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Do an antigen home-test and if it's positive then regularly monitor your blood oxygenation levels with a pulse oximeter, if your levels drop too low then go to hospital. Pulse oximeters can be bought by next-day delivery on Amazon for under £15. (This is not medical advice, it's just what we...

I sincerely doubt that 99% of people in this country die suddenly or want to cling on to life as long as possible even when they are dying a long painful lingering death. I suspect that the proportion of people who would take the quick painless route out when they become terminally ill and no...

What's really sickening is that Putin knows very well that his old enemy, ISIS, is responsible for this atrocity, but he is trying to put the blame on the Ukrainians so he can stir up the righteous anger of the Russian population against Ukraine. Thus, making it easier to conscript men to fight...

Yes, that's a total rip-off. Bloody cowboy tradesmen. You can save yourself a lot of money by learning how to do basic locksmithing jobs. It really isn't rocket science.

Given that they have a genetic predisposition to habitual/dependent cannabis use and Skunk is illegally available almost everywhere in the UK then it is logical to assume they seek it out. But, as I said above, for those of them who are cannabis-virgins who might start using it after...

Those jurisdictions are free to set their own rules on what will be a legal cannabis product there. If they are stupid enough to legalise Skunk then more fool them. We don't have to copy how other countries regulate legal recreational cannabis products. It's not about stronger strains, but...

Do we have a problem with homemade illegal moonshine in the UK? Are there men out in the woods and on abandoned industrial estates across the country running moonshine stills to produce alcohol for the illegal local alcohol market? NO. Clearly not. Why is that? Because people in this country who...

In a foreign country with a generally libertarian attitude to life, which frankly is far from the case here. It is logical to assume that in a legal jurisdiction (run by responsible legislators), like the UK appears to be, regulations would be introduced that would seek to minimise the harm...

I AM TALKING ABOUT THE UK. The article you quoted was from the Priory Group (a private British psychiatric healthcare provider). You cannot talk about the situation with teenage users in the UK and then start citing things that are happening with that age-group in California or Amsterdam. How...

I've had acquaintances who definitely weren't using cocaine who started fights after getting extremely drunk on nights out. Some people have a lot of repressed anger/violence which is disinhibited when they drink heavily and then all it takes is a trigger to set them off. There was one man I...

I've seen many fights that started just because someone had too much alcohol to drink and started throwing punches. Just ask any nightclub bouncer in Newcastle about how many fights they've seen where normally mild-mannered young men turned fighting mad after having a skin-full and perceiving...

Yes, that doesn't surprise me. The "Temperance Movement" in the USA who advocated for and secured alcohol prohibition were dominated by Christian fundamentalists and Nativist groups. Morality warriors like them would approve of ruthless methods to enforce prohibition for the greater good (in...

Yes, but the tax revenue raised by legal cannabis and the savings on law enforcement/court cases/prisons mean that the legalisation of cannabis is a net financial win for society. People legally using medical cannabis on private prescription in the UK (there were only 4 NHS prescriptions for it...

Yes, and there are far more people who live on benefits and have a similar lifestyle on alcohol. The amount of violence caused by drunks is off-the-scale. But just because there are alcoholics does that mean we should ban alcohol for everyone? As has been explained numerous times in this...

Dark chocolate and some types of nuts can trigger them for me. Cheap red wine and some cheaper brands of whisky (blended, not single-malt whisky) are also a trigger for me. High acetaldehyde levels would be the trigger in those whisky brands and red wines contains differing levels of quercetin...

Most of the black-market cannabis in this country (over 95%) is "Skunk". This is very potent strain (which was only developed by plant breeders due to it being illegal), so that drug dealers could maximise their profits from it by growing high THC containing biomass. As its name suggests it...

Yes, I should have said to *greatly* increase production, rather than just to increase production. Clearly, you could double production by going from one 12 hour shift a day to two 12 hour shifts a day, or increase production by 50% by going from two 8 hour shifts a day to three 8 hour shifts a...

They have been asleep at the wheel for years. That's the whole point! The British government are also shockingly bad at planning ahead. They've been cutting the size of our Armed Forces and failing to meet their needs/equip them properly for years, while Russia has been throwing its weight...

Not all Republicans agree with this appeasement of Russia. The old school ones find this sort of thing absolutely nauseating. Yes, of course it's deliberate. The problem is that the MAGA Republican Congress people are ignorant morally bankrupt fools who are keen to suck up to Trump so they can...

He obviously wanted to be a martyr. I doubt it will do any good though because the Russian people are one of the most brain-washed apathetic populations in the world. If he had stayed in the West he could have maintained an influence in Russia as a critic of Putin via the internet and if they...