlick <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1555673370460504064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1555673370460504064%7Ctwgr%5Ecf75cd336df00175895ae6c7d0fa0ec4420d2887%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theblaze.com%2Fnews%2Ftransgender-eli-erlick-distribute-prescription">wrote</a> in a comment on his post.
In a post from last September, Erlick told followers to &#8220;redistribute your extra hormones to people who can&#8217;t access/afford them.&#8221;
It&#8217;s difficult to tally up just how many federal and state laws Erlick&#8217;s proposal would break.
Under federal law, mailing prescription drugs is <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/841">illegal</a> and carries serious criminal charges. Unless the sender and receiver are registered with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) it is unlawful for someone to mail prescription drugs, even if the sender or recipient has a prescription for them.
In New York, where Erlick lives, giving prescription drugs to another person is <a href="https://www.new-york-lawyers.org/new-york-prescription-drug-crimes-faq.html">considered</a> the &#8220;sale&#8221; of a controlled substance and is a felony, even if no money is exchanged. Offering and giving pharmaceuticals to minors without parental permission is illegal by extension, of course.
Erlick is doing the children who receive these drugs no favors either, as they could be <a href="https://www.therecoveryvillage.com/drug-addiction/what-happens-getting-caught-minor/">charged</a> with unlawful possession, arrested, and prosecuted in juvenile court.
The DEA told The Daily Wire it &#8220;does not confirm or otherwise comment on ongoing investigations&#8221; when asked whether it would investigate Erlick&#8217;s posts.
However, the DEA did announce at least several dozen cases involving drug trafficking activity on social media sites last year, DEA spokesperson Katherine Pfaff pointed out. In 2021, the DEA <a href="https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2021-12/2021-12-16%20OPCK%20Press%20Conference%20deck_Updated%20%28004%29.pdf">opened</a> at least 14 cases on criminal drug network activity involving Instagram and <a href="https://www.dea.gov/factsheets/fake-prescription-pills">fake</a> prescription pills alone.
Erlick appears aware of the potential legal consequences of his actions.
&#8220;So yeah, I know it&#8217;s illegal,&#8221; Erlick said in since deleted video about soliciting testosterone on Instagram for a friend. &#8220;Trans people face insurmountable mistreatment in health care. Maybe we don&#8217;t want to go to a doctor &#8230; maybe our parents don&#8217;t want us to get care.&#8221;
&#8220;Who&#8217;s to say I&#8217;m not just shipping myself a prescription?&#8221; Erlick wrote in another comment on the post.
Erlick&#8217;s post also appears to violate Instagram&#8217;s rules.
Instagram&#8217;s community <a href="https://help.instagram.com/477434105621119">guidelines</a> state that users must &#8220;follow the law&#8221; and that &#8220;buying or selling non-medical or pharmaceutical drugs&#8221; is &#8220;not allowed.&#8221;
Instagram did not respond to a request for comment.
Meanwhile, medical professionals warn that cross-sex hormones come with serious risks.
&#8220;Without question this is dangerous for multiple reasons. First, using opposite sex hormones and puberty blockers are harmful to the body and affect brain development, skeletal development, and cause increased cardiovascular and cancer risks among other problems,&#8221; said Dr. Michael K. Laidlaw, MD, a board-certified physician and endocrinology specialist in California.
&#8220;Second, medications may be tampered with either intentionally or inadvertently. Medications may also be expired or negatively affected by temperature or storage which is a separate hazard,&#8221; Laidlaw told The Daily Wire.
Laidlaw added that redistributing testosterone, in particular, is &#8220;dangerous&#8221; and &#8220;highly irresponsible.&#8221;
&#8220;Testosterone is classified as a Schedule 3 controlled substance by the DEA as it may lead to both physical and psychological dependence. Also there are risks for mood disorders including psychosis, cardiovascular disease, liver disease, and deadly blood clots,&#8221; he explained.
Erlick claimed last year to have been on hormones for 11 years.
Erlick ended up deleting the Instagram posts over &#8220;extreme harassment from Libs of Tiktok and Matt Walsh&#8217;s fans,&#8221; according to a Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/conservatives-accuse-trans-activist-illegally-sending-hormone-drugs-children-citing-social-media">interview</a>.
On Saturday, the Daily Wire&#8217;s Matt Walsh <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1555656973772853248">tweeted</a> that Erlick&#8217;s plan to send drugs to children across the country &#8220;without prescriptions, parental consent, or any legal authority whatsoever&#8221; is &#8220;a crime on several different levels.&#8221;
&#8220;I have been harassed, doxxed, and lied about after they made those posts. The sentiment stands: all trans people should have access to gender-affirming care,&#8221; Erlick said.
Days after going viral, the story has already begun to fizzle. Most of the media appears uncomfortable condemning an international scheme to give drugs to children illegally, perhaps because these particular drugs are so politically charged.
In the meantime, we will have to wait to know whether law enforcement is on the case.

