I swear that's just as a status symbol.

"Look at me, I can afford to drive through London at a snail's pace and pay through the nose for the pleasure of doing so, then be unable to park even at enormous expense"

They won't do that would they? Make lies on the internet?

https://youtu.be/FOi05zDO4yw oh.

...that's not the job of the president? Since when does the president choose how tax dollars are spent?

I mean "power of the purse" is explicitly a congressional power and when Biden tried to cancel student loans (which strictly speaking isn't actually giving money it's more like declining to ask for owed money) he got sued and it got stopped because he's explicitly not allowed to dictate how tax dollars are spent.

But people do!

We need more Ted Lassos in the world.

Duh, restrict cannabis to prescription forms produced by Big Pharma. No sweat, since the War On Unprofitable Drugs marches on in some places.

Reminds me of Japanese soldiers on remote islands still fighting WW2 years after everyone else went home.

lol seriously what are they talking about? He's just being super nice like he always is and she's being a therapist who is doing her best to set strict boundaries with a person who tends to be very touchy feely with everyone.

Agreed - I've never detected even a slight hint of romantic tension, in any way

Fix shit not host TV shit.

Here's to hoping this law was a baby step, and they will grow to leaps and bounds!

That's why you shouldn't be a prime minister

If it gets legalized in absolutely trying this. If it gets legalized I could grow my own. With adhd meds there's always "it will cost so much money if I ever don't have insurance for some time" (has happened before, my answer tends to be to stop taking it) and also that you have to go to the doctor a lot to renew it

Another news, the AMA redouble their efforts to battle Medical Marijuana.

Someone who works at MIT should know better.

- Signed a former employee of MIT Research & Engineering.

>The authors highlighted that financial relationships between opioid manufacturers and physicians that prescribe opioids can be multi-faceted, with direct payments coming in the form of “consulting and speaker fees, conference travel reimbursements, or meal vouchers.”

Won't someone think of the poor Opioid producers?!

Of course i know that, I work at MIT, not Walmart. But that doesn't mean that i approve of everything that goes on in university research. I feel if a private equity company wants to invest in research they're going to want to see profit back, that's it. No profit no company, or like SVB, no tech Bank when the techs are struggling.

I believe that if the government invests in research, or if the government/defense has a breakthrough that they are sharing for the good of "the people" than the government needs to have its money paid back, or more likely, a share of the profits. Otherwise the government is investing in research while companies that will benefit from and get rich, are in effect being subsidized by the government.

I know the argument: that all of society benefits, companies get rich, floats all boats, but when i was born our debt was at 0.5trillion,when I graduated from high school the national debt was 1.5 trillion, and today it's at 33trillion. We can't keep spending and printing money as the debt will never come due.

If the govt was making residuals from the technology that it helped develop and gave away to companies that did profit, our dept would be much less. The defense dept put satellites into orbit and developed GPS. Does Garmin and Google maps pay the government for usage?

The government funded almost $30billion in COVID vaccine research, while Moderna made over 18b, while Pfizer showed record profits of $100B, with $57B from COVID in just one year, but those profits will stretch out years. I'd just like to see the government (my government) have some of its (my) money reimbursed and I'd like to see it's investment (with my tax dollars) earn revenue downstream, so the (my) government in in better shape moving fed. The drug companies still make money. I just don't think that the government is a bottomless pit of free money, and given what we spend on technological development, we should be in a better position to reap some real reward to help the bottom line.

Yeah, I have a clue, I just don't always agree with the party line.

As we sit on the precipice of another bank collapse and depression, it seems a lot of people very high up, that should have a clue, as it's their job, in fact don't.

So don't act as if this is an easy fix or that we should keep going the way it's been going, because there are a lot of people that can see that things are not working very well and in the long run things will have to change.

We are in agreement.

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Its not an argument, it’s a fact. The sky is blue, shall I list my sources? It’s not my job to educate you. You posted an ill informed comment. Spend less time on Reddit and more time researching the topics you feel compelled to comment on.

Hell yeah growmie. I usually have plenty of trim to make a couple pounds of some potent ass butter after harvest, so it never feels like a waste anyways. But if you don't like to "waste" bud you could always invest in a dry herb vape, keep the used bud and just use that when you get enough. Don't even have to decarb

Equal? What does that mean? What on this fucked up planet is equal? And when I posted, I'm saying that I literally see it every day. This has nothing to do with the people. It has to do with "you lend me support for my fucked up bill and maybe I'll entertain yours when it hits this side of the capitol building".

I'm not republican or democrat. I'm saying that it's fucked up on both sides and when it comes to "business" it's never "equal". Every vote has an agenda behind it.

Is...is Hunter going to be there? Crack isn't good for mental health.

Medical marijuana shouldn’t go to these companies, it should be outright legal no restrictions so the pharmaceuticals can’t get a dollar from the people.

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