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Certainly one of the things that gives me the creeps are the CBD quiosques freaking everywhere selling what amounts to CBD weed, CBD lotions, CBD potions, CBD w

Certainly one of the things that gives me the creeps are the CBD quiosques freaking everywhere selling what amounts to CBD weed, CBD lotions, CBD potions, CBD whatever; I've seen them in airports, in tourist locations and in shopping malls. Mostly completely unpatronized, with a sullen presumably CBD anesthetized employee manning the desk. Just for the rent and employees we're talking something like a hundred millions a year in money flying out the window. To what end? Nobody is buying this shit (outside of tourist locations afaik). Someone is paying for it to happen. It reminds me of when the Israeli spooks were selling toys in shopping malls in 2001 (rounded up after 911 and memory holed)[1]. Maybe it's just RJR ramping up to sell actual weed everywhere, but it sure is creepy. [1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/1387069/US-arrests-200-young-Israelis-in-spying-investigation.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel...

zer0tonin 7y ago
Do you have a source on the fact that "nobody is buying this shit"? Here in Paris the few attempts at opening CBD shops (now closed by police) were extremely popular.
- scottlocklin 7y ago
  My own lying eyes tell me this. Though there were a lot of takers in the Lisbon tourist location; I see literally dozens of these across the US northeast with zero customers, ever. Was just staring at the one in the Manchester NH airport. In a freaking airport! "Gee I have to get me some CBD cookies and massage oil to take on the airplane with me."
  - catalogia 7y ago
    > "Gee I have to get me some CBD cookies and massage oil to take on the airplane with me." Where they THC cookies, they'd probably make the plane flight a lot less uncomfortable with a lot of people. I'd wager they're trying to cell CBD to people who hate flying and are willing to try anything to make it less unpleasant. That their products are ineffective, at least in this application if not in general, kind of takes a backseat.
fortran77 7y ago
Israeli spooks, I'm reasonably sure, have better things to do than sell toys in shopping malls, despite this crazy article in the "Telegraph."
- scottlocklin 7y ago
  Washington Post and NYT as well: https://web.archive.org/web/20011124022514/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3879-2001Nov22.html https://web.archive.org/web/20011124022514/https://www.washi... https://web.archive.org/web/20091229000739/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/21/us/nation-challenged-detainees-dozens-israeli-jews-are-being-kept-federal-detention.html https://web.archive.org/web/20091229000739/https://www.nytim... Merry Christmas, obsessive Fortran dude!
  - fortran77 7y ago
    Happy Hanukkah. Fortan 77 Rules!
    - scottlocklin 7y ago
      Out of curiosity, did you ever upgrade to Fortran-08/18? I used to sling a fair amount of Fortran77 back in physics days and a higher level version of the language might be fun if I can plug it into networks and such without invoking satan. C is fine for PDP-11 assembler, but I'd rather something that lets the compiler do more of the work.

zer0tonin 7y ago

Do you have a source on the fact that "nobody is buying this shit"? Here in Paris the few attempts at opening CBD shops (now closed by police) were extremely popular.

scottlocklin 7y ago
My own lying eyes tell me this. Though there were a lot of takers in the Lisbon tourist location; I see literally dozens of these across the US northeast with zero customers, ever. Was just staring at the one in the Manchester NH airport. In a freaking airport! "Gee I have to get me some CBD cookies and massage oil to take on the airplane with me."
- catalogia 7y ago
  > "Gee I have to get me some CBD cookies and massage oil to take on the airplane with me." Where they THC cookies, they'd probably make the plane flight a lot less uncomfortable with a lot of people. I'd wager they're trying to cell CBD to people who hate flying and are willing to try anything to make it less unpleasant. That their products are ineffective, at least in this application if not in general, kind of takes a backseat.

fortran77 7y ago

Israeli spooks, I'm reasonably sure, have better things to do than sell toys in shopping malls, despite this crazy article in the "Telegraph."

scottlocklin 7y ago
Washington Post and NYT as well: https://web.archive.org/web/20011124022514/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3879-2001Nov22.html https://web.archive.org/web/20011124022514/https://www.washi... https://web.archive.org/web/20091229000739/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/21/us/nation-challenged-detainees-dozens-israeli-jews-are-being-kept-federal-detention.html https://web.archive.org/web/20091229000739/https://www.nytim... Merry Christmas, obsessive Fortran dude!
- fortran77 7y ago
  Happy Hanukkah. Fortan 77 Rules!
  - scottlocklin 7y ago
    Out of curiosity, did you ever upgrade to Fortran-08/18? I used to sling a fair amount of Fortran77 back in physics days and a higher level version of the language might be fun if I can plug it into networks and such without invoking satan. C is fine for PDP-11 assembler, but I'd rather something that lets the compiler do more of the work.