I think you can get much higher ratios of CBD to THC in this format. This is what people with chronic pain and anxiety are looking for.

You can get low THC/high CBD ratios in any format. In Switzerland for example, products with CBD is legal, and up to 1% of THC. So you end up with lots of different products, including dry herb, that has 0-1% THC.

It may be harder to get in places where higher THC content is legal (since most users want more THC), but it's definitely not limited to just wet cartridges.

You COULD get much higher ratios of CBD and THC in this format if the product is not chopped to hell in back. The issue with black market carts is that it is hard to tell whether it is the genuine article with a visual inspection or by tasting the product. It's much easier with the actual flower. In theory the liquid is more potent, in practice without regulation not so much

You can buy high-CBD flower though.

She is depicted as a deeply flawed and vindictive character. As a reader, it's easy to hate her and as I was reading it I imagined the author must have hated her too. But there are other women/girls in the story who come off in a much more positive, almost angelic, light so I don't think the author could be accused of misogyny here. Nor the husband in the book - his mariage seems to be something unpleasant that happens to him but he never seems to hold his wife's apparent flaws against her.

> But there are other women/girls in the story who come off in a much more positive, almost angelic, light so I don't think the author could be accused of misogyny here.

I don't think this is the best defence. Maybe 'misogyny' is a dangerously ambiguous word here, but certainly sexist writing can contain positive portrayals of women. You've also got to take into account how much humanity and depth the female characters are invested with, the types of traits they are celebrated or derided for, and so on. (If a book contained only hateful and angelic women, that would be suspiciously reminiscent of the Madonna-whore dichotomy, which is a bit of a wanky phrase but I think has some truth to it.)

I think it would be fair to say that we don't get a full portrait of anyone but Stoner, so the fact that Edith is arguably a bit of a caricature of the broken, bitter woman doesn't necessarily tell us much about Williams's attitude to women generally. And there's enough nuance in her portrayal to leave space for her to be a real person behind the scenes.

Completely agree, and I was a bit disappointed that the interviewer didn't take the opportunity to ask the author's wife her opinions on the way the wife is depicted in that book. She's such a terrible character, maybe there's no way to politely broach the subject!

Berkeley is tackling this issue with a “back on the street by the end of the day” approach to prosecuting laptop thefts.

They also have a game cafe where you pay $5 an hour to sit and play board games. I’ve never seen anyone whip out their laptop instead but that would be a pretty cheap coworking option.

I assume you mean Sid Vicious rather than Johnny Rotten, a smart and articulate guy whose other band, Public Image Ltd deserves plenty of acclaim regardless of whether or not they are punk “enough”.

It’s not like Malcolm McLaren was the Simon Cowell of his era. He started out as a shop keeper, had deep ties to the scene, and was an artist himself.

Plenty of worthwhile bands have had a leg up from well connected people over the years. At the very least it brings visibility to other artists in the genre and it certainly shouldn’t detract from your enjoyment of Holidays In The Sun.

The school I attended was founded in 1206. I don't think training factory workers was a top priority back then.

Having put in their time at UCSF, this person has most likely already made a decent contribution to the field, at the very least enabling their PI to continue their work. And who knows what they will go on to do now that they have escaped the crushing grind of academia?

Berkeley recently made it easier to build accessory dwelling units on a residential lot http://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/03/20/new-laws-make-even-ea.... I think people are pricing this in when they're buying property in Berkeley now - people who have the cash to invest in building these structures are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars more than the next best offers if the property has a good sized yard.

Sonja Trauss sure gets mentioned in a lot of articles for her work at the San Francisco Bay Area Renters Federation. No surprise to see she's running for Supervisor now.

I was just explaining Knightmare to an American the other day - I assume this was only aired in the UK. If they recreated that show as a VR app that might finally get me to buy the hardware.

Although you don't seem to like the president, you have made a lot of the same points as he did in his campaign. Maybe he will fix these issues and make America great again.

So far he's basically just (unsuccessfully) attempted to roll back Obama's progress on healthcare, ban Muslims, build a wall to keep out the Mexicans, and give legitimacy to white supremacists. He's surrounded himself with Goldman Sachs executives.

I'm not really seeing the progress, but I hope he does make America great again.

Not to get political, but the president doesn't have the power to change things at this level. It's up to congress and state and municipal governments to institute the kind of change you are thinking about.

Over the past month, I've started to consider that the people that support the president know this. They want him to champion the identity that they have and the policies don't matter nearly as much -- they just want to hear someone "defending" them.

I think it's far more about identity than it is any faith they have in him being able to actually change anything via policy or legislation.