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📜 Sorry I haven't been writing much lately, I've been going through a little bubble of depression the last few weeks and I've got a bit of brainfog and anhedonia. Autoimmune stuff is bothering me at the moment; got a butterfly rash again; so that's definitely a precipitating factor. Nothing serious; I get these from time to time, it'll pass; but it makes it hard to get excited enough about a topic to write about it or be engaged. I really want to get back doing something productive on here; Q in Review, or maybe trying to commit to writing a weekly column on Substack; but at the moment it's hard just to get out of bed and get going. It's also hard to get out of the autoimmune depressive funk once you're in it because you lack the energy to do all the little things that would add up to make you start feeling better; eating properly, taking vitamins consistently, trying to get some excercise, etc. Like I said, this happens from time to time; I've been suffering from major depression for most of my life, so this is nothing compared to how bad things used to be. Anyway, thanks for sticking around in the meantime. ❤️

📜 I used to work with a guy who literally broke his back and couldn't get pain pills from his doctor so for a short time he got addicted to oxycontin he got on the street. How much easier would that guy's life have been if he could have just smoked a little opium when his back hurt and everybody went about minding their own business? He could literally grow it himself in a backyard garden if he wanted to and get it for free. 😐

📜 Passing thought: Maybe the reason poppies and opium exist is because life is hard and painful and God knew that there would be certain people who benefit from having their pain and anxiety relieved. I personally prefer legal weed in that regard; the only opiates I've tried over the years have made me feel weird and unsettled and I don't really see the appeal, but to each their own I guess. I'm not about to tell a guy with back problems who just got divorced after his dog die how he should spend his day, though. 😐

📜 Aside from whether or not this would be a good idea, it's pretty apparent on its face that the federal government has no authority to dictate what plants people can or can't grow and sell, as they are only given regulatory power over interstate commerce and exports. 😐

📜 HOT TAKE WHICH MAY ACTUALLY BE STUPID: The solution to the opioid crisis is to make regular old plant-based opium legal and available again and sell it in shops just like weed and to keep processed and synthetic opiates illegal and prescription-based. Natural opium far less addictive, has far fewer side-effects and withdrawal symptoms, and it's much harder to overdose on due to its method of consumption. People can also led much more functional lives while using it or having an addiction to it. I'm pretty sure there are plenty of people currently shooting up fentanyl who would be more than happy to scratch their itch by doing something that isn't essentially playing Russian roulette. Producing opium wasn't made illegal in the United States until 1942, and while opium can cause social ills just like alcohol can, nobody thought that it was such a scourge on society that they needed to make it illegal before that. It's a plant, God gave it to us to relieve pain along with all the other plant-based stuff that relieves pain and anxiety. It's not really my business what another person thinks is the appropriate drug to take to treat their pain or anxiety. 😐

📜 About 10 years ago or so I had to get a PET scan on my abdomen for an unrelated thing, and the guy operating the machine just offhandedly told me "Hey, you know you got a bunch of big kidneys stones in there man!" before he even gave the results to the doctor to look at and then walked out of the room. 😂 I've barely passed anything in the 10 years since he told me that; a couple of ones that were grain of sand sized; so I guess I've had these preloaded for awhile. I've cleaned up my lifestyle quite a bit since then, so hopefully I'm not currently harvesting some more siblings for them. 🤓

📜 Ooookay, just passed another kidney stone. 😑 That's the 4th one in the last 6 months. Yeesh. All things considered, they're not that painful coming out, and I guess I should be grateful it's coming out in pieces instead of all at once. 🥴

📜 I would post a picture of my Passover spread this year, but it was just Triscuits and grape juice. 🤓

Coming up on 6 weeks no smoking and I'm feeling a huge urge to smoke right now and a ton of crazy anxiety out of nowhere. Could use a little motivation.

📜 It's unclear if that video of Palestinians on the Temple Mount from earlier is from tonight, as it seems unlikely it would have cleared out this fast. Although I imagine they don't want to b hit by a missile either. 🤷‍♂️