An Uncomfortable Question
Unlike the gambler, casino owners and managers and online betting shops are in it for the money - and really, not much else.
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Can “Smart” Drugs Make Us Dumber?
Stimulants do tend to boost the individual’s self-confidence, at least temporarily. Cocaine and methamphetamine are known for it. It often escalates to grandiosity.
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Sad, But Also True
She wasn’t being entirely altruistic– she did charge participants a cool five hundred dollars apiece– but it’s reasonable to assume that she meant well, with no intent to cause harm.
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More Perry
Sounds as if Perry probably wasn’t the only customer, either.
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Edible Question
Once again, there seems to be general agreement that daily cannabis use, especially the heavier sort, is associated with the most adverse consequences.
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Pot Leading to Violence?
As THC content rises, the effects of THC change. The risk of problems goes up along with it.
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The China Problem
Advocates for the migrant workers want us to remember that the source of the pot we use for pleasure may well have been what amounts to slave labor.
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The Bill Comes Due
ALD (alcohol-related liver disease) in the United States is projected to cost $355 billion in direct healthcare-related costs and $525 billion in lost labor and economic consumption.
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Anatomy of a Mushroom
Once again based on experience, I’m confident that many of the folks who will try psilocybin in future, because of all the favorable publicity, will fall into those ‘excluded’ categories.
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Will This Make a Difference?
And if there were damage, it’d be our brains that were affected, right? The very organ we’re asking now to evaluate its own functioning. It’s not a happy thought.
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Things Fall Apart
In 1961, two Harvard students ended up in the mental hospital after consuming psilocybin…” Not long afterwards, Harvard lost much of its enthusiasm for the (psilocybin research) program.
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Hunter Biden, Hunter Biden!
Yes, it’s horrifying to read about the exploits of addicts in the grip of addiction — it’s horrifying for many of them, too — but is it something we should use against them, for purely political advantage?
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A Surprising Connection
Since so many millions of people use cannabis – long the world’s most widely used illicit drug — and the population of users is rising fast, it’s a legitimate cause for concern.
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