Rizio and Nelson California Law Blog

Marijuana In The News

When we think about marijuana’s negative connotations, we envision prison cells for drug use, selling marijuana, growing the drug, and maybe even selling or forging prescriptions for it. There rarely come visions of wildfire when we mention the phrase “marijuana problems,” but this can actually be a major concern in the state of California. Case in point: Just this year people have...

About Prescription Drug Abuse

Approximately 20% of Americans (according to The National Institute on Drug Abuse report) have used prescription drugs for non-medical purposes at some point in their lives. With the increased availability of prescription drugs over the internet, and the surprising increase in senior citizen trafficking of prescription drugs, combined with the high incidence of overdoses by users of illegally obtained...