#marijuana experiments

[unwelcome-ozian]

Do you have information about marijuana experiments done by the government?

In the early 1950s, the focus fell on creating a synthetic form of weaponized cannabis in Dr. Edward Domino’s work with a prototype of cannabis concentrates. This concentrated hash oil was assigned the code EA 1476 but was nicknamed “Red Oil.”

Dr. James Ketchum took Domino’s research and began to spread the Red Oil experiments to G.I. volunteers. Like Domino, Ketchum answered directly to the military and therefore was stationed at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland, known as the headquarters for the U.S. Army Chemical Corps. When under the influence of Red Oil, soldiers were reduced to smirking, snickering doppelgangers of their once stoic selves, unable to complete basic training tasks or answer simple questions without meandering, non-committal, or vague answers. The effects often stretched for hours. While the military was impressed with Red Oil’s ability to take the fight out of a highly trained soldier, they ultimately needed a weapon that could completely immobilize the enemy. Further research into the properties of cannabis revealed that pure, undiluted THC weighed significantly less than the concentrated Red Oil, a factor that weighed heavily on the potency of a proposed attack. Thus Red Oil was jettisoned and a mixture known only as EA 2233 was born."

Source

Army Chemical Research and Development, Edgewood Arsenal, MD, 21010.

The Domino Effect: Ed Domino’s early studies of Psychoactive Drugs

Oz

[beware-of-you-98]

help i still can’t believe jj ate like 9 of those thc edibles and never once did her lil miss cheeotobreath obsessed ass think “… these taste off” because I also REFUSE to believe those edibles didn’t taste like straight up weed

[allthegothihopgirls]

the carl + negan episode except whilst negan's trying to show off how wealthy the sanctuary is by going on a "we have everything. ask and you shall recieve" rant, carl looks at him deadpan and asks "do you have any weed?" and negan just gets the biggest shit-eating grin on his face.

then instead of traumatising him in several ways, they go into his office and get high together, and negan decides he doesn't actually want to fight rick anymore, because his kid's cool as fuck.

[writebackatya]

Dream Blunt Rotation

[myersesque]

maybe this is a weird thing to say but as soon as they showed joel drinking n taking pills i immediately thought of this youtube comment Years Ago where someone was implying that joel refusing a drink from tess somehow showed he was still morally good (because... they think addicts are inherently bad people, i guess?) and watching that scene, i hope that youtube commenter is absolutely raging rn

idk just. given how fucked up joel's life has been at that point (and how understandably traumatised he would be, which i'm glad the show is leaning more into), it always felt rlly fucked up to me that there was some section of the playerbase (you know the ones) that valued joel based on his ability to not visibly struggle with things in a way real people would, especially since they were often the same people to hate him in part 2 for *checks notes* being happy. something something toxic masculinity something something ableism, idk, i just think it's important that joel is allowed to be not just vulnerable (albeit behind closed doors, only ever when he's alone or with tess) but messy about it.

(of course this isn't me saying this is a good thing. please for the love of god do not do this if you can help it, there are far better coping mechanisms out there. but it makes perfect sense for joel to show suffering in this specific way)

[floral-hex]

I just want to get blasted, either out of my mind or into the sun, I’m not picky

[i-eat-lip-gloss]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT GUYS THAT WAS SO FUCKING LIT

AT ONE POINT HE (Zakk) CAME UP TO THE SECOND STAGE WHERE I WAS AND I GOT TO BE LITERALLY LESS THAN 3 FEET AWAY FROM FUCKING ZAKK WYLDE HIMSELF

i also got a poster signed by EACH OF THE BAND MEMBERS (also a pretty cool t-shirt i’m totally not sleeping in)

i’ll share the pics in the morninggg

ok here’s one ;)

[flameswallower]

hi, would you mind tagging for drugs? no worries if not!

i can, but to be honest drugs, in various capacities and roles, are a pretty big part of my life, and i do often talk about them, make work that references them or has aesthetics influenced by them, etc. if you are triggered or extremely upset by allusions to drugs, this is probably not the best or safest online space for you.

[camscendants]

Welp. Here’s my first ever commission

Someone’s fursona hitting a bong

[mynzah]

Know Thyself...Self Realization...God...

All will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at noon, and some in the evening; but none will go without food. All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self… ~ Ramakrishna (The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna…translated by Swami Nikhilananda, Vol. 1 and Vol 2, p. 818. 1942) http://www.mynzahosiris.wordpress.com

[loudlylovingreview]

Michael Simms: Blowtorch Bob And Other Particulars Of My Politics

In 1970 I went to my first anti-war demonstration. I was sixteen and my cousin Michael Ashie (People introduced us as “This is my friend Michael and this is his cousin Michael,” an introduction guaranteed to evoke snickers) invited me to go to Hermann Park not far from where he lived with our grandparents in west Houston.  There were about 40 college-age people sitting in a circle on a hillside.…

[dcrawford]

My head is killing me.

[reasonsforhope]

Kamala Harris just announced that her vice president will be Minnesota governor Tim Walz. Based on the coverage so far I'm really reassured by this decision.

The Washington Post did an obviously great job of making a prepared article for each option, considering how long an article they had up 7 minutes after the announcement.

