Money & Politics

[Hazydat620]

So under your definition, unions can continue forcing their members to support "speech" thru their dues they don't agree with? You conveniently leave arguably the biggest source of "bribery" of politicians still intact.

no one is forcing you to do anything in a union. Just like in a job you have the choice to leave if you don't like it. If you don't agree with the way decisions are made go to a union meeting and make your voice heard or stop paying your dues, drop out and STFU.

 

[Padawanbater2]

Dr. Melgen’s firm donated more than $700,000 to Majority PAC, a super PAC run by former aides to the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada. The super PAC then spent $600,000 to help re-elect Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey, who is a close friend of Dr. Melgen’s. Last year, Mr. Menendez himself became a target of investigation after the senator intervened on behalf of Dr. Melgen with federal officials and took flights on his private jet.

I don't want any politician to win an election based on the amount of funds he "raised"

I would rather a GOP candidate win an election if it was legitimate. In other words, if it came down to a left leaning politician I agreed with against a conservative one that voted against homosexuals and abortion rights, and if there was a way to definitively determine the election results were legitimate, I would want the GOP candidate to win. I believe it's much easier to educate America than to get rich crony capitalist businessmen to hate money, that uphill battle might be winnable, this one isn't.

 

[BigNBushy]

Don't start celebrating yet. Less than half of addicts achieve permanent abstinence.

Relapse rates for poly substance users in their second year is 50%

According to experts, relapse is only considerably reduced after 5 years of sobriety. Even then, you are looking at a relapse rate of 15%.

It's worse for opiate addicts. A recent study found 25% of their participants relapsed after 15 years,

People who relapse within their first year relapse different than people with time under their belt

Often, folks in their first year or two just start living like they did before, for an extended period of time. Folks with decent clean time very often just relapse for the evening. Sometimes they fall back in, but more often than not they pick themselves up very quickly

 

[Padawanbater2]

Stay the course, man. Getting off of H alone is something to be proud of

 

[BigNBushy]

Stay the course, man. Getting off of H alone is something to be proud of

Thanks. I wouldn't wish addiction on my worst enemy. I'm glad you can put your feelings aside and wish me well with that, as opposed to others here who would likely throw a bag of heroin at me with hopes of me using it if they could.

 

[Padawanbater2]

Thanks. I wouldn't wish addiction on my worst enemy. I'm glad you can put your feelings aside and wish me well with that, as opposed to others here who would likely throw a bag of heroin at me with hopes of me using it if they could.

As I'm sure the Wu Tang Clan would agree, addiction ain't nothin' to fuck with

 

[Canna Sylvan]

As I'm sure the Wu Tang Clan would agree, addiction ain't nothin' to fuck with

Everything is in your head. Before meditation I had a very addictive personality to everything. Now, meh, whatever.

 

[Padawanbater2]

Everything is in your head. Before meditation I had a very addictive personality to everything. Now, meh, whatever.

I would agree to a certain extent, mind over matter, that sort of thing, but when it comes to something like heroin it's much more than that. I've never used it personally, but I'm sure the users can tell you there's a strong physical aspect to it as well as the mental struggle. I've heard people compare it to being hit with the flu for a couple weeks and it might be easy to argue from an outside perspective letting something like that effectively ruin or otherwise inhibit your progress in life is weak or deserving of judgment but I can say with pretty strong confidence that does nothing to solve anything.

Imo, people suffering from addiction deserve treatment and support during the entire time of their addiction and recovery, not jail time and conviction records

 

[Canna Sylvan]

I would agree to a certain extent, mind over matter, that sort of thing, but when it comes to something like heroin it's much more than that. I've never used it personally, but I'm sure the users can tell you there's a strong physical aspect to it as well as the mental struggle. I've heard people compare it to being hit with the flu for a couple weeks and it might be easy to argue from an outside perspective letting something like that effectively ruin or otherwise inhibit your progress in life is weak or deserving of judgment but I can say with pretty strong confidence that does nothing to solve anything.

