Category: Healthcare
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Blunt Truth — Marijuana Prohibition Was ALWAYS About RACISM And Nothing But
From the get-go, every impulse to regulate cannabis has been based on racism. When the California Pharmacy Board amended the state’s Poison Act in 1913 to include marijuana in the “poisons” under its control, they were simply piling onto the racist legislation that began in 1875 when California passed America’s first anti-narcotics laws to “combat”…
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There Simply Is No Conservative Way Out Of This Mess; Conservatism Put Us Here
How do pandemics happen? After the pathogen gets revved up — and finds its entree into human hosts — the next important event is denial. China denied it had a problem. That made their problem exponentially larger — and then made their problem EVERYONE’S problem. Coronavirus became OUR problem because we’re humans sharing the planet…
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Dispatches From The Apocalypse (Well, Los Angeles During Coronavirus)…
Of all the places to sit out the Coronavirus Apocalypse, Los Angeles may be one of the better places. The weather should be reliably good by April. We’ll have some June gloom in May but that just means the marine layer takes a little longer to burn off in the morning than the rest of…
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Dear American News Media — The Way You Deal With A LIAR Is The Same Way You Deal With A DRUNK — You REFUSE To Argue With Em…
I stopped drinking alcohol about two years ago. I didn’t have to but the mood stabilizer I’m on gives alcohol a terrible aftertaste. It was an unexpected side effect — and, frankly, I’m grateful for it. When I say I didn’t “have to” stop drinking, what I mean is, I didn’t stop because I perceived…
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Just Like In HG Wells’ War Of The Worlds, A Pathogen Will Save OUR World — In Our Case, From TRUMP
If you don’t know HG Wells’ “War Of The Worlds”, here’s the thumbnail — Martians launch from their planet and aggressively take over Earth, easily throwing aside all the puny earthlings. What saves humanity’s bacon? Pathogens. The Martians’ bodies can’t handle the same pathogens our immune systems handle regularly. Big bad monsters are brought down…
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What Being Deeply Depressed Taught Me About Life — And Being Happy
Three days before Christmas 2016, I came within literal inches of harming myself, perhaps fatally. It was pure impulse — a flash of self-directed anger that I’d been building toward for a decade. Oh, the irony… even as I plotted to off myself, I didn’t know (or admit to myself) WHY I felt this terrible…
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You CANNOT Have Profit Incentive At The Core Of A Health CARE System
Some ideas are so stupid, you have to marvel how they don’t die at their inception. Example — having profit incentive inside a health care system. Of course we want people to “make money” doing their jobs in a health care system. That’s not the same thing however as having corporations step in as gatekeepers…