I responded to this post already, but I was inspired after posting to do some (mind altering ) research. Since I last looked a year ago, at least 4 shiny new retail marijuana stores have opened in my vicinity. Still not in my specific town, but all within 10-15 minutes drive. Three of them were monster-sized stores, larger than a typical 'high street' retail store, and absolutely full of an overwhelming variety of products - gummies, tinctures, flower ('bud'), vape cartridges, etc, well staffed with helpful, knowledgeable staff (it's still rather 'other-worldly' for me to have a serious conversation in a public retail store with a 'shop assistant' about the different effects of 'Maui Wowie' vs 'Mango Haze' bud!). One store carries over 300 varieties of 'flower' alone, plus over 100 'tinctures' (liquid concentrates), hundreds of 'gummies', and more. This is one key difference between the 'legal' market and the illegal market; you can't 'browse' the illegal market in a retail store (or on a publicly available website)! I ended up buying a bunch of different products with the primary aim of getting a good night's sleep; this was my one-day shopping haul ...


That's two 'tinctures' (liquid concentrates), (one appropriately named 'drift off'), four packs of 'gummies' (three aimed at sleep), some tablets, and another pack of gummies aimed at sleep (appropriately named 'lights out'). I'm slowly experimenting with each one to see which one will send me off to sleep the best.

Also, it's worth noting that prior to the major legalization push around the US, 80% of all marijuana grown in California was sold outside of California - basically, California was the marijuana growing center of the country, which makes sense based on climate. Legalization is slowly chipping away at that illegal industry, but - these growers will never be able to legally sell their product outside of CA (at least, not until Federal law allows marijuana sales and transportation across state lines) so there's almost zero chance that California will ever see a conversion of most growers to legal status. So if you are a grower in CA, you either stay illegal, or accept that your target market is now only 20% of what it was previously, and hope the extra revenue (from legal sales) makes up for the difference. Growers are in a tough position.

Amazed to see this has not been posted here yet…

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/...y-six-year-old

Ahem...

WTF in America

but more so here

We are doomed. Current plan is to make schools in that area like airports with metal detectors and all that. Oh guns, how much freedumb you give us

Am I cynical to want to know the race of the shooter… because they were not killed by SWAT… and there is usually a rave based correlation there… I guess it being a 6 year old may override that anyway…

I was just about to say that while I wasn't a fan of raves I wouldn't have read anything like that into it.

And then the penny dropped...

The report I read said that the child had already been restrained by another adult (teacher?) when the police arrived on the scene. So there was no need for further police action to restrain and remove him.

interesting that you classify shooting a suspect as restraining them… I have seen that argument made for choking them etc, but not shooting… reading between the lines of the story it sounds like the teacher was going for the gun as she was shot… since it says she was shit in the hand and body with a single shoot and the fact she cleared the room without any further shots… at that age they usually have an aid in class so it sounds like they were restraining tue suspect as the shot teacher evacuated the room…

I have no idea what you're talking about. If the six year old was shot, that's news to me!

The kids parents have absolutely no excuse for this and should do jail time not to mention picking up the tab for medical expenses, any disability and time loss from work. Even the NRA would have trouble spinning this to not support those payments.

I doubt they would want to set that precedent….

more likely they would say that if the teacher had been armed as well she could have shot her 6 year old student to neutralize the threat…

Perhaps this should be in a "Brits do the darndest things" thread, but I figured it might slide into the WTF genre!

Family originally from Manchester buy a $1.5M fire-damaged mansion in Tenn.

Should be nice when it's done.

Would it be cynical of me to guess that he's hoping to pay for the restoration through his plan to 'document the transformation' on his YouTube channel?