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[This piece will be appearing as a newspaper op/ed this week.] **************************** A question I sometimes ponder: would humankind be better off, or worse off, if alcoholic beverages had never been available for people to use? On the one hand,...
by AndySchmookler
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on Tue Feb 20, 2024 at 08:33 AM PST
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This Colorado State Open Thread highlights a growing industry in Colorado, that of craft distilling. For many years, Colorado has been a home to the craft brewing business, where people brew beer in ...
by ColoTim
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on Mon Feb 05, 2024 at 06:00 PM PST
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National Suicide and Crisis Hotline 988 (www.nimh.nih.gov/...) It is nearing the end of January. Nature has hit us pretty hard. We’ve already had out tenth winter storm come across the mainland U.S., and there’s still more to come. We’ve had two...
by Ben Kalom
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on Sat Jan 27, 2024 at 07:47 AM PST
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As a parent, I can attest that one of the more infuriating aspects of the so-called parental rights movement is the sheer, unmitigated gall these people display while they purport to act in the interests of other people’s children. In nearly every...
by Dartagnan
141 comments
on Fri Dec 29, 2023 at 08:34 AM PST
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Not much has changed in the booze-soaked kingdom in which it remains illegal to toke on a joint. It’s a great place to invest in the alcohol industry. The man on the ground shamelessly poses for a selfie while another holds a policeman’s helmet, and...
by Adventurist
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on Sun Dec 24, 2023 at 12:16 PM PST
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American adults cannot handle drug legalization OR drug criminalization By Mike Males Just in the last five years, a staggering 771,000 Americans ages 21 and older have died from drug and alcohol abuse. That’s the entire adult population of a major...
by mmales
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on Mon Dec 11, 2023 at 11:02 AM PST
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Good morning gardeners!
Here is a reminder of the�spring that will eventually arrive for those of us in the colder viewing areas (although it’s been a record breaking warm winter here in SW ...
by Mentha
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on Sat Feb 17, 2024 at 06:00 AM PST
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www.rawstory.com/… United States Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) issued a veiled threat toward Anheuser-Busch – the parent company of Bud Light – on Wednesday's edition of her podcast, proclaiming that the "right mob" will seek its...
by ca cokz
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on Tue Apr 18, 2023 at 03:28 PM PDT
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I’ve loved baseball since I was a kid. I collected cards & played Dice Baseball with my own rules & NO UMPIRES. The game has changed & not for the better. I want to see Barry Bonds & Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame before they croak. I don’t want to see...
by ottovr
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on Tue Oct 11, 2022 at 06:16 PM PDT
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The fur trade was an important part of the economic history of North America and incorporated American Indian economies into a larger world economy. With the fur trade, Native Americans gained ...
by Ojibwa
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on Thu Mar 10, 2022 at 07:34 AM PST
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To All Our People, Tribal Leaders, and Governments: We have increasingly been adopting the ways of those who were our adversaries, oppressors, and deceivers. When Handsome Lake had his vision of the Four Mind-changers his vision proved accurate beyond...
by Ushka Waso
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on Sat Feb 12, 2022 at 07:03 AM PST
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This book is dedicated to the memory of my teacher, my mentor, my friend, and a true brother in spirit (De`no’de’ nok`ta), Joe “White Feather” Massey. Without his instruction and introduction to the Medicine Wheel philosophy, this book would not have...
by Ushka Waso
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on Mon Jan 17, 2022 at 10:33 AM PST
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Quebec’s Health Minister has it figured out: According to the New York Daily News , Quebec’s Health Minister Christian Dube announced on Jan. 6, that citizens would be required to show proof ...
by Eyesbright
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on Wed Jan 12, 2022 at 11:00 AM PST
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For a network that’s been huffing Donald Trump’s underpants nonstop for the past five years, this is pretty rich. For some reason, Fox News decided it was newsworthy—and perhaps somewhat untoward—for a group of gold medal Olympians to throw back a few...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Tue Aug 10, 2021 at 11:06 AM PDT
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In another lifetime, nearly two decades ago, I took my first and only drug test for a job. By any standards, I failed it; in a bout of desperation, I’d smoked a couple bowls with one of my best friends about two weeks earlier, when I was sure I hadn’t...
by Jessica Sutherland
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on Sat Jul 03, 2021 at 08:23 AM PDT
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Governance Sep 21 Guardian UK plans an all-male team to host next year’s Cop26 UN climate summit... ...flouting international norms and angering activists and observers, who say the lack of gender balance imperils progress on key issues… ...politicians...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Sep 26, 2020 at 04:55 PM PDT
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G. Alan Marlatt did an experiment to test the effect of alcohol. He divided his subjects into four groups: one group drank a tonic and were told it was tonic, one drank alcohol and were told it was tonic, one drank tonic and were told it was...
by SolarKitty
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on Sat Aug 08, 2020 at 08:59 AM PDT
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Alcohol consumption has gone up during stay-at-home restrictions. Going to bars, though, hasn't proven to be safe in terms of avoiding Covid-19. But who likes to drink alone? Here are five sober but unreasonable ideas to eventually make going to a...
by Thomas Hailey Kloecker
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on Sat Jul 11, 2020 at 09:31 AM PDT
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IMPOTUS has tried to deflect blame to the World Health Organization for his own failures to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. He has announced plans to cut U.S. funding for the W.H.O. So it should come as no surprise that he is woefully unaware of...
by Charles Jay
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on Fri Apr 24, 2020 at 10:44 AM PDT
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I had to do a double-take when I saw the president asking about injecting disinfectant and using light to somehow treat a virus that has invaded the body. Does he not understand that to some those words coming out of the president's mouth is deemed to...
by Egberto Willies
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on Fri Apr 24, 2020 at 08:44 AM PDT
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