Yeti101
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(Note: it's not my theory)
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I'll have to dig around for it, but I know there has been talk of better way of dealing with the driving question. In the interim, it would be good for people to write to Senator Di Natale etc. to voice support, and/or write to their various representatives (at both state and federal level) to suggest they adopt a similar policy.
Going to be an interesting couple of years. The cultural influence of California might be considerable.
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In Colorado they have a set blood-THC level - see http://norml.org/legal/item/colorado-drugged-driving and https://www.codot.gov/safety/alcohol-and-impaired-driving/druggeddriving/marijuana-and-driving for more details. It's not ideal, as for some people 5ng/ml is not significantly impairing. I've read that for most people, THC falls to below that threshold in about 3 hours. Edit: I just read that some people recommend 10 hours, just to be sure, and to get a good night's sleep. I doubt it would be worse than the current situation in NSW, where any detectable amount can land you in court.
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Related story: I don't know that it's ideal, as I haven't seen the policy detail, but there might be some movement as the Greens are (finally) ditching their opposition to legalisation http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/greens-in-radical-new-drug-legalisation-push-20161126-gsy5ee.html
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Staunch gardening, or in my case, a staunch end to the uni year, can keep people from posting. That, and our demographic has changed a bit - none of us are getting any younger, and life, family, career, etc can be distracting.
Expectations are different too. When this form started, it was almost the only game in town. Now people can stick to their facebook/twitter/reddit echo chambers and avoid any divergent opinions - something you can't do here.
The arc of discovery has changed. We've utilised the work of previous ethnobotanists and chemists to such an extent that the easy discoveries have all been made. And where once we would shout our new teks, or obscure article finds, from the rooftop, now we carefully guard our knowledge, lest we bring the wrath of conservatism down on us.
Still, we carry on, and I think there is a bright future for this place - even if it seems a bit tough at the moment.
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Peddle? You didn't approve of prop 64 @Responsible Choice ? It's not ideal, but this:
QuotePossession of up to an ounce of cannabis is now legal for all adults 21 and over, as is the cultivation of up to six plants. Any marijuana grown from those plants is legal to possess.
sounds like an improvement over our current situation to me.
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"Why is self-control, autonomy, such a threat to authority? Because the person who controls himself, who is his own master, has no need for an authority to be his master. This, then, renders authority unemployed. What is he to do if he cannot control others? To be sure, he could mind his own business. But this is a fatuous answer, for those who are satisfied to mind their own business do not aspire to become authorities." - Thomas Szasz in Ceremonial Chemistry (1985)
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Well, this could get interesting.
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You've all probably seen this already, but just in case:
FYI, there's an unsatisfying video challenge here: http://unsatisfying.tv/
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OK, so maybe not everyone - maybe it's my poor choice of reading material, but I've seen 3 articles on him in the past few days - at least one academic outlining the outlandishly unlikely circumstances under which he might steal the presidency from both Trump and Clinton. If I've got this right, McMullin needs to win in Utah (6 EC votes), and then Clinton and Trump need to both fall short of 270, then the House votes on who they want - or something like that. Sounds complicated. In this specific case there's a conspiracy of politics academics trying to get airtime by making crazy predictions (if nothing else).
I'd agree it's total side-show though.
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What's the go with this Evan McMullin everyone's talking about?
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I mentioned this to some people recently and, to my surprise, it seemed to resonate with some of them in their search for truth.
The Principle of Charity is a methodological practice in philosophy. It is that when we seek to understand a point of view or argument, we seek to understand that view in it's best/strongest/most persuasive form. Sometimes this involves a bit of reconstruction or filling of logical gaps. Once you've made the most sensible/understandable version of a view that you can, then you can set about evaluating and, if necessary, criticising it (philosophy isn't all hugs & puppies). There's important technical reasons for this, but I like some of the non-technical ones I've read:
This attitude, if maintained, frees the conditioned mind and enables it to absorb and understand the new.
Interpret unto others as you would have them interpret unto you.
So I think there's both pragmatic (aides understanding) and moral (respect and reciprocity) reasons why this might be a good approach.
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I mean, there's the obvious more recent offerings like Samsara, but for my money, nothing beats the 1951 version of Alice in Wonderland (definitely not the modern one). Awesome, but somehow more terrifying to 17-year-old, extremely stoned self than Candyman. Also, Adaptation was pretty good, if extremely confusing.
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No idea if this will be any good, but Uni of Newcastle is running a free (or cheap for the certificate) online course in the basics of natural history illustration:
https://www.edx.org/course/drawing-nature-science-culture-natural-newcastlex-nhi101x#!
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I think @Marty Achuma said somewhere that the interim decision is scheduled to come out tomorrow. So perhaps we'll have a better idea of what's happening sometime soon.
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Anyone going/thinking of going to This That http://www.thisthat.com.au/ on the Newcastle foreshore Nov 5? I found out about it by accident, but thought it might be a bit of fun if I was in the area at the time...
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"So many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible."
From one traveller in Wonderland to another, Happy Birthday
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This has been coming for a while - but no one wanted to believe it would happen - and I suspect some people had a vested interest in hosing down rumours of a coming prohibition. It's certainly going to worsen the already dire opioid issues in the states. I hope people who are in a desperate situation don't get wiped out by the illicit and RC opioids that will try to fill the gap in the market.
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WTF?
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I might be able to do it - just for the day at least - looks like being a big weekend
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I used to be able to see name change history but can't seem to now - is this feature now non-functional?
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Seems to be some confusion over what is actually happening. It's certainly true that Turkey is getting grumpy with Austria over the reporting of this too.
Normally I'd prefer to read the original decision before jumping to conclusions, but that might be difficult in this case (for me at least). On the face of it, based on what the Hurriyet Daily reported, that's pretty bad.
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Thinking of buying Goat Simulator. Is there something wrong with me?
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Watch this space
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Not sure - I can't imagine that anxiety would make taking such a test any easier. If you failed the test due to anxiety, but had no THC in your system, I can't imagine you'd get in much trouble.
I'd hope some reasonable arrangement could be made. If it means I have to go on a roster of designated drivers for my friends who are more regular smokers, I can live with that
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