I have asthma. Even legal dispensary bought THC cartridges put my lungs in such a bad spot that my rescue inhaler barely brings relief. If I wasn’t well aware of that and hit one a dozen times over the course of the day I would be in serious trouble.
I have asthma and have lived in Denver since before legalization.
When vape pens first came out I never had any issues. In the last few years I very well could have easily been one of those statistics.
Vape pens make my lungs hurt and I have to use my rescue inhaler for days afterwards. It’s terrible. I don’t know if they changed how they make the oil but I completely gave up on vaping. I tried one with pineapple flavoring and man... it almost was the death of me.
I mean, probably. Cigarettes make me hurt (haven’t smoked one in a decade at least). Vapes make me hurt. Smoking weed from a clean pipe gives me almost zero negative effects unless I smoke significantly more than usual over the course of a few days.
Sorry, but I had to back up and re-read this. I guess I just assumed you were exposed to second-hand vapor, so I was very sympathetic to your plight (and quite shocked that you could detect the change in second-hand vapor!) until I got to "I completely gave up on vaping". My mis-reading of the post actually had me laughing out loud.
I've never used the pens and only use a "mod" with nicotine base mixed with 50% VG/PG at a local shop and haven't had any issues. In fact, I use my rescue inhaler far less since I've started vaping, which I only picked up after 3 years of being unable to quit the nicotine lozenges I originally used to quit cigarettes.
All the recent fear aside, I think we can form and do deserve a well regulated market for these products.
You are having a reaction to nicotine salts. Juul started the trend of using nicotine-salts rather than nicotine. It has much less throat burn so you can get a higher dose, but it makes some people wheeze.
My guess would be too many terpenes (or extra added terpenes). A recent trend has been adding massive amounts of these volatiles to the mix (purchased in bulk from places like trueterpenes[0] - which has warnings all over it) to create "flavor profiles" or to more closely mimic the effects of smoking flower. These are the same as the toxic essential oils that people overdo. Some are far more potent than others and definitely can cause reactions (even in non-asthmatics).
I wouldn't exactly call New Zealand expensive? It's more expensive than say, south-east Asia (or similar regions), but then most places are.
I would consider it cheaper than the US and parts of the EU for most things. Exceptions being certain imports (like cars) being more expensive due to the cost associated with shipping them.
From experience this doesn't hold for smaller tech devices, for example I priced up a camera there vs my current residents (Dublin, Ireland) and it was about $1,000NZD cheaper to purchase in NZ (most likely due to being parallel imported from South East Asia).
Reference: grew-up in NZ, and have been living in Dublin for the last year.
That's fair, and it's something I've noticed at supermarkets in Dublin as well. I think the price of eating out is comparable though.
That said, I've noticed the portions of food tend to be smaller here in Dublin as well (I suspect being a metropolitan area the supermarkets cater more to individuals whereas the supermarkets back home tend to cater to families).
For example, it's next to impossible to buy 1kg of Cheese here in Dublin as the largest you can get from a supermarket is 400 grams.
I can't account for Germany but from Canada it is more expensive but quality of fresh fruit and Veges is way better. Our standard of eating increased markedly moving back.
The US is cheaper. I'm guessing like many people who don't live in the US you are thinking about the popular coastal areas and ignoring 80% of the land area.
I'm talking houses for $125k and a total cost of living around $20k outside of the mortgage.
Your view may be dependent on what you earn and what your housing arrangements are. Wages aren't usually high, and if you're in Auckland housing costs are pretty spectacular. 250% or greater in 5 years is pretty bad.
That's because their inspections will pull your car off the road for the tiniest of issues. And inspections are every 6 months. It makes buying a used car risky, IMO.
and after listening to 'serial', give 'undisclosed' a listen - they dive much much deeper into the details of the court case, police records, evidence, etc.
It's a very different experience, and clearly incredibly biased, but I agree that it's a good listen if you got into the case and are curious to learn more about the facts and players. Some of the wild theories they come up with though are simply incredible to me - they seem like level headed people much of the time, but the lengths they will go to suggest a conspiracy (where simple incompetence is a much more probable reality) can truly blow my mind.
I think it is more complicated than that, because the impact speed is important too. The linemen come at each other from close distances. So they may not build up as much speed, compared to a situation such as a linebacker with a running start towards a running back.
Impact speed is important to the effectiveness of a collision. That's why they train to maximize this speed. Saying "the speed isn't high" in a context where maximum speed is a goal isn't a very good argument for safety.
I mean, if I were an exceptionally speedy, brick-wall linebacker, I wouldn't get kicked out for causing extra concussions, I'd be given trophies and expensive contracts.
> Impact speed is important to the effectiveness of a collision. That's why they train to maximize this speed. Saying "the speed isn't high" in a context where maximum speed is a goal isn't a very good argument for safety.
