A Bad Test Result
I don’t know how often we question the findings, but it makes me think that a critical examination of our own procedures, say on a quarterly and yearly basis, might be a heck of a good idea.
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Conflict in Cali
Here’s a test: Change the label to avoid any mention of THC content. Now, how many customers continue to seek out and purchase it?
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A really good idea
Big Tobacco, however, will not agree. They’ll put up the usual resistance, lobbying Congress, filing lawsuits, etc., and over the years, they’ve become quite good at it.
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Legislating Addiction
…the commercial gambling industry is dead-set against it. In fact, they’d like to eliminate the gambling tax altogether, on the grounds that it disadvantages them against illicit gambling operations.
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Cannabis as Commerce
…we made a popular drug of abuse legal, widely available in shops and online, and proceed to market the heck out of it– did we really think that the number of users would go down?
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More on Pot in Politics
Nonetheless, the commercial cannabis industry expects a demonstration of that level of support from the public to motivate the Florida legislature to revisit the issue,..
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Gambling — A Public Health Issue?
…because gambling is now an industry with vast resources and a huge political presence, we can expect… significant resistance from those quarters.
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Arc of the Pendulum
Instead, our habit has been to rush head first in one direction, then reverse and rush back the opposite way
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More Big Fakers
They’re going to great lengths to impersonate popular sweeties, up to and including AI-quality fake brand name packaging.
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Zyn-ers Unite!
Turns out that ‘pouching’ with nicotine is particularly widespread among young Republicans, who seem to think it’s a very manly thing to do.
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That Big Pot Debate
…if the proposed rescheduling would allow your doctor to prescribe it and your local pharmacist to dispense it, does that mean that your health insurance would cover the cost?
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It’s Not Magic
Psilocybin is of course a Schedule One controlled substance, while amanita is not. As a result, the amanita products are “…often marketed as a dietary supplement…”
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An MD takes on the DEA
Still, “pill mills” do continue to exist, if not in the numbers they once did. I suppose they could stage a comeback — the economics still work.
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