Community builder in the Cannabis community. Peace & Unite via events & Activism/Education #Deschedule One Plant Theory 🌊🏄🤙
San Diego, CA
Joined September 2013
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Biggest "the kids are fucked" moment I've had recently was dealing with home insurance.
Bought a starter home, paid my monthly premium every single month for 4 years straight without missing a dime.
A severe storm knocked tree branches through the roof. I called to file a claim for $3,500 in repairs.
Insurance adjuster walked out, wrote a check for $1,200 after my deductible, then sent a non-renewal notice two weeks later saying I was now "high risk."
Got me curious, so I looked into how property insurance models operate today.
Turns out insurance companies literally drop customers for using the exact service they paid thousands to hold, while raising rates across the board to protect corporate profit margins.
I was naive enough to think insurance was protection against emergencies.
In reality, you're just paying a mandatory subscription fee for a service you're penalized for ever using.
Turns out, I am needed too..
HR: We're eliminating your position effective Friday.
Her: Okay. Will I be receiving that in writing?
HR: Yes. You'll get the termination letter by 5 p.m.
Her: Perfect.
HR: Until then, please document everything you currently handle so the transition is smooth.
Her: Everything?
HR: Everything.
She spent Thursday writing down her accounts, passwords, supplier contacts, deadlines, unfinished orders, and every little process nobody else at the clinic knew how to do.
Friday at 4:52 p.m., the termination email arrived.
She packed her desk.
At 5:17 p.m., HR called.
HR: We need you to stay until Monday.
Her: I'm terminated effective today.
HR: We know. We just need you to train your replacement.
Her: Who's my replacement?
HR: We're still deciding.
Her: Then there's nothing for me to train them on.
HR: This is a pretty difficult situation. You're leaving us with a lot of gaps.
Her: I documented everything on Thursday.
HR: Yes, but documentation isn't the same as training.
Her: I agree.
HR: So can you please stay through Monday?
Her: That would be employment.
HR: Technically, no.
Her: Then technically, I'm going home.
HR: We're asking you to help the clinic you worked for.
Her: And I did.
HR: How?
Her: I spent my last day making sure you could replace me.
Silence.
HR: You knew we were going to need you.
Her: You knew too.
HR: Then why didn't you say anything?
Her: Because you told me my position was being eliminated.
She picked up her bag.
Her: I believed you.
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Russell retweeted
My neighbor is 74 and has lived in the same house since 1986.
Paid $96,000 for it.
Paid off the mortgage in 2014.
The county now values it at $412,000.
His property tax bill just crossed $5,100 a year.
His Social Security is $2,280 a month.
He hasn't sold anything. Hasn't earned anything from the house appreciating. He's just gotten older while everything around him got more expensive.
Last week he told me he's considering selling because the taxes and insurance are becoming too much.
He spent 30 years paying for the privilege of owning his house.
Now he might have to leave because the neighborhood became too valuable.
Tell me again how homeownership guarantees financial security.
Russell retweeted
NO DISRESPECT TO THE BANKING SYSTEM, BUT EXPLAIN THIS LOGIC TO ME.
I’ve paid $2,100 in rent every single month for six years straight.
That’s $151,200 paid on time, directly to shelter, without a single late payment.
My landlord uses my monthly check to pay his bank mortgage on this exact apartment.
Last month, I applied for a mortgage on a starter condo where the total monthly payment principal, interest, taxes, and insurance would be $1,800.
The bank denied my application.
Reason given: "Insufficient income to debt ratio to cover a $1,800 monthly obligation."
I have proven for 72 consecutive months that I can reliably pay $2,100 to keep a roof over my head.
Why does the financial system trust me to pay off someone else’s $2,100 mortgage, but considers me a high risk gamble for my own $1,800 mortgage?
The system isn't measuring risk. It's enforcing a gatekeeping fee.
Russell retweeted
Yep as much as I hate to do it I have to go medical now or I can’t grow at all.
Let alone marketing seeds that aren’t state sanctioned.
Funny how moving to schedule 3 didn’t actually help anyone who needs the meds, only people who want the $. Just like we said.
And they can blame the president all they want. It’s my state shitheads doing this.
And when the president was blue, they did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for cannabis. So those people can fukk off too.
Medical Cannabis use, as seen in my 29 years of use, is about devotion to consistent cannabis strain and multi-ingestion methodology.
You are gonna need to home grow and use the Muti-ingestion methodology for intentional healing.
One Plant Theory:
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
Cannabis should be as easily accessible to adults as alcohol and cigarettes are. It’s literally a medicine that helps millions of people worldwide, plus its much safer than both of those combined.
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We are working to build space, events, and digital community space!
We've seen other studies show the same results. This is one reason the alcohol lobby is worried about legalising cannabis.
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Russell retweeted
“Patients taking medicinal cannabis are extremely low risk and we heard evidence that common driving distractions such as listening to the radio pose a much higher road safety risk.” region.com.au/medicinal-cann…
I mean, with these mexi packs, I would be rolling joints and packing jars for the homeless and be walking the streets saying sorry for the funky bunk weed but that we atleast giving it to folks who have low expectations.
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Literally 95% of cannabis folks in the "industry" don't like the flavor of cannabis...
I tried to smoke with them, I know!
Some OGs literally have said they don't like the flavor of cannabis.
I love the taste of cannabis and often eat it raw if I trust the source.
lol. email from a weed chemist promoting their new weight loss service for just $199 on the same day politicians are calling for these type of things to be reined in. I imagined a medical cannabis system where people were actually interested in the plant.
Silly old me.
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Russell retweeted
“All you care about is legalizing drugs.”
Or, we recognize the War on Drugs doesn’t work, creates organized crime and costs taxpayers trillions.
Russell retweeted
I'm yet to meet a homegrower that intentionally poisons themself. Conversely, I've met plenty of commercial growers who don't hesitate for a second to use whatever is at their disposal to spray plants and "fix" a problem. You wonder why I advocate for homegrow.. #HomeGrowAmnesty