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An vague warning from CNN

I heard of it more on reddit than anywhere else, in younger people who seem to afford the best paraphernalia/devices and spend more money at dispensaries than my annual income.
 
Puglover1 I used to shoot lead and snort asbestos dust. I ate homemade Halloween cookies and confections that I didn't let my parents check. My brother and I played with an x-ray machine we found, after a hurricane flood in Kenner, LA. I've stared into multiple lasers. Bought white lightning from a seedy looking hillbilly fellow, crossing south at the San Ysidro border, and got motorboated on the same trip. I grow and aerosolize black mold. I only drink ocean water or Flint, MI water, if I'm midwesterning it. Food and medicine expiration dates mean nothing to me. I make eye contact with and say, 'Hi!' to crazies, smack heads, crack heads, heads, tweekers, alcoholics, and other local homeless.

And I'm fine.
 
Ya, I remember buying test kits to test the donkey sweat laden ditch weed to see if it was "contaminated".
 
I make eye contact and speak to anyone regardless of their appearance. When I was at the dr's office yesterday a man walked in from the 90+ degrees + humidity, he was 2 hours early for his appt and said he'd have to sit and wait. When I was checking out he got called in. I sat in my car for a while, didn't think he had a ride and it's on the outskirts of the town. I wanted to offer him a ride but I didn't know how long he would be, I had to hit the pharmacy before they closed. I've passed cars going 65 mph on a two-lane 'humped middle' river bridge. I drove 140+ mph in my Z car on a two-lane back road. I make my own call on expiration dates. In my mind I thought that I would never get cancer - I have enough diagnoses already - but my renal mass was found incidentally on a CT scan for pancreatitis. Mind over matter, positive thinking didn't work. However, they have discovered a molecule in those stomach meds that is a carcinogen, I took them for decades. Science and data, or there wouldn't be a lawsuit. It's not one of those "they said it was organic but one ingredient isn't" lawsuits. I do see way more class actions in Cali though. Stupid, petty stuff. I don't consider cancer stupid nor petty, but that's just me. I'm not fine. I've been in 12 MVAs and have avoided more than that: as a pedestrian, passenger or driver, never at fault, most of the time the other guy was uninsured or I would Own a Dispensary. Pfft, the last one was an uninsured special ed teacher in my town, every year when I pay my property taxes it brings me no joy to know I'm paying part of his salary and benefits. And here I am, living on a puny SSD benefit because the accidents caused an early end to my work career. Trying to pay bills, keep up my only real asset, my home, trying to grow medicine with a disabled R hand and an un-diagnosable L forearm injury, needing advice but I guess I'll just F it up on my own.
 
Puglover1 I didn't mean to downplay anything. Everything I said was poking fun at all the lawsuit industry commercials I see on TV, except poking fun at my neighbors who poke fun at me for saying, 'Hi!' to folks.
I will never tell anyone I know what they're going through or how they feel because I can't. But I can feel empathy or apathy for sharing an experience.
 
My 2 cents and YMMV but I think big pharma and some of the powers that be are running scared that federal legalization is coming and I think we will see more and more of these stories even though some of them are old. I’m sure that some people have adverse reactions to cannabis because some people are more sensitive than others but I still think this is part of a plan to turn public support away from legalization.
 
Maybe big pharma has already invested in the cannabis industry? Make up for the huge settlements over pain meds (which I disagree with). Some people don't tolerate it or have diseases that it affects adversely. When my state went legal medical it was a two-year 'experiment'. Anyone with intelligence knew that they wouldn't have companies building cultivation centers and dispensary businesses for a two-year gig.
 
Puglover1 Maybe true that big pharma is already in or trying to get into cannabis but if you read printed news, they don’t do many stories like that on broadcast news, I see more of these types of stories lately than before. It’s hard to say where everyone is positioning on this business. I think there’s still lots of business and money to be lost if fed legalization happens and that could be tied to all these types of stories.
 
Pharma can't make cannabis products any cleaner than they already are. They can't extract more or different terpenes than are already being extracted. Like alcohol.
Were pharma to get involved with weed, they would advertise 'Take our pills or smoke our shit.'
 
Maybe it's the booze companies that are worried? I'm so fed up with broadcast news, and I used to hold a Press pass. Or maybe it's the private prisons afraid of losing inmates. Or the prison phone companies who charge $20/minute. I am a long-time chronic pain patient. I'm so sick of seeing the overdose stories on TV but never the other side, despite many attempts by advocates and doctors. Washington Post just recently did an article on the other side - Veterans' suicides because the VA will not prescribe opiates. If I were more wealthy there have been times that I wanted to throw a brick at the TV.
 
I meant monetary investment, not producing, advertising and selling it under their brands. Make up for what they had to pay out for Oxy.
 
Ya, I remember, I think. The weed was off color when it got here, looked like it died standing up, and in deed it did. I think about how many may have been effected by the US Gov spraying this shit in Mexico. They certainly chopped it and shipped it anyway, can these folks join the class action on it? Or are they out in the cold?
 
I'm not against big pharma making medicines from cannabis. I'm against big pharma ripping people off blind for the use of those medicines. A reasonable profit and unreasonable price gouging are two different things.
 
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