[Politics] Weed and Things
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Yes. Most things have lethal doses, and science has measured a substantial number of them.Doom wrote:I'm curious and too lazy to click around...is there a lethal doze to marijuana (and, if so, how would you even take it)?
Uh... hm... that second question is a tough one. You pretty much have to distill it and then consume it as liquid THC. Judging by rat studies, you could kill yourself by drinking as little as 40 or 50 grams of THC. So um... don't drink a full glass of hash oil. You're not going to be able to kill yourself smoking the stuff. You would actually die of carbon monoxide poisoning before you could possibly smoke the dozens of kilograms of leaves necessary to kill yourself with a THC overdose.
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It's got to be more than that or else we'd have seen a THC death. Maybe drinking that much THC induces vomiting at any dose high enough to be dangerous or something?FrankTrollman wrote:Yes. Most things have lethal doses, and science has measured a substantial number of them.Doom wrote:I'm curious and too lazy to click around...is there a lethal doze to marijuana (and, if so, how would you even take it)?
Uh... hm... that second question is a tough one. You pretty much have to distill it and then consume it as liquid THC. Judging by rat studies, you could kill yourself by drinking as little as 40 or 50 grams of THC. So um... don't drink a full glass of hash oil. You're not going to be able to kill yourself smoking the stuff. You would actually die of carbon monoxide poisoning before you could possibly smoke the dozens of kilograms of leaves necessary to kill yourself with a THC overdose.
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I've seen a lot of cases who had to be sent to a psychatric clinic for endangering themselves or others, and many of them with psychic problems were chronic marihuana users. Doesn't prove anything, but I am a bit wary of legalizing the stuff now.
I am still all for legalizing stuff that can kill the user without endangering anyone else.
I am still all for legalizing stuff that can kill the user without endangering anyone else.
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Were they using other stuff as well?Fuchs wrote:I've seen a lot of cases who had to be sent to a psychatric clinic for endangering themselves or others, and many of them with psychic problems were chronic marihuana users. Doesn't prove anything, but I am a bit wary of legalizing the stuff now.
I am still all for legalizing stuff that can kill the user without endangering anyone else.
Most had various other substances on their abuse list too, but marihuana was the common link.RobbyPants wrote:Were they using other stuff as well?Fuchs wrote:I've seen a lot of cases who had to be sent to a psychatric clinic for endangering themselves or others, and many of them with psychic problems were chronic marihuana users. Doesn't prove anything, but I am a bit wary of legalizing the stuff now.
I am still all for legalizing stuff that can kill the user without endangering anyone else.
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There should be some degree of wariness, but don't confuse correlation with cause. At the very least, it should come as no surprise that individuals without regard for the law are perfectly willing to do something fun which happens to be illegal, or that self-destructive individuals are happy to do something marketed by the government as self-destructive.Fuchs wrote:I've seen a lot of cases who had to be sent to a psychatric clinic for endangering themselves or others, and many of them with psychic problems were chronic marihuana users. Doesn't prove anything, but I am a bit wary of legalizing the stuff now.
Honestly, though, I'd guess that given it's medicinal uses, they're probably self-medicating. Painkillers have been shown to lessen feelings of rejection, for example.
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Then why even bring up the number of people undergoing mental health treatment?Fuchs wrote:I sincerly doubt that even 1% of the cannabis users in my country take it for medicinal uses.
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Opiate painkillers lessen all fucking pain.CatharzGodfoot wrote:Painkillers have been shown to lessen feelings of rejection, for example.
And damn it, I was doing so well - I can't remember the last time I took even a single dose of codeine (for reasons other than my bad memory), but after a nine and a half hour shift, on my feet, in these work boots, I'm beginning to think I might need to start again.
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Apparently acetaminophen works too.Koumei wrote:Opiate painkillers lessen all fucking pain.CatharzGodfoot wrote:Painkillers have been shown to lessen feelings of rejection, for example.
