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Comment Re:Painkillers, HA! (Score 2) 217

Anecdotally, when I was on Morphine, the pain was still there. It was buried in my brain, but if I looked for it, I found it. Morphine merely allowed me to shunt it off somewhere else. Same with whatever pain meds they gave me post-surgery. I didn't even know I was on pain meds until they started to wear off (about every 12 hours, on the dot). I knew I still had pain deep down, but I just didn't care about it. However, after about 12 hours, I couldnt' ignore it and had to retake.

Now, I'm in constant pain (seriously, dont' ever get run over by a car on a bicycle, it will fuck you up). I've managed to deal with it, medication-free for the past 7-8 years, but occasionally I do eat an edible (once a month or so) when it's just been a physically stressful day and I need something to let me put it out of mind and relax. Cannabis does the trick good enough with no worries of addiction (which runs in my family pretty hardcore).

Comment Re:Is this really good news? (Score 1) 233

I used to get paid around $10-12/hour to drive a forklift, with a max pay of around $15/hour (plus overtime when required). It really does depend on how much a company values its workers and the quality of their work. $30-50 seems.. the fuck, because I'd go do that job RIGHT NOW. But as I was saying, a bad fork driver can cost you millions in certain industries. Our forklift drivers had to go through a 2 week certification course, with obstacle courses on several different forklifts that we had in service, plus recurring yearly testing. It was a "prestige" job on the floor.

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