Illinois has solid gun laws, as does Maryland and California.

Yet California has a gun violence per capita of 8.5 of 100,000, Illinois is at 14.1, Maryland sits at 13.5

Rhode Island is only higher than Massachusetts, with the rates at 5.1 and 3.7 respectively.

Every other state is higher than us in the region.

So if CT and the other above states have stronger gun laws than us, than why is their rates so much higher?

Gun laws don’t prevent people from dying from guns, it’s the people who own them.

Every person arrested for a gun charge this year will commit those crimes regardless of any law that’s passed. You could outright ban the ownership of all firearms in this state and you’d still have people breaking the law and shooting each other.

So no, we don’t need more gun control in this state that will just fuck the law abiding gun owners.

We do a lot better than most of the country largely because of our gun laws and neighboring states having solid laws. Still, our level of gun violence is non-zero, and it kinda seems like we should want to improve that?

I had noticed this in Providence as well

Hey chief promoting ~clandestine~ DIY shows on reddit is maybe not a fantastic idea

Thank you Op has no problem gaslighting me calling me mentally ill for keeping it 💯

Jumping in to agree and also rant:

Having worked in a Mass lab (coming from RI working independently), can confirm. They will also test way more than twice, and I’ve seen them send slabs out with samples just to make the testing go ‘smoother’.

NETA was the first to open, I worked the production facility mostly in the lab, but got bounced around to build grow rooms if the needed extra hands (I’m a handy person).

They were also allowed to train their own health inspector, bc there were no dispensary/production facility inspectors at the time.

I’ve also seen whole plants washed in hydrogen peroxide because of PM and black mold. We had black mold in our air showers because the geniuses that ran the grow thought it wise to leave the doors open overnight to freeze off the PM, despite all the local staff saying “nope, we have humidity, this isn’t Colorado”.

The also sent an entire shift spraying pesticides without checking HVAC, and everyone was exposed. Of course we were assured it was ‘fine’ because it was an organic pesticide.

I’ve taken trips to Boston and Worcester since, anyone who pays attention can just put their bud in a clean bowl and watch the flame and ash color/how it burns, etc.

I don’t know why people want to defend big cannabis, it’s all out of state money in MA.

Massachusetts is still more expensive for most items and the quality is not there. NETA is responsible for setting up a coalition of dispensaries, while RI has a patient advocacy group (RIPAC).

There are some very clear differences, and I hope RI doesn’t go the way MA went.

That’s Ocean State, where OP doesn’t want to go.

America has never cared for its citizens' mental health and its well documented. We would need a paradigm shift overnight to even begin to start building the kind of support networks people need. Never mind the people with ACTUAL mental issues and addiction, those people are well and truly fucked.

Oh, I fully understand that. I’m saying as someone who worked black and gray before being hired at a production facility, I’d never willfully inspect cultivation facilities for free.

The backlash of reporting at a job, where I was working in a higher paid position (not trim, not watering plants) was still horrible.

There’s just no way.

I’ve been saying it for a while. The state is over crowed, imo at least. It’s absolutely ridiculous the amount of people that are in this state. So much so that the things you mention and many many others are over crowded, over run and under funded. I’m sorry , it’s an awful state. Once my grandkids are old enough it’s a straight bye.

Yes! I live near there in MA and they are nothing short of amazing. Highly recommend

I just got the plum beach lighthouse plate. It looks way better, easy to order, came in a handful of weeks, and you contribute to the upkeep of the little lighthouse!

Agreed. Ocean state owns bay state but they are WAY better in terms of compassion and care

Yeah, RI is really leading this country in gun violence.

Tufts in Walpole was great for us in our time of need.

I found the care at Ocean State to be incredibly deficient. They dismissed my 6 month CKCS's symptoms as kennel cough. A couple weeks later symptoms persisted and we took the pup to Tufts. Turned out to be a serious auto immune issue that took her from us.

Who knows, maybe an extra month would have made the difference. Either way I will never go to Ocean State again.

They want people to go out of their way to inspect cultivation facilities. It’s one thing if you work someplace that’s doing shady shit like that and report it to the health board/ licensing authorities. But many won’t for fear of retaliation from their employer. Ultimately unless you’re getting hired as a grunt laborer for $20 an hour or less to water plants, harvest trim and spray Chems these companies are only hiring people with useless horticulture degrees who’ve never grown cannabis in most cases have no clue about proper integrated pest management procedures and leaving people who’ve risked their freedom for decades to hone a clandestine craft out in the cold.

No thanks, this should be an industry opened to those who have earned the merit through experience and work not through a paycheck and a sketch ass handshake.

I worked for NETA in MA when they first opened. They were the first in MA. And they were full of mold, and the owners from CO pulled all sorts of shady bs. Of course we went to HR. They did nothing.

So a bunch of us just called OSHA. Because NETA was literally allowed to train the health inspector given them by the state (seeing they normally deal with restaurants and other facilities, they weren’t even sure wtf they were looking for…real, real ethical).

Before I quit, I saw PM, black mold, full plants dipped in H2O2…illegal use of Neem, just fuckery of all types.

OP is absolutely asking for work. It is stressful( demanding, and you’re often told to rugsweep everything from black mold to edibles being taken off the god damned floor.

For patients. Immunocompromised patients. As one of those people as well, it was maddening to watch.

I’d never do this work for free, but I’ll report anything suspicious I see any time. You don’t need a job for that. None of us do.

I never claimed any of that I just told you Why I value my time as highly as I do and why you shouldn’t expect free labor in an exclusionary pay to play industry. Nice try gaslighting though.

Just get a mortgage

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> those who’ve paid to play

FTFY.

Although payed exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in:

• Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. The deck is yet to be payed.

• Payed out when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. The rope is payed out! You can pull now.

Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment.

Beep, boop, I'm a bot

If you don’t value people’s time enough to believe they are worth being paid for providing a service you are no better than he Wall Street hedge fund military/ prison industry profiteers that have looted the working class and left my generation with no prospect of retirement, no ability to purchase a home, and no reason to perform labor. Seriously this guy wants free labor. Offering a smoke sesh and a shared utopian vision isn’t going to get people interested its like venue owners telling talented musicians you’ll pay them in exposure lol. Why don’t you post the conversations of people who are jumping at your offer to devalue their time and energy so we can be told to trust products grown by an exclusionary industry? How bout this, If you think dispos and cultivators are growing contaminated product then why not just tell people to grow their own or find someone who does and has clean organic flower/ concentrate instead of doing free work that will ultimately benefit those who’ve payed to play in this industry?

Sorry this is such a joke it writes itself

Sorry this is such a joke it writes itself

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We’ve had family utilize this one and were very happy, saved their cat, also from a blockage. it’s also the place our vet (which is just down the road - shout out to Abbott animal hospital) recommends for any emergency/urgent/after hours things he can’t help us with.