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More likely the hope is to increase awareness of the risks, and encourage drinkers to limit consumption.

That’s not to say the perceptions of cannabis as health-improving aren’t important, but post-legalization, it’s mostly a marketing tool.

Perhaps more important, the patient could begin to resume a normal life.

The real issue is that Kratom use is already so widespread that attempts at a total ban would inevitably create hardship for those who are already dependent on the drug, as well as fuel the appearance of a thriving black market.

What legalization can’t do is fix any problems inherent in drug use itself.

Once a problem such as opoid overprescribing is widespread, entrenched in practice, good luck eradicating it with new laws.

Even if society miraculously eliminated its problems,  some people would still be attracted to drugs.

“It’s too much like doing your taxes,” was her verdict.  That’s probably the worst thing I’ve heard anyone say about psychotherapy.

Do what you promised, regardless of employee or the job they hold. Fairness is important, and fairness is a perception.

The goal is to eventually develop an objective scale by which pain can be measured not by self-report, but by neuroimaging.