Pomegranate Seeds

These scenarios may include:

Moving around folks who are already spooked or easily-startled

Approaching people who you absolutely do not want to alarm, such as people with poor spatial awareness, people experiencing paranoia or a panic attack, folks who are very focused on a different thing, people handling dangerous chemicals or machinery

When you very urgently need to get somewhere and there are people in your way

Any other time when you require others to be aware of your presence and location

Sincerely,

Oh cool so the CDC is just doing a media blitz to lie the groundwork for weed becoming illegal again in many places huh okay

I have never had these problems, as a chronic cannabis user, I literally ingested mould that was growing in my guts…..

But the doctors ALL blamed it on my cannabis use.

I got pamphlets and guides on how to curb my 'addiction', and they stressed real hard it doesn't matter if I used it for medical reasons, if I wanted it at all when I wasn't on it, it must mean I am addicted and need to stop.

I am 100% certain that my INGESTING MOULD issue was written down as "Cannabis Emesis Syndrome" and would get wrapped up in the data to suggest that emergency room visits among cannabis users for cannabis use is becoming higher.

Like... it's fucking biased reporting that is going to fuck a lot of us over.

Despite having an active infection, not having even used cannabis in a month or two because I was actively recovering from a surgery, I was told that it was likely CES (even though all the pamphlets they gave me said CES would ease if you didn't use again "for a few days to a week"). And my only advice when I was discharged (after staying the night, being flooded with antibiotics and hydrated via salin drip), was to cut out the cannabis. I ingested a fuck ton of mould spores that made me sick, but because I also am a chronic cannabis user because of my debilitating nerve pain and PTSD, it will have been listed in the records as CES because that is what the doctors decided to focus on. Because it's the big new scary thing.

Fuck, the surgery I was talking about before that I was recovering from was gallbladder removal - and before that my own doctor tried to blame CES for what was in fact a very inflamed gallbladder. Once I got over the rough recovery from that, the symptoms my doctor wanted to associate with CES *went away* because it wasn't CES it was an actively inflamed gallbladder that was causing the problems.

Like, people talk about fad health trends in pop culture readily enough but I think we should also turn this focus towards doctors themselves because holy shit this was a fringe theory that everyone latched on to and started reporting cases of - regardless of whether or not they fit the description.

There also aren't traditional addiction pathways for cannabis in our brains, just habitual feedback-loop ones. Cannabis can be misused, same as any substance, but it's very safe and not at all causing a plague of illnesses. Using cannabis regularly, in a normal manner, is not unsafe and only needs to be charted by a doctor for the safety of specific medications or procedures. It's supposed to be treated the same way as disclosing you drink or smoke tobacco.

They very much are trying to claim a rise in cannabis related emergency room visits here as well.

I don't remember the % they quoted on the pamphlets I was given but it was similar to the CDC's number here.

And I'm not saying CES doesn't exist - though I was flippant about it as I didn't realize that post would get as much traction as it did - and frankly I would like more studies on the long term effects of cannabis for chronic users because that data would be really helpful to be able to use this in a safe manner! Hell, I would join such a study if I could.

And I will even concede that, perhaps, an inflamed gallbladder could be partially caused by cannabis consumption, and perhaps these things are related. Maybe cannabis affects the gallbladder and what we are calling CES, is actually the results of an inflamed gallbladder partly because of cannabis use. I don't think we know enough about how these things affect each other to rule it out entirely. So I will concede that it could be related! But when I ingested mould after a surgery touching my gastro system and had bad complications because of it... and they call it CES... I don't have a lot of faith the uptick in "cannabis related" incidents isn't just because it is an easy correlation to point to.

What I see happening on the ground level as a patient, is that doctors are extremely quick to cry it must be CES even despite other relevant factors and that isn't very reassuring.

Spin the wheel to find out your weakness!

coco has trouble drawing spells until tartah makes her a wand that's molded to her specific way of holding pens, because she grew up in her mother's fabric shop and was more used to holding a stone, so the grip of her wand is wide and flat

tartah has silverwash and can't tell any colours apart, so no one expects him to be able to become a witch and no one wants to take him on as an apprentice - never mind the fact that he doesn't need to be able to differentiate colours to, at the very least, do basic spells. even knowing those basic spells would significantly improve his quality of life

euini can't draw properly when people are watching him, and it takes another child to tell him that he doesn't have to do everything the way his master taught him, and that if he can't cast when he's around other people, he just needs to find a way to be alone

Every single person has the power to make a meaningful impact on the planet. I had the most fireflies in my town this summer simply because I have a large area where the grass is never cut.

Hello people! I set up a fundraiser to help me cover surgery cost! I am not expecting to get the full price covered, but since this is basically all of my savings every little helps!

If you cannot donate I would be very grateful if you could share this post :)

DISCLAIMER:

I am going to have to reblog this post a few times since the date is so tight and my blog is not very big. So if you do not want to see this please block the tag #cryptidfundraiser ! I do not really want to bother or spam anyone, but I also will need to try and make this circulate.

Also, for those of you who can barely make rent please DO NOT donate. If I do not make my goal I am ultimately going to struggle a bit (this is all my savings lol and I am gonna have to ask my husband to cover some stuff) but I will be okay-ish! I will not be homeless or in an acute crisis. This is so that I can have this surgery without financial anxiety and without struggling a lot the following months (since I am living off my savings atm).

Day 11 - Long-Haired Chihuahua

Today's beasts, a loving pair of Budgies, getting all cozy together. Like a lot of my paint work this month, tried to push strong shapes over linework.

Coming to Canfurence!

“Tour Guides”

Extremely fucking stupid bc genuinely who cares. Walking sticks are literally for anyone. They help you when you walk around. Perfectly healthy and abled bodied people use them while hiking because they just work.

And what if it was just a fashion thing? It used to be trendy. It gives your outfit a different vibe. Experimenting with fashion is fun, there's literally zero things wrong with using a cane because you like the way it looks or how it makes you feel.

Every single person choosing to use a mobility aid in public normalises their use, and makes it less likely for me to get harassed out there. It just becomes a regular thing you see while out in public. And that's the exact thing ableist TERFs like Stock are actually against - Not even mentioning the absolutely obvious misogyny here.

And the head-ass response seemed to be, “attention,” because that’s the kind of thing we can expect from British media at this point.

It’s not like the entire world just went through a mass disabling event or anything. It’s not like more and more women are finally getting diagnosed with chronic, lifelong illnesses and dynamic disabilities due to advocacy and raised awareness by the people who were left to suffer before them for decades.

No, no. Young lassies just want “attention.”