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13. Medical Marijuana
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 02:09 AM
9 hrs ago

I would personally seriously like to request the Indian state to not scrutinize doctors and the medical marijuana industry forcing rubber stamps via private equity owned hospitals that label women like me schizophrenic as one fraudulently did in 2012, or wipe out their honestly earned profits by forcing ai, privacy violations, VR, tests etc.

My medical mj company’s ceo and my doctors have provided me with a commensurately priced service and convenience at a time when I was embattled daily by this self serving trash both systemic and street harassment while coping with my mom’s death which was preventable.
I DIY my mental health with Modafinil and medical mj as the local services were not a good fit and I find rubberstamps parasitic and objectionable.

Legalize mj or don’t, but making life hard for the few industries food or marijuana, for most honest doctors while giving a pass to creepy social engineering that is best case second rate science and displacing good science..it strains credibility.

I would like to work with the Indian state to report this as you have to be aware that these narratives of “privilege” a type of “left” shills and bullshit of various other kinda is not really true.
Sure no one can say what “the ultimate truth” is.

But as humans we do have the ability to think more fluidly and honestly. I see decent businesspeople in vegan/clean food industries who pay their employees well (Piperleaf, VVegano, Meethi Kahani, Whole Truth) struggle and no doubt its never easy for medical marijuana. I see overworked doctors, underpaid nurses, overworked techies and I see Blackstone, Ambani etc.
You have to be invested in a saner society than something driven largely by treatment of sexual harassment and slander of women as trivial (including by some women. This was not that complicated) and greed and avarice without a heart, brain or common decency.

This is a time of huge change. We don’t have to do it this badly going forward favoring a shbset of shady and corrupt people and working against the system of trust favoring endless lies and transactionalism for the worst people at the expense of everyone decent. There are way more decent people if those who profit from demonizing marijuana (as they are incompentent and must insist on rubber stamps and tests) and promoting the narcotics war except when shamelessly they can also bully marijuana or peychedelics industries into kowtowing to them.
It is case by case. But so far it does seem as if dishonest, sleazy and transactional people have a clear advantage and today as we see this chaos surely a new direction is recommended?
This is a strain on all the honest people involved including me. Sure most people cope: But it is time for Sesame Street’s “this is not like the other” and you should be able to tell.

Both online and sadly irl I have seen people I would never have anything to do with. This doesn’t have to be futile torture. I switch between a gruff bark and a sort of plea for sanity because this is unlike anything I have seen before. It has some cool or at least fascinatingly lunatic aspects, but it is possible for what is routine to not be the most mind bogglingly creepy and corrupt implementation for unclear reasons beyond best case a hack like approach with no elegance at all.

That cannot possibly be the only way. My best friend or my ex husband would be able to do it with far more finesse in distinct ways. That’s not a conflict of interest. They are just brighter and better than this type of person and they stay under the radar not to be coyly Greta Garboesque let alone to go around doing creepy things, but because..they are not crazy.

Whereas this is a problem:

https://www.salon.com/2019/08/19/why-jeffrey-epstein-surrounded-himself-with-scientists/

These are the most annoying types of scientists. The type who are always on tv and many of them have MeToo cases. There is a personality type that likes spotlight versus just wanting to live in society without building a paranoid’s bunker or permitting influencers to be influencer
Yeesh. You have all driven me to people who want TikTok banned. Damn you all.
Shame on all of you! This society sucks.
Can’t you envision any other form of existence beyond “I am a creep! I want to be on tv! Oh wait that means scrutiny! Bunker time! Destroy all info! But also an entertainment product!”



I stand by my assessments:

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