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Traditional middle class jobs with career prospects replaced by a lower-paid, less stable workforce– perhaps more vulnerable to outside influence?

The public , including those in elected office, seem to assume that the expected prohibition on sales and use by underage persons will somehow be enough to limit the damage.

The field is getting accustomed to patients arriving in addiction treatment complaining of problems with prescription opioids, stimulants, sedatives, etc, while actively enrolled in medical cannabis programs.

Of course, the drinker isn’t aware of having entered a blackout. Far as they’re concerned, things are proceeding as normal.

Here’s something else familiar: That preoccupation with obtaining and protecting the supply.

In the past, we’ve flung opioids at the problem, and haven’t developed alternatives.

Her definition of social drinking was any alcohol consumed in the company of other human beings.

Not everybody wants to remain dependent on pain medication. But at present, we offer few if any alternatives to doing it on your own.

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.