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.
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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?
by C. Scott McMillin | Jan 11, 2021 | Public Policy | 0 |
States where recreational cannabis is legal-- 17 of them now, I believe-- still have drug-related crime. Just of a different variety.
by C. Scott McMillin | Dec 10, 2020 | Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Nov 9, 2020 | Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Oct 15, 2020 | Addictive Substances, Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Oct 5, 2020 | Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 20, 2020 | Addictive Substances, Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 13, 2020 | In the News, Public Policy | 0 |
How do you find room for new attitudes when the old ones are still omnipresent in the background?
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Aug 10, 2020 | In the News, Public Policy | 0 |
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.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 2, 2020 | Public Policy | 0 |
Laws and policies are quickly enacted that, once on the books, often outlive the emergencies they were there to address.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | May 11, 2020 | Public Policy | 0 |
I’ve noticed the surprise when Americans go abroad and encounter other ways of doing things.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 16, 2020 | Prevention, Public Policy | 0 |
When we fail to provide adequate treatment for substance disorders, we pay a price in terms of overall public health.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 2, 2020 | Public Policy | 0 |
These businesses, many of them small shops, may have aggressively marketed these products for commercial reward.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Feb 17, 2020 | Public Policy | 0 |
…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.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 27, 2020 | Public Policy | 1 |
I know the public gets upset when they read that DWI arrests are again climbing, but that’s often a good sign.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 20, 2020 | Public Policy | 0 |
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.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Dec 5, 2019 | Addictive Substances, Public Policy | 0 |
Corporations will fight dirty if necessary to protect their investment. That includes in the political arena.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 4, 2019 | Public Health, Public Policy | 0 |
JUUL’s parent company has replaced the JUUL CEO with somebody from the tobacco industry.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 14, 2019 | Public Policy | 0 |
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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