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Sanders Doesn’t Fully Understand Drug Use and Incarceration
Posted by Parents Opposed to Pot During the Democratic debate on October 13, Bernie Sanders had a misunderstanding of the facts when he suggested people go to prison for smoking a joint. A few days...
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Color Colorado Purple
Written by Robert Knight The Rocky Mountain State is known for its purple mountain majesties, as immortalized in “America the Beautiful.” But If Katharine Lee Bates, who wrote the nation’s unofficial...
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Marijuana Myths
On this week’s podcast: Ed Ronkowski once again joins Monte Larrick and Dave Smith to shed some light on pressing questions about marijuana and its legal status. Mr. Ronkowski dispels the common...
View ArticleThe Case Against Recreational Marijuana: Colorado
Written by Benjamin Smith Last week, State Senator Heather Steans (D-Chicago) and State Representative Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago) introduced legislation to legalize recreational marijuana for anyone...
View ArticleSPOTLIGHT: Fighting Marijuana Legalization
Written by Benjamin Smith We are pleased to feature Jo McGuire in this week’s Spotlight podcast. She serves on the board of directors for the Drug and Alcohol Testing Industry Association and co-chairs...
View ArticleWill Illinois Choose Pot Before Jobs?
Written by John Biver In a high tax state that’s bankrupt and losing residents and jobs, one might think that our government officials would have better things to do than legalizing marijuana for...
View ArticleSPOTLIGHT: Is Illinois Going to Pot?
Written by David E. Smith In this week’s edition of Illinois Family Spotlight, Monte Larrick and Dave Smith sit down to talk with Bishop Lance Davis about the push to legalize recreational marijuana....
View ArticleSPOTLIGHT: Before We Get High
Written by John Biver This week’s Spotlight features the conversation of IFA’s David E. Smith and Stephanie Trussell, that was originally broadcast this past Saturday in the opening hour of The...
View ArticleIllinois Is Already Stuck on Stupid and Doesn’t Need Dopey
Written by Pat Hickey Polls–you know ‘scientifically conducted’ data collection, organization and dissemination that agrees most heartily with the conclusions crafted prior to research collected,...
View ArticleSPOTLIGHT: Does Illinois Know What It Is Asking For?
Written by John Biver Dave Smith and Monte Larrick recently interviewed Jo McGuire while she was visiting Illinois warning residents about the many consequences of legalizing recreational marijuana. Jo...
View ArticleLGBTQ Roots in Legal Weed Campaign Run Deep
Written by Pat Hickey During the Illinois Primary, I wrote about the people behind the Marijuana Legalization Campaign: Democrats Dan Biss and JB Pritzker want Illinois more than one toke over the...
View ArticleSPOTLIGHT: Illinois Can’t Afford to Sit Back on Marijuana Legalization
Written by John Biver David Smith and Monte Larrick recently sat down with Jo McGuire while she was visiting Illinois. She warned about the many consequences of legalizing recreational marijuana. Jo...
View ArticleSanctuary Cities are Sanctuary for Drug Cartels
Written by Daniel Horowitz It’s a lot easier to treat doctors like drug traffickers and push pain patients into suicide than it is go after sanctuary cities and the drug cartels that are responsible...
View ArticleSPOTLIGHT: Implications of “Recreational” Marijuana
Written by David E. Smith If you listen to only one Spotlight podcast this year, please listen to this one! Monte Larrick and I are joined by Jo McGuire, Colorado native and Chairman of the Board of...
View ArticleSPOTLIGHT: Marijuana’s Ramification on Medicine
Written by David E. Smith This week’s Spotlight podcast focuses on the deception and devastation surrounding legalization of recreational marijuana. Joining Monte Larrick is Dr. Karen Randall, an...
View ArticleLeft-Wing Mayor Wants to Trade Addictions for Revenue
Written by David E. Smith Addictions to help mitigate decades of irresponsible political spending? It’s preposterous, but that is out-going left-wing Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s prescription to reduce (not...