Imo, people suffering from addiction deserve treatment and support during the entire time of their addiction and recovery, not jail time and conviction records

Back when I believed the medical community, they wrongly diagnosed me with bi-polar. With those who are autistic/Aspergers the drugs meant for depression (mistaken for sensory overload) and the euphoria (also a sensory overload), cause even more of an overload. It's like getting OD from epinephrine cause a heart attack, but normally it's used for the treatment of a heart attack. When epinephrine is administered when the cause is epinephrine, the heart attack gets worse.

I was given Lamictal. It's supposed to elevate your mood, but if the problem is too much of an elevated mood, is causing the bad mood, giving a mood elevator is going to cause the problem to become worse. This stuff triggered more sensory overloads than ever. Where you just explode.

Finally, after getting fed up. I just quit all their drugs. It was the worst week of my life. I couldn't get out of bed at all. Where I was hallucinating, and felt like I was going to die.

So if I can put up with that. Which is why I started meditation to control my senses.

 

[heckler73]

I just quit all their drugs. It was the worst week of my life. I couldn't get out of bed at all. Where I was hallucinating, and felt like I was going to die.

So if I can put up with that. Which is why I started meditation to control my senses.

I smoke marijuana.

 

[Padawanbater2]

So if I can put up with that. Which is why I started meditation to control my senses.

So if you can put up with that, what? It seems like you cut off your sentence short..

 

[Canna Sylvan]

I smoke marijuana.

It's the Canna Sylvan approved meditation aid.

 

[Canna Sylvan]

So if you can put up with that, what? It seems like you cut off your sentence short..

I forgot, sometimes stupid people read my written thoughts.

That, as in: "It was the worst week of my life. I couldn't get out of bed at all. Where I was hallucinating, and felt like I was going to die."

But I still needed something to fix what caused my THAT problem. Prescription meds didn't work. Ignoring the problems didn't work. Rather than seek Jesus or some other bullshit, I took up meditation.

Problem solved!

P.S.

This forum is supposed to be how people talk, rather than writing a high school essay. That's the kind of idiocy my teachers put me through, and the reason I write fiction.

Maybe I should add stuff like.

Canna Sylvan remarks to Padawan, "So if I could put up with that."

All of a sudden a giant earthquake hits and freaks him out. No big deal, it was much smaller than he thought, and actually just a big truck went by.

The post continues, without finishing the last thought, and forgets to end the sentence properly, but even though incomplete, still makes a complete point, "Which is why I started meditation to control my senses."

In the bedroom a woman lies seductively, and asks, "Will you please fuck me already. This freaky guy that looked like a wannabe Ernesto "Che" Guevara, asked if I was ever raped, and wanted to know all the intimate details. It turned me on, now put out my desire!"

.......

Nope, sorry, don't have time for that shit.

 

[heckler73]

I forgot, sometimes stupid people read my written thoughts.
Canna Sylvan remarks to Padawan, "So if I could put up with that."

All of a sudden a giant earthquake hits and freaks him out. No big deal, it was much smaller than he thought, and actually just a big truck went by.

The post continues, without finishing the last thought, and forgets to end the sentence properly, but even though incomplete, still makes a complete point, "Which is why I started meditation to control my senses."

In the bedroom a woman lies seductively, and asks, "Will you please fuck me already. This freaky guy that looked like a wannabe Ernesto "Che" Guevara, asked if I was ever raped, and wanted to know all the intimate details. It turned me on, now put out my desire!"

.......

Nope, sorry, don't have time for that shit.

Marijuana smokes me.

 

[BigNBushy]

I would agree to a certain extent, mind over matter, that sort of thing, but when it comes to something like heroin it's much more than that. I've never used it personally, but I'm sure the users can tell you there's a strong physical aspect to it as well as the mental struggle. I've heard people compare it to being hit with the flu for a couple weeks and it might be easy to argue from an outside perspective letting something like that effectively ruin or otherwise inhibit your progress in life is weak or deserving of judgment but I can say with pretty strong confidence that does nothing to solve anything.

