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I've recently written a few rants about cannabis legalization in Canada and harm reduction in BC . Exploring these themes further, I just came across three new papers investigating mental health emergencies induced by cannabis consumption. All super interesting. The first study is titled Association between non-medical cannabis legalization and emergency department visits for cannabis-induced psychosis. Led by Dr Myran , a family physician with the Ottawa Hospital Research I

I’ve been shocked by the response to Israel’s declaration of war and actions in Gaza. Of course, I’m not talking about the masses making...

I almost fell over reading this story in the news this morning: Indonesia enlists help of experts for ICJ Israel case. The Foreign Ministry has assembled a team of experts to help formulate Indonesia’s arguments in an International Court of Justice (ICJ) advisory case that seeks to hold Israel accountable for its 'policies and practices' in the occupied Palestinian territories. https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2024/01/16/indonesia-enlists-help-of-experts-for-icj-israel-ca

These tweets are from the accounts of directors of Middle Eastern studies, investigative journalists, media companies, Palestinian...

Between 1892 and 1954 around 12 million people immigrated to the US via the immigration station at Ellis Island, New York. And any scan...

A FEW BASIC FACTS AND THINGS I NEVER HEAR Choose the answer that best fits your understanding of the situation If you don't know the...

The United States and 21 other countries pledged on Saturday at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai to triple nuclear energy...

NO CEASEFIRE November 1st Hamas official Ghazi Hamad stated that Hamas would “repeat the October 7th attacks time and again until Israel...

The strongest arguments I hear about the Palestine-Israel conflict relate to “occupation.” Folks like Dr Munayyer, Dr Knight, and Dr...

Someone who has disliked what I’ve been writing lately (someone in great company: a party comprised of my wife and effectively all my...

Those conformists (sometimes known as “academics”) who provide all the cultural, intellectual, and linguistic justifications for murder —...

“Not every German who bought a copy of Mein Kampf necessarily read it … But it might be argued that had more non-Nazi Germans read it before 1933 and had the foreign statesmen of the world perused it carefully while there was still time, both Germany and the world might have been saved from catastrophe.”

How do you make sense of what’s happening? What I’m seeing are officials, news reporters, and protesters alike quick to demand folks draw a strong distinction between Hamas and Palestine, the people of Palestine and the terrorist wing of Hamas. What we have here are “a few bad apples”, or so they say. But notice this proclamation isn’t anything like a principle the folks offering such believe in or run with in other contexts. In fact, they’re perfectly happy painting whole na

You will be delighted to learn I received much push-back on my last submission. Aside from some interesting comments, I was sent several...

I've heard and seen some wild shit this week. (Though I probably shouldn't, I'll leave out the most insane anti-Semitic noise and...

No part of the narrative forming around this story even makes sense. That CBC is pushing this silly idea is, well, no surprise. With the...

Though I bought "A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency" the moment it came out, back in 2020, only now did I finish reading it. (You should go buy five copies.) Obviously, as the title suggests, it's a book about transforming our society with a reorientation toward a concern for climate and addressing the problems we face. In spelling out just how all this will work, the author starts by quoting Gramsci.* And, well, it goes downhill fast from there. Among ma

During the Red Scare and adjacent insanity , that terrible decade of right-wing propaganda, paranoia, and political persecution born of...