((Okay technically it's not an official announcement yet it's "according to three people familiar with the pick, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a decision that is not yet public." But listen. I am 99% sure this is a weather balloon. (Meaning: a deliberate leak to gauge reaction.) Because the sheer weakness or incompetence on the part of the Harris campaign that it would take for three people to all confirm that within a few hours hours of each other and the planned announcement it is massive.))

-via The Washington Post, August 6, 2024

Honestly this decision, from everything I've read and can tell, looks like it's brilliant politics.

Important Context: The vice president(ial candidates)'s job in an election is not to be similar to the president. The vice president's job on the ballot is very, very much specifically to be different from the president. Why? So they can cover each others' weaknesses. Especially regionally.

(Sidenote: I feel a bit ridiculous saying this. But genuinely if you want to get a stronger understanding of how US elections really work. Go watch seasons 6 and 7 of The West Wing. Genuinely, a lot of politicians have said - especially back in its day - that that was the most accurate depiction of an election they'd ever seen. Also specifically features an entire arc about a contested Democratic primary convention, so also very good if you're interested in understanding weird nominating convention shenanigans.)

From the article:

"Harris’s choice for a running mate was among the most closely watched decisions of her fledgling campaign, as she sought to bolster the ticket’s prospects for victory in November and rapidly find someone who could be a governing partner. In picking Walz, she has selected a seasoned politician with executive governing experience and signaled the importance of Midwestern battleground states such as Wisconsin and Michigan.

Walz’s foray into politics came later in life: He spent more than two decades as a public school teacher and football coach, and as a member of the Army National Guard, before running for Congress in his 40s. In 2006, he defeated a Republican to win Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District--a rural, conservative area--and won reelection five times before leaving Congress to run for governor.

Walz was first elected governor in 2018 and handily won reelection in 2022. Though little-known outside his state, Walz emerged publicly as one of the earliest names mentioned as a possible running mate for Harris, and in the ensuing days he made the rounds on television as an outspoken surrogate for the vice president...

“These are weird people on the other side. They want to take books away, they want to be in your exam room. … They are bad on foreign policy, they are bad on the environment, they certainly have no health care plan, and they keep talking about the middle-class,” Walz told MSNBC in July. “As I said, a robber baron real estate guy and a venture capitalist trying to tell us they understand who we are? They don’t know who we are.”

Walz also has faced criticism from Republicans that his policies as governor were too liberal, including legalizing recreational marijuana for adults, protecting abortion rights, expanding LGBTQ protections, implementing tuition-free college for low-income Minnesotans and providing free breakfast and lunch for schoolchildren in the state.

But many of those initiatives are broadly popular. Walz also signed an executive order removing the college-degree requirement for 75 percent of Minnesota’s state jobs, a move that garnered bipartisan support and that several other states have also adopted.

“What a monster. Kids are eating and having full bellies, so they can go learn, and women are making their own health-care decisions,” Walz said sarcastically in a July 28 interview with CNN when questioned whether such policies would be fodder for conservative attacks, later adding: “If that’s where they want to label me, I’m more than happy to take the [liberal] label.”

Walz also spoke at a kickoff event in St. Paul for a Democratic canvassing effort, casting Trump as a “bully.”

“Don’t lift these guys up like they’re some kind of heroes. Everybody in this room knows--I know it as a teacher--a bully has no self-confidence. A bully has no strength. They have nothing,” Walz said at the event, sporting a camouflage hunting hat and T-shirt.

Walz has explained that he felt some Democrats’ practice of calling Trump an existential threat to democracy was giving him too much credit, which prompted his decision to denounce the GOP nominee instead as being “weird.”

“I do believe all those things are a real possibility, but it gives him way too much power," Walz said on CNN’s “State of the Union” regarding the Democrats’ rhetoric. “Listen to the guy. He’s talking about Hannibal Lecter, shocking sharks, and just whatever crazy thing pops into his mind.”

If Walz is elected vice president, under state law, Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan (D) would assume the governorship for the rest of his term. Minnesota Senate president Bobby Joe Champion, a Democrat, would become lieutenant governor."

-via The Washington Post, August 6, 2024

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This guy. Sounds like. fucking Moderate swing-state/rural/Midwestern/southern/"heartland"/working class white voter catnip. He sounds like he's also a very smart politician and strong campaigner. And he's apparently genuinely a good guy with a good record, too.

He sounds like he's going to do a really good job of appealing to voters in several of the big deal swing states without being from any of them specifically. Which means it doesn't feel like pandering to one of the states involved (and thereby spurning the others), which is also great.

(Also he was the one who started "weird" @ conservatives and I think we should take that seriously as a very good political instinct/move. Judging in large part by how it has so clearly hit an actual nerve with conservatives like so little else. Also hugely relevant: that post going around about how part of why conservatives are so upset about "weird" is because in the Midwest, "weird" specifically also implies anti-social or harmful behavior.)

Officially feeling more optimistic about Trump not winning in November

[wisterianwoman]

How and Why I Quit Smoking Weed

I knew that weed was only holding me back from the other things I wanted to do in life. Instead of looking forward to spending time in nature, pursuing art or hobbies, I was looking forward to smoking a bowl. I realized my whole life revolved around it.

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[mygrowjournal]

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