boop the snoot posted:

the F stands for Forever

SMA posted:

CSMs,

On behalf of the SMA,

Leaders,

            I have recently been notified by our Surgeon General of an emerging health threat to our Soldiers with potentially catastrophic health risks associated with the use of products containing Cannabidiol (CBD) oil.

We need to educate our formations on these health risks potentially related to vaping products containing CBD oil which could cause severe medical issues.  These adverse health effects range from confusion to seizures, and complications may result in brain death. This problem has the potential to spread quickly across our Army, as CBD oil has been found in a wide range of
products from foods and dietary supplements to vaping oils.  These products are available on-line and in many retail stores, including vape shops and health stores.  Product names include Black Magic, Black Diamond and Triple-X.  Although CBD oil derived from the cannabis plant is a controlled substance under Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, these products, and all vape oils, are currently unregulated by any U.S. Federal Regulatory Agency.

I consider this emerging public health threat a top priority, and we must continue to monitor this issue and provide updates as new information becomes available. As a part of our effort to protect Soldier health and safety, the U.S. Army Public Health Center is producing tailored information products.  We need to ensure the widest dissemination of these products as soon as they are finalized. 

In the meantime, if you have any questions regarding this issue, additional supplement safety information for Leaders, Warfighters, Families and Providers provided by the DOD Human Performance Resource Center can be found at:
https://www.opss.org/faqs/cannabidiol-are-dietary-supplements-cannabidiol-le
gal.

SMA

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Results: In general, the often described favorable safety profile of CBD in humans was confirmed and extended by the reviewed research. The majority of studies were performed for treatment of epilepsy and psychotic disorders. Here, the most commonly reported side effects were tiredness, diarrhea, and changes of appetite/weight. In comparison with other drugs, used for the treatment of these medical conditions, CBD has a better side effect profile. This could improve patients' compliance and adherence to treatment. CBD is often used as adjunct therapy. Therefore, more clinical research is warranted on CBD action on hepatic enzymes, drug transporters, and interactions with other drugs and to see if this mainly leads to positive or negative effects, for example, reducing the needed clobazam doses in epilepsy and therefore clobazam's side effects.

Wasabi the J posted:

Guess the SMA hard about jenkem CBD oils.

Ambihelical Hexnut posted:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5569602/


I don't know anything about this topic but after five minutes googling it's clear: these science idiots really need to get on the same page as SMA wrt all the heart attacks and brain explosions that have been happening around the force.

Soulex posted:

It helps anxiety and pain.

Zeris posted:

Is it legal?

Soulex posted:

THC is fat soluble. I have no idea if CBD is or not. That’s the main reason THC is so goddamn easy to detect.

Icon Of Sin posted:

Can't you join at 17 with a parental waiver? Someone born on 12 Sept 2001 could enlist this year if that's an option

Fat Twitter Man posted:

you can enlist on your 17th birthday but can’t go to basic training until 17 and a half. So they won’t actually be in the army until March 2019. they’ll still get to go to Afghanistan

Fat Twitter Man posted:

you can enlist on your 17th birthday but can’t go to basic training until 17 and a half.

Metal Geir Skogul posted:

Don't join the army tia

Poppyseed Poundcake posted:

There is no fat in your hair. The reason it is easy to detect is because they test for it. It is impossible to detect something you don’t test for.

Fat Twitter Man posted:

you can enlist on your 17th birthday but can’t go to basic training until 17 and a half. So they won’t actually be in the army until March 2019. they’ll still get to go to Afghanistan

Mustang posted:

So as an OC I’m surrounded by a bunch of people that aren’t in my unit and I was talking to a JPMRC captain about getting out and it was literally a conversation where all he did is offer up standard Army excuses on why working for the Army sucks and that things aren’t all that great outside because the Army pays us officers a lot of money, our health care, sense of purpose and comraderie, etc etc.

Why do lifers get so defensive when somebody wants to get out? Why do they care and even want to talk somebody out of it in the first place?

Dude is a west pointer too so he’s spent his whole adult life suckling on the Army teat so I don’t know why he’s trying to tell a guy that joined the Army at 27 what it’s like as a civilian.

Mustang posted:

So as an OC I’m surrounded by a bunch of people that aren’t in my unit and I was talking to a JPMRC captain about getting out and it was literally a conversation where all he did is offer up standard Army excuses on why working for the Army sucks and that things aren’t all that great outside because the Army pays us officers a lot of money, our health care, sense of purpose and comraderie, etc etc.

Why do lifers get so defensive when somebody wants to get out? Why do they care and even want to talk somebody out of it in the first place?

Dude is a west pointer too so he’s spent his whole adult life suckling on the Army teat so I don’t know why he’s trying to tell a guy that joined the Army at 27 what it’s like as a civilian.

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

Vahakyla posted:

I don’r get it why this is so forbidden. Lower enlisted had no other choice. We don’t have the best of the best. We have failures, lost souls, and people who had no other choice. It doesn’t make em inherently bad, but it’s not like a rifle squad is filled with highly capable, well adjusted, adaptive people.

Vahakyla posted:

I don’r get it why this is so forbidden. Lower enlisted had no other choice. We don’t have the best of the best. We have failures, lost souls, and people who had no other choice. It doesn’t make em inherently bad, but it’s not like a rifle squad is filled with highly capable, well adjusted, adaptive people.

Mustang posted:

Why do lifers get so defensive when somebody wants to get out? Why do they care and even want to talk somebody out of it in the first place?

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

spacetoaster posted:

I'm a lifer and I constantly tell dudes to get out quickly if they're going to get out. Don't be like me.


What unit was this guy in? He sounds like cav.

not caring here posted:

Oh, that's easy. It's what happens when someone is a boring motherfucker, and defines themselves by stuff that they do and stuff that they own.

You see it a lot that people attach things like the ability to fight, or being able to shoot, or lift heavy things, or their brand of car, and tie all that poo poo right on in their ego in a tight little ball of fragility.

Thus you say anything not positive about their job or whatever, that becomes a direct attack against themselves. Because they are just uninteresting airheads that confuse their job with who they are AND DON'T YOU EVER GODDAMN SAY ANYTHING BAD ABOUT THE ARMY MAGGOT gently caress YOU

psydude posted:

The Army is the only job I've ever had where people get upset when you want to quit to move on to better things. At every other place, everyone's always been happy to see other people take better positions to advance their career.