DWI “Scam”-dal
It’s an incredibly dishonest way for officers of the court to behave, and I imagine those hearing or reading the story now are having some difficulty understanding how they managed to get away with it for as long as they did.
Statute of Limitations
It's sometimes said that the justified ones are by far the most dangerous. They're the most difficult to let go of, and the most likely to develop into an obsession.
First up: recent reports, courtesy of one state’s poison hotline, confirm that of more than one thousand incidents of cannabis overexposure, the majority involved children under the age of 12. Nine out of ten of those cases necessitated a trip to the hospital for medical care.
That wasn’t supposed to happen. During the long debate over legalization, discussion centered on whether teenagers would get access to their parents’ (or their friends’ parents’) cannabis stash. I don’t recall much concern expressed over possible access by much younger children in the household.
But we should have anticipated that the marketing geniuses behind commercial Big Pot would come up with the idea of offering edibles that closely resembled the popular sweeties of the day.
There was already a role model to follow, in the form of those colorful detergent pods that even then were sending kids to the ER with cases of poisoning.
I don’t know why we thought cannabis would be...
That wasn’t supposed to happen. During the long debate over legalization, discussion centered on whether teenagers would get access to their parents’ (or their friends’ parents’) cannabis stash. I don’t recall much concern expressed over possible access by much younger children in the household.
But we should have anticipated that the marketing geniuses behind commercial Big Pot would come up with the idea of offering edibles that closely resembled the popular sweeties of the day.
There was already a role model to follow, in the form of those colorful detergent pods that even then were sending kids to the ER with cases of poisoning.
I don’t know why we thought cannabis would be...
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DWI “Scam”-dal
It’s an incredibly dishonest way for officers of the court to behave, and I imagine those hearing or reading the story now are having some difficulty understanding how they managed to get away with it for as long as they did.
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Beginning around the year 2000, incarceration of juveniles has declined by almost 75%, from a peak population of more than 10o,000, to somewhere less than one-third that number.
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A recent analysis of “..more than 55,000 adults based on their participation in panels between 2013 to 2022 found that after legalization of cannabis, their monthly usage rose 3.9%…”
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Odds & Ends, Cannabis Edition
A recent analysis of “..more than 55,000 adults based on their participation in panels between 2013 to 2022 found that after legalization of cannabis, their monthly usage rose 3.9%…”
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Make it a continuing effort, using strategies based in evidence, and harnessing the power of human interaction-- instead of relying on a burst of anti-drug education, however intense.
How Many is Too Many?
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Is This Recovery?
...there are other folks out there like these— pretending to sobriety yet still secretly using, and hoping to avoid the sort of trouble that haunted them in the past.
Overstimulated?
I was nonetheless surprised to learn that one of the areas where use increased the most was among people in their 70s.
Parenting Under The Influence
Children raised in such families are more likely to be exposed to violence, to initiate their own substance use at an earlier age, and to have mental health problems in childhood.
Is This Recovery?
...there are other folks out there like these— pretending to sobriety yet still secretly using, and hoping to avoid the sort of trouble that haunted them in the past.
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A Novel Approach
...the author, who grew up in and around the region, chose to use its earnings to found Higher Ground, a home for recovering women.
A Novel Approach
...the author, who grew up in and around the region, chose to use its earnings to found Higher Ground, a home for recovering women.
Diagnosing Cannabis Use Disorder: Updated
It certainly makes sense that if you suffer from a major mental illness, you should stay away from pot.
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People have abused opiates for 5,000 years. As much as medicine depends on them, they've always created problems for a percentage of users.
