@lpryszcz@genomic.socialI started reading "How to change your mind" by Micheal Pollan, a book about #psychedelics.
Already in the prolog it touches on the importance of the set and the setting, our internal mood and surrounding environment, for a "good" trip.
#drugs
@fathermcgruder@jorts.horseThere are many husband and wife podcasts, but this one is ours and we have a new episode.
#podcast #selfhosted #drugs #music
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caNot widely reported yet, but this could be important in any and all election campaigns. A judge is tasking government with creating a non-medical safe-supply drug program!
”Kalicum and Nyx were convicted of trafficking last year after admitting to buying the pure drugs on the dark web, then selling them to their members.
Murray’s ruling says that running such a safer-supply program was precisely what the applicants were doing and that formed the basis of the criminal charges against them.
She says the applicants in this case have borne the burden of bringing a successful constitutional challenge, doing a public interest service at considerable cost to themselves.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #BCPoli #Drugs #Fentanyl #Courts #Law #CharterofRightsandFreedoms
https://globalnews.ca/news/12076969/how-will-bc-supreme-court-rule-on-activists-trafficking-convictions/
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca"The number of people that come before the courts that are mentally ill, that are seriously drug addicted, who have brain damage, often from the use of methamphetamine, is substantially different from when I started as a judge 30 years ago and I think that has to be recognized," he said.
In a social media post, Gove’s cousin Aaron Chapman said Gove left a considerable impact on Vancouver and the wider province, adding that his family is intensely proud of him.
#BCPoli #Law #Courts #Compassion #Drugs #ChildWelfare
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-judge-who-championed-child-welfare-and-vancouver-s-community-court-dead-at-79-9.7351349
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caWe were at the hospital again yesterday for @Tree. Another rough day. We made it home after a few hours in the ER and she is OK now, sleeping off the experience.
The hospital and ER were full so while we were there we had a range of people flow through the beds beside us. An older gentleman with heart problems, a drunk man with heart problems, and a young woman, quietly crying for hours, coming down after an opioid overdose, confused and scared and hopeless. Occasionally sharp and upset, but mostly just quietly crying, talking.
It is so sad the human suffering we have allowed our society to tolerate.
I am so grateful we have good people; doctors, nurses, care aids, clerks, attendants, paramedics, even kind security guards and police, taking care of people. And I am glad all this is done without concern for financial ability to pay.
I wish our system was better in so many ways, not least in the ways it could help Tree. But in other ways, it is very good, and doesn’t get credit for just how good it is. Most of that is down to the people within it.
Most people, especially detached from money or power, are good. This is reinforced for me everytime I go to the hospital and see the random strangers that are there for every conceivable reason.
They just want to be happy, be secure, be with family, be occupied, be healthy.
That’s what I see at the hospital. People wanting to be happier, and people trying to make that happen for them.
I hope one day that young lady finds the people she needs to help her stop crying.
#healthcare #hospitals #bcpoli #canada #opioids #drugs #fentanyl #canpoli
