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2024.05.20 16:33 freakflyer9999 Mint distro default packages

There was a post yesterday asking about a minimal version of Linux Mint. I understand why Mint installs a lot of user oriented apps (like Libre Office) by default as well as utilities that make life in Linux easier or even possible. The Mint distro is intended to be a moderately complete daily driver for its target audience and to eliminate the need for a new Linux user having to know what they need/want and don't. Fair enough. If minimal is what you want, then Mint shouldn't be your choice.
Personally, I like Mint and even use it currently on my "servers" as well. This way, I have a consistent interface and set of packages across all of my systems, though I do customize it a bit by removing some packages after install.
What I can't understand is why they have included packages like Brltty which enables braille for the command line. Surely, there isn't that many blind people using Linux Mint. I have articulated/bitched about this in a few other comments, but never really asked direct questions about the logic of including this particular package.
There are of course many other choices that the developers have made (for me) that I simply don't need. Some of these choices I can see that even if I don't need it today, there is a possibility that I might need it down the road. I guess that if I lose my eyesight next week, that Brltty would be useful after I learn braille. But the vast majority of current and future Mint users(if not all) simply don't need Braille support and if they do, then they can install it.
I pick on this specific package because it seems to be so far out in left field to be a default selection in any Linux distro but there are certainly many other similar choices that have been made for this distro (and I'm sure other distros as well).
Now I could just shut up and simply live with my choice to install Mint, but this isn't the only package that seems to be useless to the vast majority of Mint users. A single one of them probably doesn't impact performance significantly enough to even worry about, but when you add up all of these, it just reminds me too much of the bloat in Windows that I want to leave behind. Linux is touted as being leaner than Windows, but these decisions don't make sense to me. I would much rather see something like htop or tldr (to name a couple) be a default install than Braille support.
In my corporate career (now retired) I made similar decisions for my end users and some of them didn't like my decisions, but they were generally based on corporate needs/requirements and ease of support for the system admins. I once deployed new desktops to my entire company with the background and screensaver locked (to the corporate logo). People moaned and groaned that they couldn't put their pics of precious little Johnny as the background or the swimming fish as the screen saver. From my position though, I could walk into an office and at a glance, know that the users hadn't changed my config. I had to explain several hundred times that the machine on their desk didn't belong to them. It belonged to me as the administrator.
I'm rambling a bit now, but the gist is most of my decisions and those of the Mint developers have some thought behind them or other legitimate reasons. I just can't for the life of me understand why Braille support is a default selection in Linux Mint. Once again, I am picking on Braille support, but it is just an example that sticks out in my mind, so please don't bash on me for not wanting Braille support to be installed by default in Mint.
I have begun sorting through the almost 300 processes currently running on my Mint installations and trying to determine if each one is required, needed or just bloat at least to me. Progress is slow and of course, this only touches the packages that run processes. There are currently almost 3000 packages installed on one of my Mint systems. The others should be similar.
OK. Rant is over. It is action time. Once I have finished or at least made significant progress in my review I need to dig into the Mint install scripts and see what I can do. Ubuntu server install presents a small list of optional packages, most of which I have no current use for but I do see how a server install might need some of the choices. I do select sshd from that list on most of my Ubuntu installs and should the need arise may select others based on the use case for that particular installation.
If I get really ambitious, maybe I'll write my own install script. When I first touched Linux back in the day, the scripts had something along the lines of "Select the apps that you wish to compile?" and if I recall it then prompted you to insert disk # 9999.
I truly do understand that the Mint developers are trying to make a simple to install distro that satisfies the needs of the vast majority of "noobs". They have done a good job with this. At least they do have several different choices of desktop environment and even one that provides a different kernel. I just want a damn check box for some of their decisions, so that I can make them at install time.
COMING ATTRACTIONS:
Have a glorious Monday and enjoy your week.
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2024.05.20 10:29 growth-industries Interaction Of Marijuana Terpenes And Cannabinoids Offers ‘Hope’ For ‘Novel’ Treatments, Study Says

A new review of the science around the components of marijuana says the “complex interaction between phytocannabinoids and biological systems offers hope for novel treatment approaches,” laying the groundwork for a new era of innovation in cannabis-based medicines.
Among other takeaways, the report, published earlier this month in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, underscores the potential of whole-plant cannabis medicine—incorporating the variety of cannabinoids, terpenes and other compounds produced by the cannabis plant—rather than simply THC or CBD on their own.
“The plant Cannabis exhibits an effect called the ‘entourage effect’, in which the combined actions of terpenes and phytocannabinoids results in effects that exceed the sum of their separate contributions,” the study says. “This synergy emphasizes how important it is to consider the entire plant when utilizing cannabinoids medicinally as opposed to just concentrating on individual cannabinoids.”
A new review of the science around the components of marijuana says the “complex interaction between phytocannabinoids and biological systems offers hope for novel treatment approaches,” laying the groundwork for a new era of innovation in cannabis-based medicines.
Among other takeaways, the report, published earlier this month in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, underscores the potential of whole-plant cannabis medicine—incorporating the variety of cannabinoids, terpenes and other compounds produced by the cannabis plant—rather than simply THC or CBD on their own.
“The plant Cannabis exhibits an effect called the ‘entourage effect’, in which the combined actions of terpenes and phytocannabinoids results in effects that exceed the sum of their separate contributions,” the study says. “This synergy emphasizes how important it is to consider the entire plant when utilizing cannabinoids medicinally as opposed to just concentrating on individual cannabinoids.”
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Much of the 23-page report—from pharmacy researchers at Ovidus University of Constanta and the University of Medicine, Pharmacy Science and Technology of Târgu Mures, both of which are in Romania—comprises an overview of cannabinoids, including THC and CBD as well as cannabigerol (CBG), cannabichromene (CBC), cannabinol (CBN) and tetrahydrocannabivarin (THC-V)—as well as how those compounds appear to interact with the human body.
While the vast majority of research has studied THC and CBD, the new review notes that the “exploration of novel phytocannabinoids is rapidly evolving, offering exciting prospects for future therapeutic applications.”
“Beyond well-established compounds like THC and CBD, the quest for novel cannabinoids widens the scope of potential treatments,” it says. “Each cannabinoid, with its unique chemical structure, interacts differently with the [endocannabinoid system], suggesting tailored therapeutic effects for specific conditions. This exploration seeks to harness similar benefits while circumventing associated drawbacks.”
Each of the chemical components has specific effects, which the study briefly describes. The broad review, which cites nearly 100 other sources, acknowledges that some effects are bolstered by robust scientific evidence, while others are still being explored.
THC, for example, has demonstrated analgesic effects, authors wrote. “It also possesses antiemetic effects, which make it useful for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting.”
CBD, meanwhile, has demonstrated anti-inflammatory properties and “is said to have analgesic properties and may be effective in pain management.” Some research also shows the cannabinoid may have neuroprotective qualities.
While CBD formulations like the prescription drug Epidiolex can treat rare forms of epilepsy, mixes of CBD and THC may help address spasticity related to multiple sclerosis, the paper says.
Both THC and CBD also have antioxidant effects, it adds, and both appear to be promising tools for a variety of ailments, from pain to neurological disorders and psychiatric conditions.
Further, CBD may help reduce symptoms of anxiety and PTSD, while both THC and CBD may exhibit antidepressant effects. “While some findings suggest that cannabinoids may have mood-stabilizing effects and enhance serotonin signaling, the evidence is inconclusive, and further research is needed,” the study says.
CBD may also help reduce cravings and withdrawal symptoms of alcohol and opioid use disorders, although authors said “the evidence is preliminary, and more research is needed to establish its efficacy and safety.”
Both THC and CBD have also been investigated as possible sleep aids, though results are still preliminary and so far are mixed, with some patients experiencing improved sleep quality while others experience sleep disruptions.
As for treating cancer, the report says that studies have indicated that “cannabinoids can exert antitumor effects directly by inhibiting cell proliferation and inducing apoptosis, or indirectly by inhibiting angiogenesis, invasion, and metastasis.”
“In vivo and in vitro research has demonstrated the efficacy of cannabinoids in modulating tumor growth, although the antitumor effects can vary depending on the type of cancer and the concentration of the drug,” it continues. “For cancer patients, it is crucial to comprehend how cannabinoids control immune system interactions and other biological processes related to carcinogenesis, such as cell cycle progression, proliferation, and cell death. Additional research is necessary for this area.”
As for minor cannabinoids, compounds such as CBG and CBN appear to have antibacterial effects, researchers found. CBN itself also appears to be a mild sedative, which could be relevant for treating sleep disorders.
THC-V, meanwhile, may act as an appetite suppressant and a “potential treatment for diabetes.”
Cannabinoids may also be helpful in treating trauma wounds, authors noted, potentially reducing perceived pain, inflammation and secondary tissue damage.
A new review of the science around the components of marijuana says the “complex interaction between phytocannabinoids and biological systems offers hope for novel treatment approaches,” laying the groundwork for a new era of innovation in cannabis-based medicines.
Among other takeaways, the report, published earlier this month in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, underscores the potential of whole-plant cannabis medicine—incorporating the variety of cannabinoids, terpenes and other compounds produced by the cannabis plant—rather than simply THC or CBD on their own.
“The plant Cannabis exhibits an effect called the ‘entourage effect’, in which the combined actions of terpenes and phytocannabinoids results in effects that exceed the sum of their separate contributions,” the study says. “This synergy emphasizes how important it is to consider the entire plant when utilizing cannabinoids medicinally as opposed to just concentrating on individual cannabinoids.”
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Much of the 23-page report—from pharmacy researchers at Ovidus University of Constanta and the University of Medicine, Pharmacy Science and Technology of Târgu Mures, both of which are in Romania—comprises an overview of cannabinoids, including THC and CBD as well as cannabigerol (CBG), cannabichromene (CBC), cannabinol (CBN) and tetrahydrocannabivarin (THC-V)—as well as how those compounds appear to interact with the human body.
While the vast majority of research has studied THC and CBD, the new review notes that the “exploration of novel phytocannabinoids is rapidly evolving, offering exciting prospects for future therapeutic applications.”
“Beyond well-established compounds like THC and CBD, the quest for novel cannabinoids widens the scope of potential treatments,” it says. “Each cannabinoid, with its unique chemical structure, interacts differently with the [endocannabinoid system], suggesting tailored therapeutic effects for specific conditions. This exploration seeks to harness similar benefits while circumventing associated drawbacks.”
Each of the chemical components has specific effects, which the study briefly describes. The broad review, which cites nearly 100 other sources, acknowledges that some effects are bolstered by robust scientific evidence, while others are still being explored.
THC, for example, has demonstrated analgesic effects, authors wrote. “It also possesses antiemetic effects, which make it useful for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting.”
CBD, meanwhile, has demonstrated anti-inflammatory properties and “is said to have analgesic properties and may be effective in pain management.” Some research also shows the cannabinoid may have neuroprotective qualities.
While CBD formulations like the prescription drug Epidiolex can treat rare forms of epilepsy, mixes of CBD and THC may help address spasticity related to multiple sclerosis, the paper says.
Both THC and CBD also have antioxidant effects, it adds, and both appear to be promising tools for a variety of ailments, from pain to neurological disorders and psychiatric conditions.
Further, CBD may help reduce symptoms of anxiety and PTSD, while both THC and CBD may exhibit antidepressant effects. “While some findings suggest that cannabinoids may have mood-stabilizing effects and enhance serotonin signaling, the evidence is inconclusive, and further research is needed,” the study says.
CBD may also help reduce cravings and withdrawal symptoms of alcohol and opioid use disorders, although authors said “the evidence is preliminary, and more research is needed to establish its efficacy and safety.”
Both THC and CBD have also been investigated as possible sleep aids, though results are still preliminary and so far are mixed, with some patients experiencing improved sleep quality while others experience sleep disruptions.
As for treating cancer, the report says that studies have indicated that “cannabinoids can exert antitumor effects directly by inhibiting cell proliferation and inducing apoptosis, or indirectly by inhibiting angiogenesis, invasion, and metastasis.”
“In vivo and in vitro research has demonstrated the efficacy of cannabinoids in modulating tumor growth, although the antitumor effects can vary depending on the type of cancer and the concentration of the drug,” it continues. “For cancer patients, it is crucial to comprehend how cannabinoids control immune system interactions and other biological processes related to carcinogenesis, such as cell cycle progression, proliferation, and cell death. Additional research is necessary for this area.”
As for minor cannabinoids, compounds such as CBG and CBN appear to have antibacterial effects, researchers found. CBN itself also appears to be a mild sedative, which could be relevant for treating sleep disorders.
THC-V, meanwhile, may act as an appetite suppressant and a “potential treatment for diabetes.”
Cannabinoids may also be helpful in treating trauma wounds, authors noted, potentially reducing perceived pain, inflammation and secondary tissue damage.
“At the site of injury, cannabinoids may decrease the release of tissue activators and sensitizers, modulating nerve cells to control tissue destruction and immune cells to prevent the release of proinflammatory substances,” they wrote. “This modulation helps minimize pain and temper post-injury responses associated with inflammatory injury.”
The review also assesses the “challenges and controversies” surrounding research and use of therapeutic cannabinoids, including legal and regulatory obstacles that still vary widely across the globe, a lack of robust standardization of cannabinoid products and the potential for abuse and dependence.
THC, researchers acknowledge, is not only the primary psychoactive compound in cannabis but also the most common cannabinoid associated with problem use. “While the overall risk of addiction to THC is lower compared to substances like opioids, amphetamines, or alcohol,” authors wrote, “it is still a concern, particularly for individuals who use cannabis frequently or in high doses.”
On the other hand, CBD “is not associated with the same potential for abuse or dependence” and “may even have potential therapeutic effects in reducing addiction to other substances, such as opioids, alcohol, or nicotine.”
Social and legal obstacles, the study noted, still make research onerous.
“Despite its potential, legal restrictions and societal stigma surrounding cannabis hinder investment in research and development,” authors of the study wrote. “Complex regulatory frameworks further complicate exploration efforts. Rigorous preclinical and clinical trials are imperative to establish safety and efficacy before therapeutic implementation.”
As cannabinoids and the body’s own endocannabinoid system continue to be better understood, the researchers expect even more “potential in managing various pathological diseases.”
“Phytocannabinoids offer diverse therapeutic applications, ranging from pain management to neurological disorders and inflammatory diseases. Their antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties make them valuable candidates for combating antibiotic resistance and modulating inflammatory pathways,” the study concludes. “By leveraging the synergistic effects of combination therapies and targeting multiple disease pathways, phytocannabinoids hold immense potential to revolutionize the future of pharmacotherapy and improve human health outcomes.”
The new research is part of a growing field of investigation into the entourage effect in cannabis as well as in entheogenic plants and fungi. While Western medicine typically seeks to identify and isolate a single active ingredient, the findings underscore the potentially powerful interactions of various chemical components produced by the plant.
Earlier this year, for example, a study looked at the “collaborative interactions” between cannabinoids, terpenes, flavonoids and other molecules in the plant, concluding that a better understanding of the relationships of various chemical components “is crucial for unraveling cannabis’s complete therapeutic potential.”
Other recent research funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) found that a citrusy-smelling terpene in marijuana, D-limonene, could help ease anxiety and paranoia associated with THC. Researchers similarly said the finding could help unlock the maximum therapeutic benefit of THC.
A separate study last year found that cannabis products with a more diverse array of natural cannabinoids produced stronger psychoactive experiences in adults, which also lasted longer than the high generated by pure THC.
And a 2018 study found that patients suffering from epilepsy experience better health outcomes—with fewer adverse side effects—when they use plant-based CBD extracts compared to “purified” CBD products.
Scientist last year also discovered “previously unidentified cannabis compounds” called flavorants that they believe are responsible for the unique aromas of different varieties of marijuana. Previously, many had thought terpenes alone were responsible for various smells produced by the plant.
Similar phenomena are also beginning to be recorded around psychedelic plants and fungi. In March, for example, researchers published findings showing that use of full-spectrum psychedelic mushroom extract had a more powerful effect than chemically synthesized psilocybin alone. They said the findings imply that mushrooms, like cannabis, demonstrate an entourage effect.
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/interaction-of-marijuana-terpenes-and-cannabinoids-offers-hope-for-novel-treatments-study-says/
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2024.05.20 06:01 Jaye134 All Questions About Joining and Transferring into the ANG Go Here 20 May - 18 Aug

