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Requiescat In Pace John & Charlotte
I started a thread when he was hospitalized. Couple days later his wife said he was on ventilation but stable. RIP John…
March 29, 2020
John Prine in Critical Condition
After Coronavirus-Related Hospitalization
Looks like it got another one… RIP Charlotte
Charlotte Figi, namesake of Charlotte’s Web
medical marijuana strain, dies with COVID-19
Colo. (KRDO) — Charlotte Figi, the little girl who inspired the low-THC medical marijuana strain, “Charlotte’s Web,†has passed away with COVID-19.
Sweet songs never last too long.
Coronavirus Vaccine: Where Are We and What’s Next?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDY8pH6OWBc
Time for another, just like the other:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=252&v=P8tTwXv4glY&feature=emb_logo
It’s going to be finish of mine day, except before finish I am reading this
enormous paragraph to improve my experience.
OT
Die for the Dow? Rush to join the Fox News/evangelical body count?
Right-wing authoritarians say “what the fuck you waiting for?
Now that authoritarian followers are taking to the streets to protest is a perfect time to re-read Bob Altemeyer’s free online book “The Authoritarians.” It’s helpful to understand that the people protecting the “King,” are not interested in democracy.
Right-wing authoritarian followers will willingly spread disease to protect their leader.
Kevin Sabet is spewing nonsense in today’s New York Post.
Authoritarians discovered after 12,000 years of Ganja use. Prohibitions brought anxiety and fear, inflamed amygdala, begetting protection, provided for unquestioning loyalty. Empathy is the first casulty.
Clinical Endocannabinoid Deficiency
Endocannabinoid System 101
the most important body system that you’ve never heard of.
Constant propaganda tweaking or tweeting the dirty masses. Followers Tempting their own god and something about thou shalt not kill innocent elderly you passed it to, being selfish and weak. Cowardice among politicians putting illogical acts before citizens lives. War Zone hospitals bartering for PPE. Who else but Putin could prosper from this.
Ganja sets you free, and that seems to be harder than blind obedience. Thinking about things. Peaceful Pacifists hunkering down, gun nuts spreading it among themselves. If I was invading, that’s how I’d do. Avoiding the problem is cutting Seniors and Special Needs Social Security, one way or another. So close.
Marijuana use among older Americans up 75% in 4 years
Trump’s Chumps protesting socialist distancing, spherical earths and basic reality. Science Sucks Rush’s Ditto’s clutching bible verses to spew at alt christian Covidiots. Food Banks over run, bail out the air lines not flying anyone. Constitutional rights to not have contagious lemmings do harm to Americans. Jim Jones or Falwell Cults suicide packs are not a right covered by the BoR. MSM as quiet as a mouse about solutions getting in the way of blaming someone.…
I’m not seeing much change since I semi-retired, Groceries and Ganja delivered, paid by TLRY & GWPH. Old flicks and tunes, arts and crafts weaving dream catchers out of hemp. Online about the same, less tv non news speculations, perceptions and presumptions, like they do about Ganja.
Cannabis Industry Is America’s Fastest-Growing Sector, 15% growth in 2019 Employs Over 240,000 Full-Time Workers
U.S. Federal Cannabis Legalization
Could Be Worth $128.8 Billion in Taxes
and 1.6 Million Jobs
Authoritarians and the Drug War was the red flag jerking 50 years with bipartisan saluting, shunning and stigmatizing. Sabeteurs stealing taxes from Cv19 victms to lie and keep Ganja schedule#1, banned from research. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Up in Humboldt County behind the Redwood Curtain, weed is an all-cash business and delivery services have shut down.
We have 52 COVID-19 positives, 3 Hospital admissions and zero deaths. These numbers make the economic hardships look excessive to many and the shutdown anger is growing.
A local website had a phone video of Arcata police tasering a shirtless agitated man. At one point, with 4 cops on top of him you can hear him say “Everything is so beautiful, so purple, so bright.”
“This all could have been prevented if he had simply followed the guidelines and kept his shirt on while tweeking!”
https://kymkemp.com/2020/04/17/on-wednesday-arcata-police-tasered-and-subdued-agitated-man-video/
This just in: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rival Benny Gantz have agreed to form a unity government. Anybody who’s been following this will know that Israel will now legalize recreational cannabis, which is a key position of Benny Gantz.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/israeli-prime-minister-netanyahu-and-rival-benny-gantz-agree-to-form-unity-government-11587401728
“Parliament’s decision was really driven by economic motives, nothing else.”
Alain Aoun, a senior MP in the Free Patriotic Movement founded by President Michel Aoun.
https://preview.tinyurl.com/DoshNeedDosh
More evidence that schizophrenia is caused by genetic changes, and not by inhaling marijuana as prohibitionists often assert:
Nice find, Servetus. Interesting stuff…I had missed this one.
A mouse study reveals how their brain responds to binge drinking:
Cannabis prevents me from binge drinking. I wonder what that means?
Mandatory testing of marijuana in California for contaminants is taking a bite out of production and profits:
Hope you all saw this…..
‘Less than two years before this cop was arrested for running a child porn ring, Officer Kovacs received the “Law Enforcement Officer of the Year†Award. When presented with the honor, the Beavercreek police department praised him for his work with young children.’
https://masscentral.com/highly-decorated-d-a-r-e-cop-arrested-for-running-an-enormous-child-porn-ring/
Long ago, back in the 2000’s, a cop came into the DrugSenseChat with the line “I’m a 14 year old girl with blonde hair and blue eyes.”
