raynebc: I really don't understand why you even bother to post in here about politics. We understand the truth. Our opinions are based on the facts and on the United States constitution. Other opinions seem only based on emotions and deeply ingrained hatred, which tends to blind people from the facts, sadly.

When one side laughs at the other, and one side is angry at the other... I don't see any point in continuing. It's all just attacks back and forth with no meaningful dialog or interest in the truth. Neither side is going to change their point of view.

I see several points I am tempted to respond to, but then I realize, it didn't make any difference in the past, so it won't now. There will always be an argument back, or an excuse etc. Stating facts to people who are not interested in them is an utter waste of time and will only frustrate and anger you.

No matter what your political leanings are, the following senate hearing testimony should shock you and anger you... if you're honest anyhow.

Happened to me. I everything "right". I never had credit card debt. I got a "real" degree in ENGINEEERING. Lost my job because I couldn't keep up with the work. Lost my insurance because I didn't have a job.

Oh, and the super affordable "obamacare" wanted >$550 / month (that was like 8 years ago, it's gone up like 10-20% every year since then).

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Youtube has been well documented to suppress videos and manipulate result order for the same searches even depending on the country of the user's origin. I don't trust that Google doesn't manipulate things the same way. These big tech companies frequently change their products' behavior when they get called out by high profile users (mostly conservatives, since these companies have a left bias).

You're so enlightened but you don't even know how evolution works, wtf.

People have been vaping for 5 or 10 years without serious issue. Many of the recent vaping injuries occurred within people that had only been vaping for a matter of months or a year. Clearly, it's not the vaping that caused the harm, but what they're vaping or how.

And don't blame it all on cannabis/THC either. People have been smoking, vaping, eating, and absorbing cannabinoids from cannabis for thousands of years. The culprit is not the THC, but some other ingredient that is being abused by black market producers trying to maximize profits at the expense of their customer's health.

I buy all of my cannabis products from the government. For the past year and change I have been vaping cannabis flower. Actual flower buds that are dried and shipped to me whole. I bust them up and lightly pack the plant matter into a chamber which is then heated up to about oven temperatures and air passes through which carries the activated THC and CBD molecules. I inhale it, and the molecules are quickly absorbed into my blood stream and ultimately by receptors in my brain.

Just recently they made it legal to sell edibles and oils too. I recently bought a couple of disposable vape pens. They're very convenient. You just suck on them, and it activates automatically. Instead of flower the cannabinoids have been extracted into concentrate form. That is vaped directly by these pens. It's a different experience for sure. It was very convenient not having to constantly empty, clean, and reload my vaporizor. That said, I think that the oils/pens are more expensive at the end of the day (it's really hard to compare the price due to the difference in format/delivery).

I'll likely stick to the flower for now, but I don't think it'll be long before I invest in a 510 thread battery and some oil cartridges for it... That seems to be maybe a hair more affordable than the disposables. They look more or less the same as the cheap e-cigarettes that I bought 10 years ago to try to help my brother and sister-in-law quit smoking. I wasn't a huge fan. They were kind of flimsy and cheap and eventually the "juice" started leaking out of them. Hopefully in that time they've perfected the design though so that won't happen... Time will tell...

That would be vitamin E acetate.

Recreational drugs are far from the biggest health problem in the world (which is likely obesity), but smoking generally is not healthy. Vaping an appropriate liquid is safer than smoking, but is still less healthy than not smoking/vaping at all. Using vape pens as a medicine delivery system (comparable to a nebulizer) is what I'd consider an interesting way to make use of the technology.

At least that statistic is declining, if not fast enough. I'm not sure what the best solution would be, whether that's donating material support for affected countries' agriculture, further improving crop characteristics (drought/pest tolerance, yield size, etc) through genetic engineering, or something else.

I went to school with kids whose only meal during weekdays was the free lunch. They were malnourished.

It's not just a "third world country" problem, it's also a USA problem.

If entire countries can't produce enough food to affordably feed their citizens, that has to be fixed. Trucking in food for them indefinitely is a band-aid.

raynebec is your classic privileged American, the most suffering he's had is when he stubbed his toe.

Poverty in America? He's never experienced it so it doesn't exist. Ignorance is bliss.