Kid-Friendly Pot
I couldn’t find any evidence of consequences suffered by the pot peddlers, so can only assume there weren’t many. And it does look as if they’re still making the same products in the same packages.
Gambling in the Military
One of the tenets of gambling addiction is chasing losses... You add the warrior mentality to that, and you’ve basically got gambling addiction on steroids.
Meaning, in this instance, those pot products intentionally designed to mimic other products — such as cookies, candy, and cereals — already enormously popular with underage kids.
In most cases, the form of THC involved is D8, a close relative of the Delta 9 THC found in cannabis products everywhere. D8 has its own psychoactive properties, but in a quirk of existing law, is still available for widespread consumption with virtually no regulation. You’ll find D8 products at convenience marts and highway service plazas.
For several years now, the Federal Trade Commission trade (FTC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have been calling out makers and sellers of these products, discouraging them from continuing to market them. Here’s something from 2024.
Sellers of edible cannabis: Stop using packaging that mimics foods popular with kids
Cease and desist letters were sent to a number of pot peddlers. For instance:
“1) Hippy Mood (Levittown,...
In most cases, the form of THC involved is D8, a close relative of the Delta 9 THC found in cannabis products everywhere. D8 has its own psychoactive properties, but in a quirk of existing law, is still available for widespread consumption with virtually no regulation. You’ll find D8 products at convenience marts and highway service plazas.
For several years now, the Federal Trade Commission trade (FTC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have been calling out makers and sellers of these products, discouraging them from continuing to market them. Here’s something from 2024.
Sellers of edible cannabis: Stop using packaging that mimics foods popular with kids
Cease and desist letters were sent to a number of pot peddlers. For instance:
“1) Hippy Mood (Levittown,...
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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
FDA and the Zynners
Same applies to tobacco smoking. It’ll be difficult to think of something that isn’t safer. Gun play, perhaps.
Kid-Friendly Pot
I couldn’t find any evidence of consequences suffered by the pot peddlers, so can only assume there weren’t many. And it does look as if they’re still making the same products in the same packages.
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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.”
Addicted to Exercise?
Like addicts deprived of their drug of choice, the compulsive exerciser may report a deep sense of loss, accompanied by symptoms such as sleeplessness, irritability, depression, anxiety.
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.
The Storytellers
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.
Officers in the House
...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.
Video: Practical Advice on Prescription Painkiller Problems
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.