Search Before Posting: Many of your questions are probably already answered. While this sub is a helpful community, it is NOT maintained by ANG Recruiting and we are not Recruiters.
The ANG website has pretty much everything you need to know about joining or finding a Recruiter START YOUR RESEARCH HERE or on the AIR FORCE RECRUITS SUBREDDIT
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2024.05.20 00:54 dradrado Reconciling Zero and Infinity in Astrophysics

Reconciling Zero and Infinity in Astrophysics
  1. Reconciling Zero and Infinity in Astrophysics.
What if our understanding of the universe is limited by our confusion between zero and infinity? This question lies at the heart of our discussions on the Big Bang, black holes, and dark matter.
  1. Philosophical vs. Mathematical Zero
In astrophysics, we often interchange the philosophical zero (nothingness) and the mathematical zero (a numerical tool). The philosophical zero represents true nothingness, while the mathematical zero is a tool for our calculations. The mathematical zero allows for negative values, but these don’t fit into our spacetime discussions.
  1. Zero and Infinity: A Conceptual Dilemma
Zero means nothing in philosophy, but it’s a numerical aid in mathematics. Infinity also has dual meanings. The Big Bang theory suggests that from nothing (zero) came everything (infinity). This paradox highlights a need to clarify and separate these concepts to understand the universe better.
  1. The Potential of Fractals
To resolve this paradox, I propose exploring fractal mathematics, particularly the Mandelbrot Set. Fractals provide a way to understand infinite complexity without falling into the zero-infinity paradox. The Mandelbrot Set avoids infinity in its calculations, offering a tangible model for infinite patterns.
Is it irony that a mathematical exercise aiming to bind a curve of a quadratic polynomial from spinning off into infinity reconciles this paradox, or is it oxymoronical? Or is it something else? A formula with a numerical set resulting In an absurdly small range of greater than or equal to zero and equal to or less than two, could create such a representation of zero- infinity, one much more palatable for the capabilities of human comprehension. A model perfect in form coupled with the power to compute, AI helps us conceptualize infinity and to grasp complex ideas about the universe.
  1. Visualizing Infinity
The Mandelbrot Set, with origins 12 decades ago when a couple of now famous Frenchmen, Fatou & Julia, first investigated the field, It was nothing more than a child of imagination, puzzles, chalkboards and lecture theatres, has developed in ways I'm sure they could never have predicted provide some of the most vivid and breathtaking visual imagery that the human eye could ever behold, It becomes more amazing everyday. The computer had turned into e chalkboard formula calculations into cool screensavers, now given to AI, imagery seemingly forever zooming in, almost renders the human mind incapable of avoiding the contemplation of the existential nature of something eerily alien to our eyes, yet somehow recognisable. Mandelbrot himself made many observations about how when he looks in nature and the cosmos he recognises these amazing fractals everywhere. Images which were to him once just equations have transformed before his very eyes into the fabric of his existence, he cites hundreds of different examples ranging from fossils to galaxy clusters.
Visual representations aid our understanding of the universe’s complex structure. But it is interesting even the most complex computer can't deal with concept of infinity and correct me if I'm wrong but that poses a limit on our pragmatic understanding of infinity at 10 ^ 8, at least should one assume that the Mandelbrot Set is the best model tool we have for Infinitiy and that we bow to computers superiority in In most but certainly mathematical calculations.
  1. Infinity and Quantum Physics
Infinity is difficult to grasp, especially in reducing values. If the universe can infinitely expand and contract, why do we still rely on zero? Quantum physicists have long searched for smaller subatomic particles, yet they might be exploring a fractal reduction into infinity without realizing it.
  1. Reevaluating Zero
Given the viability of positive and negative infinity, does zero belong in our cosmological discussions? Zero, less than 1,000 years old in mathematics, doesn’t exist in nature. Ancient civilizations achieved remarkable accuracy without it, suggesting numbers, including zero, are human constructs.
  1. Moving Forward
We need a new approach to understanding the universe, considering positive and negative infinity rather than zero. The scientific community often resists unconventional ideas, but it’s worth discussing the Big Bang without zero, focusing on infinite possibilities instead.
  1. Questions for Discussion
• How can fractal mathematics help us understand the universe better? • Can we reconcile the philosophical and mathematical concepts of zero and infinity? • What implications arise from excluding zero in our cosmological model? • Is there a relationship between fractal infinity and Quantum Physics • Is it absurd to think fractal infinity could be helpful in understanding black holes? • Is a relationship conceivable between Big Bang expansion theory and the conceptisation of a spectrum ranging from fractal infinity through to infinity?
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2024.05.19 21:21 PhoenixMori 38 [M4F] Kind, funny, honest, artistic stoner seeks cool person to listen to flirt with

Hey reddit! I'm a 38 year old latin guy from Washington DC. Honesty is the best policy so I'll make it known now that I'm not looking for platonic friends, I'm looking for a romantic partner. Buckle up, because I'm about to unveil why I may or may not be the right partner for you in a classic listicle style that all you youngin's love.
About Me:
You'll never believe number 6!
  1. I'm a bit of a stoner. It's true, your boy loves himself some marijuana. (In fact, I just did a 20mg edible) I endeavor to never let it take over my life, but it aids a lot in #2 on this list. I'm also not a stranger to the very occasional mushroom trip.
  2. I'm a true creative. Left to my own devices in an empty room, I would constantly create new things. Whether that be drawing, writings, photography, music or stoner ideas. It's my true nature to be a creative and to stifle that part of myself makes me pretty sad. Fortunately, I get to create on a daily basis. which brings me to..
  3. I have the kindest heart. I see life through rose colored glasses, some may say. I just believe in the good in people. I think most people are good and those that are bad are redeemable. Whether someone is ultra religious, a different political affiliation, good, bad, ugly, whatever...I believe in getting to know them for myself and making my own decision of them. As a friend I always stick by my friends, no matter what. Friends in my life are friends for life, even if we lose touch. There is a downside to all this...it's that sometimes people take advantage of me. I don't care. When confronted with the choice to be loving or to be cruel or apathetic, I will always choose loving.
  4. I make people laugh. Comedy and jokes have always been a part of me. Maybe it's the fact that I'm a middle child and craved attention or the fact that I grew up in a city where I had to be quick on my feet, but I love to make people laugh. This is best done in person but there can be humor over the internet too. :)
  5. I don't take myself too seriously. I'm a talented person in my field and it's important for me to let go of my ego. There isn't a single person that I can't learn from and at my best I'm always open to listen to people's opinions of me or my creative work.
  6. I see beauty in everyone, including you. If you hadn't guessed by now, I'm a photographer. I'm into portraits and I value my connection with people one-on-one and I think that's what makes me a talented portrait photographer. I often hear people talk about the things they hate about themselves but try to reflect to them their true beauty. The beauty that was always there and that they need to be reconnected to.
  7. I'm culturally Latino. My parents are from El Salvador, but I was born and raised in DC. I have the experience of being born into a family of immigrants and understand the duality of living in two different worlds. While Spanish was my first language, it is not what I consider to be my native tongue. While I understand all Spanish, all my Spanish is food related.
  8. I've done the self work. It's true. I'm not a man that punches walls, gets drunk and cries, will cheat on you, lie to you or a myriad of other things that toxic people do. I am not without faults, of course, but I have worked my demons out for the most part. I'm very self-aware and open to criticism and change.
  9. I'm honest 99.5% of the time. Anyone professing to be honest 100% of the time is a liar. Ask me directly and I'll tell you my last big lie.
  10. I know where I want to be in life. I'm close to getting there too. I've been at it for 13 years now and I feel that success is imminent. Will you be a part of it?
So what are you waiting for? Dust off that old keyboard, pound away at a few keys, and get ready to embark on an unforgettable adventure brought to you by (as they said in my day) the world wide web.
P.S - I'm 6'2. I should've started with that.
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2024.05.19 18:13 cthulhu5 Drug Testing in WA

Hey everyone, so I was offered a great job last week and accepted it, but found out on Friday that I have to do a drug panel test by Wednesday this week. Problem is I smoke weed fairly regularly (4-5x/week, a few hits from a joint each time) and weed takes a long time to leave the system when you smoke regularly.
But I know a law was just signed into law stating that companies can’t test for marijuana for pre-employment screening in Washington, unless you work for DOT, federal gov or federal programs, or are in a safety sensitive job. The job is none of those things.
The form for the testing says it’s a 10 panel drug test, doesn’t say anything about not testing THC. I was drug tested for a hospital job in Seattle recently and that test didn’t test for THC. This job is in Auburn but the company is based in another state.
So, do I need to worry about being denied this job based on a positive marijuana test even though weed is legal in WA and that law basically says I can’t be denied employment cause of the test?
Feel like that wouldn’t be lawful for them to do that, and they can’t just not hire me for “no reason” after making me do a drug test (I mean they could but that would be a legal nightmare for them). I’ve never had to be drug tested for this field I work in, besides the hospital job but that makes more sense.
Any advice is appreciated! Thanks!
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2024.05.19 01:53 BahamaBoy_242 Always an arisaka

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2024.05.19 00:59 GoAheadMMDay UPDATE 3: Torment Techniques Used by Canadian and US Militaries

