Time for your Wednesday edition of The Morning Roar!U.N. Says: Ban Indoor E-Cigarette UseThe United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO) recommended that countries regulate electronic cigarettes by banning their use indoors. The WHO advised that e-cigarette use remain illegal indoors until studies prove that it is harmless to bystanders.In addition, the WHO urged its 194 members to ban the sale of e-cigarettes to minors and to regulate the advertising and promotion of “vaping” devices.From U.S. News & World Report:

According to the U.N. agency, e-cigarette sales have already grown into a $3 billion market worldwide. And regulation "is a necessary precondition for establishing a scientific basis on which to judge the effects of their use, and for ensuring that adequate research is conducted and the public health is protected and people made aware of the potential risks and benefits."The announcement comes a day after the release of similar recommendations by the American Heart Association (AHA). The cardiologists' group urged that e-cigarettes be subject to the same laws that apply to tobacco products, and they recommended that the U.S. government ban the marketing and sale of e-cigarettes to young people.The AHA also called for thorough and continuous research on e-cigarette use, marketing and long-term health effects."Over the last 50 years, 20 million Americans died because of tobacco. We are fiercely committed to preventing the tobacco industry from addicting another generation of smokers," Nancy Brown, CEO of the American Heart Association, said in an association news release."Recent studies raise concerns that e-cigarettes may be a gateway to traditional tobacco products for the nation's youth, and could renormalize smoking in our society," Brown said. "These disturbing developments have helped convince the association that e-cigarettes need to be strongly regulated, thoroughly researched and closely monitored."

Many smokers have claimed that e-cigarettes have improved their quality of their life by eliminating the unbecoming smell associated with cigarettes and even assisting with quitting the highly addictive habit.That’s great, but there are still a lot of unanswered questions surrounding long-term effects of e-cigarette usage on the user and those exposed to the vapors second-hand. Because of this, it doesn’t makes sense to compare and contrast the pros and cons of e-cigarettes and traditional cigarettes.Regardless of the facts that are known today or what future studies may uncover, the U.N. has no business dictating how individual property owners in the United States operate their businesses. This decision should be left up to the owners of each establishment.If a business owner chooses to restrict e-cigarette usage on their property or a group of neighboring land owners all decide they want to restrict e-cigarette usage in their establishments or communities, then that’s their prerogative. This aligns with libertarian principles as long as the property owners under jurisdiction of the rule mutually consent to the agreement.If property owners choose to allow patrons to partake in e-cigarettes, then it should be left to the courts to determine if a rights violation occurred. If a customer becomes ill and can prove in court that second-hand e-cigarette vapor contributed to their condition, then the case would set a precedent for how grievances would be settled in the future. Other businesses would respond by quickly banning the use of e-cigarettes in the hope of mitigating the threat of future lawsuits.In short, if you allow the market to work, it is a relentless and consistent regulator that serves to protect the consumer.Medical Marijuana Leads To Fewer Prescription Drug Overdose DeathsThis headline shouldn’t be surprising to anyone. We aren’t just talking about a miniscule drop in prescription drug overdose death either. The decrease published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine found Twenty-five percent fewer deaths occurred in states that had legalized medical marijuana. That is huge!BenSwann.com reports:

According to  ABC News, the researchers conducting the study found that because “legalizing medical marijuana makes it more available to chronic pain patients, it provides a potentially less lethal alternative to pain control on a long-term basis.”The research began in 1999, when only three states legalized medical marijuana, and it lasted up until 2010. Today, it is legal in 23 states and the District of Columbia.Over the course of the study, the states studied were the ones that allowed access to medical marijuana. The  Washington Post reported that those states “had 1,729 fewer overdose deaths in 2010 than would be predicted by trends in states without such laws.”Dr. Marcus Bachhuber, a physician and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, and the lead author of the study, told  ABC News that while he did expect to see changes among the states that legalized medical marijuana, he found it “surprising that the difference is so big.”

My goodness, it is amazing what happens when you weaken the stranglehold of prohibition and allow a market to begin to function.For so long pharmaceutical companies were granted complete control of a manipulated market place by way of government decree. If the decrease in deaths has been this big when only 23 states have legal medical marijuana, imagine the decrease in prescription drug overdoses when marijuana is fully legalized in all fifty states!James Foley’s Killer Believed To Be Rapper From LondonIn yesterday’s edition of The Morning Roar Marc Clair covered the likely staged beheading of journalist James Foley. Like Marc, I haven’t watched the gruesome video of the incident. Because I have not watched the footage, I’m left with no other option than to blindly trust the report claiming that the ISIS militant believed to have killed Foley to be a rapper out of London by the name of Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary.From The Province:

A British extremist suspected of murdering James Foley is the son of an alleged al-Qaeda terrorist currently awaiting trial over the bombing of two US embassies that resulted in the deaths of 224 people.Adel Abdel Bary, 54, is the father of Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, a 23-year-old former rapper from London who shares several physical attributes with “Jihadi John”, the man who beheaded Foley in a video released by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) last week.Bary, an Egyptian who was granted asylum in the UK in 1993, was extradited from Britain to the U.S. at the same time as the hook-handed imam Abu Hamza. He is said to have been one of Osama bin Laden’s key lieutenants in the Nineties.

It is expected that Americans would be outraged as a result of the actions carried out by ISIS and “Jihadi John” during the killing of an American journalist. As was pointed out in yesterday’s edition of TMR, why are Americans not equally upset about the beheadings of nineteen criminals in Saudi Arabia that were mostly convicted of non-violent crimes?Murder is murder anyway you look at it. The American people need to be cognizant of the fact that the mainstream media is focusing with increasing intensity on the specific atrocities committed by ISIS in Iraq and Syria. The media will continue to ignore murder and genocide committed in countries where the ones doing the killing have the backing of the U.S. government.It is only a matter of time before the U.S. government escalates their presence in Iraq and Syria. Ultimately, it would be very surprising if a large amount of American troops are not sent back in under the guise of protecting the people of Iraq, Syria, and other allies in the area.There isn’t anything necessarily wrong with a group of individuals defending individual rights in foreign lands, but hopefully by now a majority of Americans understand this reasoning as used by officials of the U.S. government is a lie used to gain support of the populace. The stated mission of a U.S. military occupation is often advertised as being for humanitarian aid or to liberate an oppressed people. In reality, the true expectations of the mission are very different. This hidden agenda has almost never been in the best interest of the American people or the natives.Let’s hope the American people don’t fall for it again.Read The Morning Roar every weekday Monday-Friday!The Lions of Liberty are on Twitter, Facebook & Google+Receive access to ALL of our EXCLUSIVE bonus audio content – including “Conspiracy Corner”, “Degenerate Gamblers” and the “League of Liberty Podcast” by joining the Lions of Liberty Pride and supporting us on Patreon!