Cannabis and Corruption
States where recreational cannabis is legal-- 17 of them now, I believe-- still have drug-related crime. Just of a different variety.
Category: Public Policy
Investments, costs, regulations, laws, courts and prisons– what helps? What’s useless or worse- harmful? What’s the cost to the taxpayer? And the economy? And the families? And, oh, yes… the people suffering from addictive disease?
Public Policy
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Police Story, Part Two
How do you find room for new attitudes when the old ones are still omnipresent in the background?
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Police Story, Part One
Given that addiction by its nature puts many treatment clients into direct conflict with the law, I don’t see how we can afford to ignore these issues.
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Drugs and Policing
Laws and policies are quickly enacted that, once on the books, often outlive the emergencies they were there to address.
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Health Care Conundrum
I’ve noticed the surprise when Americans go abroad and encounter other ways of doing things.
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Old Diseases Made New
When we fail to provide adequate treatment for substance disorders, we pay a price in terms of overall public health.
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A Move to Regulate Vaping
These businesses, many of them small shops, may have aggressively marketed these products for commercial reward.
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What About the FDA?
…the FDA, like the CDC, is just one part of the massive Department of Health and Human Services, and therefore subject to all sorts of political influence and frankly, pressure.
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DUI: Running Them Down?
I know the public gets upset when they read that DWI arrests are again climbing, but that’s often a good sign.
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A Case of Drunk Driving
I hate to see drunk driving convictions overturned for procedural errors, because I suspect that eventually, those fatality stats will reverse course and begin to climb again.
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The Vape Ban That Wasn’t
Corporations will fight dirty if necessary to protect their investment. That includes in the political arena.
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Stemming the Tide: Vaping
JUUL’s parent company has replaced the JUUL CEO with somebody from the tobacco industry.
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Politics and Drugs
And yet our legal system seems designed to punish the low level offender while protecting their counterparts in business and government.
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