Turns out the old adage, monkey see, monkey do, does ring true even when it comes to cannabis use. However, when cannabis use involves youth it s see, think, then do, says a team of UBC Okanagan researchers.
The team found that kids who grow up in homes where parents consume cannabis will more than likely use it themselves.
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Credible Position Statements Help Drive Corporate Sustainability
Credible Position Statements Help Drive Corporate Sustainability
Companies are expected to have credible goals and commitments on sustainability issues. Crafting a clear corporate position statement is an important first step.
Published 05-12-21
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May 12, 2021 /CSRwire/ - Companies are increasingly being called to account for their actions and asked to show how they plan to do their part in creating a more sustainable future.
The Embedding Project recommends that companies
start by preparing a corporate position statement on key sustainability issues.
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IMAGE: A pair of contemporary Cambodian houses: The house in the background is made from wood and modern materials. The house in the foreground was built traditionally from organic materials such. view more
Credit: Photo by Alison Carter
EUGENE, Ore. May 7, 2021 Long-running archaeological research, boosted by airborne lidar sensing and machine-learning algorithms, finds that Cambodia s Greater Angkor region was home to 700,000-900,000 people.
The sprawling city, which thrived from the 9th to 15th centuries, has slowly revealed its forest-hidden past to archaeologists, but its total population has been a mystery.
The new estimate, made possible by a study designed at the University of Oregon, is the first for the entire 3,000-square-kilometer mix of urban and rural landscape. The findings published May 7 in the journal
Authors: Katharina Maier, Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice, University of Winnipeg and Rebecca Hume, Senior Research Assistant, Criminal Justice, University of Winnipeg
A syndemic occurs when multiple public health emergencies interact to make each other worse. This past year clearly fits the label: the global COVID-19 pandemic has indisputably intensified the existing drug overdose crisis in Canada.
For over a year now, there has been non-stop coverage of COVID-19, while a number of other issues continue to be neglected as “newsworthy.” For people who use drugs in particular, a public sense of the crisis has never quite taken hold, despite years of growing overdose deaths and harm across communities.