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Packers QB Aaron Rodgers recently shared that during the 2020 offseason, he tried the hallucinogenic drink ayahuasca, and the NFL has since weighed in on whether the star violated the league&#8217;s drug policy.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/aaron-rodgers">Green Bay star</a> made the comments during his appearance on &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px3_lDaXHJM">The Aubrey Marcus Podcast</a>&#8221; last week, saying that he went on an ayahuasca retreat to Peru in 2020, <a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/34371733/nfl-says-green-bay-packers-qb-aaron-rodgers-use-ayahuasca-violate-drug-policy">ESPN</a> reported. <a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=Ayahuasca&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8">Ayahuasca</a> is defined as a &#8220;psychoactive brew used both socially and as a ceremonial spiritual medicine&#8221; in South America.
In a statement from the NFL, the league&#8217;s spokesperson Brian McCarthy shared that the drink &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t have triggered a positive test result on either the substance abuse or performance-enhancing substance policies collectively bargained by the NFL and its players&#8217; association,&#8221; ESPN noted.
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When pressed by the media earlier Monday about Rodgers&#8217; comments about the hallucinogenic tea, Packers head coach Matt LaFleur admitted that he hadn&#8217;t “much thought” about the league&#8217;s possible disciplinary actions against his QB.
During the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px3_lDaXHJM">podcast</a>, Rodgers talked about how the retreat gave him &#8220;a deep and meaningful appreciation for life,&#8221; and added, &#8220;I came back and knew I was never going to be the same.”
&#8220;I really feel like that set me on my course to [be] able to go back into my job and have a different perspective on things and to be way more free,&#8221; the professional football player <a href="https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/aaron-rodgers-attributes-success-to-hallucinogenic-tea-green-bay-packers-aubrey-marcus-podcast-nfl-banned-substances">added</a>. &#8220;At work, as a leader, as a teammate, as a friend. I really feel like that experience paved the way for me to have the best season of my career.&#8221;
In February, reports surfaced that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-aaron-rodgers-and-superstar-actress-call-it-quits-again">Rodgers</a> and actress Shailene Woodley had reportedly called off their one-year engagement, but were spotted together at a wedding the following month — but that reunion apparently didn&#8217;t last long.
A source close to the actress told <a href="https://people.com/movies/shailene-woodley-and-aaron-rodgers-break-up-again-source-exclusive/?did=771871-20220426&amp;utm_campaign=people-news_newsletter&amp;utm_source=people.com&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=042622&amp;cid=771871&amp;mid=85757978241">People</a> magazine that the two reportedly broke up after the &#8220;Divergent&#8221; star said their rumored rekindled relationship &#8220;wasn&#8217;t making her happy.&#8221;
Before his romance with Woodley, Rodgers was with racing star Danica Patrick for two years before the couple called it <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/08/04/aaron-rodgers-recalls-psychedelic-journey-to-peru-with-danica-patrick/">quits in July 2020</a>.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-realize-im-in-the-crosshairs-of-the-woke-mob-right-now-unvaccinated-aaron-rodgers-speaks">&#8216;I Realize I&#8217;m In The Crosshairs Of The Woke Mob Right Now&#8217;: Unvaccinated Aaron Rodgers Speaks</a>

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Two Southern California men allegedly tied to the Mexican Cartels were arrested last week in New York City after authorities busted them with approximately $1.2 million of crystal meth but were later released under the state’s bail laws.
“This seizure is a calculated treachery by Mexican Cartels to flood the United States with their poison and expand their customer base while driving addiction and increasing profit margins,” Frank A. Tarentino III, special agent in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) New York Division, said in a <a href="https://www.snpnyc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/PressRelease_20220711_compressed.pdf">statement</a>.
Authorities announced Monday that Luis Estrada and Carlos Santos allegedly drove a rented vehicle from California to New York with about 165 pounds of crystal meth that they believe originated from Mexico.
Estrada allegedly carried over 40 pounds of meth in a black suitcase outside a Marriot hotel near the South Street Seaport in Lower Manhattan when authorities caught him on July 5.
Three days later, authorities caught Santos allegedly near a white van with more than 100 pounds of the same drug inside two air compressor canisters he had begun cutting open in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan.
However, both suspects were released on supervision one day after allegedly getting caught red-handed since both men — under the state’s 2019 bail-reform measure — were only charged with second-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance rather than a narcotic. State law classifies methamphetamine as a controlled substance, regardless of the amount.
“This is a serious problem,” Bridget Brennan, New York City Special Narcotics Prosecutor, <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/07/11/feds-release-cartel-smugglers-with-1-2m-meth-due-to-bail-laws/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=NYPTwitter">told</a> the New York Post. “The failure to include methamphetamine crimes among bail-eligible offenses was probably an oversight.”
Brennan said when state officials changed the bail laws, New York City was not considered a distribution hub for the highly-addictive drug. But since the change, authorities lost the ability to ask for bail despite arresting someone without ties to the city and “a load worth of millions of dollars.”
“I hope that when legislators are better informed they will make a change,” she added.
Brennan signaled the influx of methamphetamine into New York City shows the latest example of how synthetic drugs produced outside the U.S. flood the streets, saturate the market and increase the death toll from such substances.
The New York State Department of Health <a href="https://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/opioid/data/pdf/nysdoh_op_dta5.pdf">reported</a> that 184 methamphetamine-involved overdose deaths happened in 2020, with the majority laced with fentanyl.
Authorities said they have seen methamphetamine seizures in New York increase 1300 percent since 2021. With the massive surge running rampant in the city and around the country leading to addiction, overdoses, and poisonings, they called New York a bullseye for traffickers.
Health officials said illicit methamphetamine use among those aged 12 and older increased from 1.5 million in 2016-2017 to 1.9 million people in 2018-2019.
Authorities charged Estrada with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the second and third degrees and charged Santos with the same in the second, third, and seventh degrees.
Both men have been presumed innocent until proven guilty.

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Mexican Cartel Drug Traffickers Released On Bail-Reform Laws After Feds Arrest Them In New York City With $1.2 Million Of Meth 

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