(NBC Bay Area) What used to be an unofficial cannabis celebration on April 20th (four-twenty in American cannabis culture) in San Francisco has grown into a huge, city-sanctioned free event, and just about anyone one walks up to is happy to expound on what he or she loves about it.
Entheogenic use of cannabis to 'bring out the divine': Marijuana [or Chinese Ma Huang, pronounced as if it were the Spanish name Marijuana/MaryJane, from Mexico] has served as an entheogen—a chemical substance used in religious or spiritual contexts [1] to bring to the surface inner divinity—in the Indian subcontinent since the Vedic period, dating back to approximately 1500 BCE, but perhaps as far back as 2500 BCE in ancient China. It was introduced to the New World by the Spaniards in 1530-1545... More
KROQ's Klein.Ally.Show, the Number 1 morning radio show in Los Angeles, takes pot-infused gummies in a cautionary tale to tokers
NBC News, Bay Area, April 25, 2023; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
(The Earthing Movie) The Earthing Movie is a documentary that reveals the scientific phenomenon of how we can heal our bodies by doing the simplest thing that a person can do -- standing and walking (grounding electrons) barefoot on the raw earth. See earthingmovie.com.
Barefoot earthing
There are many health benefits and a few risks associated with going barefoot in modern cities. Shoes, while they offer protection, can limit the flexibility, strength, and mobility of the foot and can lead to higher incidences of flexible flat foot, bunions, hammer toe, and Morton's neuroma.
Walking and running barefoot results in a more natural gait, allowing for a more rocking motion of the foot, eliminating the hard heel strike and generating less collision force in the foot and lower leg [1][2].
There are many sports that are performed barefooted, most notably gymnastics, martial arts, and swimming, but also beach volleyball, barefoot running, barefoot hiking, and barefoot waterskiing.
Historical and religious aspects
Buddhist monks are obligated when on alms round to do at least part of it barefoot. While this is regarded as a mark of respect, it may have been implemented for its many health benefits.
WIKI VIDEO: Theravada Buddhist monks in Mahagandhayon Monastery (Amarapura, Myanmar, Burma).
Buddhist monks line up barefoot to accept their late morning meal offered by donors.
Zen Buddhist monks and practitioners engage in kinhin or "walking meditation" barefoot or in natural (cloth or straw) sandals for best results, touching the earth and grounding.
The ancient Greek Spartans required boys to go barefoot as part of their obligatory military training [3], and the athletes at the ancient Olympic Games typically participated barefoot and naked [4].
Although the ancient Greeks had a great variety of footwear, many—famously including Socrates [5]—preferred to go barefoot [3]. More
'The Life of a Showgirl' spotlights Taylor Swift as she moves away from heartache
(Fresh Air) Reviewed by Ken Tucker, Oct. 8, 2025: Swift's previous albums focused on the love she yearned for. The dozen songs on her latest release combine to form a picture of true love found, tested, and proven strong. npr.org
(KTLA 5) A massive fire erupted Thursday night at Chevron's El Segundo [the city in Los Angeles where LAX is] refinery, prompting road closures and nearby cities to issue shelter in place orders. Gil Leyvas and John Fenoglio report Oct. 2, 2025.
Are you physically attractive? - That depends; whaddya mean by "physical attractiveness"? - It is the degree to which any person's physical features are considered beautiful, that is to say, aesthetically pleasing.
In that case, probably not. But who's to say really? - The term often implies sexual attractiveness or desirability. - In that case, definitely not. - But it can also be distinct from either. - Oh, tell me more.
The New Age of Sexism
There are many factors that influence one person's attraction to another, with physical aspects being only one of them [probably the most important one to males].
Physical attraction itself includes universal perceptions common to all human cultures such as facial symmetry [5], sociocultural dependent attributes, and personal preferences unique to a particular individual [6]. More
The case of South "K-Pop" Korea
Korean Beauty Expo, Vietnam: spreading mania
South Korean beauty standards have become a well-known feature of South Korean culture. In 2015, a global survey by the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons placed South Korea in the Top Ten of countries who had the highest rate of cosmetic surgeries [1][2].
Korean beauty standards prioritize maintaining a youthful [even infantilized] appearance rather than looking mature.
A combination of clear skin, an even skin complexion, a slim V-shaped jawline, and pronounced puffy Aegyo-Sal (fatty, bag-like, deposits under the eye which are common in children and rare in adults) contribute to the desirable youthful aesthetic and personal presentation.
The increase in influence of South Korean media, such as K-pop, Korean dramas, and advertisements throughout South Korea presents this softer appearance to the public as the desirable norm.
Even in men, this softer and more androgynous appearance is preferred in both romantic interests and are shown more in media, as compared to men with traditionally masculine features.