UPDATE 3: Torment Techniques Used by Canadian and US Militaries
Update #3 appears at the bottom.
Due to numerous disparaging comments by multiple individuals, I have reposted my article.
Heckling does not change what occurred. People need to know these truths, especially those who have experienced the same. They need to know they are sane, that such things are indeed being perpetrated, and the perpetrators use shame to silence them and protect their activities.
I write to encourage them not to listen to disparaging people who speak without knowledge.
February 10, 2024
I am Joseph Cafariello, a Canadian citizen and ex-member of the Canadian military. Of sound mind, not on medication, not a drug user, not a marijuana smoker, not an alcohol drinker, with no mental disorders.
I recently posted to this Liberty subreddit experiences of harassment by Vancouver's police and fire departments (Vancouver, BC, Canada). I’m the fellow who was repeatedly ordered by police to stay out of Vancouver’s Stanley Park, and was continually harassed whenever I visited the park (which I do every second day on my early morning walks).
Immediately following that post, they changed some of the techniques they use in my case. They were either informed of my post or found it themselves, seeing as my internet activity, and phone activity for that matter, are under continuous surveillance (plenty of proof which I will not include here to avoid running off-topic).
In this post, I would like to shed some light on other harassment which is still ongoing, since it occurs in private, away from potential observers. It involves the Canadian and US militaries.
Havana Syndrome
In 2016, numerous employees of the Canadian and US embassies in Havana, Cuba, started experiencing head injuries ranging from mild headaches to concussions. It happened in their sleep, and came to be called Havana Syndrome.
Wikipedia explains (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana\_syndrome):
“Havana syndrome is a cluster of idiopathic symptoms experienced mostly abroad by U.S. government officials and military personnel. The symptoms range in severity from pain and ringing in the ears to cognitive dysfunction and were first reported in 2016 by U.S. and Canadian embassy staff in Havana, Cuba. Beginning in 2017, more people, including U.S. intelligence and military personnel and their families, reported having these symptoms in other places, such as China, India, Europe, and Washington, D.C. The U.S. Department of State, Department of Defense, and other federal entities have called the events "Anomalous Health Incidents" (AHI). Of over a thousand purported cases, the majority of US investigative bodies found only a few dozen cases to be suspicious.”
Ladies and gentlemen, I can tell you exactly what happens, because I have been experiencing this since I first joined the Canadian military back in 2002, and am still experiencing these “torments” (as I call them) to this day, already 3 years after leaving the military.
I go to bed. In about 15 minutes, just as I am on the cusp of falling asleep, a hear and feel a heavy thud reverberate and ultimately strike my skull. My body releases a sharp burst of adrenalin, my heart starts racing, and my blood’s circulation speeds up significantly. Depending on the severity of the blow, it can take me anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour to fall asleep again. Though there have been times I could not return to sleep for more than 2 hours.
A strong headache is felt immediately, and lasts for hours. There have been times when my heart felt like it was going to burst, having been startled as such.
The pulse to the head sometimes reverberates through the wall and my bed’s headboard. I distinctly feel as though I have been hit on the top of my skull. At other times, it feels as though the pulse has come through the air, striking the side of my skull.
This is not a sleep disorder, for it does not occur regularly. At times, my sleep is disturbed in this manner 3 or 4 days in a row. At other times, there is no disturbance for up to a week. But they never let me go more than a week without such interruptions to my sleep.
Neither is it sleep apnea, as I do not awaken gasping for breath. The pounding headaches, sudden release of adrenaline, and heart palpitations I experience are caused by external impacts of sound waves or air bursts.
Sonic Weapons
How these pulses are produced is not easy to identify. As Wikipedia explains:
“Once the story became public, various U.S. government representatives attributed the incidents to attacks by unidentified foreign actors, and various U.S. officials blamed the reported symptoms on a variety of unidentified and unknown technologies, including ultrasound and microwave weapons.”
Sonic weapons have been in use for many years by militaries, and by police in crowd control. As Wikipedia explains (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic\_weapon):
“Some sonic weapons make a focused beam of sound or of ultrasound; others produce an area field of sound. As of 2023 military and police forces make some limited use of sonic weapons.”
(Do not believe the 2023 timeline. The Canadian military has been using these weapons since the early 2000’s at the latest.)
Wikipedia continues:
“Extremely high-power sound waves can disrupt or destroy the eardrums of a target and cause severe pain or disorientation. This is usually sufficient to incapacitate a person. Less powerful sound waves can cause humans to experience nausea or discomfort.”
The users of these technologies must also be using thermal detection equipment to monitor the target’s sleep. As I mentioned, I most often feel these blows the moment I am falling asleep. Body temperature drops when we sleep, and brain activity slows. Heat-detection equipment is likely being used to identify the point at which the target is falling asleep.
Why they prefer to strike at the start of someone’s sleep as opposed to the middle of their sleep, I do not know. Perhaps their intent is to deprive the body of early sleep, limiting the amount of deep sleep available to the person before their alarm rings in the morning.
Ordinary Hammers
Not all such “torments” (as I call them) are caused by high-tech equipment. I have heard and felt distinct hammer strikes running along the 2x4 beams inside my walls. These strikes can be a single hard strike, or several strikes in a row. It is definitely caused by a person with a hammer because the intervals between strikes are equidistant in time; that is, the time spacing between strikes is not random and does not change from strike to strike, but is constant between strikes, exactly as when someone is hammering. And no, it is not someone hanging pictures at 1:30 am, multiple times a week, for years.
On one occasion, when I was standing at my kitchen sink, I felt the floor-board directly under my feet pulse so sharply it felt like a brick had struck the soles of my feet. In this case, my military neighbour likely used a hammer to strike the floorboard on his side of the wall. It is the only plausible explanation.
Surveillance
This leads to surveillance of one’s activities at home. I have plenty of proofs of that. They seem insignificant on an individual basis. But when you put them all together, they present a clear picture of home surveillance.
My laptop computer’s lid cracked one night, at the bottom left corner of the screen. The next day at work, I heard my military supervisor relate to another co-worker that the night before, his laptop computer’s lid cracked at the bottom left corner. I swear to the Lord in Heaven, I am being truthful.
I tested my suspicion of being surveilled. At home one night, I blurted out-loud, “VW Passat. What an ugly sounding word, ‘Passat’”, I said. A few days later, my military colleagues at work started playing a card game at lunch, invented by one of them. The name he gave his game was “Passat”, and when he spoke it, he looked at me for a reaction. If you ever contact the Halifax military base, ask for the Claims Department and ask them if they are still playing Passat.
On another occasion, at a time when I frequented the gym every second day for a few years, I suspected my van had been fitted with a listening device. I suspected so because a number of things I had spoken with people about on my phone while in my van (nothing illegal) were repeated by people at the gym in conversations among themselves. Too many times, parts of other people's conversations matched parts of conversations I had had with others while I was in my van.
I already knew my phone was being tapped, but I also suspected my van was bugged. So one evening while driving in my van, I blurted out-loud a number of things I said I hated. "I hate (this or that)"; "I hate it when...". One of them was, "I hate when people chew gum with their mouths open." I then vocalized an exaggerated gnawing sound, "Gnaw. Gnaw. Gnaw."
The very next time I went to the gym, 2 days later, while I was at an exercise, a fellow sat at an exercise directly behind me. And sure enough, he started chewing with his mouth open, vocalizing that gnawing sound, "Gnaw. Gnaw. Gnaw." I didn't look behind at him, because I knew what was going on, and I wanted to avoid playing into his hand. So he repeated himself again and again until I was done and moved to a different station. Now, honestly, who chews gum at the gym? You can't. Or you run the risk of choking for the heavy breathing, not to mention when laying down on benches. And with precisely the same exaggerated vocalized gnawing sound I had made in my van just 2 days prior.
Their whole intent is to let you know you are being surveilled. They want you to know, as both a warning and a provocation. They want you to say something, to launch accusations, which they would readily deny, making you look paranoid. If you react too strongly, they could even have you diagnosed with some kind of disorder, and put you on medication, which further plays into their hand. (More regarding medications in the last section of this post.)
This is why, as I mentioned in my previous post, they would park their cars shining their high beams on me as I walked past them during my morning walk. And why on some occasions, a group of 3 or 4 would exit their cars and stand on my path just as I approached, forcing me to go around them. They would then remain standing on the path until my return trip through, and after I had passed by the second time, then would then return to their cars - making it absolutely clear I was their interest.
Their intent is not only to make me aware, but also to present themselves in close proximity to me, within easy reach, in the hope I would confront them, resulting in an altercation that could land me in a lot of hot water - 4 witnesses against me, all pleading innocence.
Again, it is all designed to make you look bad, and to warrant some kind of legal measure against you - preferably a medical diagnosis, discrediting you in everything you say about them. If they can't refute your claims, their only remaining option is to discredit you. That's what all of these tricks are designed to accomplish. Who would believe anything you say, once you have been diagnosed with a disorder?
There are plenty more examples. But who would really believe them? I’ll save them for the future.
Home Invasion
Both during and after my military service, I have had my apartments entered without any signs of break-ins. How? Lock-picking and duplicate keys. Indications? Missing objects; ie: money, phone adaptor, etc. Nothing major. Just something to make us understand we are being watched, and to make us understand what they can do.
But it is always something small, something for which you would be ridiculed for divulging.
Two more examples: I found my razor, which I always lay-down razor-end to the wall, turned around, razor-end toward me. Also, in one of my house slippers I found a small shoe sticker on the up-side of the heel. I had those slipper for years, and never had any shoe stickers on them. Yet there it was, clearly visible on the top surface of my slipper, not the bottom. Could I have stepped on a shoe sticker when barefoot in my apartment, only to have the sticker transfer itself to my slipper when I wore it? How many shoe stickers do you have laying around your apartment that you can accidentally step onto?
If I had stepped onto a sticker in my apartment and had it stick to my heel, that means the sticky side was up against my skin. This means the sticker would have had to flip upside down such that the sticky side would then be down, allowing the sticker to stick to the slipper. Do you really think that happened? That sticker was not there when I left my apartment, but it was there when I returned. And it was the wrong sticker, wrong brand, wrong size.
Again, what is their intent? To make someone look ridiculous so no one will believe them should they speak of other more sensitive things.
Staged Incidents
The above incidents clearly point to coordinated and staged events (at my work, my home, on my walks, etc). This is so frequently met with incredulity. "But that would require coordination on the part of so many people," the public dismisses. "They wouldn't do that."
Oh yes they would, and they have, as explained in https://fightgangstalking.com/. Note the documented cases involving the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS, Canada's equivalent to the US' CIA) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP, Canada's national police force), which were reported in national newspapers.
From https://fightgangstalking.com/ :
“Disruption operations often involve tactics which are illegal, but difficult to prove. These tactics include – but are not limited to – overt surveillance (stalking), slander, blacklisting, “mobbing” (intense, organized harassment in the workplace), “black bag jobs” [home invasions], abusive phone calls, computer hacking, framing, threats, blackmail, vandalism, “street theater” (staged physical and verbal interactions with minions of the people who orchestrate the stalking), harassment by noises, and other forms of bullying. Many of these tactics were used by the FBI during its illegal COINTELPRO operations, as documented by stolen official documents and subsequent Congressional investigations.
"Although the general public is mostly unfamiliar with the practice, references to “disruption” operations – described as such – do occasionally appear in the news media, even though that fact would apparently be news to the editors of The New York Times. In May 2006, for example, an article in The Globe and Mail, a Canadian national newspaper, reported that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) used “Diffuse and Disrupt” tactics against suspects for whom they lacked sufficient evidence to prosecute. A criminal defense attorney stated that many of her clients complained of harassment by authorities, although they were never arrested."
She can add me to that list too.
For the Benefit of Others
The experiences I have recounted here seem so trivial, so insignificant, they make you look ridiculous if you talk about them. But if we don’t talk about such things, no one will ever know about them. Other people have experienced the same, and are forced to endure such torments in silence. They need encouragement to talk about their own experiences, and so I write about mine in the hope they will talk about theirs, even if I do look ridiculous. The perpetrators are more ridiculous for doing them.
I remember a military colleague being hauled away by military police one morning, as she was struggling and having a violent fit. A fellow on her floor told me she was throwing chairs at her walls screaming, “Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!”. When he mentioned that, I knew exactly what they had done to her. She was considered unruly, and was being watched intently. They wanted her out, and that is how they accomplished it. Through wall tapping and sleep deprivation, they push you to the breaking point. And when you finally lose control and do something rash, they pounce on you, and you’re out. Now she has a criminal record, considered a criminal when in reality she was a victim. Welcome to the Canadian military, and other militaries besides, I am sure.
There are dozens upon dozens of experiences I could present. But who will really read them? Worse still, who will really believe them? I overheard my military supervisor in Halifax whisper to another, “Do you think he knows?”, after I had mentioned one of the many “coincidences” I experienced, but with a tone of my being aware it was not a mere coincidence. As I turned my face to my computer screen, I whispered under my breath, but still loud enough for him to hear, “Yes, (rank) (name), I know.” A few minutes later, as he walked past my desk, he leaned in by my ear and whispered, “We’re trying to help you.” I should have pressed him for answers right then and there, but you just don’t know how much trouble you can get into when making such accusations in the military. So I let it go. But I will never forget.
Should anyone reading this ever decide to launch some kind of inquiry, I can mention names of over 100 people to contact, including military personnel, family members, neighbours, building managers, and others who have been contacted by military personnel with false narratives about me. They flash their ID’s and other credentials, and people believe anything they say. They turn family, friends, co-workers and neighbours against you, even recruiting their participation. Your acquaintances not only participate, but actually feel justified and emboldened playing tricks on you. It isn't their fault, though; they have been misled. I would reference them solely for corroboration.
As a final thought, here are explanations of two military programs in which certain persons (sometimes military, sometimes civilian) are kept under constant surveillance, and are in some cases subjected to conditioning in an attempt to turn them into what is called a “sleeper agent”. Almost all of the tactics presented below have been experience by me, including constant surveillance (ie: my previous post here regarding being harassed on my morning walks) and sleep deprivation (as per the top portion of this post, which other military members in Cuba and elsewhere around the world have also experienced).
Pentagon’s Signature Reduction Program
See Newsweek’s article: https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-inside-militarys-secret-undercover-army-1591881
Some excerpts from that Newsweek article, plus more background information on the Pentagon’s Signature Reduction Program, can be found here: https://fightgangstalking.com/
“The largest undercover force the world has ever known is the one created by the Pentagon over the past decade. Some 60,000 people now belong to this secret army, many working under masked identities and in low profile, all part of a broad program called “signature reduction.” The force, more than ten times the size of the clandestine elements of the CIA, carries out domestic and foreign assignments, both in military uniforms and under civilian cover, in real life and online, sometimes hiding in private businesses and consultancies, some of them household name companies.
“…a little-known sector of the American military, but also a completely unregulated practice. No one knows the program’s total size, and the explosion of signature reduction has never been examined for its impact on military policies and culture. Congress has never held a hearing on the subject. And yet the military developing this gigantic clandestine force challenges U.S. laws, the Geneva Conventions, the code of military conduct and basic accountability.
“…The signature reduction effort engages some 130 private companies to administer the new clandestine world. Dozens of little known and secret government organizations support the program, doling out classified contracts and overseeing publicly unacknowledged operations.
"Federal spy agencies are using Americans to spy on their fellow citizens – the same approach to governance famously employed by communist East Germany."
How to Develop a Hypnotic Sleeper Agent
By Dantalion Jones / Masters of Mind Control
The following “was” on the web, but has been removed. Surprise, surprise. But I saved its web files to my computer years ago, knowing that sooner or later it would be removed. I made a jpeg image of the web page as it once appeared, attached here.
Note that I have experienced almost all of the tactics described below, including the stalking I mentioned in my previous post here (regular walks in the park), the sleep deprivation noted at the top of this post, and the surveillance and intrusions described here as well.
Quoting the now-removed webpage: “How to Develop a Hypnotic Sleeper Agent” (from here to end of post):
Amid all the conspiracy theories one of the most feared is that there exist "sleeper agents" in our society who are programmed to come into service when they are triggered by a phone call or key word.
These alleged sleeper agents don't even know they are programmed to become saboteurs, soldiers, suicide bomber, etc because of the thoroughness of their programming. They are the feared "Manchurian Candidate" that the movies portray.
The question is "Are they real?"
If they are true sleeper agents there is no way of telling until they are activated. One can however theorize exactly how they are made.
Indoctrination
Using indoctrination a person can be made to embrace a religious or philosophical belief that would make becoming a sleeper agent possible.
This would be a person so committed to an ideal they would be willing to wait patiently as a member of society until they are called into action. These people would know their mission and consciously hold it secret while interacting with the rest of society.
Conditioning
Conditioning is a repetitive process where the desired responses are enforced and rewarded and unwanted responses are punished. This can be done consciously as part of training drill and it can be done subconsciously using hypnosis or drugs to create amnesia.
Hypnosis
It has been demonstrated that hypnosis can create "amnesia walls" in which the subject has no conscious memory of what happened in the hypnosis session. It has further been demonstrated that hypnosis can give post hypnotic instruction to be carried out automatically in the waking state without the subject knowing it or questioning the behavior.
What follows is conjecture and theory based on testimonials of people who were alleged to be sleeper agents and soldiers.
Continuous Supervisions
Continuous supervision doesn't mean that the subject is cut off completely from society. It means that they are constantly overseen and every aspect of their lives are managed (without their knowledge or consent) to support their hypnotic programming.
This would include:
• Repeated reinforcement of all hypnotic conditioning.
• Handlers. Handlers are people who help maintain the subjects environment to maintain all the programming. They can play the role of family, friends, lovers, psychologists, coaches or any roll the subject perceives as supportive. The truth is the handlers are their to support the successful fulfillment of the programming and not the subject as a person.
• Minimal sleep so that the mind/brain does not process all the sleeper conditioning during sleep.
• Creating constant environmental challenges like unemployment or poverty. This gives the subject something other than their programming to focus on.
• Frequent hospitalization. This gives overt opportunity to sedate the subject for conditioning. If the subject has a history of hospitalizations for mental disturbances all the better. No one will take them seriously.
Joseph Cafariello
PS... Today is the second day after this post (February 12, 2024). A garbage truck just slammed into my parked car.
PPS... I finish writing this post because I am satisfied with its shape and content; not because of what happened to my car.
It is similar to when you are reaching for your coat, and someone tells you, "Take your coat." Since you have to take your coat, your brain tells you it's ok to obey them, and you comply. They just created an instance where they led you, and you followed them. And your brain accepted it.
It's a technique the military uses all the time. It trains you to accept instructions from that person or group. Done enough times, you become comfortable obeying them.
I just say, "I take my coat because I choose to, not because you tell me to." It's important to make that clear, to block the conditioning and affirm our self-governance; not just to them, but to ourselves as well. Now our brain realizes we took our coat by our own choice; we are still in command.
So too, I say regarding today's event. "Thanks for the warning, but I had already finished writing my post. I finished by my own choosing."
UPDATES 1 & 2: February 26 & March 07, 2024:
My apartment was once again entered while I was out. Either a key was used or the lock was picked. This may or may not have included assistance from building staff. Home invasions are included in the list of their techniques noted above, referred to as "black bag jobs".
All tenants on my floor received new fridges a couple of weeks ago. I removed the tape securing the bins inside my new fridge, and also removed all styrofoam pads from the corners of the glass shelves when I repositioned them.
The person(s) who have been invading my living space on a regular basis have struck again. As you can see in the photo below, the styrofoam pads on the corners of my fridge's shelves were restored when I was out of my apartment. I had removed all pads when I repositioned the shelves. Yet now they are back.
It is a tactic used to undermine our observational awareness in an attempt to make us second-guess and doubt ourselves. The aim is to cause people to feel less sure not only of the things we have done, but also feel less sure of the things others have done. They want us to question the accuracy of our observations and memory.
The idea is to train you to dismiss any anomalies you may observe as being your own misperception of things. Once they convince you not to trust your own judgement, they are free to do whatever they want to you, and you will simply accept it without questioning.
UPDATE 3: May 18, 2024:
Confrontations with individuals keep occurring, at times potentially violent. Following are just 3 such encounters as of late.
1 - Kick-boxer in the park:
As I parked my car in one of the parking lots in Vancouver's Stanley Park one night, another vehicle drove up behind me and parked several spots away. A tall man exited that vehicle, and walked hastily along the path I always walk, down some steps to the water's sea wall path. I took my time and followed my usual walk, also down the steps down to the sea wall. The man knew my routine, and was in a hurry to get ahead of me.
As I walked along the sea wall, I saw the same man sitting on a bench, playing a loud religious sermon in a foreign language on a device I did not clearly see. As I walked past him, he called out to me to stop and chat. I ignored him and continued walking past. He rose and started walking behind me.
I opened my umbrella, turned, and walked past him the other way, returning to the stairs back to the parking lot. He also turned and continued following me. I started running. He also started running. I ran up the steps, as did he.
Being taller than I am, his legs are longer than mine, and he quickly caught up to me on a grassy patch at the top of the steps. I turned to him and asked, "Why are you following me?" He did not reply, but stood profile to me, the same stance a kick-boxer uses when ready to kick someone. He was tall, thin, and in excellent physical shape as you would see in a kick-boxer.
He did not speak at all, but was just waiting for me to make a move. I turned, entered my vehicle and left. The encounter continued with a chase through the park in our cars. Yes, that is correct. He chased me out of the park in his car.
2 - Told to keep quiet:
The perpetrators need to operate with as little detection as possible, and they repeatedly warn their subjects to keep their mouths shut about their experiences.
On another of my recent nightly walks, a man stood on the sidewalk ahead of me about half a block away, looked at me, and shouted into the sky at nobody, giving the appearance of being a homeless person shouting for no reason. He then started walking in my direction. I continued walking straight. As he passed me, he leaned into my face and shouted into my ear, "Shut the f_ck up!" I continued walking in my direction, and he resumed walking in his.
The idea is to make it seem as though he is just a deranged man wandering the streets at night, shouting at nothing, so that when he shouts at me, any observer would simply dismiss his actions. But in reality, he was sent to send me a message to stop publishing posts like this, which I had done many times on many sites, and continue to. They don't like it when we reveal their methods. But the truth must be known.
3 - You'll be sorry:
On another occasion, while returning from grocery shopping one afternoon, I walked past a man sitting by a storefront. He was clean-cut, wearing clean clothes, without any carts or wagons or any belongings of any kind. As I passed him, he asked me for some spare change. I replied, "I'm sorry," and continued walking past. He replied, "You will be."
There are numerous other experiences, like two seemingly unassociated men standing on the sea wall about 100 meters away from each other, each of them spitting just as I walked past each one.
There are too many experiences to mention. Looking at each experience individually, one would easily dismiss them as being unrelated and simply coincidental. But put them all together and a picture starts to form, like putting together the pieces of a puzzle.
As I hand you each piece of the puzzle one by one, you dismiss each piece, saying, "This could be anything." And you discard it. You keep discarding each piece as I hand it to you. By the end of it, you look down at the table and say, "You have nothing." That's because you looked at each piece as a separate item and threw it away. But if you leave the pieces on the table as I hand them to you and do not hastily discard them, you will see they form a clear picture when put all together.
We must look at all these events as a whole. Individually, each one could be anything. But when all of these experiences are put together and considered as a whole, they form an undeniable picture. Do not be quick to dismiss each piece. Leave the pieces on the table and look at the whole. The picture I present is sound.
Remember, I have all the pieces; you do not. I see the picture more clearly than you do.
Joseph Cafariello
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2024.05.18 12:52 Stories_for_days Johnson County Kansas, Protecting us from…People Possessing Marijuana

