Sometimes it’s new information. Sometimes it’s helpful, hopeful news. And sometimes it’s clickbait, bad information or useless.
Turns out that cannabis is not really just the harmless fun toy that people assumed. Not now that products are waaay higher in THC content, and more and more people are eating and vaping and sucking on them, instead of simply puffing on a good ol’ college-style doobie.
I couldn’t find any evidence of consequences suffered by the pot peddlers, so can only assume there weren’t many. And it does look as if they’re still making the same products in the same packages.
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Same applies to tobacco smoking. It’ll be difficult to think of something that isn’t safer.
Gun play, perhaps.
Will the illicit black market finally disappear, to be replaced by a happy, productive, extremely profitable vision of Big Pot?
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I’d hate to think that one of the “benefits” from preserving those investigations was a chance for glory, free publicity and career advancement for the investigators.
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…even today, smoking is credited with contributing to more than 480,000 deaths in the US every year. By comparison, alcohol is given credit for 178,000 fatalities. And all illicit drugs combined, 70,000.
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This might be a good opportunity for a closer look at exactly how wealthy and established the industry has become
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It turns out that the funds in question had previously been delayed, for months… now to be released late.
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…a drug that kills nearly 500 Americans every day, and causes more deaths in a typical year than every infectious disease combined. It is manufactured abroad and domestically, then sold by powerful multinational organizations with a vast network of distributors
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At the same time, people do keep overdosing and dying, apparently in record numbers.
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As it turns out, the alcohol industry— the people who make and distribute and sell alcoholic beverages to the public— strongly objected.
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…somewhere in the neighborhood of 2500 EVALI cases to date, 50 of which resulted in fatalities.
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…a chatbot doesn’t actually feel anything for the user. It’s simply doing what it was programmed to do. Principally, that’s serving as a perfect mirror.
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