Imo, people suffering from addiction deserve treatment and support during the entire time of their addiction and recovery, not jail time and conviction records

I only did actual heroin a few times, chemically morphine, oxymorphone, and oxycodone are not much different.

Local heroin is super weak, been stepped on too much. But a pharmaceutical is always the same strength and good to go.

I got my h from silk road, and it's better than an pill, but not wildly better.

Anyway, that immediate withdrawal is bad, you feel terrible, but they make medicine to get you through it without to much of a problem.

It's the post acute withdrawal symptoms that are the worst. Where the "dope sick" lasts a week, that paws stuff lasts months and months.

You dream about the shit.

That is where most people fail.

 

[desert dude]

I only did actual heroin a few times, chemically morphine, oxymorphone, and oxycodone are not much different.

Local heroin is super weak, been stepped on too much. But a pharmaceutical is always the same strength and good to go.

I got my h from silk road, and it's better than an pill, but not wildly better.

Anyway, that immediate withdrawal is bad, you feel terrible, but they make medicine to get you through it without to much of a problem.

It's the post acute withdrawal symptoms that are the worst. Where the "dope sick" lasts a week, that paws stuff lasts months and months.

You dream about the shit.

That is where most people fail.

Sounds like quitting smoking. Tobacco is the most addictive drug on the planet.

 

[schuylaar]

If I were black, I'd be more offended by your bullshit, and tell your lily white ass to STFU. Because I can handle my own battles and don't need a drug dealing super hero to "save" me. But I'm not black. Maybe black people do think you're they're hero.

i've noticed a recurring theme with you bunny..referring to members as "drug dealers".

note to self: you're posting on a weed growers site.

perhaps rollitup should reconsider your membership here?..members don't want to come here only to be disparaged by some broken down, out of work writer..who is in desperate need of a good fucking hamburger..

 

[abandonconflict]

I only did actual heroin a few times, chemically morphine, oxymorphone, and oxycodone are not much different.

Local heroin is super weak, been stepped on too much. But a pharmaceutical is always the same strength and good to go.

I got my h from silk road, and it's better than an pill, but not wildly better.

Anyway, that immediate withdrawal is bad, you feel terrible, but they make medicine to get you through it without to much of a problem.

It's the post acute withdrawal symptoms that are the worst. Where the "dope sick" lasts a week, that paws stuff lasts months and months.

You dream about the shit.

That is where most people fail.

When you start remaking sense of your life in order to deal with the underlying issues which led to your degenerate behavior and heroin addiction, you might realize that racism is fucking stupid. Stop being fucking stupid.

 

[abandonconflict]

i've noticed a recurring theme with you bunny..referring to members as "drug dealers".

note to self: you're posting on a weed growers site.

perhaps rollitup should reconsider your membership here?..members don't want to come here only to be disparaged by some broken down, out of work writer..who is in desperate need of a good fucking hamburger..

If I had a like button...

 

[Doer]

Canna, you think everyone is the same and we are not. I take a lot of drugs. And I have gone through many year long rotations to get it stabilized for what works for me. And as people see here, sometimes it still goes critical mass. And still I can tinker it back to stable.

The point is, recently I took a drug test. But this was the good kind, This was a new genetic test to see what works for me.

Weirdly, after the fact, the Dr and I could trace these years of trials and map the "Oh, of course that failed to work well." But we didn't know that, then.

We are all different especially with the Opiates. Oxy- of course, is different kind of addiction for many.

Some of this stuff could harm me if I am not careful about staying on the dose. Getting off may be possible but from what I see in the literature, not worth it, and somewhat dangerous.

Oh yeah, I have been practicing meditation for the last 40 years. It is why I keep calm in the struggle of existence. But drugs are why I live.