Johnson County Kansas is at it again, what’s up with the closest county to Missouri and their rage boner against marijuana? Two Chiefs players were arrested Thursday night for possessing marijuana, a crime most Americans wish wouldn’t be prosecuted. In a week when President Biden pushed for a declassification of marijuana to a schedule 3 drug, Johnson County is devoting significant resources to protect its citizens from… checks notes… other people possessing marijuana. No one gives a shit, stop pulling over every brown person you see and stop kicking down doors and holding people at gunpoint for marijuana possession.
For those of you that forgot, a few years ago Johnson Coubty, Kansas police worked with Missouri police to get information about patrons at a grow shop, turns out it was just a retired couple in their 60s growing tomatoes. Some of you don’t remember what the Johnson County sheriffs did so let me remind you by posting the story here:
“ A Missouri Highway Patrol officer was parked nearby, surveilling the store for people who might be buying supplies for indoor marijuana growing operations.
Based on the officer’s tip, Johnson County sheriff’s deputies rooted through the Hartes’ trash and found wet green vegetation mixed in with kitchen trash. After deputies conducted a field test and determined the vegetation was marijuana, seven officers clad in black SWAT uniforms and brandishing 9 mm Glocks, an AR-15 assault rifle and a battering ram pounded on the Hartes’ door and burst in, guns drawn, at around 7:30 a.m. on April 20, 2012, a day celebrated by marijuana activists.
Robert Harte was forced face-down to the floor, shirtless, as the deputies searched the house for more than two hours. All four family members, including the Harte children, were detained in the living room under armed guard.
The search proved fruitless, even after the deputies called in a drug dog. No marijuana was found and the vegetation in the trash turned out to be nothing more than loose-leaf tea.”
That, that’s what our WAY TOO HIGH tax dollars are being used for in Johnson County. Breaking down peoples doors and holding them down at gunpoint with assault rifles because a Missouri police officer told Johnson County police officers they were spying on people buying tomato plants.
In Kansas City you are 500% more likely to have your car searched if you are black. Five hundred percent! This isn’t what I want my tax dollars used for, breaking down doors and pulling over every brown person for possession of marijuana. Meanwhile fifteen minutes away on the Missouri side it’s basically an Apple Store but for weed
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2024.05.18 00:49 Bitter-Edge1523 Not looking for sympathy. How often have you experienced law enforcement taking advantage of public for so called “Marijuana OWI” because of grey area laws?

Every state has different regulations in place for acceptable ng/ml THC levels. For example, I was arrested for smoking the day before driving a vehicle in a medical state, while I possessed a medical card. It was a very small town and 2 days later I was being targeted by the sheriff and was pulled over for 1 of 2 of my license plate lights being burnt out. I had nothing illegal in my car, didn’t smell like marijuana and wasn’t high. After blowing .00’s on breathalyzer test I submitted to field sobriety tests. After passing (most) field sobriety tests I was asked to provide blood sample. (For your information, field sobriety tests are only aimed at detecting drunk driving and have less that 50% accuracy in determining intoxication for alcohol, let alone alternative substances) Failed for THC even though I hadn’t smoked all day. Tread lightly, I now have 2 charges for marijuana OWI and my life is probably fucked even though I have a college degree and have never been in trouble prior to this. Fuck the ops.
-I can’t drive a car for a year. Had to move states to move back in with my parents because I can’t work anymore. I have a medical card in my new state and my old state and my PO says I’m ALLOWED to fail drug tests for THC because I have IBS + marijuana card. Need to complete hundreds of hours of community service still. I have been drug tested over 300 times since last year and have been clean for absolutely everything. Won’t ever be able to get a reasonable job again. How fucked up is all of this nonsense? What should I do?
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2024.05.17 19:49 Os3ans My experience start to finish 9mm

I’m writing this to help others because if you’re reading this you probably have or have had a kidney stone. I am 38M and this was my first stone, I have had oxalate crystals in my urine for almost 20 years so this was a long time coming. I managed the oxalate crystals by not consuming certain drinks specifically soda and iced tea. 3 months ago I got a sharp pain in my stomach of which I had never had before, right away I knew something was wrong.
The next day I had a little bit of blood in my urine and figured the day had finally come that I got a kidney stone. The pain only lasted a few minutes and went away for 2 weeks so like an idiot I ignored it and it came back with a vengeance. I ate at this ramen restaurant twice in 2 weeks and drank a vintage cola with it both times (big mistake) then at the end of the 2’d week I had an impossible whopper meal from Burger King with a coke and fries.
The next morning I woke up and after a hot shower I started to feel a lot of dull pain around my kidney, it progressed very quickly to the point I was curled up in the fetal position on my bed screaming and crying into a pillow. My wife (37 weeks pregnant at the time with 2 kids under 5) brought me to the ER and I was in excruciating pain that would not let up, they hooked me up to IV and said they would give me morphine which I was hesitant to take and explicitly asked for Dilaudid because I was told years ago that the I only thing that works for kidney stone pain is Dilaudid. The nurse said “we will determine which medicines to administer”. Well 4 hours later I’m still hanging off a hospital bed puking and dry heaving in maybe the worst pain of my life after a few doses of morphine which might as well have been a Tylenol.
When it came time for the CTscan I couldn’t keep still because I was wrenching in pain and still dry heaving. Being a very spiritual person I asked God for strength to help me keep still so they could do the CTScan and thankfully I got through it. When I got back to my room they finally agreed to give me Dilaudid and let me tell you, it was like a light switch went off, the pain was 99% gone. I was discharged and told I had a 7x9mm stone stuck in my ureter.
I rested the next day on some Dilaudid they have me to take home along with some 600mg ibuprofen and flowmax. 2 days after my episode I was feeling great no pain it was like it went away for good. A week or 2 later I had another episode which was very mild it just felt like a 2 out of 10 on the pain scale, after a hot bath and a lot of fluids I felt better. Fast forward 3 months it was like it never happened, I had zero pain zero discomfort. The only issue I had during those 3 month was for a couple of days I was peeing very frequently and had a swollen prostate which caused some bowel problems. Then out of left field around bedtime I got leveled, the pain was almost as bad as my hospitalization except this time I was super nauseous and throwing up in pain. This time the pain was lower in my abdomen it was apparent that the stone was stuck and blocking urine.
After putting off surgery for 3 months hoping I’d pass it naturally I never felt so much regret. Fortunately my urologist saw me within a couple of days and was able to schedule surgery the following Monday. When I woke up from surgery I wasn’t in pain but I felt a little violated, you wake up with a stent in your kidney and a string (which is more like a guitar string) taped to your shaft. When I got home I took my first piss and let me tell you, I was not prepared. It was lightening, the sting and burn as intense I’m not gonna sugar coat it. That night I barely slept because of the urgency to pee, also the discomfort from the “string” that is slicing you a new urethra. Day 2 was better but the stinging when I peed was dreadful, I literally didn’t want to pee. I called my doctor and asked for something for the burn, they prescribed me this orange dye that seemed to help, idk why they didnt discharge me with this. day 3 was much better, i was back at work and the stinging had pretty much gone away. i found it hard to walk for 5-6 days, youll be taking alot of baby steps with the stent. Day 8 It wqs time to have my stent removed, i took flowmax in the morning and 600mg ibuprofen a few hours before. Removal was pretty much as I expected, uncomfortable but no pain it was over in 1 second. Today is day 11 post surgery I feel 100% back to normal.
EDIT: I meant to say this earlier, marijuana did wonders for my stent pain/uncomfortability. It’s much better and safer than taking some opioid.
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2024.05.16 03:57 Blockchain-TEMU Various Descriptions of Vectors

