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Tranquility
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A gander is going to goose me?
Tranquility
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Seeking volunteers to drive stoned. (Just volunteers to DRIVE stoned. You have to do the "stoned" part yourself.)
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/ne...driving-study-volunteers-get-paid-to-get-high
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/ne...driving-study-volunteers-get-paid-to-get-high
DENVER -- Every day he gets behind the wheel, Tyler Prock has been using cannabis.
"Well, I've used it almost every day for the past seven years," said Prock, who said he would never drive while impaired. "I feel like I'm a safe driver. I had one ticket in the past ten years ago and I've never had an accident."
A medical marijuana patient, Prock said Colorado's THC limits aren't fair and don't work to keep our roads safe, especially with people like him who have built up a tolerance.
"It's not fair for the medicinal patients. Because cannabis stays in your system for about 30 days and if you use marijuana every day, the amount in your body is going to compound," he said. "You might not have used cannabis that day, but there is still cannabis in your system, so that could cause you to be positive on a test where you weren't inebriated at all."
Now, in a brick house in Aurora, that argument is being put to a scientific test.
"The goal is to better understand impaired driving so that we can prevent impaired driving," said Ashley Brooks-Russell, an assistant professor at the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
She is co-directing a study to find out how marijuana affects people who use it every day, people who use it once or twice a week and people who don't use it at all.
"We know that certain drugs really deteriorate people's performance behind the wheel. Alcohol is the classic example for that," said Micahel Kosnett, an Associate Clinical Professor and Medical Toxicologist who is co-directing the study. "Our understanding of how cannabis affects driving is less well developed."
Participants test their driving before and after cannabis use and then do other tests looking at eye movement in virtual reality goggles and hand-eye coordination and decision-making on an iPad.
The goal is to find out whether these tools could enhance field sobriety tests for police and for employers.
"So, this is one more tool they could bring to the roadside to understand impairment," said Brooks-Russell.
Prock said he would put his driving up against anyone on prescription drugs or drinking alcohol, and said not only is it safe to drive after smoking, he feels safer.
"Because back pain is tough, and it can be as distracting as anything else," Prock said.
Researchers with the Colorado School of Public Health are recruiting volunteers, including daily and weekly cannabis smokers/vapers and non-users (control subjects), and they are compensating participants who complete the study.
Participants must bring their own marijuana and none is kept on the site.
For a survey to see if you qualify for the study, click here.
"Well, I've used it almost every day for the past seven years," said Prock, who said he would never drive while impaired. "I feel like I'm a safe driver. I had one ticket in the past ten years ago and I've never had an accident."
A medical marijuana patient, Prock said Colorado's THC limits aren't fair and don't work to keep our roads safe, especially with people like him who have built up a tolerance.
"It's not fair for the medicinal patients. Because cannabis stays in your system for about 30 days and if you use marijuana every day, the amount in your body is going to compound," he said. "You might not have used cannabis that day, but there is still cannabis in your system, so that could cause you to be positive on a test where you weren't inebriated at all."
Now, in a brick house in Aurora, that argument is being put to a scientific test.
"The goal is to better understand impaired driving so that we can prevent impaired driving," said Ashley Brooks-Russell, an assistant professor at the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
She is co-directing a study to find out how marijuana affects people who use it every day, people who use it once or twice a week and people who don't use it at all.
"We know that certain drugs really deteriorate people's performance behind the wheel. Alcohol is the classic example for that," said Micahel Kosnett, an Associate Clinical Professor and Medical Toxicologist who is co-directing the study. "Our understanding of how cannabis affects driving is less well developed."
Participants test their driving before and after cannabis use and then do other tests looking at eye movement in virtual reality goggles and hand-eye coordination and decision-making on an iPad.
The goal is to find out whether these tools could enhance field sobriety tests for police and for employers.
"So, this is one more tool they could bring to the roadside to understand impairment," said Brooks-Russell.
Prock said he would put his driving up against anyone on prescription drugs or drinking alcohol, and said not only is it safe to drive after smoking, he feels safer.
"Because back pain is tough, and it can be as distracting as anything else," Prock said.
Researchers with the Colorado School of Public Health are recruiting volunteers, including daily and weekly cannabis smokers/vapers and non-users (control subjects), and they are compensating participants who complete the study.
Participants must bring their own marijuana and none is kept on the site.
For a survey to see if you qualify for the study, click here.
Trump Budget Proposes Loosening DC Marijuana Legalization Restrictions
A budget request released by the White House on Monday proposes scaling back restrictive language that has prevented the city of Washington, D.C. from spending its own money to legalize and regulate the sale of recreational marijuana.
A budget request released by the White House on Monday proposes scaling back restrictive language that has prevented the city of Washington, D.C. from spending its own money to legalize and regulate the sale of recreational marijuana.
