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...question of whether marijuana is a dangerous menace or something less than that--even, perhaps, a kind of benign and unfairly persecuted folk medicine--suddenly dominates discussions of the great American drug habit. Last month voters in Arizona and California passed ballot propositions that legalize the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes, a kind of backdoor quasi-legitimation alarming to the pot hawks, who fear that high-minded tolerance (pot as pain reliever, glaucoma salve, general angel of mercy) may become infectious and spread to the other states...
...just as large and has grown tenfold, into a $500 million operation with 12,000 employees. In fiscal 1995-96, MedTrans, a division of Canada's Laidlaw Inc., an environmental and transportation company, posted a 180% jump in profits, to $55 million. Not far behind the two is Arizona's Rural/Metro Corp., which increased revenues 46% to $250 million in fiscal 1996 over 1995; net income rose 66%, from $6.9 million to $11.5 million. Now in 150 communities the company is adding two acquisitions a month...
...rooms and other services. You may deposit your late Uncle Harry in that luxurious if slightly creepy Colonial house on the corner, but these days you have no guarantee he will stay there. This centralization can increase the risk of administrative errors like the one that occurred recently in Arizona when an SCI cluster facility mistakenly cremated a body that was supposed to be shipped intact to Utah. A spokesman for SCI, however, says such an error is no more likely to occur in a cluster than in any other operation. "We run very strict procedures for the identification...
None of the tactics employed by the consolidators is illegal, although Arizona, where SCI has a powerful presence, is contemplating a law that would require the companies to disclose their ownership to consumers. "I can't point to SCI and Loewen and say they're doing anything wrong," says David Walkinshaw, a third-generation funeral director who owns the Saville Funeral Home in Arlington, Massachusetts. "They're doing things the way major corporations do in every other area of our economy...
...electorate? Unfortunately, it means more of the partisan wrangling and posturing that so many of us have grown to loathe. Only in Washington is it fashionable to suggest, "If it's broke, don't fix it," and find that advice being taken literally. BILL GEMAR Gila Bend, Arizona...