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[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

What a roller coaster that guy is. Homeless, but profiting off of interstate trafficking to fund international smuggling to give drugs to Ukraine war veterans. But watch out, because that drug can result in torsades de pointes.

[-] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 11 points 7 months ago
[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Thanks! I should really be less stingy with my gift links since the month is ending

[-] PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

How does that program work? I’m assuming as a paid subscriber you get a number of free links to hand out per month?

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

10 per month for any subscriber. I don’t actually pay though, I get it free through school

[-] treefrog@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago

God speed brother. God speed.

[-] autotldr 7 points 7 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The mission had already begun to go sideways when Dana Beal — a pioneer of New York’s marijuana legalization movement but someone who has never obtained a driver’s license — enlisted a ketamine enthusiast to chauffeur him across America.

He was an early member of the Youth International Party, the Yippie movement known for its Dadaesque pranks and theatrical Vietnam War protests, and he lived for years in the group’s Greenwich Village headquarters, before the place was foreclosed upon in 2014.

He put together hundreds of smoke-ins, demonstrations, marches and parades, and made cross-country smuggling runs to both finance his activism and procure pot to hand out at events where he could be found carrying a giant inflatable joint.

So Mr. Beal continued his weed runs in the name of affordable pot for all, and also to raise money for his other legalization crusade: a banned psychoactive vegetable substance called ibogaine that has long been studied as a treatment for opioid addiction, Parkinson’s disease and many other ailments.

With temperatures well below freezing, Mr. Beal, wearing his usual tweed jacket and cowboy boots, stayed in the vehicle — another mistake, he lamented — forcing the state trooper to come to them and wind up getting a whiff of the cargo.

Mr. Beal was finally bailed out of the Gooding County Jail this month by the marijuana activist Adam Eidinger and Don Wirtshafter, a lawyer who founded the Cannabis Museum in Athens, Ohio.


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[-] ItsAFake@lemmus.org 3 points 7 months ago

Yippie! Weed! Wait I mean, Yippie weed.

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