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yznovyak
8y ago
??? Are you for real? Just google "stoner movies". Off top of my head: The Pineapple Express, This is the End, Harold and Kumar go to the White Castle, Jay and Silent Bob strike back.
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yznovyak
8y ago
This doesn't sound right. I got an NYC ID (Learner's Permit) without being a citizen and without presenting my birth certificate. I think I have had my Foreign (Ukrainian) Passport, employment authorization form (the form that g
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yznovyak
8y ago
Adult human eye is surprisingly uniform in size. The vast majority of adults will be fine with contacts that have BC=8.5 +/- 0.1 and DIA=14.0 +/- 0.2. Many contact lenses are made in exactly one size combination only and everyon
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yznovyak
8y ago
Yeah ... about that. The US seems to be the only country which treats basic optometry like some kind of rocket science. Where did you guys get that idea that prescription should match so very precisely? Unless you have some rare condition
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yznovyak
8y ago
I'm in Ukraine now and it seems that I can buy most of the lenses for a fraction of US price. Here's one of the online shops I used last time: https://linza.com.ua/ to convert UAH to USD you can divide by 25 (ac
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yznovyak
9y ago
Care to provide any source for your claim? Here's mine: http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/drug-use/b... Singapore has 0.18 drug related deaths per 100k population. With a population of ~5.6 m
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yznovyak
9y ago
You can argue that heroin kills more people in one year than the government ever did.
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yznovyak
9y ago
Bullshit. Singapore's radical drug policy is also working extremely well. Why hasn't the world copied it? And to be fair, Singapore's drug policy has been working for a lot longer than Portugal's experiment.
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9y ago
I'm not advocating any policy. I'm just against the echo chamber. I'm saying that statement "criminalization doesn't work" is false. I foresee people saying "but we tried, and it didn't work for us&q
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9y ago
But criminalization does work. Every time subject of criminalization comes up people cherry pick Portugal as some kind of miracle example completely ignoring Japan, Singapore, Georgia (country) Davao city, South Korea and countless others e
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yznovyak
9y ago
Nah. David Nutt is criminally dishonest. I've read his book (Drugs Without the Hot Air) and it is a straight up propaganda. The guy cherry picks a lot of his evidence and it is a chapter after chapter of half truths and lies by omi
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9y ago
Death penalty for drug trafficking, Singapore: 0 deaths/million people/year