It had to be a cop. No finesse. No manners. Just jumped right into what he no-doubt thought was a virtual den of dirty, disheveled, drug-addled pederasts feverishly rubbing hands together at the prospect of their next statutory rape. After all, they were ‘drug law reformers’ and thus had to be reprobates!
Of course, no one took the bait. He repeated his line; we ignored him and just went on with our chat regarding legal tactics. He quickly got bored and left.
Given this latest, it really makes you wonder.
There have certainly been some doozies over the years, in and out usually, of this long, long online debate.
Identifying male hemp seedlings for CBD production has benefited from an undergraduate-led project at Salisbury University:
Winter the Llama provides antibodies:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-04/uota-afl042920.php
A brief history of medicine:
I have an headache.
2000 BCE: Here, smoke this flower.
1000 CE: Here, say this prayer.
1850 CE: Here, drink this potion.
1930 CE: Here, swallow this pill.
1950 CE: Here, take this antibiotic.
2020 CE: Here, smoke this flower.
(other renditions of this medical meme exist elsewhere)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXS6VEfUEAAMRgd?format=jpg&name=360×360
Hope all’s well with y’all.
I’m hunkered down like a stoner after harvest.
SARS-CoV2 induced respiratory distress: Can cannabinoids be added to anti-viral therapies to reduce lung inflammation?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889159120307078?via=ihub
That’s good to hear.
Self medication as survival strategy. I spent much of the day yesterday reading the link DdC provided as well as many full studies used as references.
Research has shown that THC and CBD decrease proinflammatory cytokines responsible for the “cytokine storm” that requires intubation and ventilation.
This is immunosuppression cuz the immune system is creating the cytokine storm to combat the viral invader.
Since most people are unable to get tested without showing symptoms it makes sense to fuel up your endocannabinoid system ASAP if you feel any of the known symptoms.
It’s not clear to me that toking would be problematic. However, out of caution it’s probably better to seek out the big guns, i.e., full plant extracts. If you have a good CBD supplier like Charlotte’s Web that could be a good choice if you don’t have dispensary access.
I’m certainly not against efficacious efforts by Big Pharma but access requires a physician and you might already be halfway dead before you can even present yourself for medical care. If you’re cannabis naive go with CBD. If you’re not, it still makes sense to have some CBD in the mix.
Good luck and be safe out there.
I used to check patients O2 with a finger monitor. Seems to be an indicator. I’ve posted about Hemp Oil helping a patient keep off of ABs, not for a virus but enhancing the immune to fuel the battle. If Ganja including all of the synergy of cannabinoids can boost the EDC to take care of whatever. Bringing it back to where it once belonged jojo. I’m assuming everybody else has it, so everybody I’m not sure of – back off.
This sheltering seems so far, so good, knockonwood, to have less traffic as the only real difference. I’ve been practicing retirement a while, getting the hang of it. More deliveries and curbside? Still can’t figure out what toilet paper has to do with anything. Glad alls well, haven’t run into too many with personal experience. Can’t find anything on how many stoners are statistics or humm, not.
50 years of prevention, no cold, no big pharma, flu shots or vax. Not opposed, just don’t go to doctors unless I can’t handle it. Last time I got food poisoning in Eureka about 20 years ago, they gave me a suppository. I ask why since I smoke pot regularly it didn’t stop the nausea? She didn’t know. I said I’ll make sure not to mix them up and got the ER to laugh. Be Well.
Endocannabinoid System 101
https://www.thorne.com/take-5-daily/article/endocannabinoid-system-101
the most important body system that you’ve never heard of.
Cannabis Synergy
https://t.co/pYtNRTtwel?amp=1
Synergy
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXUIV8yVcAAfGc7?format=jpg&name=360×360
Cv19
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXUKDu3UMAAzfrg?format=jpg&name=360×360
CBG
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXYowe8U8AExEMI?format=jpg&name=360×360
My doctor has said that a finger O2 Oximeter can be a very useful thing to have. The idea being you can keep track of your Blood O2 saturation in order to know if and when to present at the ER. Anything below 75% can be trouble, if you get to 60, you better already be at the door of the Hospital, because that is critically low. They’re inexpensive, I got mine for around 45 dollars and they’re available at your local Pharmacy or on line. Good investment in this day and age. Stay healthy.
Pete posts a fitting tribute to one of our greatest troubadours, and in the span of 30 days receives 26 comments, 23 of which make no mention of John or his passing.
Stoners take a lotta unwarranted grief about attention spans, but wtf?
RIP John Prine. There, ya happy? He will be missed….much like occasional open threads for the sort of thing that is happening here. Stay well, Dan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKPDFQRmG_M
This Thursday, June 11th at 7:30pm EDT/4:30pm PDT Bonnie Raitt will participate in an online celebration of the life of her friend, John Prine. Produced by the Prine family and Oh Boy Records, featuring musicians, actors and friends remembering our beloved JP.
https://t.co/7Vpf5h3Kq6?amp=1
I specifically like CBD Isolate Crystals because they do not contain any THC so I have peace of mind in the case that I have to take a drug test for work because I work for the government.