The Skaggs Case – an update
Would it be reasonable to expect an employer to recognize when their employee was engaged in conduct such as Kay’s? Or was that outside of their role as employer, and their responsibility for his actions?
Category: In the News
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Where is that street, anyway?
Something that would never happen in reality. So why pretend it does, just for effect?
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A Bad Test Result
I don’t know how often we question the findings, but it makes me think that a critical examination of our own procedures, say on a quarterly and yearly basis, might be a heck of a good idea.
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Pot Sales on the Rez
The state’s process, the article suggests, is prohibitively expensive, well beyond the means of any ordinary tribe member. In effect, limiting the cannabis trade to the equivalent of big business interests.
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One County, Two Big Problems
It turns out that the local Mennonite community in Seminole has also been a regular stop on a drug smuggling route that runs from northern Mexico all the way to Canada. The smugglers: Yep, other Mennonites.
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Special Dispensations
Like most people who work with addictions, I’ve heard stories over the years, mostly from offenders themselves, about police officers accepting money to have DWI charges dropped.
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Conflict in Cali
Here’s a test: Change the label to avoid any mention of THC content. Now, how many customers continue to seek out and purchase it?
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Sports Gambling — A Chip Off the Old Block
If they showed the losers– vast hordes of them– it would almost certainly discourage people from placing a bet.
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A World on Speed
…it’s possible that one or more of the other major players in the region would attempt to take over.
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Waterbound?
…drugs, being so ridiculously easy to conceal, are a perennial favorite for any sort of smuggling operation.
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Safer Supply?
…it appears that a significant percent of the opioid medication is being diverted– for resale on the street, probably, or swapped for the illicit stuff.
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Some Downward Progress
Many older folks turn to cannabis to self-medicate the pain and sleep problems that can plague old age. As they become dependent on cannabis, we could see the emergence of more health-related problems there.
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Odds & Ends from Research
And according to the researchers, (SGB) seems to have a positive impact on other problems that co-occur with PTSD– anxiety, depression, alcohol consumption.
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