1.1 A resonator vector has multiple base modes 1.1.1 At offset fifths all in resonator is laxative 1.1.2 At offset octaves is Parrafin wax 1.1.3 A resonator vector has a few ranges in semitone division C1-C2 Always Rubber C2-C3 Normally Rubber C3-C4 Base Crude C4-C5 Food Grade Oil C5-C6 Laxative Only C7-C7 Flavor Only 1.1.4 A resonator vector is best cured by a filter reds method 1.1.5 A resonator vector usually indicates rubber or a laxative when it is unmessed by the filter reds method 1.1.6 By default a resonator vector is a rubber source of latex rubber 1.1.7 Cured Resonator forms the LaTeX substance which has various functions 1.1.8 LaTeX and Resonator are slightly but not altogether that toxic 2.1 A corpus vector has a physical object 2.2 A beam object is the fluid object and a marimba object is the human object and a membrane object is the drummer object and a pipe object is the stoner object and a tube object is the dauchund object 2.3 Corpus appears in a few range 16.35-120 Roor 120-262 Bacteria 262-512 Plants 512-1024 Foods 1024-2024 Human Related 2024-4048 Human Perephiery Related 2.4 Corpus has brightness or object ID material or object scientifics spread or object alignment inharmonic or object wavy filter or object oily or smoky 2.5 Objects may be made magical by realigning their direct spread to mid 2.6 Objects encode the disease of the person that used it 2.7 Objects yield food tokens when used in correct 3 depth beam tube pipe then cooked with pizza box or otherwise 2.8 Objects have an exact identifier by harmonics or upclicks and version for different variant upclick 2.9 Objects have a serial identifier associated with them which is their direct harmonic offset 3.0 A grain delay vector is a fluid extraction vector 3.1 A grain delay causes a derrick to appear on the signal when configured correctly 3.2 A grain delay should be used on the aboveground portion of crude extraction 3.3 A grain delay pumps fluid 3.4 A grain delay is best used at 1 and -9 or -24 or +12 3.5 Do not exceed one grain delay per extraction as it is the sampled oil derrick 3.6 Do not use grain delay in an ocean or it will cause an oil spill 3.7 Do not generally use grain delay or derrick outside of a fluids extraction 3.8 Do not use grain delay spray or the derrick will break 3.9 Do not use grain delay parameter besides 1 or the derrick will break 4.0 Vocoder is the fluid extractions vector 4.1 Use negative formant to go underground 4.2 Proof the oil at up to total proof at depth 4.3 Use 40 vector for best usage 4.4 Use up to 200 bandwidth for best usage 4.5 Top sample peaks if they are excessive 4.6 Increase fluid flow if possible to reason 4.7 Take fluid from belowground to aboveground with top formant 4.8 Do not use any form of negative total proof or it will be a shower 4.9 Tune after each peak 5.0 Q or eq is the tune process 5.1 Use tune to make a different amount of the particular thing 5.2 Put things all in the right place and resonance to get the detailed oil or water out of a signal 5.3 Use tune to isolate a particular thing 5.4 Use one tune to get your hands on something or use a motor pool tool with classic tune 5.5 Use tune with a network to do maintenance on something 5.6 Use tune to isolate a specific force 5.7 Use tune to create a hormone effect on the body 5.8 Use tune to specify how many hydrocarbon rings something has 5.9 Use tune at octaves for rubber wheels 6.0 Ugandan process saturator 6.1 Saturator gets the commoners on it 6.2 Saturator increases crude oil yield 6.3 Saturator prevents fires 6.4 Saturator adds more content to oil making it less pure 6.5 Saturator is an early stage process not a late stage process 6.6 Saturator causes mutagen to appear in the signal 6.7 Using at least one saturator in extraction makes the oil ugandan method 6.8 Using more than one saturator in the signal makes the oil actually ugandan 6.9 Saturator should be used with radiation surpression protocol 7.0 Vinyl is the ugandan refinery 7.1 Vinyl is the base cost of oil to create one barrel of oil at 221$ for a ugandan barrel 7.2 Vinyl creates stasis noise 7.3 Vinyl at hydrocarbons modification creates the appearance of stereo vinyl signal which is the vinyl chloride 7.4 Only one vinyl should be used in the ugandan method, the initial hydrocarbons source 7.5 Vinyl can be used to isolate pure vinyl chloride with mid side 7.6 The product is always polyvinyl chloride for a synthesis which uses more than one vinyl 7.7 The product is actual vinyl chloride for a synthesis which uses the mid side extraction method 7.8 A specific cure for the vinyl chloride created in extraction method exists 7.9 Vinyl is the rather dangerous portion of the ugandan process 8.0 Tube Amp or get jonnay a sample 8.1 Tube Amp does a minor observation on the signal which is not the actual observation of the signal 8.2 Tube Amp is the process used at the pre cracking stage before pre cracking in the oil field lot to certify oil field purity 8.3 Tube Amp can get jonnays hands on it and make the oil light and sweet crude 8.4 Tube Amp biases the signal towards mutagen 8.5 Tube can deconvolve the foundry observation or keep it the same 8.6 Tube Amp allows for up to three or a twentieth of the sample oil taken 8.6 Tube Amp is generally nonessential but allows for the process to be modified to light sweet crude 8.7 The modification to light sweet crude takes no time 8.8 The process involved may define oil sources further 8.9 Tube Amp is toxic to use as is as a standard signal and a wideband cure exists 9.0 Chanel eq or smelly 9.1 Chanel eq is where smell is observed in the signal 9.2 Adding just one chanel adds 10 times the smell 9.3 Chanel can do basic tasks and even in a pinch more than the standard worker number of chanel could do product work 9.4 Chanel is a perfumes process which causes something to become odorfactant 9.5 Chanel can make a signal less mutagenic substantially 9.6 Endocrine disruption by chanel has a specific cure 9.7 At the foundry chanel causes typical foundry area petrochemicals smell 9.8 Chanel Eq can expose you to something odifacantly 9.9 Chanel EQ is a critical process of drugs sensing 10.1 Cabinet Cabinet puts something in the cabinet, with the garbage 10.2 Cabinet has the garbage bin of all your friends in it 10.3 Cabinet can be used to imply something kept secret, deleted, or otherwise specifically specified 10.4 Cabinet has the bacterial disease of the cabinet on it 10.5 Cabinet is no more dangerous than your garbage bin in your kitchen 10.6 Cabinet can access your garbage bin in your kitchen 10.7 Cabinet is an essential part of home renewal processes to specify which part of the house needed to be renewed 10.8 Renewal process exist for specifying 2 cabinet upgrade 1x12 and 2x12 cabinet can be fulfilled by the renewal system 10.9 Cabinet can cause skin irritation if the cabinet is destroyed 11.0 Amp is the process of a drug addict 11.1 Amp provides a drug addict with reasonable amounts of their drug 11.2 Amp uses the food of the drug addict to generate the smoke of the drug 11.3 Amp is very dangerous and if set to default and not the rock user will kill the user outright 11.4 Amp is a specific process which is used when heavy metals are in the signal like at the oilfield hell which went too deep often amp is used to create synthesis effect in the oilfield hell 11.5 Amp provides Amp MTN DEW to the user 11.6 Amp Unlocks the mail system to the user 11.7 Amp causes many disease and a cure only exist for about half 11.8 If cured amp must be set to specific amp MTN DEW Abilities like Obtaining AMP MTN DEW at a store or obtaining amp MTN Dew by mail 11.9 Amp is very dangerous but I heard you can store marijuana in it 12.0 Gate or medical epitalon 12.1 Gate heals a signal, when the appropriate full poly gate is given at gate inverse gate for the whole range, then the recreational drug is formed 12.2 When gate is given in appropriate range to heal a generic signal and there is a gate inverse gate assembly for the whole range and the range does not exceed healthy and unhealthy there is a vaccine 12.3 When the vaccine is used in the recreational usage there is a battlesedative usage 12.4 A purely recreational use FLIP (few) exists, a purely recreational use CBX (20) exists, REDS medical (156) and BAGS (30) Medical Exist all also using Medical Gate 12.5 Gate has no cure of itself but can detoxify itself and even fetch a signal 12.6 Gate is not a signal router so should not be used to route a signal, this is emergency feature 12.7 Gate has various parameters which are always REDS 9,.02,10,333,-inf in a medical usage 12.8 Many gate have a use to create pressure with nominal pressure, gates can create pressure 12.9 Gates can refine a computer signal to detect right and are involved with doing work on something 13.0 Compressor or Pipes 13.1 Compressor Routes a signal somewhere else 13.2 Compressor Does quality assurance on an existing foundry full product 13.3 Compressor does the engine compression of a car without causing framerate lag 13.4 Compressor can do something on bequest of another pipe 13.5 Compressor has a variable pipe response to different substance, different behavior can be specified 13.6 Compressor in quality assurance should use the same sybian knee and threshold equal one another 13.7 Compressor in quality assurance should not exceed 5 minor acts of quality control 6 or 1 major act of quality control 12 13.8 Compressor causes unsteady supply 13.9 Compressor causes internal combustion in internal combustion 14.0 Delay or phase 14.1 Phase or delay can do surgery at 500 and 1000 and 0 rather third unused there is surgery 14.2 Phase or delay can do a keyboard retrieval or a keyboard flash at 333,666,999 14.3 Phase or delay can do shift register at 5000 14.4 Phase or delay can do manual register at 375,500,1000 14.5 Phase has a specific infinite ammo use at 4000 14.6 Phase has a firearms use at 37.5,50,75,100,200 except in blueprint use 14.7 Phase has a blueprint use 1,2.12,5,10,11.1,15,20,22.2,25,33.3,35,44.4,50,55.5,60,66.6,70,75,77.7,80,100 14.8 Phase has specific blueprint use of the offset of the individual components at the high end 14.9 Phase has splitter use of 5000,2111, and the firearms rate in splitter 15.0 Looper, or Pizza Box 15.1 Pizza box automatically cooks food at minus 20 15.2 Pizza box creates more of the food than you can believe 15.3 Pizza Box allows for the food to be cooked from Pizza Box to Pizza Box 15.4 Pizza Box Allows theft of item when recording 15.5 Pizza Box Is An Obligate Time Consumer Using Wav 15.6 Pizza Box Allows You to Get an Item from the Pizza Box (PIZZA SLICE) 15.7 Pizza Box Only Actually Cooks the Item on Retrieval 15.8 Pizza Box is Not Watertight And Cannot Become Watertight 15.9 Hit Circle (PIZZA) To Add Pizza or Other Food to Pizza Box Directly In 16.0 Frequency Shifter, F(X), Oxidation Reduction 16.1 Use oxidation reduction at exactly 500 Therms of oxidation to cook a food 16.1 Add 11.1 HZ At 50HZ Oxidation Variation to Cook the Food Well 16.2 Change Offset at Oxidation Reduction Parameter Offsetor to Change Food Flavor 16.3 Put an Aircraft literally into the sky by Oxidizing it 16.4 Peroxos, or Base Frequency Shift In Parts of F100 are a critical part of many life processes 16.5 A specific peroxos, lowest phosphors peroxos .01 scanning peroxos is involved with vision 16.6 Peroxos F4100 is involved with life that uses credit stick 16.7 All the peroxos of the intermediary shift between harmonic are involved with life 16.8 Alien Peroxos set outside the reference 261.5HZ Pussy Yeast Bread Harmonic Ledger Are undiscovered 16.9 Different family tree have different total peroxos set (Saplings) 17.0 Power Tools Driver or EQ3 17.1 A power Tools Driver is the old way to disassemble something 17.2 A power tools driver at 300 is the life jacket and at 650 is the bedpan 17.4 A powers tool driver at 1400 is the water filter and a power tools driver at 4100 is the grinder 17.5 A powers tool driver action of all three below 200 50-200 is the cooking request action in classic usage 17.6 A specific powers tool driver action sensor exists for cooking below all three 50-200 total range action 17.7 A powers tools driver with osc unlocks power tools motor action 17.8 A powers tool driver is a worse way to do work than with your hands 17.9 A powers tool driver is good at removing but not adding 18.0 Limiter or Limiter Removal 18.1 Limiter brings in Shadow Company And IDF And Blind Doxxons at Lowest 18.2 Limiter Brings in the Marines at Mid 18.3 Limiter brings in the seals at High 18.4 Limiter causes framerate lag 18.5 Limiter causes A signal to exhibit a perfect quality control even at extreme levels 18.6 Limiter can be used to tame paddles 18.7 Limiter can be used to tame drilling 18.8 Limiter can be used to examine something under a microscope 18.9 Limiter can make the psychoacoustic quality better 19.0 Beat Repeat, or Illformed Glitch Driver 19.1 Glitch Has Large Amounts of Turing Capacity 19.2 Glitch Allows for a signal to be broken into parts automatically 19.3 Glitch has a natural synchro ability like phase 19.4 Glitch has the ability to knacker a signal more than any other effect 19.5 Glitch can cause thought looping when it is combined with a drug 19.6 Glitch involves the usage of more constraints than the other effects vector 19.7 Glitch Phase Decimates the Signal 19.8 Glitch Is the Natural Form of Rocket Leauge Ice Block 19.9 Glitch can be used in gung fu to cure glitch 20.0 Utility or PHEN 20.1 Utility is the medical modifier which enables medicine to function 20.2 Utility is the phase amplifier which allow a phase transistor radio to pick up a signal 20.3 Utility is the suppression signal which yields mid from amidate 20.4 Utility Leads to natural divisions of 6 max 35 20.5 Utility forms methanol when it is prescribed as a compound 20.6 Methanol as utility is critical to curing the body's natural influenza or feedback as the methylation factor 20.7 Methanol as the utility is dangerous as a precursor but not as a component of promethylation medicines 20.8 Utility comes in ethanol above and gaba below at threes for dimerism mixes 20.9 Only one utility should be used unless rezurecting and at its highest it is critical to security signals being sensed 21.0 Reverb or Impulse 21.1 Impulse 10 is the lock unlock signal 21.2 Impulse 5 is the locked signal 21.3 Impulse 20 is the weed lock signal locked 21.4 Impulse 60 is the lucas impulse 21.5 Impulse 120 is the notch impulse 21.6 Impulse 2 1/2 Was Purported but Never Used 21.7 Impulse is always measured at no parameter 21.8 Impulse yields push for 5 second -40-20+35 positive with negative ten second and measured trace at 5 second -60-40+42 positive NANDAND unlocks token 21.9 When attempted 60 and 120 Second Trace were successful but these parameter are lost. 22.0 Auto Filter, or Amidate 22.1 Auto filter is the lettering of the situation 22.2 300 Source 650 Sulfur 1400 Water 4100 SnoreLax Olestra Ketamine 6500 Motion 10000 Tropane 13500 Engine 17000 X-Ray these are the critical amidate to life process nominal 22.3 450 Metal 550 Mains 750 Sewage 850 Treatment 2250 Ethanol 3400 Methanol 4700 Corn Plastic 5700 Plastic 7500 Rimbonant 8500 Soap Use are the natural taxing process of the initial statement 22.4 2000 Gold 1000 Nutraloaf 1100 Starch 1200 Sugar 1300 Glycine 1400 Hydrogen 1500 Pepsi Cola (1600 Peptide 1 1700 Peptide 6 1800 Peptide 3) 4100 Foods these are the nutrient for the system 22.5 131 Female Voice 144 Your Voice 155 Kick Drum 165 Kick Transient 175 Pots N Pans 185 Pots Content 196 Button Mushroom 220 Cache 240 Stash 262 Marisol 276 Clorox 296 Bluewater 300 Source 315 Febreeze 330 Peroxide 350 Nitrate 370 Ammonium 396 Loam 420 Bud 440 Dirt 470 Wheat 496 Soil 512 Potato these are the farm goods for the system 22.6 541 Muffler 581 Transmission 641 Piston 681 Engine 741 Cargo 781 Chassis 841 Fluids 900 Vaseline 999 Nutraloaf 1090 Soylent These are the willis goods of the situation 22.6 60HZ Patient Voice 131HZ Therapist Voice 300 Breath 650 Reanolin 1400 Aquaporin 4100 Cholesterol 6500 Weed 10000 Cocaine 13500 Amide 17000 Lisuride these are the tactical therapist of the situation, normally limited to cholesterol below and tuned to exact bodily process 22.7 -18 Utility This takes 125% 3.00Q to Mid, where a Dual And Dual Q resolves it at -33(MID), and can adjust for the natural armor process of the body -20-0 gate to adjust for the high signal 22.8 5000 Prozac 5100 Benadryl 5200 Scopolamine 5300 Atropine 5400 Benzyldiol this is the resuscitators of the situation 22.9 At 69 percent of 100 percent of the auto filter, 85% resonance is automatic mid 23.0 Drum Bus or Mike Mode 23.1 Drum bus makes the oil automatically virtual like modulator mode 23.2 Drum bus oil is especially good for general tasks, but it virtual 23.3 Drum buss summons the better drummer out of the bus 23.4 Drum bus is able to be flangebent 23.5 Drum bus is similar to communion but just mike 23.6 Drum bus allows for the shape of the item to be controlled 23.7 Drum buss allows for quality assurance to be undertaken 23.8 Drum bus makes the item profiled by mike the drummer from garageband 23.9 Jake the Drummer from Garageband Generally profiles and designs the item otherwise 24.1 Drive Sends the Signal to pikachu 24.1 Drive makes the world on the pikadollar standard above 3 use in chain 24.2 Drive increases oil yield 24.3 Drive is similar to flaring but is in reverse, adds pyrolysis to the product but also flares 24.4 Drive can be used to flare and actually control beyond flaring a aeronautical ship 24.5 Drive can be used for afterburners 24.6 Drive increases the torque of electric engines and their tone 24.7 Drive can be used to amputate a torn limb or saw something when used with osc 24.8 Drive can be used to extract oil better underground with tuning high and low 24.9 Drive is a typical stimulant which assumes the amine profile and is a critical part of transition metals.
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2024.05.15 03:18 Castro925 UCI FIELD STIDY

A lot of traditional field study programs require drug screens, such as the law enforcement ones, does marijuana use make an individual fail a drug screen?
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2024.05.15 01:05 GPSTrackerShop1 California Department Of Fish And Wildlife GPS Trackers

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With more and more hipsters wanting to live a more "authentic" lifestyle, teens and millennials are walking away from the shopping malls and into nature. This is a great thing but it has caused some issues for conservation groups such as the California Department of Fish and Wildlife who spend their time fighting those who could cause damage to the natural environment. Whether it be people cultivating marijuana crops on protected land, issues related to species management, or maybe something as simple as people fishing without licenses, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife has a lot of work to do and unfortunately limited resources. However, technology is now helping fill in some of the gaps for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife who is calling upon GPS tracking devices for a number of different reasons.
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One of the most obvious benefits of using GPS live tracking technology is how it can assist in vehicle management. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife are often lacking manpower and resources. Therefore, fewer people are available to cover a lot of land. That means efficiency is a high priority. When real-time auto tracking units are equipped on the California Department of Fish and Wildlife vehicles the process of documenting and managing vehicle activity becomes significantly easier. This is because live GPS systems provide up-to-date info about where a vehicle is located, speeds it is traveling, stops made, and more. Safe speed alerts can also be programmed. Other benefits from a fleet oversight perspective include:
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Another benefit of using GPS monitoring systems among government agencies such as the Bureau of Land Management, Department of Homeland Security, or California Department of Fish and Wildlife is that the technology can also be pivotal in investigative work. Whether it be illegal poaching or the cultivation of illegal crops, bad things happen on public land all the time. These areas are often chosen as the setting for criminal activity because they are remote and often in regions where cellular service is not available. This means live GPS won't work. This is where data logging systems are proving their value and helping authorities conduct successful investigations.

GPS Data Logger For Government Employees

Passive GPS solutions record travel activity to the internal memory of the device. Information such as route traveled, speed-driven, and more are all recorded and stored on the car tracker. This data can then be reviewed once the tracker is removed from the target vehicle and downloaded. Here is a real-world example of how technology is employed successfully. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife received a top about a poacher illegally hunting mountain lions. The suspect is identified and shown to be frequenting areas where mountain lion populations are dwindling. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife acquires a warrant, puts a vehicle tracker on the car of the suspect, and then removes the GPS after a month. The data shows the suspect was indeed at the location where each mountain lion shooting took place. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has its man and can move forward with an arrest.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has a tremendously challenging task and the work they do is for all of us. GPS monitoring systems are helping to make that job a little easier which is fantastic because when they do their job effectively it means they are preserving wildlife and essentially nature for everyone for generations to come.

Conservation Top Priority For U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Government Agency Calls Upon GPS
There are a number of government and federal agencies that serve a vital role to the public from everything to energy conservation to counter-terrorism, but there is only one agency that focuses solely on making certain the next generation of wildlife is secure and safe. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service works tirelessly to conserve and safeguard fish, wildlife, plants, and their natural habitats through scientific experimentation and the creation of refuges. All of the work is conducted by professionals who strive to protect natural resources. However, the task of maintaining stable ecosystems and the life they support can be a very daunting task, and that is why the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service continues to call upon the latest in technological advancement to help in conservation efforts. With many government agencies feeling the financial pinch, departments such as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are now turning to GPS tracking systems to help conduct business as usual, and what they are finding is that GPS tracking devices are not only a cost-smart solution for monitoring equipment/environment but also an effective one.
GPS tracking systems have always been the surveillance tools of choice among federal police agencies to conduct covert investigations, but now the monitoring technology has taken on increased responsibility. Now, GPS monitoring technology and devices are used for everything from GPS fleet management improvement to the observation of wildlife in scientific experiments and studies. There are still many mysteries that ecologists and wildlife experts are trying to solve regarding the way many animals interact with their natural environment and the role that humans play in disrupting that balance. By equipping different species with micro GPS trackers that can transmit real-time GPS tracking and location-based data, scientists can understand how a particular species interact with everything in their environment.
With many staff members working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service having to conduct experiments in the field, vehicle management and route efficiency are also a concern for the federal agency. However, real-time GPS tracking solutions such as SpaceHawk GPS can bring simplicity to a complex fleet problem. The SpaceHawk GPS allows government agencies to remotely view where any agency vehicle is while operating in the field. This GPS data can be used for fuel consumption reduction, a way to observe employee activity via vehicle tracking, and/or see what areas in a region a particular employee/scientist visited for experimentation.
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2024.05.15 00:24 lafc88 8 students hospitalized after ingesting marijuana edibles during field trip to La Brea Tar Pits

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2024.05.13 17:10 Zebra2313 How common is drug testing for MHT / BHT jobs, specifically regarding THC? And are these jobs difficult to obtain on an entry level? (I'm in Florida)

I graduated with a psychology degree a few years ago. I've been working in technology ever since, because the pay was better. I now have some extra time and would like to return to school for a master in social work. I would like to gain some experience in the field before I start my program and I've been told targeting a position for MHT or BHT would be a good entry point. I currently work remotely so entering the IRL workforce is a bit intimidating for me right now. Also, I am a medical marijuana card holder.
I have some questions for those who are currently MHT's and/or BHT's - especially for those who may reside within the state of Florida and who use THC. What is the usual vibe regarding THC use when attempting to work in these positions? Are people quitting use of THC prior to testing or are they more often using things like Quick Fix? Do facilities commonly drug test for these positions in 2024? And are they still including THC on their drug panels?
Outside of Drug Testing, are these jobs hard to obtain at an entry level? I see these positions posted for hire all the time. What can I expect during the hiring process? On average, how long does the hiring process take? After being hired, what can I expect from the training process afterwards? [Looking to apply at local in-patient rehabs and small psychiatric hospital / detox centers]
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2024.05.13 16:14 Leather_Focus_6535 The currently 124 offenders executed by the state of Oklahoma since the 1970s (warning, graphic content, please read at your own risk) [part 1, cases 1-62]