View ArticleSPOTLIGHT: How to Prevent Illinois’ Collision With Legal Pot
Written by Benjamin Smith Happy New Year and welcome to the first Spotlight podcast of 2019! For this edition of Spotlight we are revisiting highlights of an earlier episode featuring IFI’s own Monte...
View ArticleSPOTLIGHT: Until It Affects You
Written by Benjamin Smith In light of Governor JB Pritzker’s avowed priority to legalize “recreational” marijuana in Illinois, this week’s Spotlight podcast is definitely worth listening to as well as...
View ArticleSPOTLIGHT: The Drug Plague is Growing, What to Do?
Written by Benjamin Smith This week we turn our Spotlight on Angela Camp, a drug addiction specialist with Bradford Health Services in Birmingham, Alabama. During an Illinois Church Action on Alcohol...
View ArticleSPOTLIGHT: A Marijuana State of Mind
Written by Benjamin Smith Jo McGuire once again joins Monte Larrick and David Smith for a conversation on the extensive topic of commercial marijuana and the ongoing ramifications of legalized pot in...
View ArticleSPOTLIGHT: Dr. Randall Explains THC and CBD
Written by Benjamin Smith In this week’s Spotlight podcast – maybe we should call it a potcast – Dr. Karen Randall returns to share her knowledge and experience with legal, high-potency marijuana, not...
View ArticleSPOTLIGHT: Why Would We Legalize a City-Destroying Drug?
Written by Benjamin Smith A recent forum on marijuana, hosted by IFI, is the source of this week’s Spotlight podcast. Many factors contribute to the growing problem of homelessness in America and...
View ArticleSPOTLIGHT: Consequences of Marijuana Legalization and Commercialization
Written by Benjamin Smith Joining Monte Larrick for this week’s Spotlight podcast are Dr. Karen Randall and Jo McGuire, both Colorado residents and marijuana experts in their respective fields. Sixty...
View ArticleSPOTLIGHT: Jeanne Ives Addresses Marijuana and Illinois’ Economic Crisis
Written by Benjamin Smith This week’s Spotlight features Jeanne Ives as she presents facts and figures that underscore the stark reality Democrats in the Land of Lincoln are unwilling to face. As a...
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Abortion: The People Are Catching On
Written by William Murchison So, when the U.S. Supreme Court numbered abortion among our precious constitutional rights, we expected everlasting bliss? Anything but the present knock-down-drag-out over...
View ArticleSPOTLIGHT: How Regressive Legislation Forms Cultural Norms
Written by Benjamin Smith In this week’s Spotlight, Pastor Calvin Lindstrom sits down with Dave Smith and Monte Larrick to discuss the distorted message and disastrous impact of the growing weed wave...
View ArticleLoves Park: JUST SAY NO!
On Monday, November 1st, Loves Park aldermen will vote on allowing recreational marijuana businesses to set up shop. Because of the flood of marijuana revenue into the state coffers as a result of the...
View ArticleWho Exactly Are The Marijuana Offenders Biden Just Pardoned?
Written by Daniel Horowitz Unless you were at the Capitol on January 6, federal prosecutors don’t target you for prison for simply possessing marijuana. In fact, in this era of marijuana as the...
View ArticleConnecting the Dots of Mass Shootings
Written by Ronald Kessler The failure to stop the 9/11 terrorist plot was blamed in large part on a failure to connect the intelligence dots. Now a similar failure is preventing the country from...
View ArticleMother Shares How “Medical” Marijuana Caused The Death Of Her Daughter
Posted by David E. Smith Late last month, state lawmakers in North Carolina held a hearing to discuss a proposal to legalize so-called “medical” marijuana. SB 3—NC Compassionate Care Act. During the...
View ArticlePritzker’s Myopia Ignores Open Borders
Written by David E. Smith Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is back in front of his liberal friends in the news media to complain about the immigration crisis, which is trickling up to the Midwest. As you may...
View ArticleSPOTLIGHT: Christ & The Human Mind
Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg This episode of Illinois Family Spotlight features Dr. Karl Benzio, a Christian Psychiatrist who serves with the AACC (American Association of Christian Counselors). He is...
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