Where’s My Ice Cream?
Killer Air-Max Mod
The Utilian water adapter is great, but not real practical for mobility. I stopped using it after last vacay just being lazy. Sitting around dreaming up ways to cool the oft-used gadget caught me looking at the glass part of the eyedropper from Jax’s just finished bottle of Cyclosporine. It’s now being utilized in an Air-Max stem.
My lungs must be so parched I can’t really tell the difference now, but it’s obviously doing something by the looks of much-increased condensation. That only comes from cooling. I grind the stuff to a powder, so it cuts down on any particulate getting through, as well. Stems get switched out weekly for cleaning. It’s already looking like a week after five days.
The real verdict comes where the rubber meets the road. Even a long stem used to get uncomfortably warm right at the mouthpiece with me huffing hard on high towards the end of a bowl.
Germany Got It Right
Looks like it at first glance, to me anyway. Not alot of ambiguity and strings attached far as I can tell. There will be a never-ending slew of details to work out going forward. The public part is what they finally got right this time. Legalized regions in this country I’m familiar with still cling to decades-old stigma.
Germany joins legal cannabis club.
Is legalization hurting teen mental health?
Cryogenic Breakthrough!
Been sayin’ the whole RTL movement was leaning towards total procreation control the whole time. It’s the only way to manage the numerous varied viewpoints of that splintered demographic known by many monikers. It all falls under religious dogma sponsored by the Church(es), no matter how you break it down. They say nothing in current law prevents them from being classed as children. Can’t prove a negative. These people are just craven lunatics.
She said it raises questions for providers and patients, including if they can freeze future embryos created during fertility treatment or if patients could ever donate or destroy unused embryos.
Of course Triki Nikki jumps on the bandwagon. I got a newsflash for ya, Gurl: It’s not about what embryos are to you, unless they are your embryos.
Ohio’s Being Ruled
Ever wonder how fuckwits like JD Vance get elected? Just run in some backwoods, redneck, gerrymandered places where the mouth-breathers are too dumb to know any better.
Shelby’s proposed ordinance comes three months following Ohio’s passage of Issue 2, a statute that allows adults 21 and over to buy and possess up to 2.5 ounces of cannabis and to grow plants at home.
I guess the rationale is now that it’s state-level legal, we better hurry up, dig in and keep fighting. I remember when some Colorado localities quickly learned the hard way how people really don’t mind spending a few extra bucks on gas contributing to the economy in a different Zip Code.
“Through conversations with folks, I know that they would rather not have any retail sales within the city,” he said.
Echoes shades of a familiar Fuckwit refrain: “People are saying…” Why not just come right out and say it: We in Ohio support the black market drug dealers! You can have your weed, just can’t buy it anywhere. Fucking idiots. If anything, it’ll prevent their flavor of the next Kensington Philly.
Not Exactly a Health Status Update – Yet
4 FEB 04: New Colorado hemp law has me re-thinking the CBD situation. Somehow the fuckwits managed to outlaw mail delivery. The VA sent me enough opiates in the mail to kill several horses. I can order home delivery for the dankest mind-bender ganja from a dozen different dispensaries. But delivery may no longer be had for full-spectrum CBD gummies. I imagine some hyper-paranoid legislators floated the false notion kids musta been ordering alot of gummies thru the mail. So we’ll be starting a new regimen of cooking the Wife’s Lemonade again, trying to more carefully measure the dosage, avoiding hyperemesis. I really do hate the government almost as much as Corporate America.
Cannabis use linked to anxiety diagnoses, worsened anxiety disorders. Mmmmmmkay. What if you already had a couple, to start with?
Feds Finally Catching Up?
Spine Stuff
Football Weather
The NFL culture of pain, playing hurt, injury roster management and depth, and the whole concussion conundrum combine to sow commensurate confusion and uncertainty in an atmosphere where we’re gonna play in Buffalo and KC this weekend. I’ll be surprised if somebody doesn’t get frostbite in an injury-laden mess of a game somewhere.
I don’t really consider myself to be all that sadistic, but these guys truly are exemplary badass mutherfuckers.
LATE UPDATE: Bills-Steelers playoff game postponed to Monday. 😉 Backstory.