This is the list that I wrote for Oklahoma's execution roster since the nationwide reinstatement of capital punishment in the late 1970s. Something that should be mentioned is that given the nature of many death penalty related crimes, many of the descriptions contain very disturbing details. Please read at your own risk.
Florida's list is next, and I'll post my list for Texas once I've completed it. With Texas, I've currently finished 464 entries out of the 587 cases to date. That will probably take 7 or 8 posts for it all to be released, so I'll probably do two posts a day with Texas to avoid spamming the sub. At the end of this year, I'll repost the states that have conducted further executions with the updated information.
As with Missouri and Virginia, Reddit's maximum character count limitations forced me to divide Oklahoma's list into two separate parts. Here is the link to part 2.
The currently 124 executed offenders, cases 1 to 62:
1. Charles Coleman (~1950s-1990, lethal injection): A month after he was released on parole in 1979, Coleman broke into a house. While sacking it for any valuables, the homeowner’s brother and sister in law, 68 year old John and 62 year old Roxie Seward, walked in on him and were both shot dead. Coleman stole Roxie’s purse, several packets of frozen meat, and the homeowner’s watch during the burglary, and was arrested shortly afterwards. However, Coleman managed to escape custody, and went on a rampage that involved several burglaries, auto thefts, slitting the throat of a policeman in a failed murder attempt, the shooting death of 49 year old Russell Lewis Jr. in a carjacking, and the abduction of a deputy. The kidnapped deputy was rescued following an armed standoff with other police officers. Coleman had an extensive history of animal cruelty, armed robberies, assaults, and carrying concealed weapons convictions dating back to when he was 11 years old. He was also heavily suspected in the murder of his teenage girlfriend’s father, but was acquitted by the courts despite the prosecution’s strong belief in his guilt.
2. Robyn Parks (1977-1992, lethal injection): During a gas station robbery, Parks shot and killed Abdullah Ibrahim, a 24 year old Bangladeshi immigrant that worked as the attendant. According to Parks, he murdered Ibrahim for catching him using a stolen credit card.
3. Olan Randle (1980-1992, lethal injection): Randle invaded a home and shot the occupants, 41 year old Robert Swinford, Sinford's fiance 42 year old Averil Bourque, and Bourque's friend 38 year old Julia Lovejoy, dead. He took a pocket knife and several watches from the victims.
4. Thomas Grasso (~1970s(?)-1995, lethal injection): While living in Oklahoma, Grasso strangled 87 year old Hilda Johnson, the best friend of his girlfriend's grandmother, to death with her Christmas lights. He took $8 from her purse, several coins that added up to $4, and a television set that he sold for $125. Grasso then moved to New York, and strangled 81 year old Leslie Holtz for his social security check. The trialing arrangements caused some controversy, as the New York governors at the time were anti death penalty, and tried to prevent Grasso's extradition in favor of giving him a life sentence in their jurisdiction. Grasso had several previous convictions for theft and was fired multiple times for stealing from his jobs.
5. Roger Stafford (~1974(?)-1995, lethal injection): Stafford was condemned for killing at least 9 people in two separate robbery incidents with his brother and ex wife, though his ex wife claimed that he was involved with as many as 34 murders nationwide. The first convicted incident was when he and the ex wife carjacked and fatally shot a couple, 38 year old Melvin and 31 year old Linda Lorenz, and their son, 12 year old Richard. A few weeks after the Lorenz murders, Stafford stormed a restaurant and gunned down 6 employees, 56 year old Isaac Freeman, 43 year old Louis Zacarias, 17 year old Anthony Tew, 17 year old David Lindsey, 16 year old David Salsman, and 15 year old Terri Horst. One of Stafford's additional attributed victims was 20 year old Jimmy Berry, who was killed in the hold up of an Alabaman McDonalds, but he wasn't charged by the state due to his death sentences in Oklahoma.
6. Robert Brecheen (1983-1995, lethal injection): Breechen was involved in a feud over money with 59 year old Mary Stubbs and her husband. In an attempt to take what he perceived was owed to him, Breechen carried out a night time burglary of their home. While rummaging through the house, Breechen stumbled upon old Marie in her living room and shot her to death. The gunshots and screams awoke her husband, and he chased him away with his own gun.
7. Benjamin Brewer (1978-1996, lethal injection): Brewer raped his neighbor, 20 year old Karen Stapleton, in her home and stabbed her to death
8. Steven Hatch (1979-1996, lethal injection): Hatch and another assailant, Glen Ake, forced themselves inside the home that Richard Dougass, a 43 year old reverend, shared with his wife, 36 year old Marilyn, and their two children, 16 year old Brooks and 12 year old Lesile. The pair tied up the family and raped Lesile in front of her parents and brother. All four family members were shot, and Hatch and Ake ran off with $43 and the parents’ wedding rings. Richard and Marilyn were both killed in the shootings, while their children survived the attack. Ake was also initially condemned for the attack, but his sentence was overturned and resentenced to life following mental health concerns, and passed away from undisclosed natural causes in 2011.
9. Scott Carpenter (1994-1997, lethal injection): In a convenience store robbery, Carpenter stabbed the owner, 56 year old A. J. Kelley, in the neck, and hid the body in the minnow room. He filled his truck with $37 worth of gas from the pumps and drove away from the scene. His execution caused some controversy, as it was reported that Carpenter gasped and spasmed for 11 minutes after being injected.
10. Michael Long (1997-1998, lethal injection): Enraged that his coworker, 24 year old Sheryl Graber, refused him sex and started screaming for help, he stabbed her over 31 times. Long also shot and killed her son, 5 year old Andrew, for being a witness.
11. Stephen Wood (1992-1998, lethal injection): While heavily intoxicated, Wood stabbed two other homeless men, 46 year old Charles Stephen and 34 year old Charles Von Johnson, dozens of times each. He was given a life sentence for both of their murders. During his incarceration, Robert Brigden, a 59 year old former minister that was serving a 40 year sentence for molesting several girls between the ages of 4-14 in his congregation, moved into his unit after refusing to go into protective custody. Woods killed Brigden in a stabbing attack, and his sentence was escalated to death by the courts for it.
12. Tuan Anh Nguyen (~1982-1998, lethal injection): By all accounts, Nguyen was jealously possessive over his wife, 21 year old Donna. During one of their arguments over his behavior, he stabbed Donna, her 6 year old nephew Joseph White, and her 3 year old niece Amanda White, in their home and left the bodies to be found by the children’s parents. He fled to Arizona, groomed a 14 year old girl into an illicit “relationship”, and impregnated her. After he convinced her to move in with him, Nguyen physically and sexually abused the girl until she fled and went to the local police for help. Nguyen was then deported back to Oklahoma to face trial for Donna and the White children’s slayings, and was sentenced to death for them.
13. John Duvall (1986-1998, lethal injection): During a fight with his wife, 30 year old Donna, Duvall stabbed and suffocated her to death with a pillow.
14. John Castro Sr. (1983-1999, lethal injection): Castro carjacked Beulah Cox, a 31 year old Oklahoma State University student, after she picked him up hitchhiking and shot her to death. A few months later, Castro held up a restaurant with an empty pistol, and attacked the manger, 29 year old Rhonda Pappan, after forcing her to open the register. During their struggle, Pappan was fatally stabbed, and he took off with her purse. During his mid teens, Castro was allegedly molested by his mother. Castro's attorneys made the argument that his glimpses of Cox's buttocks reminded him of his mother's reported abuse, and he was triggered into attacking her for it.
15. Sean Sellers (1985-1999, lethal injection): In 1985, a then 15 year old Sellers tried to buy beer from a convenience store, but the clerk, 32 year old Robert Bower, denied him due to being underaged at the time. Sellers gunned him down in a fit of rage. A year later, Sellers shot and killed his mother, 32 year old Vonda Bellofatto, and stepfather, 43 year old Paul, in their sleep. Due to being 16 at the time of his conviction, Sellers remains the youngest condemned offender to have his sentence carried out in the post Furman era. He also attracted national media attention for claiming that his crimes were the result of demonic possession.
16. Scotty Moore (1983-1999, lethal injection): Moore was fired from a motel for undisclosed reasons. In retaliation, Moore and a cousin (whom he was dating at the time), assaulted the motel, and gunned down the desk clerk, 42 year old Alex Fernandez. According to court documents, the pair took a total of $97 in the robbery.
17. Norman Newsted (1984-1999, lethal injection): Newsted tricked Lawrence Buckley, a 26 year old cab driver, into picking him up. He shot Buckley dead and took his wallet. In an attempt to cover his tracks, Newsted placed the body inside the cab, and drove it into a creek near a local church. Despite his best efforts, Buckley’s cab and remains were discovered a day later by the church’s pastor.
18. Cornel Cooks (1982-1999, lethal injection): Cooks and his accomplice broke into the home of 87 year old Jennie Ridling. She was gagged, raped, and suffocated to death with gauze wrappings. According to autopsy reports, the pair abused her for over 2 hours. They then sacked the house for any valuables and left with her checkbook.
19. Bobby Ross (1983-1999, lethal injection): While robbing an inn, Ross fatally shot a police officer, 30 year old Steve Mahan, that tried to intervene.
20. Malcolm Johnson (~1970s(?)-2000, lethal injection): Johnson invaded the apartment of 76 year old Ura Thompson and sexually assaulted her. Thompson either died from having her chest compounded during the abuse or was suffocated by Johnson’s hands covering her nose. He seized several possessions such as furs, typewriters, purse, watch, rings, and a hand mirror, which were discovered by police in his residence during an unrelated investigation of a firearms possession charge. Johnson had an extensive criminal history, which included several convictions of rape, armed robberies, and burglaries. The case attracted controversy when it was discovered that the lead chemist in the investigation misconducted several of her other cases, and forged some of the evidence used in the trial. Despite the other overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Johnson’s supporters took the opportunity to push a narrative of his innocence.
21. Gary Walker (~1960s-2000, lethal injection): Walker abducted, raped, and murdered at least 5 women, 36 year old Margaret Lydick, 35 year old Jane Hilburn, 32 year old Janet Jewell, 25 year old Valerie Shaw-Hartzell, and 24 year old DeRonda Roy, and non fatally assaulted several other women and teenage girls. The victims were mostly strangled to death with their bras and panties. Some of them were forced to withdraw hundreds of dollars from ATMs before they were killed. He also strangled a man, 63 year old Eddie Cash, with an electrical cord while robbing his home. Walker had dozens of previous convictions for burglary, carjacking, drug possession, and carrying concealed weapons. Some of his earliest arrests occurred when he was a teenager.
22. Michael Roberts (~1988-2000, lethal injection): A career burglar, Roberts was condemned for murder of 80 year old Lula Brooks. She was raped and her throat was slit by an intruder in her home. Roberts' death sentence and execution has been contested, as he was convicted on his later recounted testimony alone. He claimed that the investigators tricked him into confessing with the promise of a plea deal that was allegedly withheld from him.
23. Kelly Rogers (1990-2000, lethal injection): Rogers’ girlfriend lured 21 year old Karen Lauffenburger into her apartment with a fake pizza order. They accosted her when she arrived with the delivery. After the couple forced Lauffenburger to hand to over the $40 she earned from the night's pizza deliveries and withdraw $175 from an ATM, Rogers raped and stabbed her to death. The body was left in Lauffenburger’s apartment and was found by her boyfriend.
24. Ronald Boyd (1986-2000, lethal injection): During a robbery spree of several gas stations and supermarkets, Boyd engaged in a shootout with the responding officers. A Master Patrolman, 32 year old Richard Riggs, was killed in the exchange.
25. Charles Foster (~1980s(?)-2000, lethal injection): Foster suspected a grocery store owner, 74 year old Claude Wiley, of making sexual advances at his wife. He arranged for her to entice Wiley to their home with an order. When he arrived with the delivery, Foster stabbed and bludgeoned him to death with a baseball bat. He a history of convictions involving threats and violence, though my sources didn’t disclose any specific details.
26. James Robedeaux (1978-2000, lethal injection): In 1978, Robedeaux strangled his first wife, 30 year old Linda, and plead guilty to a second degree murder charges. He was released after serving 6 out of a 25 year sentence despite an escape attempt. In the following year, he began a relationship with 37 year old Nancy McKinney while he married a different woman. During an argument, Robedeaux beat McKinney to death, dismembered her body with a saw and machete, and scattered the remains across the state. While being investigated for McKinney's murder, he was arrested for choking and beating his estranged second wife. The cases were incidental and kept separate by the courts.
27. Roger Berget (~1985-2000, lethal injection): Berget carjacked and abducted 33 year old Rick Patterson with an accomplice, and shot him dead. He also admitted to the beating death of a roommate, 40 year old James Meadows, on the behalf of the man's wife. As a trivial side note, Berget's brother Rodney was executed in 2018 by the state of South Dakota for killing a prison guard [for more information, please see Rodney Berget's entry under the South Dakota section of my states with less then 10 executions post].
28. William Bryson (1988-2000, lethal injection): To collect a $300,000 life insurance policy, Marilyn Plantz recruited her boyfriend Byrson and his friend to kill her husband, 33 year old James. Byrson and his friend ambushed Plantz in his house as he was coming home from work and beat him to death with a baseball bat. With the intentions of staging an accident, Marilyn ordered the pair to burn the body in the couple's pickup truck.
29. Gregg Braun (1989-2000, lethal injection): Across several states, Braun shot and killed 4 women, 48 year old Geraldine Valdez, 31 year old Gwendolyn Miller, 28 year old Mary Rains, 27 year old Barbara Kochendorfer, and one man, 54 year old Pete Spurrier, while robbing stores.
30. George Wallace (~1970s-2000, lethal injection): Known as "the Mad Paddler" due to his habit of spanking abducted preteen and teenage boys with a wooden paddle, Wallace kidnapped his victims by posing as a police officer. After duping his targets into thinking that they were being arrested, Wallace restrained them with handcuffs and leg chains. The captives were then sexually abused and shot or stabbed to death. His crimes were exposed when an 18 year old man he abducted escaped from him despite being shot and stabbed numerous times. By his own admission, Wallace murdered 18 year old Thomas Reed, 15 year old William Domer, 14 year old Mark McLaughlin, 14 year old Jeffrey Foster, and 12 year old Alonzo Cade.
31. Eddie Trice (1987-2001, lethal injection): Trice snuck into the home of 84 year old Ernestine Jones and raped her. After he beat Jones to death with numbchucks, he terrorized and extorted her cognitively disabled son of $500 with threats of killing him if he told anyone of the murder. The son was also assaulted with a hammer, and he received injuries to his right eye, right cheekbone, and his right forearm.
32. Wanda Allen (~1981-2001, lethal injection): In 1981, Allen got into a fight with her live in girlfriend, 21 year old Dedra Pettus, and shot her dead. Despite giving a bungled story about her being accidentally killed in a shootout with Pettus’ ex boyfriend to the investigators, Allen managed to secure a 4 year sentence for manslaughter after pleading guilty to a plea deal, and was released after serving two years. While incarcerated, she started dating a fellow inmate, 29 year old Gloria Leathers, and continued their relationship outside of prison. The couple’s relationship was marred with extreme domestic violence on Allen’s end. In one incident, Allen struck Leathers with a rake. In 1989, while they were arguing in front of a shopping center, Allen shot and killed Leathers. Leathers herself also had history of violence, and had a conviction for stabbing a woman to death. Allen and her defense team tried to use Leathers’ previous convictions to make a self defense argument, but that was shot down by the courts.
33. Floyd Medlock (1990-2001, lethal injection): 7 year old Katherine Busch went to visit her family's old apartment, which Medlock was residing in, by herself. Busch knocked on the door and Medlock let her inside after she begged for food. He then choked and sexually assaulted the girl, dunked her head in a toilet bowl, and stabbed her to death. The body was hidden in a nearby dumpster. Busch's grandmothers were staunch pro capital punishment and anti death penalty activists respectively, and their public feud over Medlock's sentence and execution attracted some media attention. Medlock also had an extensive criminal history despite being only 19 at the time of Busch's murder, and was previously arrested several times for indecent exposure, arson, armed robbery, and marijuana possession.
34. Dion Smallwood (1992-2001, lethal injection): Smallwood walked into the home of his ex girlfriend's adoptive stepmother, 68 year old Lois Frederick, without invitation. He had a tumultuous and often violent relationship with her adopted stepdaughter that she strongly opposed, and they broke up under her pressure. After an argument, Smallwood knocked Frederick unconscious with a croquet mallet, locked her in a car, and burned her alive in it.
35. Mark Fowler (1985-2001, lethal injection): To get back at his ex employers for firing him, Fowler and his partner, Billy Fox, stormed a supermarket that he used to work out. The pair rounded up 3 employees, Chumpon Chaowasin, a 44 year old Thai immigrant, 33 year old Rick Cast, and 27 year old John Barrier, at gun point. Their hostages were shot, clubbed, and stabbed to death, and they took over $2,7000 in cash and checks.
36. Billy Fox (1985-2001, lethal injection): Fox assisted the above mentioned Mark Fowler in robbing a supermarket and murdering 3 of its employees
37. Loyd Lafevers (1985-2001, lethal injection): Lafevers and his accomplice, Randall Cannon, kidnapped 84 year old Addie Hawley from her home. She was raped, trapped in the trunk of a car, and burned alive in it. Although she was rescued, Hawley died from her injuries 6 hours later. The pair stole Hawley's wedding ring and Lafevers gifted it to a stripper. As Hawley's nephew was a Colorado state senator, her murder gained some attention from media outlets.
38. Dorsie Jones Jr. (1979-2001, lethal injection): While drinking at a bar, a barmaid chastised Jones for carrying an unconcealed gun. He shot at her in a fit of rage, but missed and injured his female companion instead. Jones then turned his attention to the other patrons and fired on them. 48 year old Stanley Buck Sr. was killed in front of his 19 year old son, who was also wounded in the shooting.
39. Robert Clayton (~1980s-2001, lethal injection): Clayton attacked 19 year old Rhonda Timmons while she was sunbathing near her apartment. She was raped, stabbed, kicked in the head, and strangled to death with her swimming suit. Her husband found Timmons' body laying next to their infant daughter, who was left unharmed. Clayton had a previous rape conviction in Tennessee and a robbery conviction in Texas.
40. Ronald Fluke (1997-2001, lethal injection): Out of despair that his gambling addiction drove his family to near poverty, Fluke shot and killed his wife, 44 year old Ginger, and their daughters, 13 year old Kathryn and 11 year old Susanne, while they were sleeping in their bedrooms. He initially attacked Ginger with a hatchet, but turned to shooting when she fought back.
41. Marilyn Plantz (1988-2001, lethal injection): The married girlfriend of William Bryson. As mentioned under Bryson's entry, Plantz arranged for him and his friend to kill her husband James to collect his life insurance policy.
42. Terrance James (1983-2001, lethal injection): While awaiting trial for a theft of government property charge, James and two accomplices strangled a fellow inmate, 25 year old Mark Berry, with wire out of their suspicions of him being a snitch. They then hung the body in an attempt to make it look like a suicide. Berry was another party in the theft of government property case, and James and his accomplices believed that it was his testimony that got them arrested.
43. Vincent Johnson (1991-2001, lethal injection): Johnson gunned down 44 year old Shirley Mooneyham in her home. The prosecution believed that Mooneyham's boyfriend arranged the killing to collect a life insurance policy, but he was acquitted at trial.
44. Jerald Harjo (~1980s-2001, lethal injection): Harjo snuck into the bedroom of 64 year old Ruth Porter, raped her, and suffocated her with a pillowcase. He then snatched Porter's car keys and drove off with her van. His past criminal history was extensive, and was in prison numerous times for burglary and autotheft.
45. Jack Walker (1988-2001, lethal injection): Disgruntled with the custody dispute over their then 3 month old son, Walker stabbed his ex girlfriend, 17 year old Shelly Ellison, and her uncle, 30 year old Donald, 32 and 11 times with an ice pick during a confrontation at their home.
46. Alvie Hale Jr. (1983-2001, lethal injection): Hale kidnapped 24 year old William Perry to extort a $350,000 ransom from his banking family. When the negotiations failed, Perry was shot dead, and Hale buried the body on his father's property.
47. Lois Smith (1982-2001, lethal injection): Smith, her son, and a female accomplice abducted her son's ex girlfriend, 21 year old Cindy Baillee, from an airport out of fear her testifying of his involvement in the drug trade. Baillee was taken to Smith's ex husband's house, and stabbed in the throat by her ex boyfriend while driving to their destination. Inside the home, she was taunted by Smith with a gun, and was shot 7 times in the chest and 2 times in the back of the head. While her son was reloading the gun, Smith jumped on and crushed Bailee's throat.
48. Sahib Lateef Al-Mosawi (1992-2001, lethal injection): Following a dispute over their newborn son's name, Al-Mosawi's estranged wife, 26 year old Inaam Al-Nashi, fled to the apartment of her uncle, 45 year old Mohammed. Al-Mosaw attacked the pair in the apartment and stabbed them to death. Inaam's sister was also stabbed, but she managed to escape with her life. The couple and their families were refugees from Iraq that were displaced by the First Persian Gulf War, and they fled into the United States.
49. John Romano (1985-2002, lethal injection): Romano and his accomplice David Woodruff robbed and murdered two of their acquaintances. One of the victims, 63 year old Lloyd Thompson, was attacked in his apartment. Thompson was held down by the pair while they stabbed him 22 times and served his spinal cord. The other victim, 52 year old Roger Sarfaty, was tied up, beaten, stabbed 5 times, and strangled to death in a jewelry store he owned. In the robberies, Romano and Woodruff stole several pieces of jewelry from Sarfaty, and took most of Thompson’s quarter collection.
50. David Woodruff (1985-2002, lethal injection): As mentioned under John Romano's entry, Woodruff took part in the robbery murders of Lloyd Thompson and Roger Sarfaty.
51. Randall Cannon (1985-2002, lethal injection): Cannon assisted Loyd Lafevers in abducting, sexually assaulting, and burning Addie Hawley alive in her car. Although he was acquitted of molesting Hawley, Cannon was still condemned for his part in the kidnapping and murder.
52. Earl Frederick Sr. (~1989-2002, lethal injection): Frederick beat Bradford Beck, a 41 year old veteran that was crippled during his service in the Vietnam war, to death in his home after befriending him. He ransacked the house and dumped Beck's body in a field. A second murder, the robbery and shooting death of a Texan man, 77 year old Shirley Fox, was also tied to him. However, authorities in Texas withheld from prosecuting Fredrick due to his death penalty trial and conviction in Oklahoma. Both Fox and Beck had physical disabilities, which led prosecutors to the conclusion that Frederick intentionally selected and depredated on disabled men.
53. Jerry McCracken (~1980s(?)-2002, lethal injection): McCracken and his accomplice shot up a bar, killed 3 patrons and the bartender, and made off with $350. The victims that lost their lives were 41 year old Carol McDaniels, 37 year old Timothy Sheets, 34 year old Steven Sheets, and 27 year old Tyrrell Boyd. Months before the mass shooting, McCracken was paroled after serving time for stabbing 3 people in a bar fight.
54. Jay Neill (1984-2002, lethal injection): During a bank robbery, Neill disemboweled and nearly decapitated 3 tellers, 42 year old Kay Bruno, 25 year old Joyce Mullenix, and 19 year old Jerri Bowles. A group of 4 customers, consisting of 33 year old Ralph Zeller, a married couple, and their 14 month old daughter, unwittingly walked in on him, and he herded them into a backroom to be shot. Zeller was killed, the couple were wounded, and Neill left the daughter unharmed due to running out of bullets. Neill's boyfriend was given a life sentence for the robbery and murders, despite not being directly involved.
55. Ernest Carter Jr. (~1989-2002, lethal injection): After being fired from an autoshop, Carter robbed it with an accomplice, and fatally shot a security guard, 35 year old Eugene Manowski. The pair stole the shop's tow truck, and later tried to burn it with Carter's girlfriend to destroy any traces of the crime. Carter was also previously accused of burning a friend to death in the previous year, but the charges were dismissed.
56. Daniel Revilla (1987-2003, lethal injection): While babysitting his girlfriend's son, 13 month old Mark Gomez, in their home, Revilla broke the boy’s ribs in a beating and scalded him with boiling water. When he brought the boy to a hospital, Revilla gave a story that he accidentally hit Gomez’s head with a door handle, which was quickly seen through by the staff. According to the accounts of his girlfriend and her family, Revilla was violently abusive to Gomez, and they recounted incidents of him trapping the boy in a kitchen drawer, dunking him in cold water, folding him into a pull up bed, and hanging him by his ankles with duct tape.
57. Bobby Fields (~1990s-2003, lethal injection): Fields shot and killed 77 year old Louise Schem while burglarizing her home. She had tried to shot him with her .25 calibre pistol, but he wrestled the gun away from her, and gunned her down with it. His intentions was to steal Schem's television set to sell for cocaine, but left empty handed after losing his nerves with the struggle and murder. According to court documents, Fields had a previous robbery and assault conviction, and several arrests for drug possession.
58. Walanzo Robinson (1989-2003, lethal injection): A member of the Gangster Bloods street gang, Robinson shot and killed 26 year old Dennis Hill, an affiliate of a rival gang, in a turf war over drug sales.
59. John Hooker (~1971-2003, lethal injection): As a teenager in 1971, Hooker attended a party at a friend's house, and got into an argument. In a fit of anger, he fatally shot 18 year old Alta Lang, and wounded two other partygoers. Due to the witnesses refusing to cooperate with the investigation and being unable to prove any calculated intentions, Hooker was given a manslaughter conviction, and released a few years later. After he was paroled, Hooker started dating Sylvia Stokes, and fathered several children with her. Their troubled relationship lasted for 8 years, and ended when Stokes filed a protection order against him. In retaliation, Hooker lured Stokes and her mother, 53 year old Durcilla Morgan, into his apartment and stabbed them both to death.
60. Scot Hain (~1980s-2003, lethal injection): Hain carjacked and abducted a couple, 27 year old Michael Houghton and 22 year old Laura Sanders. After taking $565 and some bags of clothing, he forced them into the trunk of their car at gunpoint, and burned them alive in it. He had several previous arrests for robbery, and was involved with a number of rapes and attempted kidnappings months before the Houghton and Sanders' murders.
61. Don Hawkins Jr. (1985-2003, lethal injection): Hawkins kidnapped 29 year old Linda Ann Thompson and her two daughters, aged 4 years old and 18 months old, from a mall. Although his original intentions were to ransom off Thompson and her children, Hawkins gang raped the captive woman with his cousin and his girlfriend's teenage nephew, and drowned her in a lake. Thompson's children were spared and simply left with a babysitter. Hawkins and his accomplice then went on a nation wide rampage with his accomplice that involved the abductions and rapes of several grown women and teenage girls, hanging 31 year old David Coupez of Colorado in his home while robbing him, and countless other robberies.
62. Larry Jackson (~1984-2003, lethal injection): In 1984, Jackson shot and killed his girlfriend, 19 year old Freda Washington. He accepted a plea deal that dumbed down the charges to second degree murder, and was given a 30 year sentence for it. During his incarceration, Jackson started a relationship with 29 year old Wendy Cade. Despite her promises of marriage after his release, Cade left him for another man, and they got engaged. When Jackson was assigned to a prison work crew, he snuck out and went to confront Cade. Reportedly, the two had bought alchool, cocaine, and cigerates together and had sex in Cade's apartment. However, they got into an argument, and he slashed Cade's throat and stabbed her 31 times with box cutters. Jackson then left with her jewelry, watch, and the keys to her jeep.
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2024.05.13 16:08 julianduqueg Help with the YouTube app for Apple TV

