Women who used cannabis no more than once a week, which is classified as moderate use, did not show this low birth weight effect, giving birth to babies with an average weight of 3.39kg
Narrow tax bases are non-neutral, favoring one product or industry over another, and can undermine revenue stability., sales tax rate increases, or both, to offset income tax rate reductions, but of those two options, base broadening ideally would be considered first, as economists generally agree that broad-based, low-rate taxes are structurally superior to narrow-based, high-rate taxes, as they are more neutral and generate a more stable source of revenue
And while there was no equivalent of Ode To Billie Joe, the hit so big it cast a shadow Gentry would struggle to escape, the albums single, Okolona River Bottom Band, had the adventurous spirit of Laura Nyros Stoned Soul Picnic, including shifts of tempo, a melange of styles (hear the traces of bossa nova when the bongos come in on the line up from Biloxi shore) and playful use of language (The semi-annual/Come as you can-ual/Five man band-ual Okolona River Bottom Band)
Excerpt from "The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger", Marc Levinson, Princeton University Press, 2006
