There is preliminary research from the states that have legalized pot showing reductions in the use of prescription painkillers and risk of overdose. It may just be a temporary thing, but I’m cautiously optimistic that it is in fact replacing opioid use, rather than just being added to it.

On one hand, I think pot should be legal but on the other hand I don’t know if making pot legal would help all the other stuff we have going on.

Mental health resources are stretched so thin on reservations. A lo of health and other services are stretched thin on the reservations. My reservation is dealing with a lot of synthetic marijuana use and also painkillers.

I think that you’re incorrect about the motives of many of the posters on here. I’ve seen quite a few folk who were very much on board with raising the minimum wage across the board, including the talks of the unionization of fast food workers that happened a few years ago.

All the time. “We don’t want you to start work without the contract release. Butttt, we’re already behind schedule. Can you start now?”

Its funny how we use the words “unskilled labour” as an excuse to not pay people a living wage when there is no such thing as unskilled labour, eh?

I don’t see how those two things are in opposition. The overall inequality is problematic but covering protests at Harvard, or covering strikes at McDonald, allows for a coverage of a symbolic employer.

Because the 2 Truck drivers you know are fucking idiots doesn’t mean all of them are. I love overall generalized comments like yours. What’s next? Everyone that rides a motorcycle is a thug? All cops are bad? Tattooed people are all criminals? Get over yourself.

They’re just pissed that their own skills and education mean that someone who doesn’t speak English and had to crawl under a fence to come here could still compete with them for a job.

You weigh your own vehicle at a truck stop, before you get to a weigh station.

Fuck all three of you rednecks and your shitty attempts at coded racial jokes.

Truck wasn’t totaled. Looks to be some hood/front end damage. Let the adjustor take a look, forward the vid and head to the beach.

Calm down cletus.

A toot BEFORE the accident has a lot more potential than a toot AFTER.

“Let me honk my horn AFTER the collision. That’s helpful, right?”

Not that it excuses the big rig driver for being a complete moron, but why was the GMC / trailer parked at a weigh station? Most places I’ve seen either discourage that or flat out say “trucks only”.

I mean, a left would have taken him through the grass and back onto the highway....

Kind of classless to leave the scene as a witness with video, ridiculous. Not to mention him finding the horn about 10 seconds to late. Too bad he doesn’t have a CB radio.

Not entirely.