There are thematic convergences today, and I'll celebrate the phenomenon by making this a new post.
Here's what George just sent me, a propos of the mention of Howard Dean in the first post of the day, and with no awareness that I was working on a post about the monetization of the legalization of cannabis:
Former Gov. and physician Dean sits on the board of Tilray, a publicly traded company affiliated with Anheuser-Busch that bills itself as a "global cannabis-lifestyle and consumer packaged goods company" that sells alcoholic beverages and hemp-based foods, i.e. dope itself in the form of mints, chocolates, etc. (Vodka, by the same way of thinking, would be a 'grain-based beverage.')
So, here is a family medicine practitioner selling booze and pot, which is far, far, far, stronger than anything he may have used as a teenager and causes scromiting, the mysterious new condition that causes screaming and vomiting in a third of dope users, according to a 2015 (!) study reported in Health.com.
“Then it became pretty obvious that poor kids of color with bad educations, they already had three strikes against them and the fourth was having a joint,” said [family medicine doctor] Dean [in 2019]. “Which after all is probably not as bad as alcohol.”
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2 comments:
Temujin writes:
"I believe Dr. Dean had the first publicly displayed case of 'scromiting' years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j6xm7e5bJo
"But that was too easy. It's bizarre how your posts sometimes merge into each other. It's almost as if there's a 'six degrees of separation' factor in blogging. All blogs are 6 or fewer posts away from being about the same topic or person."
Hugh writes:
"I think that 6 degrees of separation covers a huge span and the prior commenter shouldn’t be surprised. Think of how many 6th cousins you have in the world (and does anyone other than a British peer have any idea who might be a 6th cousin?). Or think about how I, a lowly banker far from Hollywood or entertainment connections, am only 2 degrees separated from the emblematic Kevin Bacon, as his sister was my customer when I was in Baltimore decades ago. So now you are only 3 degrees separated from him when you play 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon."
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