And damn it, I was doing so well - I can't remember the last time I took even a single dose of codeine (for reasons other than my bad memory), but after a nine and a half hour shift, on my feet, in these work boots, I'm beginning to think I might need to start again.
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Well, given paracetamol (same shit, different name over here) does nothing for physical pain for me - unless mixed with codeine, in which case we know what is doing all the work - I wouldn't trust it to be useful for any other kind of pain either.
Back on the codeine for the weekend, and now I have special inserts for my shoes. I figure the first few days next week I'll finish the codeine off just to stay on the safe side, and by the end of the week, if my feet are still in agony, I'll talk to the boss and see if something can be arranged.
Or see if I can get an oxycontin prescription - a tablet a day keeps all pain away! Pain-free workers are productive workers!
Back on the codeine for the weekend, and now I have special inserts for my shoes. I figure the first few days next week I'll finish the codeine off just to stay on the safe side, and by the end of the week, if my feet are still in agony, I'll talk to the boss and see if something can be arranged.
Or see if I can get an oxycontin prescription - a tablet a day keeps all pain away! Pain-free workers are productive workers!
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Have you considered getting a new pair of shoes?
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What are you doing? If its standing in place for a protracted period of time, your company will have access to rubberised matts for the purposes of standing on. They are MUCH better that standing on a hard floor. You will not belive the difference.
If you are walking around, you need new shoes.
If you are walking around, you need new shoes.
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Just remember that after you stop the drugs, your pain threshold will be artificially lowered for a while.Koumei wrote:Well, given paracetamol (same shit, different name over here) does nothing for physical pain for me - unless mixed with codeine, in which case we know what is doing all the work - I wouldn't trust it to be useful for any other kind of pain either.
Back on the codeine for the weekend, and now I have special inserts for my shoes. I figure the first few days next week I'll finish the codeine off just to stay on the safe side, and by the end of the week, if my feet are still in agony, I'll talk to the boss and see if something can be arranged.
Or see if I can get an oxycontin prescription - a tablet a day keeps all pain away! Pain-free workers are productive workers!
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Tell me, what about maladaptive behavior that was performed while under the influence such as assault or suicide? This seems to make alcohol really damning (of course it might just be because of its universality) but the fact that you could apparently cut crime in half by replacing alcohol with something that makes people really mellow makes it seem like we need to find a new drug.
Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
Well I have shitty feet in general - I have a pair of work shoes with special magic arch support and everything, and they're good. But these are work boots bought specifically for the job, with steel caps. I suppose one option, if the inserts fail, is to just wear my work shoes and hope nothing falls on my feet (given that isn't really a risk in the tasks I do...)cthulhu wrote:What are you doing? If its standing in place for a protracted period of time, your company will have access to rubberised matts for the purposes of standing on. They are MUCH better that standing on a hard floor. You will not belive the difference.
If you are walking around, you need new shoes.
There's a lot of standing, but walking as well, on the concrete floor, from 7:30 AM to 5 PM. The half-hour break where I can sit down is a magical moment. But after the first day? I took my shoes off to walk to and from the train station, it made that much of a difference.
Now let's face it, I went from "lazy fucker who spent all day sitting around, aside from 2x walkies with the dog, and walking to the shops, daily" to "HALF THE DAY IS STANDING". That will always take some getting used to.
And yeah, over the last 24+ months I went from "underweight" to "teetering between healthy and overweight" (it roughly coincided with me starting to collect Warhams - see? It DOES make you fat). So being heavier than I should be doesn't help.
So the sores on my toes and ankles are standard "new boots, wore insufficiently thick socks on the first day" which just means "keep bandaids on them until completely healed, wear thick socks". The aching, I'll use the drugs on the first few days just to stay on the safe side, and hope that it's just a matter of getting used to it and the inserts fixing it.
Though someone has helpfully recommended I ask a pharmacist about Naproxen (legal, pharmacy-OTC drug, non-narcotic) to see if that helps as well.
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Personally, I recommend taking the boots back and getting ones that fit you. I realize that there will always be a breaking in period on shoes, but things that do that sort of thing to your feet are inexcusable.
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