"My family are in Panjab right now and they say it is fine"
Your cousin you chat to on whatsapp for 5mins is not representative of the threat being dangled over the heads of 27million people, as 1500+of them (last count) have been taken or raided by police to crush Sikh dissent.
During the first two lockdowns we saw a lot of teenagers between 16-19 come in after suffering episodes of weed induced psychosis from smoking weed that was too potent (high thc) frequently.
Living in the GTA is going to be 10x more dangerous in the next few years tbh. People are gonna get desperate due to socioeconomic issues and resort to violent crimes and we’re also gonna see a rise in mental illness, primarily drug induced
I kind of already seen in it happen working in hospitals during Covid, a lot of these mental health patients that I dealt with only began having psychotic breaks, paranoia etc after starting to use drugs. Why did they start to use drugs? Bc of stress from the pandemic
Bro even Canada’s justice system and parole board are stupid as fuck, they just catch and release these repeat offenders in the name of rehabilitation and these guys end up going on rampages
it shouldn’t be a surprise when some people are so desensitized to certain topics bc they’ve been issues for decades and absolutely nothing has changed
I ubered home from work and I was telling my driver about my business and showed him the ‘Mental Health Matters’ hat that I made. He bought it right off me then and there. It was a surreal feeling, it’s the first sale I’ve made through that kind of interaction.
I just submitted the first blog post on my website. It’s about our ‘Mental Health Matters’ Initiative. Feel free to give it a read! https://t.co/uHcmDbKxAd
Here's a book rejection that we just received from a prison in Tennessee: "Malcolm X not allowed."
This is part of an insidious pattern of targeted bans by prisons against Black authors and against literature critiquing the prison system and power structures in this country.
A couple of friends and I are out camping rn and we connected our two tents connected with tarps as the roof. It feels like the pillow Fort episode in Community lmao