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Agreed. These products are unregulated which poses issues on several fronts, public health being a biggie. I have friends that use weed and shroom products that display self testing results, and these friends haven't had any issues. Those products are purchased at higher end boutique stores and not the quickie mart. That's why I'm wondering what products are being used in the linked article, and if there's any studies cited. That still has a paywall unfortunately. Maybe it works for others?

When I started college in 1970 there was a sign in my dormitory which explained that marijuana had now become much more powerful than before and warning that the new super weed was causing 'bad trips'. 55 years and the supposed authorities are still trotting out the same canards and tropes! For some people, using cannabis is a problem and they get into all the same gyrations as people stuck in food addictions, etc. For most it's not that big a deal. My advice: stay away from those vape cartridges. You have no way of knowing what's in there and people adulterate them with things like vitamin E which is toxic to inhale like that. Dry herb vaporizers are good.

Gas station shrooms, or weed, or sushi too for that matter — just inherently seems like a bad idea.

It sold out in CD format even before release and there were only 300 copies made, with no review copies. I managed to get one of the last ones. Spun CD1, the Cheltenham concert and it is really good. Pretty much as I remember them. The booklet includes a photo taken in the centre of Bath - must have been taken on the day I saw them there back around 2003/4. What I do recall from that gig is that it was jam packed with their (and Keith Tippett's) fanbase in the Bristol area - so that may account for the rapid advance sales of the CD.

Beyond category.

I don't know what I would possibly say to someone who doesn't think Bari Weiss or her media company produces work "in good faith". And anyway that would get into politics, unfortunately. The link is supposed to be a gift link so I don't know what happened. The gist is that high levels of pot usage among the current population is producing a reaction in some users in which they are in utter and total physical despair, with multiple trips to emergency rooms, endless vomiting (cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS)). For those who start to experience this, nothing cures it but quitting the weed. Here's another link https://www.thefp.com/p/grass-sick-cannabinoid-hyperemesis-syndrome-marijuana?r=px8hr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Well then I guess I won't be picking this up. Hopefully they'll consider a repress.

I only noticed this a few days ago. JIB Bandcamp showed CD sold out. DG had CD for preorder but I dithered, it arrived within a day or two and showed "Just Sold Out" almost immediately. Moral: I should follow the JIB Bandcamp page.

Beethoven Piano Sonatas No. 7, 9, 14

Bud Shank: New Groove. Pacific Jazz/TOSHIBA EMI PJ-0021 [Japan 1992]

Ts-find

William Blake!

More artists coming next week, I believe.

Thiftstore cd find, I've never actually been a fan of this album (have never had a physical copy) ... maybe it will grow.

I know that was the case with the Tyner/Henderson and the Kenny Burrell - I waited those out.

Paywalled article. Not a fan of Bari Weiss publications or involvement anywhere (RIP CBS news). She doesn't produce work in good faith. But, did the article mention where these patients were getting this legal weed? Asking bc a recent study on legal hallucinogenic mushrooms focused on those products that came from gas stations which is problematic.

Bought the vinyl, that should be fun and will stream.

This is messed up and makes me glad I never smoked. https://www.thefp.com/p/grass-sick-cannabinoid-hyperemesis-syndrome-marijuana?r=px8hr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false