It doesn’t ring a bell. I wasn’t in Fallujah. A tank company from my battalion got sent there to help with the second battle for that city. How they handled Fallujah was actually pretty clever. After the first battle, command declared the city off-limits to US personnel. Predictably, insurgents gathered there in large numbers. Our greatest challenge was identifying who was our enemy and who wasn’t. In Fallujah, every military-aged male (15-50 years old) was considered a legitimate target. They may have gotten annihilated, but it barely put a dent into the insurgency.
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Damn I’m glad I get most all my care from my PHP, she is very cautious about what she prescribes. In fact she lost her partnership with my original Dr. For not perceiving enough. I believe the head Dr. Was probably getting kickbacks from the drug companies. I knew the lead nurse and that is what she told me.
I think as for the VA throwing the heavy stuff at you was them being lazy and not finding a better dosage or drug that could have worked better.
but once they found out and did a piss test, they wouldn’t prescribe anything strong enough for your pain
Yeah I’ve heard that. Their excuse is they believe that MJ and opioids don’t mix. I have no Idea. I smoked after surgeries while on both. I think it depends more on the dosage.
I have chronic pain thankfully I don’t need anything but MJ.
I see what your saying though. especially in Southern states, they need to leave us the hell alone to grow our own medicine!
I get the Boomer comment. I don’t understand how that generation changed over the years. Many I know are the same except the clothes. but as the song goes I saw a Dead Head sticker on a Cadillac. We are not all the same. but for sure our generation wrote these laws.
The good part is that the newer generation is doing better and laws in most states are way ahead of the previous generation. My fear if it is taken off the schedule and left up to states, not much would change because states would make their own laws.
I think if legalization can get on the ballot, you’d be more likely to get that right, a right I believe is constitutional, to grow your own without any ill repercussions from the Government.
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I remember in Fallujah a bunch of them escaped in tunnels that connected houses. Must have been a bitch clearing a house only to have it fill again with enemy combatants a short while later.
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How does that work? Does the trigger fire twice? Once getting squeezed back and again going back forward?
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I still dont get it. I know weed has not been as scientific studied because of the whole reefer madness campaign over the years, but with so much anecdotal evidence to multiple medical usages why the hell isn’t more of a priority to attempt trials on it through the VA. We know overdose leads to sleep or bad trip from mostly by “newbies not understanding dosage with edibles” other negative side effects include increased appetite, dry mouth, dry eyes, drowsiness, anxiety slightly elevated heart rate. No cancer, blindness heart attacks. Liver disease kidney disease etc…
I’m not at all convinced that smoking it by itself causes lung cancer, that is why I’m totally for dropping it from the drug schedule, for more testing to see what all the benefits are.
It won’t make much difference how the states write their laws once cannabis come off Schedule 1. Cannabis eradication is a multi-million-dollar affair that’ll be coming out of state coffers. Between that and the cries to defund the police, I don’t think cannabis is going to be such a major priority. I can see cops here quietly adopting a policy of plausible deniability: If they could deny they saw anything, they won’t have to do anything. More than a few departments had a similar policy even prior to the “Defund the Police” movement, or whatever it’s called.
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A binary trigger is one that fires the weapon once you release the trigger. It’s legal because it’s technically two separate motions. The effectiveness of full auto is one of the greatest misconceptions. It doesn’t increase hit probability. It’s used for what’s called “suppression”, which is making your enemy get behind cover, keeping him from shooting back at you. It’s used in close-quarter for the sole purpose of putting as many rounds into your enemy as possible. It also requires specialized training. If a persons is just a bad shot or untrained, full auto won’t change anything other than how fast he wastes ammo.
However, it is so much fun, too fun to be legal.
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It doesn’t even have to be medical grade bud. I’ll take what some dude grew in his backyard or in the woods. In a perfect world, I’d be exclusively smoking my own. Soon…
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I saw that in Illinois most sheriff’s have said they will not enforce illegal gun laws.( 85% of counties i think )My worry is that this act of defiance, though the correct one, will usher in federal police force, surely the end game of upper echelon " defund the police " politicians
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Spray and pray lol. I work with some Brazilians that treat nail guns in a similar manner. Sometimes they hit a stud lol.
