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...China. Her stall in the town of Chiang Rai is one of dozens clustered near a towering sign that welcomes visitors to the Golden Triangle. Across the main road, the strip of guesthouses, bars, restaurants, souvenir shops and accompanying lurid signage expands daily. "I used to grow tomatoes and tobacco, but I can make a lot more money selling shirts," she says. Does she miss the old days? "Well, it used to be quieter. It's not beautiful here like before. But the buses come every day now and they bring lots of business...
...made only the slightest of progress. Dzhergenia listed the achievements: "We used not to be able to pay our workers anything, now they get a miserable salary, but regularly." Salaries run about $15 a month, pensions $1 a month. He then ran down the list of Abkhazia's assets - tobacco, citrus fruit, grapes, wine - then raised his eyebrows as if shocked at the shortness of the list. There is also tourism. "In Soviet times we had 2 million tourists a year," he said. "Now we are delighted because we had 100,000 last season." Abkhazia's subtropical beauty drew both...
...such a stretch of the imagination to conceive of drug warriors—like Sabet, McCaffrey and many politicians on Capitol Hill—as playing into the hands of the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries which benefit from cannabis prohibition? The public has been manipulated far too long for the benefit of corporate America. It’s time we put this government back in the hands of the people...
...affect those regions involved in coordinating and regulating body movements (including contributing to car crashes, second only to alcohol alone); those involved in learning, memory and stress response; those that integrate the cognitive functions; and the reward center of the brain. Moreover, one marijuana cigarette is akin to four tobacco cigarettes in terms of the amount of tar, five tobacco cigarettes in terms of the amount of carbon monoxide intake and ten tobacco cigarettes with respect to the amount of damage to the airways. It is no wonder that half of teens and adolescents in substance abuse treatment are there...
Enter the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, which has long argued that the FDA should regulate all nicotine-delivery vehicles, including cigarettes. When a staff member for the group discovered that he could order nicotine lollipops over the Internet without a prescription or even an inquiry about his age, the group started raising a stink...