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Like many in his field, he appears to sincerely believe that every customer is truly ill and will benefit from cannabis' medicinal properties. Yet the encounter puts into focus what many critics of the dispensaries allege: that they are increasingly the destination of choice for healthy folks who just want to get high - "18-year-olds breezing in and complaining about headaches," as a patient advocate describes them. (See pictures of stoner cinema...
...fate to theirs - and all too frequently, to subordinate his vision of right and wrong to their short-term political demands. This problem was particularly pronounced in the area of spending, from a mammoth farm bill to an expensive entitlement in the form of a Medicare prescription-drug benefit to colossal business-as-usual earmark spending. Bush also tarnished his personal image by staying largely silent in the face of ethics flaps involving Tom DeLay, Jack Abramoff and other scandal-plagued Republicans. (Obama should take note, as he continues to sidestep meaningful comment on the long-running travails of Democratic...
...from cheapening nature, thinking in terms of "natural capital" can offer a way to assess the crucial but unmeasured benefit that humans derive from the nature. Ascertaining that value can then help decision makers bring environmental factors more explicitly into their planning. (See the top 10 green ideas...
What kind of value are we talking about? According to research cited in the TEEB report, an annual investment of $45 billion to biodiversity conservation worldwide could safeguard about $5 trillion in ecosystem services - a benefit to cost ratio...
Finally, they examine the effect that these identities have on the utility functions of the students. The students who identify as insiders will benefit from being involved in the school and exerting at least a moderate level of academic effort. The outsiders, however, would be unhappy with these activities. Rather, their sense of self is positively reinforced by rebellion against the educational environment...