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Just about every kid in the area we live in could find you a source in ten minutes or less.

Silly me, going to a pot store to buy my stash……where it is safe…where I know what I'm purchasing.

Yes, all the most trustworthy people I know own or work in legal pot shops. /s Bargain hunting may not be your strong suit, but good for you!

Ahh, they favorite Pothead mantra of all time...

As a longtime Hazmat Officer I can tell you that too much of anything can kill you including water.

“A Virginia woman is facing murder and neglect charges following the death of her 4-year-old son, which authorities said was caused by consuming THC, the main active ingredient in marijuana.” The kid got into her stash of THC infused gummies and then died.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article267654522.html#storylink=cpy

This is not to mention the thousands of people who have died after consuming illegal "marijuana" that was laced with fentanyl. Most of them had no idea it was anything but good pot...

I have no idea where you are from. All up and down the West Coast the amount of marijuana consumed from illegal sources is greater than the amount consumed from legal sources... Why? Because it is cheaper and the drug pushers add other illicit substances to “enhance” the users experiences. A lot of people have died smoking or eating marijuana which was laced with fentanyl.

Overdose deaths are up 800% since 1999 which I think is an indicator that the number of people buying drugs from “strangers in the park” is way up... not down. People who use mind altering drugs especially "experienced users" are on average just plain stupid. And they tend to trust "strangers in the park" whether it is to save a few bucks or to get a more vivid experience.

My friend called me the other day and he was laughing uncontrollably while he was trying to tell me a story one of his close friends. She is a lady who is alone and in her 80s. She had a longtime pet, a small dog who was starting to have old age issues. She decided that it was time to get another dog in case something happened to her longtime companion.

She adopted a retired greyhound racing dog. The two dogs seemed to get along fine for about a month. She went to the grocery store and when she came back there was blood everywhere in her house and she found the greyhound eating from the carcass of the little dog which was in pieces all around her home.

My friend could not stop laughing while describing this scene of gruesome mayhem. I am very familiar with “gallows humor” from my longtime profession. But this was something different; it was obvious to me that my friend had been using marijuana. In some people the drug causes a complete lack of empathy for others which I have seen numerous times. This is a person who I have known nearly my entire life who normally does not find the misery of little old ladies to be so hilarious that he can barely describe the situation.

Where we live marijuana has been easily available and used by many for at least 50 years. There should be vast amounts of data available to evaluate the health consequences of the drug. But most of the info we have is still anecdotal in nature. Why?

My wife is a retired nurse, and I am a retired fire officer. We both know and have known many long-term users in addition to our experiences responding and treating those with health issues related to marijuana.

For whatever reason... marijuana has been portrayed by the media, and entertainment industries as a nearly harmless substance with many health benefits. The negative consequences are almost never addressed.

What are these negative consequences? They vary from minor to severe mental health problems to minor and severe physical health problems. We also are subjected to risks especially on the road from people who are driving while under the influence of a psychoactive drug.

And one of the problems these days that is sometimes left out of the conversation is that the potency of the marijuana products being sold both legally and illegally is now so much greater than it once was. When I was working as a Hazmat Officer we had a saying, "The solution to pollution is dilution. Many products are not much of a problem until they reach greater concentrations. We are now getting into uncharted territory with marijuana. People are experiencing psychotic episodes from high dosages that were typically not as common in the past.

When I first started working in public safety alcohol was the drug of choice among derelicts that we were responding to on the street. During my career this changed to marijuana. From the media coverage one would think that this might be a good thing. In reality the psych issues we dealt with became much worse over time. But the vast number of experiences that both my wife and I had dealing with these are all anecdotal... very few studies have been done to quantify the problem.

In our view however the massive increase in panhandling, homelessness in our area is largely related to marijuana abuse. And many of the health and mental issues that our friends, family and acquaintances are experiencing in their advancing years is also related to their marijuana consumption.

As an example, one of my best lifelong friends began using marijuana in his 60s when it became legal where he now lives. He never used it in his younger years. His behavior began changing noticeably, and he started having difficulties that he does not attribute to marijuana. He has become extremely forgetful, and his cognitive abilities have declined greatly. I only hear from him every month or two so the declines may be more noticeable to me than those who interact with him more frequently. In truth I have started dreading conversations with him.

He has also started complaining about various health problems that one typically associates with aging. Strangely most of these problems did not seem to be problems for him until after the marijuana use started... now there is always some new malady from illnesses, to falls, to motor vehicle accidents, to unexplained headaches, aches and pains, neurological problems and who knows what else. It is not so much the complaints as the pattern of complaints that in the previous more than 50 years that I have known him have changed radically.

Could I prove that this change in behavior is the result of marijuana use? Probably not, but the timing is suspicious and the similarity to the problems that other marijuana users we interact with daily is noticeable.

I really hate it when that happens.