ClearBlueLou
unbearably light in the being....
The proposed “budget” is a horror overall...I mean, cool for DC on that one front, perhaps, but....
Tranquility
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Since the only "plan" anyone in DC uses for spending are omnibus hogfests of dissipated responsibility, who cares how horrible it is? It will get tossed in the bucket and congresscritters will argue until there is some limit (like a debt limit or sunset clause on previous spending) reached where a deal need be made or government will shut down. The cigar smoking lobbyists then get in the back room and give away goodies to their sponsors until they get the 1/2 plus one of the votes they need and then said hogfest is presented to the president as a fait acompli he simply HAS to sign or WE ALL WILL DIE!
C No Ego
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all because of plants ... it is plants Fault !
ClearBlueLou
unbearably light in the being....
What’s the Foria thing about?
ClearBlueLou
unbearably light in the being....
Thanks, got it...
I'm Doomed
People who smoke high-intensity pot every day more likely to develop psychosis: study
The study published Tuesday in The Lancet Psychiatry medical journal found that daily marijuana users are three times more likely than those who don't use marijuana to develop psychosis. Those who use high-potency marijuana are almost five times more likely to develop psychosis compared to nonusers, according to the study.
The study's authors defined high-potency cannabis as marijuana with more than 10 percent tetrahydrocannabinol, the chemical responsible for marijuana's psychoactive effects.
People who smoke high-intensity pot every day more likely to develop psychosis: study
The study published Tuesday in The Lancet Psychiatry medical journal found that daily marijuana users are three times more likely than those who don't use marijuana to develop psychosis. Those who use high-potency marijuana are almost five times more likely to develop psychosis compared to nonusers, according to the study.
The study's authors defined high-potency cannabis as marijuana with more than 10 percent tetrahydrocannabinol, the chemical responsible for marijuana's psychoactive effects.
Ramahs
Fucking Combustion (mostly) Since February 2017
Tranquility
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Well played, sir.
“There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed.
"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.”
"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed.
"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.”
It's amazing I can remember a book I read in a high school class (Heller's Catch 22) 50 years ago, yet cannot remember why I just entered a room.
The book is about the insanity of war, and my teacher had been in one the many wars or "police actions": I can't recall which. He talked of a mission he went on to deliver a tanker truck of fuel. It was perilous journey. When they got there, the need disappeared somehow or they were in the wrong location, and they were instructed to dump the fuel and return. SNAFU.
The book is about the insanity of war, and my teacher had been in one the many wars or "police actions": I can't recall which. He talked of a mission he went on to deliver a tanker truck of fuel. It was perilous journey. When they got there, the need disappeared somehow or they were in the wrong location, and they were instructed to dump the fuel and return. SNAFU.
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grampa_herb
Epstein didn't kill himself
Funniest book I ever read. Also really liked his next novel, Something Happened, which takes place in a suburban setting. The anti-hero has a habit of mimicking people. One day on the way home he visits a Puerto Rican prostitute and comes home speaking with an accent to his wife.
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Support for US Cannabis Legalization Reaches New High, Poll Finds
https://www.leafly.com/news/politic...abis-legalization-reaches-new-high-poll-finds
A growing majority of Americans say marijuana should be legal, underscoring a national shift as more states embrace cannabis for medical or adult use.
Support for legal marijuana hit 61 percent in 2018, up from 57 percent two years ago, according to the General Social Survey, a widely respected trend survey that has been measuring support for legal marijuana since the 1970s
https://www.leafly.com/news/politic...abis-legalization-reaches-new-high-poll-finds
A growing majority of Americans say marijuana should be legal, underscoring a national shift as more states embrace cannabis for medical or adult use.
Support for legal marijuana hit 61 percent in 2018, up from 57 percent two years ago, according to the General Social Survey, a widely respected trend survey that has been measuring support for legal marijuana since the 1970s
Portland’s $6 Eighth-Ounces Are the Future of Cannabis
You might not feel it yet, but the price of cannabis is crashing nationwide.
To see your future, just fly to Portland, OR, then take a Lyft to Floyd’s Fine Cannabis on NE Broadway St., and lay down $6 cash on the scratched glass display counter.
You’ll walk away with an eighth-ounce of Purple Punch in a little, black, plastic, child-resistant prescription pill bottle. It’ll feel like someone made a decimal error, and you won’t be able to contain your glee.
You might not feel it yet, but the price of cannabis is crashing nationwide.
To see your future, just fly to Portland, OR, then take a Lyft to Floyd’s Fine Cannabis on NE Broadway St., and lay down $6 cash on the scratched glass display counter.
You’ll walk away with an eighth-ounce of Purple Punch in a little, black, plastic, child-resistant prescription pill bottle. It’ll feel like someone made a decimal error, and you won’t be able to contain your glee.