krispyfi

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by krispyfi 2y ago
> if you don't have a way of measuring potency yourself >Why don't you display actual milligram quantitative amounts? # > In short, we are not allowed to do so. In the United States, the handling of Schedule I substances
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by krispyfi 2y ago
Here, "vaping" is a mistranslation. The law actually refers to 加熱式たばこ, or "heated tobacco products" (HTP), which contain tobacco leaf just like regular cigarettes, but don't combust. On the other hand, nicotine vape
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by krispyfi 2y ago
You're right. Ross should have been granted a drug selling license, analogous to a liquor license, and it should have been revoked if he failed to check ID before allowing people to make purchases on his marketplace.
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by krispyfi 2y ago
Wow, it's cool seeing you here! I used to lurk a lot on the honyakkers group and your posts were always very educational and entertaining. Cheers!
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by krispyfi 2y ago
Only for the worse if you aren't a defense contractor.
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by krispyfi 2y ago
It's never made sense to me, but the standard explanation is that because they aren't accusing a person (the owner of the money), but only accusing an inanimate object (the money itself), constitutional protections don't appl
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by krispyfi 2y ago
Some corollaries, that might not be obvious for those not deeply familiar with drug policy: 1. Statements like "we can't legalize a drug until we have proven that it's not harmful" are nonsensical given that it's ea
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by krispyfi 2y ago
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/panera-to-pull-hig... Panera used to sell a drink that contained close to the FDA maximum recommended daily quantity of caffeine, and also allowed free refills. Sever
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by krispyfi 2y ago
The shady business practices of McKinsey and Purdue are responsible for getting a lot of people dependent on opioids, but the overdose deaths skyrocketed once doctors were forced to cut patients off of their prescriptions and into the fenta
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by krispyfi 2y ago
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/f-in-the-chat
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by krispyfi 2y ago
On the other hand, it makes it easy to spot cheaply made foreign goods that don't bother to use Japanese glyphs, which is a (slight) form of protection for domestic industry.
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by krispyfi 2y ago
> If you have ever heard Mainland Chinese recordings dated back 30-40 years ago, they were shouty, harsh and ear-piercing (plenty examples on YouTube). Sounds interesting, but I don't know what search terms to use. Does anyone have
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by krispyfi 2y ago
The Ars comment section is very disappointing, with people conflating the harms of nicotine with tobacco. This is probably because of misinformation about EVALI ("popcorn lung") which was actually the result of a specific impurity
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by krispyfi 2y ago
Yeah, that's why session beers don't exist and everyone only drinks everclear nowadays. /s
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by krispyfi 2y ago
Heroin isn't harvested from poppies, opium is. A lot of the problems of the heroin trade could be solved by letting people grow and smoke their own poppies, like they did for thousands of years before prohibition. A similar thing could
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by krispyfi 2y ago
Like you, I cannot sleep on vehicles, but I used benzos on a recent flight, and it was like an instant time-skip forward during nighttime of the destination time zone, which helped with jet lag. Benzos are pretty terrible for you if used re
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by krispyfi 2y ago
I only know of the game because the Conkerer web browser was named after it. http://conkeror.org/
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by krispyfi 2y ago
I think it's fairly uncontroversial to say that medical marijuana has made legalization of medical cannabis more palatable to the general public. That's why, when I read articles like this, part of me is worried that "psyched
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by krispyfi 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromostereopsis
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by krispyfi 2y ago
Cubicles aren't enough. Developers need their own sound-proof offices.
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by krispyfi 2y ago
If you ever visit a dairy farm, you may be in for a big surprise...
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by krispyfi 2y ago
Poetry would be the only event where drinking absinthe counts as doping.
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by krispyfi 2y ago
Treaties like the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs as well as political pressure from the US Government.
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by krispyfi 2y ago
TIL: "furphy" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furphy
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by krispyfi 2y ago
> Telling them they can all smoke weed for no reason is not. So now you're putting words in my mouth? > I'm actually amazed you think this way, but then again, you are a foreigner in Japan and those are constantly bitter &qu
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by krispyfi 2y ago
> Is this supposed to make you an authority on the topic? Of course not, that's why I provided the name of an authority. > You literally said “cough medicine isn’t mind altering,” and then used the next paragraph to explain how i
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by krispyfi 2y ago
I've been following drug policy around the world for decades. The reason it is so interesting (and so pernicious) is because it's a big jumble of counterintuitive, niggling details and unintended consequences that defies common se
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by krispyfi 2y ago
Resident of Japan here. Young people ruining their kidneys by swallowing whole bottles of OTC cough medicine instead of smoking weed isn't "winning the war drugs". Look up "市販薬OD" if you don't believe me.
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by krispyfi 2y ago
Korean is easier to pronounce, but Japanese is easier to read. Try reading a Japanese children's book that doesn't use kanji. It's excruciating.
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by krispyfi 2y ago
J. R. "Bob" Dobbs?

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