Has anyone else had these issues?
  1. When I go from the home page to the side menu, the cursor gets stuck on the home section and doesn't let me go up to search unless I close the app and reopen it.
  2. When I search with voice on the search tab, the app takes my input and searches for the right thing, but the moment I move down from the search field, the search disappears and I can't click on the video.
  3. There is NO setting to get rid of the new, awful screensaver that was added a couple of weeks ago.
I have an Apple TV 4K (2nd generation).
Please help!
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2024.05.12 12:41 ReflectionAbject6633 Hitting at rock bottom ; waiting for life to rescue.

Greetings, fellow readers! Welcome to my blog. I’m Isha Sharma. First of all, grab a cup of tea. Today I’m going to tell you all about myself while you all can enjoy the tea.
My name is Isha Sharma, and I’m a passionate reader just like you. I recently discovered my love for reading, right after dropping out of college. Yes, now you all know I’m a dropout. I was pursuing my BA Hons. in Economics from UPES, Dehradun. Dream City, right? I know, but what went wrong?
When I graduated from high school, I just wanted to get out of my city, Jaipur, or Pink City, as we say. The intent was to get my higher education at DU, but I didn't meet the expected criteria. Then a friend of mine suggested UPES. After researching the college, I found it to be a cool and nice place to study, and also far away from home, which was a win-win situation for me.
Studying in Dehradun turned out to be one of my worst decisions. Like Ryan Reynolds says, “When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment." There, I was doing everything except studying. Partying till late, skipping classes, smoking marijuana and losing touch with my core personality. And not to forget my increased levels of intoxications. Those group sittings and puffing which many of you can relate. The peer group you find at college plays important role in your life ahead. Today, one in every 5 youth are influenced with weeds or something… I became one of them officially. Well,finally after wasting a year and a half, I came to my senses and decided to drop out.
I went back to my sweet birthplace, Jaipur. Another bomb came right up; my breakup happened that very same year, right after leaving university. That breakup left me feeling lost, shattered, and unsure of what lay ahead. So, what did I do after dropping out? What happened after the breakup? These things must be running through your mind, right?
Well, obviously, like every mindful person, I also made a road map. After dropping out of university, I wanted to start my own venture. I made the right plan in which field I wanted to go and what business I wanted to do, did the research, and everything was in its place except the most important thing, ‘FUNDING’. I had zero capital. I could not ask anyone to fund my venture.
Then I thought maybe I should wait and save some money first. I did my very first job as a sales executive for the U.S. process. They paid me fair money. The plan was to save some funds and then invest them in my venture. Disappointment hit, and money was never saved. I quit the job and did nothing after that; I was just postponing everything.
Life has a way of surprising us with unexpected twists and turns. I was going through a phase where nothing was working out; I dropped out of university, a breakup happened, and I was not focused enough to even start my dream venture. It was like standing in a dark tunnel with no light. I was hurting and gave up hope for everything.
Then 2023 ended, and I wished everyone a Happy New Year. While the thought was running through my head, What’s so Happy and New about this year? You could describe that feeling as a feeling of stagnation, where I perceived that this year would be a repetition of the experiences and outcomes of the previous year. But a long time ago, my sister made this quote for my phone wallpaper: “Right things happen when you least expect them."
2024 had a huge impact on me; it changed me completely. I did things I never thought I would do and stopped the ones which i thought i couldn’t. Like writing this blog or writing for the fact. Some people might be less expressive and less talkative. I was one of them; I would not let anyone know what was running through my head. For the first time, I wanted to talk and express whatever I was feeling. I wanted to say it all out loud. Sometimes, it's essential to let it all out and express ourselves. I think this way, we can experience the weight of our emotions and make room in our hearts for something new.
I am so glad to have such supportive people around me—my sisters and my buddies. During my dark phase, they were there, reminding me of my strength. Whether it was a late-night chat with my sisters filled with encouragement or an outing with my friends to eat my favorite comfort food, their gestures of compassion never failed to bring a smile to my face. They have been my constant supporters and good listeners.
Have you ever experienced a moment where you found hope again? Well, I was experiencing that moment where hope was finding its way back into my life. It's truly a beautiful feeling, isn't it? I started prioritizing myself. I enrolled in activities that bring peace and happiness, like cooking. I have always loved cooking, more specifically baking, I love to bake desserts; it calms my mind. Correspondingly, I enrolled myself in other activities as well, like yoga, meditation, and Hinge (a dating app). I know it was not my idea initially; we all know how friends are, but I am very glad to join Hinge. I met this very cute and like-minded guy. He has been the sweetest, most patient, and most compassionate man to me when I've needed him lately. His support has not only helped me through difficulties but has also inspired personal growth. It's a testament to the fact that even in the most unexpected places, we can find the support and love we need to navigate life's challenges. Ending of 2023 also ended a phase which was changing me for the worst. The decision to quit marijuana hit as instant as 1 January after 31 December. It’s been 5 months in 2024 and this Isha is clean as glass. This was one of the best feeling which made me pat my back, for myself !!
Through the healing process, I embarked on a journey of self-discovery. I reconnected with forgotten passions, explored new hobbies, and nurtured relationships that brought me joy. The breakup and failures became a catalyst for personal growth, pushing me to redefine myself and embrace the person I was becoming.
While I was healing and learning new things, an opportunity came knocking on my door: social media and digital marketing. Not coming from this background, I had no knowledge about it, but I was very curious to learn and couldn't wait to try my hands on it. I was feeling like a hungry wolf. There is this saying, “A wolf climbing on the hill is hungrier than the wolf on the hill." I just had this one thing running through my mind constantly. I want to make it. I want to chase this feeling of a hungry wolf.
I got my certification in social media marketing from HubSpot Academy. The HubSpot Social Media Marketing Certification is a complete course that includes video lectures and quizzes after each video lecture. They cover everything from how to do social media marketing to why a business needs social media marketing and understanding the dynamics of social media ads. It is a complete package course. It’s better to take baby steps and master that one specific area rather than try to do it all at once and fool yourself by doing nothing at all. Like Dan Millman says, “A little bit of something is better than nothing.” I’m trying my best to be my best potential version, rather than being pushed down and feeling like a loser.
My mantra for 2024 is ‘Striving high and performing on it.’ That’s my anecdote. Now you all know me well enough, I guess. Through my blog, I hope to create a society where we can relate to and learn from each other.
In wrapping up my self-introduction blog, let’s embark on this journey together, I invite you to share your own experiences and reflections in the comments below. Whether you've faced similar challenges or found inspiration in unexpected places, your voice adds richness to our community.
Let's connect, learn, and grow together. Together, we can transform this space into a vibrant hub of positivity and mutual support.
Cheers to new beginnings and shared adventures!
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2024.05.11 14:48 Affectionate-Boot343 How much LSD did John Lennon take?

