If she were that stoned, she wouldn't have the attention span to do this Unless, as appears to be the case, she had a psychotic break.
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Bryn Spejcher, 32, from California, had only smoked pot five to 10 times
Audiologist stabbed herself with a bread knife after hearing voices in her head, killing Chad O'Melia, 31
READ MORE: Marijuana may be behind 30 percent of schizophrenia cases
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Modern law, people are not responsible for their acts, something else is. It all began when lawyers got away with blaming society for the acts of individuals.
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READ MORE: Marijuana may be behind 30 percent of schizophrenia cases
...I can vouch from dealing with someone I know that today's cannabis ain't yer daddy's ditch weed. This stuff has been genetically engineered for strength, and the vape cartridges are worse.
And heavy cannabis users who catch COVID have a worse problem - again, from bitter experience, when you combine Paxlovid with heavy duty cannabis, you can get a spectacular psychotic break. The individual I dealt with spent five days strapped to a bed in a psych ward until they could be trusted to not go berserk again. The EMT's and an MD I know and trust both confirmed this to me.
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Mike - had you read past the teetotaler sensational Reefer Madness Headlines, you may have bumped into the study's disclaimer:
The Danish epidemiology study does not offer hard-and-fast proof of the cannabis-schizophrenia connection.
At least the study I read - had this disclaimer.
And if I recall the facts, everyone in the study was already predisposed/diagnosed with schizophrenia, and the marijuana just helped the schizophrenia flare up.
Hippies I knew, never had dirt weed and werent prone to schizophrenia unless they were meth heads too.
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I once heard a doctor say that cigarette filters designed to reduce the amount of tar and nicotine the smoker inhales are totally ineffective because the smoker will simply light another cigarette until he/she gets the amount of nicotine that is required by their addiction.
I think it's likely the same with marijuana. If the weed these days is so potent, the smokers will simply smoke less of it than they did in the old days of cheap Mexican pot.
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Each side in the weed debate picks their own facts. I won't bother arguing with either side. Pro says it's actually "good for you," (false) Con says it's "as bad or worse than a full-blown psychotic off their meds," (false)
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Like alcohol and gambling, most people have no problem with pot. Also like alcohol and gambling, for the small percentage of humanity that is genetically predisposed to be damaged by it, the problems are life-destroying.
So to all of you who are fine, and who know nobody who has problems: Congratulations, you got all the blessings! A little sympathy those not so blessed would be nice.
[FoxNews] Authorities located 12 juvenile victims ranging from 11 to 17 years old, as well as one 2-month-old infant.
Federal and local officials have rescued 13 previously missing children, whom authorities determined to be at risk of human trafficking, in and around Memphis.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), which worked with the U.S. Marshals Service, Homeland Security Investigations, Memphis Police Department and Tennessee Department of Children’s Services on the two-day mission called "Operation Not for Sale," said officials were focused on locating children at risk of being trafficked.
"There may be children coming from an environment where they have been sexually abused, previously, in their life. But that might be their norm," Foster Care Institute founder and director, Dr. John DeGarmo, who works with child welfare agencies across the globe, told Fox News Digital when asked what makes a child at risk of being trafficked.
Those children may be coming from broken homes or foster care and "seek out love" elsewhere because they have not found it in their current lives. Those children can be easily "misled by predators" and "groomed" under false hopes and promises of better lives, DeGarmo said.
“This guy and this organization, whoever the members of that particular organization are, have been bad actors,” Newsom said. “We’ve been in a litigious posture for some time. They stopped paying their rent, they’re out of compliance, and as was stated yesterday … they have been subleasing this site to at least five, maybe as many as six tenants, without authorization from Caltrans or authorization from our federal partners.”
He can rely on the media to cover for him but think about what he says here. The state has been in a "litigious posture" with the lessee for some time. OK. But for that entire time the state's efforts to clean up the hazardous situation that was known to exist under the bridge were feeble and ineffective. The fire happened on state property on Newsom's watch. It's his responsibility. He has no one else to blame.
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All Cali's biggest fires happen mostly on state property and spill over to destroy private property.
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Did you ever notice that when you have communists you always have 'wreckers'?
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C'mon, everybody knows it was set by a MAGA operative...
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RE #9: additional testing on concrete and rebar showed better-than-anticipated structural integrity of the freeway deck.
