Steven Ralph Sharp

Steven Sharp Self Portrait

My path to photography started with a sock doll. My sister Stacia and her daughters like to make silly dolls out of socks. One day, while visiting with my siblings, Stacia showed me one of the sock dolls that she had made. As I was looking at it, I thought...

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What 2020 revealed about the future of marijuana legalization in the U.S.

PUBLISHED WED, JAN 6 202111:10 AM Charlotte Morabito@MORABITOCM Every ballot initiative involving the decriminalization or legalization of marijuana passed in the 2020 election. Voters in New Jersey and Arizona chose to legalize marijuana for adult recreational use. Mississippi voted to legalize medical marijuana use, and South Dakota legalized the drug for...

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Utah Prop 2 Compromise

Utah Prop 2 legalized Medical Marijuana

Does Thursday’s (10/4/2018) Utah Prop 2 compromise on its citizen initiative to legalize Medical Marijuana provide the medical relief that its proponents were seeking? Does the compromise address the risks the opponents were expounding? Provided below are 4 key points to consider. We will provide follow-up articles around each point...

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Why Restrict Marijuana More Than “Killer Drugs”?

Drink and Drugs a dangerous combination

Certainly, the compromise legislation for Utah’s Prop 2 initiative to legalize Medical Marijuana is better than the legislature repealing the initiative in their next session.  For consistency’s sake, however, if the compromise was offered because of inherent weaknesses the opponents to Prop 2 expressed fear over, then weaknesses in the...

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Does FDA Approval Promise Safety?

FDA Fraud

Misplaced Trust: Why FDA Approval Doesn’t Guarantee Drug Safety By Michelle Llamas When 37-year-old Timothy “Woody” Witczak’s doctor gave him a few Zoloft (sertraline) samples to help him sleep in 2003, neither he nor his wife, Kim, was alarmed. “Woody and I never once questioned the drug. Why would we?...

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Utah’s Prop 2 Compromise Provisions For Prescribing And Dispensing Medical Marijuana Are Inconsistent

Rally for Utah Prop 2

Proper prescription and distribution of any medical substance is critical. However, appropriate distribution should be determined by experience and expertise in the product and field—not just a title. This is my cause for concern around the provision for dispensing Medical Marijuana in Utah’s proposed legislative compromise to Prop 2. While...

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