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Energy re-sellers must deliver savings or quit They use aggressive sales tactics, including direct mail, phone soliciting and even knocking on your door. But do the sellers of wholesale electricity...
View ArticleTrain doctors in opioids
Not long ago, shooting heroin was mostly a crime for the criminal justice system to deal with. As a broad problem, it appeared largely limited to the poor, racial minorities, and inner cities. But then...
View ArticleLet marijuana help with PTSD
The commentary by Mike Smithson gave valid reasons to expand New York’s medical cannabis program – especially for the benefit of military veterans (“Relieve veterans’ suffering,” May 30). Mr. Smithson...
View ArticleDrug cash questionable
If a doctor is paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by a pharmaceutical company to promote its latest drug, should that physician then be prescribing that same medication to his own patients? It’s a...
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A small step forward on federal marijuana policy The federal government is coming around on the medical value of marijuana. But it’s a slog. The Drug Enforcement Administration took a positive step...
View ArticleStop depriving patients of medical marijuana
I disagree with one of the statements in the article “Marijuana sales lagging,” Aug. 8, regarding the slow development of New York’s medical cannabis market. It seems to me that New York state is, in...
View ArticleSchools in state address shortage
In the commentary “Shortage of doctors treatable,” Oct. 4, the author gets the facts wrong. No New York-based medical school has called for a ban on foreign medical schools’ paid clerkships. But, to be...
View ArticleA new marijuana wrinkle
Even as New York’s medical marijuana industry is struggling to become profitable, some significant disruption could come in just two weeks if Massachusetts voters legalize pot for recreational use....
View ArticleCompassionate care costly
New York has an unlikely new weapon in the ongoing battle against opioid abuse: medical marijuana. That assertion probably comes as a shock to the many who were taught in school that smoking pot is...
View ArticleMake medical marijuana affordable and accessible
Thousands of patients have been helped by New York’s medical marijuana program, and thousands more could benefit from it. But additional manufacturing licenses will not make medical marijuana more...
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