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Try to explain an alcohol extraction. They’ll think you’re some kind of wizard. Maybe that’s for the better, as many have blown themselves up attempting a butane extract.
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The plan the upper echelons have further illustrates the disconnect between them and reality. I see another civil war brewing. As with our first one, politicians in Washington DC thought they could micromanage the nation. Also, as with the first one, slavery will be an issue. The only difference will be on what basis people are enslaved. Back then, it was race. The next time will be socio-economic status.
Just to be clear, I am not a Southern apologist. Slavery is abhorrent and taking up arms to defend it is utterly reprehensible. Those seeking to enact it now are even more so.
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I understand what you’re saying I guess my thinking comes from post prohibition of alcohol were there are still.dry counties, yet alcohol is legal federally. I won’t pretend that I know the laws in every state. And I’m just speculating here. and correct me if I’m wrong but I believe that Georgia has some. If it was on a ballot initiative that could be an amendment to the state constitution that anyone in the state can grow and purchase in all municipalities that would ensure beyond the federal law and state rights would be definitive.
I get that no body wants to see their tax dollars going towards enforcing an asinine law, that uses their money to support such a thing. But I’ve seen states local municipalities, waste a lot, on crazy shit.
I’m sure you would know better about your state than I would, and you make perfect sense. I agree 100% with your logic. I just worry about some of the latest state rights cases vs feds. I’m glad they seem to be looking the other way though.
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Agreed, Draig. There’s a lot of alcohol in the military. I think it’s getting a little better, but it was still everywhere in the 80’s. We had beer vending machines in our barracks!
In between school assignments, a bunch of sailors in my class decided to drive to the next duty station, stop and visit friends and family, and party along the way.
They were all killed in a drunk driving accident, and 1/4 of our training class was gone just like that.
But, I was recommended for the Navy’s nuke program, but then wasn’t allowed, because I had admitted to smoking pot in high school, and was considered a risk to national security. 
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I just wanted to say the Veterans giveaway is ending tonight according to @DougDawson
If you know anyone who has not signed up let them know.
Thank you all for your service!
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Possession here has been de facto legalized. Just say it’s (perfectly legal) hemp flower. A cop told me that. I also read the blotter report, and have yet to read about someone being busted for cannabis alone. D8 and other cannabinoids have been legal here for years, and the world didn’t end. The state or county has sent agents into the local head shop to ask for things they knew were illegal, and it felt like they were trying to fail. They made it very obvious. While it’s likely they failed because they were…unconvincing, it’s equally likely they were attempting to deliberately sabotage the whole operation. That’s what I’d do, if I were in their position. Plus, they can honestly say they “investigated” and found nothing. If police departments are anything like the military (I’ve heard there are more similarities than differences), cops probably fight bureaucracy as much as they fight crime.
Herrsquidward is correct about the binary trigger, it fires one round on pull, and one round on release, or can be a regular semi auto with one round per pull.
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Yes @Draig it is a small world!!! Don’t meet many people who grew up in Saginaw!!!
Moved out from there in early 2000 east, now I sit on the Canuckadan border near Port Huron.
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Damn, I’m sorry to hear about you friends brother. Alcohol is a killer for sure. That had to have been traumatic.
Yeah, I was in during the 80’s and remember the vending machines they had on the other side of the training center where I had A School everywhere even the laundromat. I had just turned 19 but knew a couple guys that were 17 and though I respect their commitment thought they were still immature and shouldn’t have had that much access to alcohol. One shipmate I knew from Boot died from alcohol poisoning.
I’m not anti alcohol but for me personally it is not good.
That sucks, you’re being honest about some harmless MJ you has in high school and the Navy paints you as a security risk? That’s seriously F’ed up!
Like were they worried the Ruskies were going to recruite you with promising you an oz of their finest Ruderalis? but by all mean have as much as much beer you like from a converted coke machine. SMH.
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The whole Point-Target vs Area-Suppression thing is lost on most people.
People who advocate shotguns fall into this category of not understanding responsibility for every round that leaves the barrel.
The people that fast rope off MH60’s and AH-6’s only use shotguns as a breaching device. And they clear rooms with point-target weapons systems on semi-auto.
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