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Piss tests force you incriminate yourself. The draconian drug laws are designed to allow your boss to hold you hostage.Henry Ford barred his employees from drinking.This is why unions are critical.What I do on my time is my business. Not my employers. Healthcare is another means of holding labor hostage.Universal medical coverage would embolden exploited workers to quit or strike.We are already prisoners. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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I have to get the hell away from the smoke PDQ.

Fortunately, I'm not at the Epipen level. Yet. But it gets worse with every passing year.

I looked up "reactive airway disease" and that sounds exactly like me. (Thanks Schmoozan Salamander!) Since I have asthma to begin with, it is probably what I've got.

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I live in Oregon.

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Black pepper is good. Most dishes are improved by a bit of it. Things I like with LOTS of black pepper:Grits (with bacon and cheese)Chicken & dumplingsBeans & ham hocks (with cornbread)

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Reclassifying cannabis can be done long before a legalization bill makes it through Congress.

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Alaska Legislatures have rescinded at least 2 citizen ballot initiatives in the past 20 years here.

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I didn't dispute that. What I dispute is that Joe Biden would do so.But, never say "never."It's posdible. Biden is a political realist. The momentum is building, and there's a shitload of potential tax revenue there.

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They'd rather be dying from COVID!

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Well, and whites who were part of the jazz scene. Might as well be POC, right? Damn hippies.

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Spice of the gods.

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Imo the entire controlled substances act should be shitcanned.

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And we watch another state, with a single question in our minds. Will the citizens, or won't they, realize they are being fucked by the Republicans? Not in the happy fun time way, but you know, the Republican way.

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All human laws are unnatural and cannibalism is natural. Natural means nothing, it is always a bad argument used by fuzzy thinkers.

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Weed often makes me nauseous.

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You don't have to be naked, you can wear a kilt, skirt, or dress.

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One of my SD friends could not exist there without cannabis.

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