MSimon wrote:
The Jews are holding the land without American help. That is more than you can say about Iraq. But Americans do get nice things out of the relationship. Weapons development and live fire exercises. Intel and M'soft. And Raphael Mechoulam at no extra cost. BTW you might note Israel is developing relationships with India and China. I think they can see the handwriting on the wall.
BTW we could fill most of our budget hole if we went whole hog into applying cannabinoids to medicine.
The problems are not insoluble. Just intractable.
Reading the thread I had been pleasantly surprised that you were discussing a topic and *NOT* steering it into a discussion about weed. And then I got to this comment.
Sigh.
‘What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.’
— Lord Melbourne —
Weren't the original total number of Palestinians displaced by the Israeli's around 60,000, but the birth rate per Palestinian women around X10 for a couple of generations now. I've heard European commentators claim the Israeli policy towards them is genocide and the Gaza is a death camp, however it has the highest birthrate in the world.
MSimon wrote:
The Jews are holding the land without American help. That is more than you can say about Iraq. But Americans do get nice things out of the relationship. Weapons development and live fire exercises. Intel and M'soft. And Raphael Mechoulam at no extra cost. BTW you might note Israel is developing relationships with India and China. I think they can see the handwriting on the wall.
BTW we could fill most of our budget hole if we went whole hog into applying cannabinoids to medicine.
The problems are not insoluble. Just intractable.
Reading the thread I had been pleasantly surprised that you were discussing a topic and *NOT* steering it into a discussion about weed. And then I got to this comment.
Sigh.
What have you got against yourself? Your body is full of cannabinoids. You are against the discussion of medicine? What? 2AG is not a proper topic of discussion? You got some funny prejudices.
BTW the medical use of cannabinoids if fully developed could fill most of our budget hole. They regulate every system in the body.
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.
choff wrote:Weren't the original total number of Palestinians displaced by the Israeli's around 60,000, but the birth rate per Palestinian women around X10 for a couple of generations now. I've heard European commentators claim the Israeli policy towards them is genocide and the Gaza is a death camp, however it has the highest birthrate in the world.
The birth rate differential is propaganda.
And Gaza is a death camp because they sent suicide bombers into Israel. So the Israelis sealed them off. The people of Gaza got what they voted for. A continuous war with the Israelis. War makes some places unlivable. But that is what the Gazans voted for.
The Arabs elsewhere in Israel are doing better.
BTW any idea why Egypt gas it in for the Arabs of Gaza?
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.
MSimon wrote:
The Jews are holding the land without American help. That is more than you can say about Iraq. But Americans do get nice things out of the relationship. Weapons development and live fire exercises. Intel and M'soft. And Raphael Mechoulam at no extra cost. BTW you might note Israel is developing relationships with India and China. I think they can see the handwriting on the wall.
BTW we could fill most of our budget hole if we went whole hog into applying cannabinoids to medicine.
The problems are not insoluble. Just intractable.
Reading the thread I had been pleasantly surprised that you were discussing a topic and *NOT* steering it into a discussion about weed. And then I got to this comment.
Sigh.
What have you got against yourself? Your body is full of cannabinoids.
I didn't like being made to go to church either. I rebel against people trying to force me to "improve" my morals.
MSimon wrote:
You are against the discussion of medicine? What? 2AG is not a proper topic of discussion? You got some funny prejudices.
BTW the medical use of cannabinoids if fully developed could fill most of our budget hole. They regulate every system in the body.
Yeah? Not so much.
Recreational Pot Not Bringing In Tax Money That Was Expected
DENVER (CBS4) – High hopes for tax money isn’t as expected as the state’s legal marijuana industry isn’t bringing in as much money as anticipated. In fact, tax revenue is way below expectations.
DENVER (CBS4) – High hopes for tax money isn’t as expected as the state’s legal marijuana industry isn’t bringing in as much money as anticipated. In fact, tax revenue is way below expectations.
1. With the current tax rate the black market black market is cheaper.
2. People would rather grow their own.
3, There are not as many pot smokers as estimated. Or they don't use as much as estimated. Or both.
4. Some people are still not comfortable having their purchases recorded.
It does give law enforcement more time to go after murders, rapists, robbers, car hijackers, and assorted real miscreants.
The real benefit will come from things like eliminating some (all?) cancers and other assorted dysfunctions of the endocannabinoid systems of the body.
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.
But you say all these things would not come true,
1. With the current tax rate the black market black market is cheaper.
2. People would rather grow their own.
3, There are not as many pot smokers as estimated. Or they don't use as much as estimated. Or both.
4. Some people are still not comfortable having their purchases recorded.
Black market would be unprofitable.
It would be a taxable business not a grow your own fest
More people would be smokers
I will let number four slide because I do not even like my legal purchases recorded.
or are these Growing Pains
I am not a nuclear physicist, but play one on the internet.
choff wrote:I've heard European commentators claim the Israeli policy towards them is genocide and the Gaza is a death camp, however it has the highest birthrate in the world.
That's obviously and stupidly wrong and makes one wonder by what these commentators are having their perspective twisted. If the Israeli policy toward the Palestinians were genocide, they would all have died the week after that policy were made. Israel could easily squash them like a bug. Any commentator who fails to realize this is too stupid for their job.
"Courage is not just a virtue, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." C. S. Lewis
If Gaza is intended as an Israeli run death camp, it is among the most incompetently run death camps in history. Neither are the residents headed towards extinction, nor are they used as slave labor by Israel.
The daylight is uncomfortably bright for eyes so long in the dark.
Growing Pains