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Telescope_Horizon265 karma

How big of a role does social media, like Reddit, play in the massive uptick in depression among users?

Telescope_Horizon7 karma

How will giving $1000 to citizens help when they are supposed to be quarantined?

seeing as how it has no benefit after the run on stores my next question would be, what is the benefit of raising the debt ceiling... as that is all that would be accomplished

Telescope_Horizon3 karma

The US Treasury prints money, or rather transfers digital currency when the Federal Reserve tells them to.

The Federal Reserve can also loan money to banks, with interest, with the level of interest set by the Feds 8 times a year, called the The Federal Fund Rate, although they call it a Discount Program when the feds do it.

Bottom line, extortion of taxpayers is around every corner.

Telescope_Horizon2 karma

What is your opinion on medical marijuana; which studies have shown promise due to cannabinoids' anticonvulsive, analgesic, antiemetic, and anti- inflammatory effects.

Also Endocannabinoid Defeciency Syndrome has been hypothesized to underlie the pathophysiology of migranes. Humans create their own cannabinoids but not at the same levels, and this is what the "runner's high is"

  • How large of a role do you feel that Medical Marijuana being legalized and the NIDA ending the monopoly on Shwag research plants will effect the surge of holistic medicines that show promise and are supported in niche studies outside of the US?

Telescope_Horizon1 karma

How detrimental to mental health are false framed statistics that totally ignore mental health?

Example, blaming guns for criminal instances when 60%+ are suicides and is completely ignored by the media.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States

Claiming children need to be vaccinated when more people under 25 have committed suicide since January 2020 than died of Covid:

https://www.aier.org/article/more-covid-suicides-than-covid-deaths-in-kids/