Steph, it looks like a big paper you edited on medical marijuana has been repudiated.
Back in 2014, researchers compared deaths due to opioid abuse in states with and without legalization of medical marijuana. For the decade prior to 2010, the trend was clear: states that allowed medical marijuana had lower rates of opioid-abuse-driven death.
That set the stage for the new study, which uses the data from the earlier work but expands its scope to include the years up to and including 2017. Instead of a 20% drop, the study finds a 20% increase in opioid abuse deaths in states that have legalized medical marijuana.
Steph, it looks like a big paper you edited on medical marijuana has been repudiated.
That's fascinating! I'll have to read the new study later. I just wonder if some of the increase in opioid overdose deaths is due to the spike in heroin and fentanyl (versus deaths from legally prescribed opioid painkillers).
Well dang, we aren't going to have Sarah Sanders to kick around anymore. Who wants the job of press secretary?
Timelies all!
Don't mind Bubble Guppies or Paw Patrol that much. Mr. S watches too much media, I know.
ltc watches too much media too, especially when I'm sick.
We had a fun playdate with vw and Stitch, and then I took a nap on the couch while ltc consumed too much media. TCG came home long enough to make me another cuppa and play with ltc for a few minutes before heading out to a conference. So we're having dinner while consuming more media (Shrek 2).
I don't know if they are too young for Octonauts or Backyardigans but both are cool cartoons. I don't know if either are available on streaming. But Backyardigans has all kinds of great music and I never minded watching a few Octonauts episodes in a row.
Well dang, we aren't going to have Sarah Sanders to kick around anymore. Who wants the job of press secretary?
Not I, said the cat, but I did particularly enjoy this tweet from NYT TV critic James Poniewozik:
I'm not going to believe that Sarah Huckabee Sanders is leaving as White House press secretary until she denies it herself.
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I don't know if they are too young for Octonauts or Backyardigans but both are cool cartoons. I don't know if either are available on streaming. But Backyardigans has all kinds of great music and I never minded watching a few Octonauts episodes in a row.
Awww, my friend Ellen is close friends with the woman who created Backyardigans (a WOC, incidentally) and they are both close friend with Evan Lurie who did the music.
Evan Lurie is John Lurie's brother. (You might know John from his band the Lounge Lizards, or as an actor in Jim Jarmusch's "Down By Law" or "Stranger Than Paradise.")
Or perhaps Fishing With John!