A study from 2008 determined that 20 percent of young South Korean girls have undergone cosmetic surgery. This is significantly above the average rate in other countries [3].
A recent survey from Gallup Korea in 2015 determined that approximately one-third of South Korean women between 19 and 29 have admitted to have had plastic surgery [4]. More
Fortunately, we don't have these problems in the West, where everyone is treated on her or his own merits and judged by the contents of his or her character and inner beauty.
We have advanced to an Enlightened society, free of sexism, misogyny, homophobia, racism, ageism, influence of mass media, product sellers who make TV commercials, and other extraneous factors out of a person's control. If only the world would catch up to our advancements and example.
Standup comedienne Dawn Wong; BabyMetal "Gimme Chocolate"; I. Rony, CC Liu, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit
Careful, kids. There's a new danger on the block. Nitazenes are a chemically defined class of substances derived from the parent compound nitazene. They were developed in the second half of the 1950s by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Ciba AG as pain-relieving agents.
Big Pharma to blame for making obscene profits?
They are important as centrally active, selective μ-opioid receptor agonists. The high potency of fentanyl (in humans) is matched by only a few nitazenes and surpassed by etonitazene and isotonitazene.
Due to unacceptable side effects, nitazenes were never included in the pharmacopoeia of human or veterinary medicine.
Since 2019, highly potent nitazenes have proliferated as ″new synthetic opioids″ in the North American and European narcotics markets and as such have become a formative component of the opioid epidemic in the United States. Overdoses of nitazene opioids have led to several hundred documented fatalities [1].
Now robots can get pregnant and carry human seed to term, with children naturally clinging and identifying with AI high technology as caretaker entity. (Welcome, Homo sapiens sapiens or Homo technologi to the planet to take their place among the many human species who have lived out their lives on this plane, this simulation, or this tended garden, whatever it may be. The ET gods should be very happy at this "advance" as we get further and further away from our connection to Gaia/Bhumi/Tierra).
I blame Scarlett Johansson-Jost.
(Top Viral) Humans wouldn't really take up with machines, would we? So, say we did, we wouldn't then fall in "love" and get all clingy and attached to machines, computers, AI large language models the way we grasp at and cling to our iPhones, which are built to addict us with their wave resonance frequencies and gaming (gambling) protocols set to reel us in like dopamine fiends, would we? Wouldn't we? We are already doing it. And movies like Her and Ex Machina are normalizing it, with Hollywood ready to release a slew of propaganda films to guide society in either direction, towards sex with robots being totally normalized or considered a perversion, crime, and reason to make perverts outcastes. It's as if we are not safe from the influence of porn (North Hollywood) and propaganda (Hollywood) even in the South in small town Kentucky:
Kentucky sheriff executes judge in chambers, exposing small town's secret sex ring
When does the ScarJo sexbot launch?
(Brian Entin Investigates) Sheriff murders judge in chambers, which reveals secret sex ring, corruption, coerced sex crimes by nominally Christian officials (judges, jailers, deputies, and anyone with power) in small town Kentucky with its drug addicts and accused innocents/convicted criminals, who are fed more drugs at sex parties to have no credibility if they were ever to speak out and blow the whistle on these abuses.
Spring is coming! You know what that means. 🛌🍆💕 Cleaning, of course. And maybe a clean house will finally put her in the mood. But don't count on it. This whole marriage was a bait-and-switch! Enter, Addyi (as in addi-ction). Now there will be no excuse. Of course, how much has it even changed the world? It is not exactly new, just getting a new advertising push.
Once upon a time, "the pill" changed the world, starting in this country with women's lib, the Sixties, free love, and an end to the fear of unwanted pregnancies.
What color was that pill? Pharmaceutical white, we think. Then came a revolution in capitalist medicine, a big blue pill (Viagra®) that changed the world.
Marriages rejoiced until they yawned and turned over and kept grumbling, "Get off me." What to do, what to do? Ah, better living through chemistry was the slogan at raves that pumped the EDM to bright synthetic colors and chemicals.
I don't need it. Being lust-free is not a problem.
Finally, after decades of trying -- after millennia of aphrodisiac promises and recipes, slaughter shellfish rich in zinc, drupe fruits hanging languorously from the bough and branch, vine and even emerging from the ground (pomegranate, fig, avocado berry, strawberry, amla, gooseberry, camu camu...) What is the secret substance?
Birth control cancers? Sue the makers of Depo-Provera for injuries with attorneyThomas J Henry's class action/TORT lawsuit (800) 880-8979, San Antonio, Texas: Popular injectable birth control linked to serious health risks including brain tumors and spinal cord tumors.
Ah, clean vegan protein hits the spot.
