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OMG- A Conspiracy?
I won’t attempt to translate that into dollars of lost revenue, but I imagine it’s a considerable sum.
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Will It Ever End?
…he had become a prime target for exploitation by some truly awful people.
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Still Counting Drinks, Eh?
In practical terms, it’s far more helpful for a working counselor to focus on the problems that result, directly or indirectly, from high-intensity drinking, than on the amounts themselves.
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Hardcore, once more
Incarceration alone is almost never very effective— in fact, drinking may well resume the day the offender is released.
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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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