Recent Blog Posts
Stealing From Fraternal Benefit Societies
Anyone with a computer or smartphone can lament to the whole world about their loneliness and speculate that everyone else is as lonely as they are. There is so much raw material on this topic for chatbots to remix that ChatGPT or your custom-made Character AI companion could probably spin a mean social isolation… Read More »
Is THCa Legal If It Is Destined To Turn Into THC By The Time You Smoke It?
Medical cannabis programs and local and state initiatives to decriminalize the possession and use of cannabis have created a lot of legally hazy situations. Pennsylvania, like many states, has not decriminalized cannabis at the statewide level, but it has had a medical cannabis program since 2016, and several cities, including Pittsburgh, have decriminalized possession… Read More »
Child Endangerment Charges When A Child Ingests Illegal Drugs
Young children will put almost anything in their mouths. The manufacturers of commercial products such as batteries and nail polish remover have started adding ingredients to the products to make them taste so bad that children would immediately spit them out and not swallow them. Sometimes children swallow things that are not food, and… Read More »
Four Employees Of Franklin County Used Car Dealership Face Charges For Odometer Fraud
Anyone who buys a used car approaches the dealership anticipating a strategy game of interpreting double meanings, bluffing, and calling someone else’s bluff. If a car were so awesome, it wouldn’t be available for resale. If the seller were forthcoming about the car being a pile of junk, it would have an irresistibly low… Read More »
York County Man Arrested For Possession Of Deepfake Images Of Sexual Abuse
Around a decade ago, people who spent all their free time online were joking about something called Rule 34, which states that anything that exists, even things that exist only in your imagination, can be remixed into pornographic content. The Internet is a noticeably less friendly place than it was in 2015, and even… Read More »
Beware Of Synthetic Kratom
Vape shops are a dream world of ambiguities, as they were in the old days, when they were called smoke shops and you had to consume your favorite inhalable substances through analog devices like cigarettes and water pipes. The glass bongs were a splendid sight in a glass case, invariably bearing a sign declaring… Read More »
Farmer’s Market Shop Owner Faces Charges For Solicitation Of Minors
Today, we see the progress the labor movement in the United States made over the 20th century going in reverse. Fewer jobs offer pensions, employer-provided retirement savings, long-term employment contracts, and other signs of permanence and stability than they did a generation ago. Wages have barely increased even as the prices of most consumer… Read More »
Bucks County Teacher Arrested For Possession Of Child Abuse Images
The most serious penalties in criminal cases are reserved for crimes that involve physical injury or depriving someone of valuable property. The criminal court can still charge you and convict you if you were doing something that would likely result in bodily harm, theft, or destruction of someone else’s property, though. Drunk driving is… Read More »
Medetomidine Causes Overdoses In Pittsburgh
Trends in illicit drug use vary according to time and geography vary as much as trends in clothing styles. You might be a veritable clothes horse in Pittsburgh, but if you travel to Los Angeles, people might tell you that your clothes are tasteless or outdated. Likewise, in the 1970s and 1980s, people turned… Read More »
Sting Operation At Massage Parlors Leads To Two Arrests On Sex Crime Charges
Trust is the magic ingredient in true intimacy, but it is so elusive that you cannot buy it at any price. Love is a subtle exchange of incomprehensible symbols and the disclosure of unknowable intentions. Commercial sex, by contrast, is a straightforward transaction, at least in theory. The problem is that it is illegal,… Read More »