Big Pharma now has something to sell to dissatisfied husbands and intrepid women who want to feel what they no longer feel or never felt, given years of sexism and trauma and inverted onanism no one is allowed to talk about, not that they would talk about it since the real occupation is in the mind. Free our minds and our butts will follow? That's the saying.
I should marry and do this while she sleeps.
Drop a pharmaceutical -- along with all the antidepressants (mostly SSRIs), dopaminergic Adderall, obtunding alcohol. and whatever else the dealers on campus are dealing -- and hop in bed? That would be surprising.
No one believed beets and nitric acid could do anything, but Viagra proved otherwise until every corporation rushed to release their own versions of the same thing. Cialis® anyone? That market is saturated (with generic sildenafil). Now it's time to soak some new sheets. Enter, Addyi® (flibanserin). Is it only for "working girls" like Julia Roberts? No, they don't want to enjoy it or be in any mood but moneygrubbing mode, the better for the heartless gold-digging.
What about a healthy (non-liver-harming) herbal solution? Chocolate (Theobroma cacao), damiana, epimedium (horny goat weed), Tribulus, champagne, endorphin-stimulators, and so many others.
The sexiest fruit is the most expensive. What if it doesn't work? Up the price to $19 (Erewhon)
Addyi is the only FDA-approved pill proven to increase a woman's sex drive. Addyi is a 100% [synthetic allopathic chemical compound but it is a] hormone-free pill for Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder (HSDD) proven to help certain premenopausal women*:
Do we get money back if it doesn't work? (BTW, look carefully, perv. That's her leg!)
*Efficacy of Addyi was established in three 24-week trials in over 2,000 premenopausal women with acquired, generalized HSDD. Patients were treated with Addyi (n=1,187) or placebo (n=1,188) [n being the number of participants in a study].
Not all women will experience similar improvement for their HSDD. For the last 10 years, Addyi has been the #1 prescribed treatment for HSDD [1] in women who have not yet gone through menopause, who have not had problems with low sexual desire in the past, and who have low sexual desire no matter the type of sexual activity, the situation, or the sexual partner.
Sexbot: Wait, what, you're saying I'm not a "real" woman? This pill didn't work! Get off of me!
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Women with HSDD have low sexual desire that is troubling to them. Their low sexual desire is not due to:
a medical or mental health problem [such as having been molested, assaulted, or raped, Live Beyond ACEs!],
problems in the relationship
or medicine
or other drug use.
I get a real charge out of suckers men for my Tesla
Addyi is not for use for the treatment of HSDD in women who have gone through menopause or in men or children [anyone under 18, depending on geographical location and political climate].
Addyi is not for use to enhance sexual performance [so, sorry, working girls, you'll just have to rely on the same illegal drugs you've been using up until now].
Sugar is deadlier than glyphosate (Roundup®)
ACEs
It happened to everyone. - No, it didn't!
(Live Beyond CA) Our past experiences do not define us, but they can have a lasting impact on our mental and physical health and even our relationships. ACEs (adverse childhood experiences) are not our fault. We didn’t have control over when or why they happened, but we can live beyond ACEs and take steps toward healing. More
Big Pharma keeps trying to convince women they need libido drugs
Teresa Carr, Mother Jones
What's in this legal toxic stew of allopathic chemicals and enzyme disruptors?
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Magic in Pandora's bottle or an evil genie?
Sex therapist and researcher Leonore Tiefer shuttered the New View Campaign, an organization she had founded to combat what she refers to as “the medicalization of sex” — essentially, the pharmaceutical industry’s efforts to define variations in sexuality and sexual problems as medical issues requiring a drug fix.
For 16 years, the group had fought against industry’s involvement in sex research, including its push for a drug to boost women’s sex drives.
New View hosted conferences and its members penned papers and testified before the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The campaign was prominently featured in an 80-minute documentary called Orgasm Inc, and promoted a clever (if off-pitch) video advising women to “throw that pink pill away,” a reference to the female-libido drug flibanserin (Addyi), which was seeking FDA approval at the time.
Orgasm Inc, that's a real thing? Is it Rated X?
New View counted some successes: The FDA didn’t approve an allegedly libido-boosting testosterone patch for women, on the grounds that the patch’s slim benefits didn’t outweigh its risks, and the FDA twice rejected flibanserin for the same reason.
But [ten years ago] in August 2015, the agency reversed itself and approved the so-called pink Viagra. “I felt we’d said everything we had to say,” said Tiefer of ending the campaign.
Advocates predicted FDA approval would be sought for additional women’s libido drugs, but the group felt there was nothing they could do to stop it. More
1. IQVIA Monthly Total Prescriptions Volume Data Comparing Addyi vs Vyleesi in the US. Sept 2022 – Sept 2024
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