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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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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More Bad Medicine
Seriously, how dumb, or perhaps desperate, would a medical professional have to be to undertake something like this?
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Legal Cannabis: Success or Not?
…it’s an omen of bad times to come. Why? Because people in New Mexico’s cities are not buying enough pot.
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Bongs for Sale, Cheap
…the goal, as one official described it, is to “discourage unlicensed cannabis activities and to help level the playing field for legitimate businesses paying their taxes.”
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Presidential Pill Mill?
I know something about how healthcare professionals are trained to manage medications, and this isn’t it.
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Odds & Ends
…they may have purchased what they believe to be cocaine, or methamphetamine, or heroin, any or all of which may have been ‘cut’ with fentanyl or another uber-potent synthetic opioid, in sufficient quantity to overcome their tolerance and put them in imminent danger of death.
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Back in Court — Pill Mill edition
A lone physician was found to have prescribed more than 500,000 doses of prescription opioids to assorted patients in little more than two years of medical practice.
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Fatal for These Fans
In the absence of much factual information, wild theories have proliferated.
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Another Try at a Cannabis Test
If the current versions of the saliva test hold up to regular use throughout the year long trial, it’s likely state government will make their use permanent.
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