If you find even a sympathetic biography of Biden... he was a skinny kid who was small for his age with a stutter that other children made fun of. One of his nicknames was “Joe Impedimenta”. He was afraid of basically everything. He has a history from childhood of exaggerating, fabricating, and plagiarizing stories from others. He is the ultimate loser who managed to lie his way into a position of authority.

How awful to be at greater risk of suffering from the impacts from an imaginary problem. These idiots have been caught red handed multiple times jiggering data to convince the public that $Trillions need to be transferred into the pockets of leftist organizations and individuals to “save the planet”.

“Diversifying marine biology and climate science”, from the article.

“Climate science” has devolved into a lefty religion. I doubt that it will make any difference if people chosen for their ethnicity and lifestyle and not their “qualifications” will make any difference. I am fairly sure that marine biology is heavily influenced by lefty nonsense as well.

We went to the Dennys near our home recently... The prices were now basically the same as a normal restaurant. It was more expensive than the closer Applebees which has more tasty entrees. The restaurant was nearly empty. The manager was lamenting to us that they are no longer Denny’s without the cheap prices. He said that they were going under quickly, but with the high wages that they were now required to pay in our area there didn’t seem to be a solution.

Once the catalytic converter warms up most of the CO in new cars is converted to harmless CO2 and water vapor. But when the car is cold even new cars are still producing CO.

I once went on a call where our naked “patient” ran out of his house and into his garage and started up a lawn mower. The police had just arrived because he started out by pulling out a gun hidden in his couch and trying to shoot me.

The police sergeant asked if the lawn mower exhaust would kill him. I correctly predicted that he would give himself up long before losing consciousness. But your typical lawn mower probably produces more CO than most newer cars because of incomplete combustion and no catalytic converter.

Very interesting! So you are an expert on VR headsets? To me as an actual user they seem very similar to other VR and augmented VR headsets. You appear to be falling for typical Apple marketing hype. It reminds me of so many other “revolutionary” products that Apple has introduced.

I purchased a Samsung “smart watch” to use with my cell phone two years before the “Apple Watch” came out. When Apple released their watch my Apple fan boy buddies started bragging about how amazing they were. What a laugh that was! Samsung was already on their 3rd or 4th generation and was much more capable at that time.

I researched this a bit since posting. Others are working on ways to get existing simulators to work with them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/VisionPro/comments/1balkxq/i_fly_microsoft_flight_simulator_on_vision_pro/

Once you get used to VR goggles most people can wear them a lot longer than an hour without any unpleasant side effects. I doubt that few if any "other users" are telling people anything other than to limit their usage until they get used to them but I am sure that there are many who will never have the chutzpa to pay their dues. In our society any level or form of discomfort is considered to much too bear by many people.

I consider this warning to be like so many others written by lawyers to legally protect the company not the users. Most people recognize these warnings for what they actually are and this has nothing to do with their level of intelligence.

The VR headset that I purchased, the Meta Quest 2 is currently selling for $199. In our state it costs over 50% less than the sales tax on the Apple Vision Pro. Despite being bulkier than the Apple device it hasn’t given me any black eyes, but depending on what it is being used for it can cause a bit of nausea. It is difficult to wear glasses and put it on, but the way that the optics work I do not need to wear my glasses with them.

For the price it does provide some very unique experiences. It has 1832 x 1920 Resolution Per Eye. with 60, 72, 90 Hz Refresh Rate. The Apple has 3,391 x 3,391 Resolution Per Eye with the same refresh rates. I do not sense much if any pixelation while wearing them depending on what they are being used for.

I use it mostly for flight simulators. The aircraft in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and X-plane 11 and 12 have extremely realistic interiors and when you are wearing the headset it looks and feels a lot like you are actually flying an airplane. You can look out the windows and easily keep track of the position of the airports to help with flying a proper pattern. Neither of these flight simulators are currently compatible with the Apple Vision Pro that I know of.

The patient has tooth decay? Fetch the leaches!

Suck on that Trump! Those chargers are worth at least $20! It is your turn to wear the bag at the next house.

You would have to know a lot about how the computer(s) that run the car work and how to program them. It would be along the lines of reprogramming the basic input output system in your desktop or laptop only more complicated with less publicly available software “tools” available and a much smaller base of individuals with this type of knowledge.

“Hybrids” are very complicated beasts, much more complicated than either electric or hydrocarbon fueled vehicles. This is especially true of the transmissions which have to take in energy from both the engine and the motor/generator. It would be more of a challenge than anyone who I know could take on... and I know some very adept people.

The actual way to do it would be to get another non-hybrid version of the same car - that had been totaled and try to transplant the engine, transmission, electronics, and other items into your dead hybrid.

But we all know that Putin cheated! He supposedly got 87% of the votes. This is impossible. We know from multiple infallible polls commissioned by Western Media that his approval rating among the Russian public has risen from 80% to at the most barely over 85% in the past couple of months. Putin barely pulled off this squeaker of an election! It is shameful.