Interesting Twist on this One
The inspector general reports reviewed by ProPublica have limitations. The individual investigations can be narrow. The reports offer only broad suggestions as to whether individuals should be held accountable for breakdowns and provide little sense of whether they actually were. Even together, they don’t capture the full reality of the VA’s 1,300 health care facilities. But they do start to assemble a meaningful picture of the system’s most chronic shortcomings when it comes to treating people with mental illness.
I thought I was coming to grips with stuff pretty well going into my 2nd hip replacement, having recently retired from Lockheed and self-diagnosed my autism when 2019 rolled around. The girls were well on their way with the seemingly un-attainable goal of relieving all the biggest stressors in my life in the rear-view mirror. Then everything went to shyt via direct VA intervention.
No treatment lacking here – they instigated it! Then turned on the gaslight. Now I’m on some bubbles nobody ever imagined. Talk about mental health treatment, inside out. We been spending alot of time and money trying to figure out who’s insane and who’s not doing some of these mass shootings lately. Wonder if it’d make a new variant of affirmative defense in some criminal case?
Cornering the Procreation Market
Under the pretense of goodwill to all, the Pope appears to believe among other fantastic and unconfirmed ideas, that just banning anything they don’t like and telling people to stop whatever doesn’t appeal to them is gonna get ‘er done. Fuckin’ trends.
Remember, these are the fuckwits that make people travel out of state for any and all abortions on the bubble in Texas, and would like to make them criminals for it, as well.
Frequent Reporter Here
The study’s findings are consistent with data published last year in JAMA Network Open reporting that nearly one in three patients with chronic pain use cannabis as an analgesic agent and that many of them substitute it in place of opioids.
I have both c-spine and lumbar nerve root damage. The list of troubling symptoms is long and varied. Pretty sure I’ve been through a good cross-section of the pharmaceuticals for it. Cannabis is the only thing that ever provided any real long-term relief.
IT and Healthcare in the Crapper
Probably not alot of Product and Program Managers skewing the numbers. Some of them probably are in IT and Healthcare, so the picture for those industries must be pretty bleak. One of the reasons I liked being enlisted in the Air Force for twenty years was I always got a new job every couple years, whether they thought I needed it or not.
It’s not just IT and Healthcare, if the Help Wanted signs I see posted everywhere are any indication.
Health Status Update
13 DEC 23: Just a couple of steady-state items to note. The bedtime 50mg CBD doses with melanin help with sleep and a noticeable improvement in 1st thing out-the-bed sore/stiffness. As noted before, C-spine decompression is clearly the main factor maintaining that, probably has been all along, albeit indirectly through inversion years ago. Skipping it starts the elbow tenderizing process with arm-numbing accompaniment. Consuming around 150mg CBD/day total. Feels like I could use more, but the stuff’s expensive. Inflammation is a primary instigator in both the arthritis and nerve stuff. Vaping about half the THC-type cannabis I was at some point previously. I think this is probably due to getting more efficient with it, better equipment, spiking the already HP stuff with kief and bubble hash. Still basically using as much as I can tolerate. That is clearly the therapeutic threshold, for me. Need to be able use enough without going blotto, to blunt pain. It’s a simple tolerance issue, just exactly opposite the way stoners think of it.
Be the Change
Unfortunately, today’s society is so crooked that it is not even seen as strange that powerful interests control the very research that shows that precisely what they make money from seems to be the most effective remedy for the suffering the system they are a part of caused.
Sackler, anyone? It goes to more than just the sad state of personally debilitating mental affairs, but Julia-X from Sweden has that part figured out. I keep telling myself fuggedaboudit, things change, it’s just the way it is – changing. Then I think of something to do next, maybe write a blog post.
Ever wonder why some of the MAGA mutherfuckers seem just, let’s say, crazy? Personality Traits Associated With Dementia Risk.
Live Free or Die?
Looks more like scratch your head and die faster, to me. With nary a single substantiated negative report on the effects of Cannabis legalization from DUI stats, to teen usage surveys, to anecdotal reports and evidence of all kinds from all across the country, the people in New Hampshire still have not yet been able to figure it out.