As Frank G suggested earlier, the old-school construction seems to have held up better than more modern techniques. Like that bridge designed by girls, a perfectly lovely bridge mind you, that fell down awhile back while they were tensioning it. During morning rush hour.
Bass insisted there was no initial information that would link the fire to homeless people in the area, and she urged the public not to jump to that conclusion.
Fire under an overpass. Homeless people camping under an overpass. No information information at this point in time linking events together. Definitely don't want to jump to conclusions. But if they are lying at your feet, you might at least consider them.
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This is California. The permitting process will be a bad joke. The lawsuits haven't even started yet.
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Like that bridge designed by girls, a perfectly lovely bridge mind you, that fell down awhile back while they were tensioning it. During morning rush hour.
I don't know the designer team's makeup but you NEVER tension/retension over live traffic unless on 150% capacity falsework shoring. My local bridge engineering staff was sick of getting this drilled in by the time I retired
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[FoxBusiness] The sheriff of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,'s Sacramento County accused Target leaders of preventing deputies from thwarting shoplifting incidents despite the store requesting help to stymie rampant retail crime.
"We don’t tell big retail how to do their jobs, they shouldn’t tell us how to do ours," Sheriff Jim Cooper posted in a lengthy X post Thursday.
Cooper said Target, one of the largest retailers in the U.S., reached out to his office multiple times requesting assistance with shoplifters, who the sheriff said were frequently "known transients."
The sheriff’s office and Target worked to conduct an operation at the store to nab shoplifters, but the plan apparently crumbled after Target leaders made a list of rules for where and how deputies and detectives could arrest the suspects.
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Here in our GA. County area.
Stores hire off duty Sheriff Deputies for Loss Prevention duties, and or pay the Sheriffs Dept for what are called "specials" and park a deputy in a police car by the front door. We did not have even 1 LOOTING Self Gifted Undocumented Acquisition meeting during the LSD encourage enrich yourself social justice campaign.
[AFRICANEWS] The Goma Volcano Observatory (GVO), the scientific institute in charge of monitoring Nyiragongo and Nyamuragira volcanoes, has said that there has been intense lava lake activity in the central crater of the latter since November 4th but noted that the situation is not critical.
The activity is said to be concentrated in its crater at a depth of around twenty meters, according to the statement.
Nyamuragira is a volcano located in the western end of the Virunga volcanic province, in North Kivu.
Its last major eruption was in 2011 - its biggest eruption in 100 years.
Given these observations, the GVO said the alert level remains yellow, and to this end, the population is asked to remain calm and vigilant.
There are currently no threats to the city of Goma, where around 670,000 people live according to UN estimates.
Although, this comes at a time were the region is afflicted by ongoing armed conflicts between the M23 gang and Congolese government forces which has intensified since early October, particularly north of Goma, according to NGO Human Rights Watch.
The UN's International Organization for Migration reports a striking 6.9 million displaced people across the country the highest number recorded yet.
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A pyroclastic flow will settle most any 'ongoing armed conflict'.
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Skid - One of my favorite films growing up. This one and "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (the James Mason, Pat Boone version) set me on the path to becoming a geologist.
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So much for those "zero net carbon" data centers cooled by glaciers.
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Mt Saint Helens has seen the most activity since the eruption. Scientists concerned California's super volcano may erupt due to over 2,000 earthquakes in recent years.
Forget Italy’s most famous active volcano, Mt. Vesuvius, which destroyed Pompei in 79 AD.
The most dangerous volcanic threat in Italy right now is one you’ve probably never heard of: Campi Flegrei, or the Phlegraean Fields.
The last major eruption of Campi Flegrei was in 1538, and it created a new mountain in the bay. Seismic activity in the area has been intensifying since December of 2022, according to Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), and experts fear that the volcano could be reawakening after generations at rest.
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I'm sure that all this volcanic activity is caused by globe climate change. /sarcasm
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I'm waiting for Mt. Rainier to solve the Seattle problem.
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Was it placed in the locker as a 'transfer point' by someone for somebody or was it placed there by the Secret Service for safekeeping after taking fingerprints?
Looks like it was placed in locker for easy retrieval.
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It looks stupid. We used to at least hide it inside a magazine or under some books in the locker.
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Sure looks kind of funny seeing a lone bag of cocaine in a locker. Someone would have had to open the locker. Of course, any videos must be inconclusive. Fingerprints, too.
