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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.

My concern is that these same hallucinogens have a pronounced tendency to escape the research environment and find their way out into the streets

Much of the chronic user’s life is taken up by anxiety, about where future doses will come from.

…just as repeal of Prohibition didn’t make alcohol any safer for popular use… neither will legalization remove the risks associated with cannabis.

But if a community treats a correctional institution as a kind of locked flophouse, what else we can expect?

Obviously, being able to give your own business a five star rating on a supposedly independent consumer website could be construed as an unfair advantage.

We’ve come a long way in treating addictions, but we’re still not very successful at convincing a patient to stick to a treatment regimen.

In their eagerness to reduce the size of government, states  have stripped away staff who would otherwise make onsite visits to ensure compliance.

Sometimes powerful business leaders sound like drunk drivers or corner drug dealers. Rationalizing, externalizing, minimizing…