Hard to see this move (and the undeserved hype around it) as anything other than an attempt to slow the momentum of the anti-gen*ci*e movement.

Once your distress has been medicalised, medicated & depoliticised, the government will now prescribe its final remedy: cutting your financial support so that you're now forced to return to the precarious, low paid & demoralising work that made you miserable in the first place.

Can you figure out the last part? 🤣😂

All drugs must be brought under legal control/regulation. This is the only sensible/humane solution. Prohibition is far more dangerous than the drugs it doesn’t protect us from. That’s it, folks.

Subtly, this is an attempt to stoke culture war resentments. The idea being implied is that people with depression and anxiety are 'snowflakes'. The tories want a week long onslaught of op-eds from privately educated commentators who know little of economic adversity.

#OTD 52 years ago, trade unionist Jimmy Reid stood up up at Glasgow University, having been elected by the students as their new rector.

The speech he delivered - hailed by the New York Times as the finest since the 'Gettysburg Address' - is as profound now as it was then.

Harm reduction doesn't eliminate harm, it reduces harm. Just like seatbelts and bike helmets won't stop accidents from happening, it reduces the risk of fatalities in those circumstances. #harmreduction

I am referencing this book when I speak of The Society of the Spectacle.

from French megamind Guy Debord in 1967.

it's fucking impossible in french and not altogether fluid in English.

But it is scary how close he called everything today.

Not gonna lie, this is hard to watch, and telling.

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I envision withdrawing from all social media within the next year.

There’s nothing left to say or debate on these platforms anymore.

ALL efforts need to be place-based.

We are either working together locally & regionally IRL on the daily for transformative change or we’re not.

Last week, during our weekly local Sunday breathwork ceremony, a man shared that he experienced complete unity with all existence. He dissolved into oneness.

This was his first time practicing!

Yesterday, the same man came back to sit in ceremony, and while sharing at the end…

'To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour'

-William Blake

When will we start caring about the fact that the neoliberal approach of marketisation has failed almost everyone, apart from a handful of incredibly wealthy individuals and organisations?

It’s 4/20 and the pot stores around here had lines wrapped around their buildings and down streets.

Most looked pretty damn happy. It’s almost as if it being illegal for so long was a stupid thing to do.

A lot of people have overcome anxiety, pain, and dropped big pharma with…

Addiction would be a niche issue if all medicines were free again and we viewed plant medicines as they did in the pre-Columbian Andes. In a world of legal phenethylamines, addiction would be unnecessary for those seeking higher states, and it would be treatable if it occurred.

A friend from the DTES who I hadn't spoken to in a couple of years reached out after he saw me on the news talking about decriminalization and safer supply.

He said he went to detox because the fentanyl was destroying him physically and mentally. After detox though he isn’t on…