If you care enough to carry, carry enough.
[FoxNews] An armed female bystander in North Carolina rushed to the defense of a man who had just been shot in the face by an attacker, police said.
The Shelby Police Department said at about 6 p.m. last Monday, a man identified as Unterio M. Jolly, 33, got into a verbal altercation with another man along Smith Street in Shelby, the Shelby Star reported.
Capt. Seth Treadway said the two men eventually went their separate ways, but about 30 minutes later, Jolly reportedly tracked down the other man and confronted him with a gun.
Jolly then allegedly shot the other man in the face, police said.
The unnamed bystander then stepped in to defend the injured man, police said.
The woman was legally armed and had a concealed carry permit, police said.
Jolly is in critical but stable condition following the shooting, while the other man sustained non-life-threatening injuries, according to the Shelby Star.
Jolly was found to be the aggressor and is now facing charges of felony assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury, firearm by a felon and assault by pointing a gun.
[AFRICANEWS] The military government that overthrew President Ali Bongo Ondimba this summer announced on Monday (Nov. 13) that presidential and legislative elections will be held in August 2025, according to an "indicative" timetable to be validated by a national conference next April.
"August 2025: elections and end of the transition", announced the military power front man live on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
Gabon Première, listing an "official transition timetable (...) adopted by the Cabinet Meeting", but which remains "indicative". This timetable must still be submitted to a national conference including "all the nation's" vital actors scheduled for April 2024, according to the timetable.
Ali Bongo succeeded his father at the helm of Gabon. His 14-year rule was ended by military leaders on August 30, moments after he was proclaimed the winner in a presidential election, which both the army and the opposition declared fraudulent.
The military putschists had invoked 'obviously rigged' elections and 'corrupt' power in the family and close circle of the head of state to depose him and promise to "return power to civilians" through elections, at the end of a transition whose duration they had not yet announced.
The main opposition candidate in the election, Albert Ondo Ossa, initially called the coup a 'family affair' since coup leader General Brice Oligui Nguema is reportedly a relative of Bongo.
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The Eric Adams administration bused dozens of migrants to the makeshift tent facility at the Floyd Bennett Center in Brooklyn on Sunday
Many refused to stay and went back to The Roosevelt Hotel
DailyMail.com learned some of these families were sent to hotels again
A Bolivian migrant has called out fellow asylum seekers who refused to stay at a newly-built $20.8M tent shelter as New York City has ran out of hotel rooms.
The Eric Adams administration bused dozens of migrants to the makeshift tent facility at the Floyd Bennett Center in Brooklyn on Sunday - in the city's latest effort to keep up with a surge of asylum seekers that has seen over 139,000 arrive since last Spring.
But many of the families hopped right back on the bus after seeing the facility, and some were at The Roosevelt Hotel on Monday asking to be sent to a different shelter.
The 21-year-old woman from Bolivia - who has been staying at the shelter at the Randall's Island tent shelter for one month - said the conditions at tent facilities are not idea but she doesn't understand migrants who are complaining.
'They say they want a room but nobody asked for them to come here,' she told DailyMail.com on Monday.
Previously only single adults were being sent to tent shelters, and hotel rooms were reserved for families. Sunday was the first time the city sent families to the a tent-style shelter.
DailyMail.com spoke to a Venezuelan family who was sent to the Floyd Bennett Center on Sunday but refused to stay, claiming the facility was not appropriate for children.
'It was just like being at a migrant detention center, the beds were cots and it just wasn't a place for children so we immediately came back,' the Venezuelan mother who asked to not be named told DailyMail.com outside The Roosevelt Hotel.
'We didn't even know where we were going... the workers here who have been so kind didn't even know where we were headed, some even apologized to us today,' she added.
The family returned to The Roosevelt Hotel and was relocated to Kings Hotel in Brooklyn, one of dozens of hotels that have been turned into shelters to house migrants.
However, a spokesperson with the mayor's office told DailyMail.com these migrant families were allowed to return to their previous shelters because they had already been staying there and their children has started school.
In the future, those who do not want to stay at their assigned shelter will be asked to sign a waiver saying they agree to no longer be under the care of NYC, which has a right to shelter law.
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The 21-year-old woman from Bolivia - who has been staying at the shelter at the Randall's Island tent shelter for one month - said the conditions at tent facilities are not idea (sic) but she doesn't understand migrants who are complaining.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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