The Pot Patrol
Will the illicit black market finally disappear, to be replaced by a happy, productive, extremely profitable vision of Big Pot?
“Scromiting”
It must come as a shock to someone who’s been a regular user for a while, to suddenly without warning begin experiencing violent vomiting and pain.
“They drive law enforcement vehicles and they are equipped with guns, but these trained police officers are laser focused on one mission: stymieing the illicit marijuana market in a state awash with cannabis.”
Couldn’t resist copying the above from an article in the daily New Mexican. It concerns a newly-formed team charged with enforcing the law around cannabis sales, on behalf of the New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department.
Currently it’s a three-officer outfit, with a plan to expand to seven with a budget over $1 million.
Yes, they’re armed . We take our tax violations seriously here in the Great Southwest.
I got the impression the team is going to spend most of its time rooting out illegal sales operations and busting large illicit grow outfits. They’re on the trail of violators of our state’s many regulations around cannabis production and sales.
I’ve read that it’s not uncommon to find illegally-produced cannabis products mixed in...
Couldn’t resist copying the above from an article in the daily New Mexican. It concerns a newly-formed team charged with enforcing the law around cannabis sales, on behalf of the New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department.
Currently it’s a three-officer outfit, with a plan to expand to seven with a budget over $1 million.
Yes, they’re armed . We take our tax violations seriously here in the Great Southwest.
I got the impression the team is going to spend most of its time rooting out illegal sales operations and busting large illicit grow outfits. They’re on the trail of violators of our state’s many regulations around cannabis production and sales.
I’ve read that it’s not uncommon to find illegally-produced cannabis products mixed in...
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Big Pot Meets Big Labor
This might be a good opportunity for a closer look at exactly how wealthy and established the industry has become
New Money or Not?
It turns out that the funds in question had previously been delayed, for months... now to be released late.
The Pot Patrol
Will the illicit black market finally disappear, to be replaced by a happy, productive, extremely profitable vision of Big Pot?
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Split Over Kratom
...both the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security have “strong ties to a kratom lobbyist (and convicted criminal) behind a notorious kratom drinks company.”
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Split Over Kratom
...both the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security have “strong ties to a kratom lobbyist (and convicted criminal) behind a notorious kratom drinks company.”
Life in a Hot Spot
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.
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One young man explained that he avoided speaker meetings because the “drunkalogues” he heard triggered in him an awful craving for a drink.
Doubts about Diagnosis
It’s vulnerable to bias, both on the part of the patient and the practitioner.
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Rage-baited
From a counseling standpoint, it’s a time when we ought to be advising patients to restrict their social media activity, at the very least to selected forums and sites that support recovery goals
Rage-baited
From a counseling standpoint, it’s a time when we ought to be advising patients to restrict their social media activity, at the very least to selected forums and sites that support recovery goals
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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...with law enforcement agencies taking on vastly different roles, planning and practicing our response appears more important than 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.