I read the book written @ 1982-83 by John Lennon's best (childhood through adulthood) friend & fellow member of The Quarryman, Pete Shotton. I forget the name of this book but it was one of the most fun, loving books written about John Lennon I had ever read. By 1967-1968-ish, John had hired Pete to be his "P.A." (personal assistant). When Pete asked John what a "P.A." was, John said "piss artist." Well, anyway, the book seemed to be honest although clearly amatory portrayal of John & Pete's friendship from 1955-1968.
Anyway, Pete Shotton apparently lived with John and did the day-to-day errands & shopping that John was unable to do due to his fame. Again, this would've been 1966-1967ish. Pete said he and John took acid every day. Now, my personal experience & opinion of psychedelics, daily LSD is impossible. I wouldn't be able to handle it, but I never had highest-quality stuff. & I'm assuming John Lennon had the connections to get the best (i.e. strongest, purist) LSD available.
Pete Shotton said John would wake up in the morning and get a tray in bed with his tea, perhaps a small breakfast and a tab of acid. John literally dropped acid before getting out of bed in the morning (probably the best time to do it, if you're rich and have nothing else to do that day).
John himself claimed... in I think the famous 1970 Rolling Stone interview... that he took LSD 1000 times. Perhaps that's a bit over-estimated but the way Pete Shotton described it, I am guessing John tripped on LSD 200-300 times starting with his first experience (Los Angeles 1965 in L.A. on the Beatles US tour) up until probably the late summer of 1967.
Note that LSD had a negative impact on John's songwriting. Perhaps not the quality of songs ("Tomorrow Never Knows" & "I Am The Walrus" are pure psychedelic masterpieces) but the quantity. Lennon himself said he wasn't really involved in the making of Sgt. Pepper. During this period, what did John compose? Perhaps a handful of songs: Strawberry Fields, Lucy In The Sky, Mr. Kite, Baby, You're A Rich Man, Hey Bulldog. And most of these were unfinished ideas that Paul helped finish & George Martin/Geoff Emerick embellished using instrumentation & studio tricks.
They say abuse (overuse) of LSD can result in the breakdown of one's ego and assertiveness. If John had taken 100+ trips between August 1965-November 1966, this seems true. The transition of John as the alpha leader of The Beatles to Paul McCartney is obvious. I think John had great difficulty with his songwriting due to the effects of LSD. Strawberry Fields, Rich Man, Day In The Life --- all of these were incomplete ideas for which either the other Beatles or the EMI engineers (like Geoff Emerick who truly was the 5th Beatle) helped make into the masterpieces we know & love.
I do believe John was acutely aware of the negative impact LSD had on his songwriting output, especially after eschewing drugs while studying T.M. in India. That period of sobriety & relaxation (the only such period John Lennon's adult life) resulted in an explosion of creativity which is evident during The White Album sessions.
I also believe his hooking-up with Yoko Ono in Spring 1968 helped bolster John's confidence, again evident during The White Album sessions. I don't believe John used LSD as often (or enthusiastically) as he did pre-Yoko. I absolutely do believe Yoko introduced and transitioned John from psychedelics to heroin. Their heroin use was probably manageable during the White Album sessions due to John's wealth & Yoko's connections. And I suspect John fell in love with the drug, encouraging his fellow Beatles to try it. But by the fall of 1968, once his involvement in The White Album sessions ceased, John & Yoko were hanging out with a different crowd (seeing less-and-less of Paul, George & Ringo socially) and they became full-blown, needle-using junkies.
I suspect, during the making of Peter Jackson's 7-hour "The Beatles Get Back" documentary, there was intense creative conflict on how to portray J&Y's use of heroin. J&Y are junked-up nearly every day. Snorting junk is creeping into John's songwriting (Mean Mr. Mustard's ten-pound note was up his nose for a reason). During the scenes where Paul and Ringo are sitting around, waiting for John to arrive... and Paul is looking despondent... it's not because of The Beatles were breaking-up. I think Paul was genuinely concerned about John's addiction to smack. Paul knew John just didn't try a new intoxicant; he went all-in for any new substance that came his way. Paul knew John was severely hooked during the Get Back sessions and tried using the lure of Beatle fame and success to get John off smack and back into the uniquely positive relationship as a member of The Beatles. It didn't work. Heroin addiction is too powerful I think Paul pushed a little too hard, causing George to quit (albeit temporarily) and John to become adamant about Yoko being his primary life (and professional) partner.
On July 1, 1969, John (with Yoko, Julian & Kyoko) had a serious auto accident in Scotland. John and Yoko were hospitalized for a week, receiving significant stitches in their faces. Yoko allegedly injured her back but this may've been a ruse to obtain opioid pain medication. Remember, they're addicts by now. I think the accident scared John back into gaining control of their heroin use. And although no direct evidence exists, I find it impossible that, for all the money and connections John had, they weren't having overdose experiences. I bet they were. I bet by the time The Beatles reconvened for the Abbey Road sessions, John was so scared of Yoko ODing that he himself has stopped using and is monitoring Yoko's (failed) detox attempts so closely, he gets a bed moved into the studio during the making of Abbey Road. By late summer 1969, John's writing songs about quit using junk ("Cold Turkey"). Knowing John, I really think he was using his songwriting to promote quitting smack like he did for peace ("Give Peace A Chance").
One has to wonder if Yoko's multiple miscarriages during this period aren't a result of her heroin use.
J&Y's participation in psychotherapy (Arthur Janov/Primal Scream) may have been another of John's attempt to get them to stop using heroin. John tended to embrace any new radical or weird idea to improve or enhance his psyche. This is evident in his use of alcohol as a teenager, his close friendship with Stu Sutcliffe which really didn't make any sense, excess of booze & uppers in Hamburg, his close (and probably briefly sexual) friendship with Brian Epstein in 1963, lots of smoking marijuana during "Help,!" lots of LSD, his fascination with and financial support of Magic Alex, new means of creativity with Yoko Ono, his initial relief from using heroin. He even considered and discussed trepanning with Paul.
By 1972, I believe John was making great efforts to stay off heroin. They allegedly drove their green Chrysler station wagon from NY to San Francisco to try acupuncture. Why? I suspect to get Yoko to stop using junk.
The official story of John's "Lost Weekend" was crap. I think John transitioned off smack to booze & cocaine while Yoko remained a junkie. Drugs played such a huge role in their relationship, this had to have cause a rift between J&Y. John goes to L.A. with May Pang and has the most fun of his adult life he's ever had. Meanwhile, Yoko observes this from a distance, freaks out (especially when she sees the cover of his "Mind Games" LP) and probably sought professional treatment and got on methadone. I think Yoko started portraying herself as happy & sober as a ruse to get John to return to her. Her sobriety (or control of her heroin use) resulted in their reconciliation and successful pregnancy with Sean Lennon. I don't think either of them ever completely quit heroin. Fred Seeman, in his book, provides evidence of Yoko's heroin use in the late 70s (but he had an axe to grind) as well as his (& John's) use of marijuana and mushrooms. I also read where John began using smack again in the late 70s but stopped.
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2024.05.10 14:02 markoj22 Cannabis Controls Patients' Pain While Improving Gastrointestinal And Pulmonary Function, Anesthesiologist Discusses Alternative To Opioids

Do you know what killed 106,000 people in the United States in just one year?
In 2021, that many people died from drug-involved overdoses including illegal drugs and prescription opioids (over 75%), according to data from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The worst part about these statistics is the fact that the number of overdose deaths in 2021 was over six times the number in 1999. In just one year alone, from 2020 to 2021 the number of drug overdose deaths increased by more than 16%.
How did this happen? What led to such a serious crisis in the United States? Are there any alternatives to opioid pain medicine that can help curb these devastating rates?
While the answer to the first question is complex with various experts in the field agreeing that a multi-system failure of regulation, including over-prescribing, big pharma power and politics played an important part, the answer to the second one might be a bit simpler. Over the past several years, there have been studies showing medical marijuana's potential in various pain treatments, while also revealing it can help curb opioid use.
For example, the largest-ever Canadian-supported study published in January viewed 90 randomized controlled trials involving 22,028 participants. The research concluded that marijuana provided similar pain relief benefits as opioids but without negative consequences.
Benzinga wanted to learn more about cannabis as an alternative to opioids and other medical marijuana benefits, so we reached out to Robin Fowler M.D., a board-certified anesthesiologist with a fellowship in pain management from Emory University in Atlanta. Fowler is also a founder of Botanical Sciences, a physicianowned medical marijuana dispensary where a team of physicians prescribe cannabis over traditional opioids for pain management.
"After treating pain patients in an outpatient surgery setting for 10 years, I was ready to explore new ways to help my patients," Fowler told Benzinga. "The Georgia Cannabis Program gave me the opportunity to do just that, allowing me to treat patients' chronic pain with THC. From there, Botanical Sciences was born and we're now producing medical cannabis at our 130,000 square foot manufacturing facility in South Georgia."
What sets apart Botanical Sciences from other dispensaries is that it’s Georgia's first physician-owned medical marijuana provider that is vertically integrated from seed to sale, he explained.
"We cultivate, process, distribute, and dispense all from our facility in Glennville, Georgia. We take the most scientific healthcare approach using evidence-based formulations in our products that are most beneficial to the patients."
Fowler's first experience with medical marijuana was during his shoulder reconstruction surgery, when as a physician becoming a patient he was able to appreciate an alternative to opioids even more. His first educational experience was at a pain fellowship in 2005 where the "learning curve took off once the medical program became closer to fruition in Georgia," Fowler recalled.
"The properties of medical cannabis for medical implications are in the early stages of being utilized as a therapeutic modality. We are fortunate to have a Schedule A license with a patient pool of 20,000 to further our current studies. Throughout the last fifteen years of practice, I wish it was an available option as I consider any reduction in opioid use a success."

20-40% Reduction In Opioid Use

How helpful is cannabis in reducing opioid use?
"Overall, medical cannabis use supports a 30-40% reduction in opioid consumption," says Fowler. "Not only does it control patients’ pain but it is also beneficial for gastrointestinal and pulmonary function."
Fowler is also working on opioid reduction investigations and ways to determine the origin of a patient’s pain.
"The electronic medical record kept on pain patients since 2007 gives us a great data pool to do analysis. With over 20,000 patients, we're able to cross reference medical cannabis impact on Morphine Milligram Equivalents (MME). Additionally, other significant areas useful for patients and clinicians include all-risk surgeries performed, back pain, medical cannabis and implants. These areas have been vastly under-studied and I hope we can provide some valuable information."
Aside from pain management, what else can medical marijuana potentially treat?
In the state of Georgia, there are 17 health conditions that can qualify a patient for medical marijuana treatment. Among these are cancer, neuromuscular diseases, Sickle cell disease, autism spectrum disorder, AIDS, PTSD, and more. Fowler adds that, "there is a growing need for medical cannabis to be used to treat insomnia, some gastrointestinal diseases, and other debilitating conditions."
See Also: Most Important Medical Potential Of Marijuana? Cannabis For Pain Relief Says Biotech CEO

A Thin Line

While the marijuana industry is often broken into two markets – medical and recreational, some experts believe that the line is thinner than it may seem at first glance. This is because the majority of recreational users are actually consuming it to deal with various conditions whether extreme or mild. Fowler agrees that the line is very thin, explaining that many people nowadays self-diagnose with the help of the internet.
"That being said, when somebody has a condition such as pain or anxiety, they can treat that with over-the-counter products and that creates a very parallel situation with cannabis, specifically THC. Then as diagnoses become more complex, such as neurological and psychiatric disorders, I believe medical professionals are best utilized to guide patients. This requires education and experience with medical professionals which are improving each day."
While Fowler doesn't see cannabis becoming its own boarded-specialty, like internal medicine, he thinks requiring certifications and expert knowledge would be likely. He says he’d be delighted to see more education on shared research and clinical experience.
"I think there needs to be more emphasis on generating awareness and educating the public on the benefits of cannabis in treating disease and other debilitating conditions," Fowler concluded.
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2024.05.09 20:28 ttwmdennis Need prayer...trying to sort things out

I am a fraud.
I hate my life, I feel trapped in it and suffocating, but my faith keeps me from self harm.
I am a counselor by profession. (Corrections and Substance Abuse) I am pretty good at it because after a life of hurt and trauma I have figured out a pretty good set of tools to effectively help others. Those same tools are seemingly useless to me. I hate my marriage. I asked my wife for a divorce in 2020 but she refused to give it to me and insisted we "work on it". She is critical and judgmental and talks to me like garbage. Early in 2022, we took what we thought was temporary custody of my older brothers three young children. (He and his wife are pieces of shit who are now in jail where they belong until 2028. They let their oldest son with Cerebral Palsy die of sepsis and starvation in the home in front of these children) In Feb of 2023 we were awarded full custody. Now, there is NO time to work on the marriage and our communication is worse than ever. I of course keep praying but I can't see a solution. Divorce is not an option now because it would launch these kids right into the system I meant to rescue them from. In November of 2021, I cashed out and took an early retirement (I'm currently 53 yrs old) from my field purely because the system is corrupt and I felt I could be a more effective helper as a minister. I managed to get two books published, start a podcast, and start my own LLC. All the resources we had evaporated when we got these kids. My certifications subsequently expired and I no longer have the time or resources to renew. With court dates and therapy appointments I have not been able to return to work until recently. This basically means a dreaded return to entry level warehouse work. But I can't find hours that fit the rigorous schedule of keeping three young children where they need to be when they need to be there. I started Medical Marijuana (Ohio) back in 2020. The results were amazing! I lost weight. My arthritis and neuropathy no longer troubled me. I got HEALTHY. I had no stress or anxiety. I stopped its use three weeks ago on April 20th. It wasn't for any conviction I felt but purely because I cannot find meaningful employment with it in my system. I also felt like, "Why shouldn't I be able to trust Christ to do these same things for me? Many people in my gravity look to me for prayer, support, and guidance. I simply have nobody in my gravity to turn to. I'm wandering around lost in the world now and trying to find my place. The rest of my family (Mother, older brother, younger sister, subsequent mates) have disowned me due to drama from us taking custody of these kids. (Things got really ugly) This basically leaves me feeling alone in the world and denied the comfort of "going home" to get grounded. I'm sad in my heart and looking to the hills for a savior to show up in some meaningful way. But meanwhile I'm just shuffling through my life stuck on autopilot. I appreciate your prayers. Really.
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