I think you are conflating speed and quickness. Offensive and defensive lines rely on quickness (i.e., acceleration) to beat the opposing team and make a play, while other collisions (e.g., tackling) often involve speed.
I am not saying that linesmen should not be expected to sometimes suffer head trauma; I was just noting that how often a player runs into another player is not the only factor.
I'm not conflating anything, I'm using standard physics terms. If you want to trample over the defense you need momentum, which is a function of speed.
Here in Denver, we have medicinal marijuana dispensaries literally all over town. Off the top of my head, I can think of dispensaries that share parking lots with typical brick and mortar stores like Pet Smart, Target, etc. There are also a few right in the middle of downtown Denver. They're even starting to employ sign spinners that stand outside and wave a cardboard sign for $8 an hour that says "$35 8ths", etc.
Aside from the occasional completely irrational commenter on DenverPost.com, most folks around here just don't give two shits about these dispensaries. Crime rates at these shops (as well as their warehouses where they grow their product) are lower than that of banks and pharmacies. Their security and ID-checking measures are all taken very seriously, you simply never hear about them letting in underage kids or folks without medicinal permits. All of the irrational fears of "dispensaries ruining neighborhoods" or "dispensaries selling marijuana to underage kids" simply have not materialized.
In regards to your question - most of these shops are owned by "sane, enterprising individuals" and not creepy street dealers. The culture of marijuana around here is NOTHING like it was back in the midwest. There is no paranoia, fear, or any of those weird dynamics that surround marijuana in non medicinal states -- people simply don't care. Smoke it if you want, get a medicinal card if you need it, but just keep it to yourself and there will be no problems.
THIS is how we defeat the war on drugs. There are people that will say medicinal marijuana laws are just a backdoor effort for full legalization .... and they're right. With decades of brainwashing from our very own government, it's going to take time and patience to change public opinion of marijuana. The best way to do this is to regulate the production and distribution of this plant (Colorado has some of the most progressive and proactive medicinal laws in the country, much more than even California) and to slowly expose the general population to it.
Ending the war on drugs isn't going to happen over night but we are certainly beginning to move in the right direction.
you'll get more bang for the buck out of a real weight lifting routine with some added cardio or barbell complexes (google the cosgrove evil 8) rather than a mostly cardio based routine. cardio by nature is catabolic - it is nearly impossible to maintain muscle mass while training cardio heavily. instead, focus mostly on lifting weights to alter your body composition (build muscle, improve posture, burn fat) and using cardio to supplement that with increased endurance and overall cardiovascular health. the optimal cardio to pair with weight training is HIIT (high intensity interval training) - basically sprint training. if you need any reason for this, compare photos of a marathon runner with a 100m sprinter and you'll see the obvious differences in body composition.
if you want to look like an athlete you need to train like one, period. fitness should a complete lifestyle change, not a weekend hobby.
It's also a bit ironic that starting strength will teach him the proper mechanics for most compound lifts, and then Crossfit will turn around and teach him how to work as quickly as possible with an often times alarming disregard for form.
If anything, I'd look into barbell complexes as a way to prepare for Crossfit.
Your statement about CrossFit encouraging a lack of proper form is patently false. That is a common, and false, criticism of a great fitness program.
CrossFit encourages you to work fast because intensity is correlated with power and results. Power -- what we want to build a capacity for -- is simply work over time. Results come more quickly to intense training because the body has shown to adapt faster to (relatively) intense stimuli. crossfit.com is covered in references for the interested.
Form is a key part of these movements, but learning a proper squat or clean is the endeavor of a lifetime. No one is perfect at significant load here. CrossFit teaches a balance of these elements that maximizes fitness in the athletes. Injury due to improper form or overtraining is contrary to what CrossFit wants to achieve.
Some people take things too far. Some people not far enough. CrossFit simply wants you to push your relative limits each time you do a WOD. That is how you get better. You're never going to be a great race car driver taking practice laps at 30mph.
There is more to say, but I'd challenge you to find a good affiliate and try it out. Experience is a grand teacher.
In my experience, Crossfit trainers are good at coaching form. Their top priority is getting you to do the movement and get a good workout, but when somebody has bad form, they coach them a lot and make sure they use light weights or no weights at all until their form is good enough to lift safely. I always had terrible deadlift form and wasn't able to correct it until I got some coaching at Crossfit. They fixed me up quickly, got on my ass when I got sloppy, and within two months of starting, I was lifting more than my previous deadlift PR -- 45 times in a single workout. (Granted, my deadlift form was atrocious. I was squatting 40% more than I deadlifted and had basically given up on it before I went to Crossfit.)
The better your form, the more you can safely lift, and the more you can lift, the higher the work rate you can achieve. That's the logic that drives the Crossfit trainers I've worked with. Crossfit isn't consistent from location to location, though, so what you say may be true.
