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carry on (wildlife biology major)
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

If you suspect you have anything with lead, always check the cpsc for recalls. Plus of course, there are lead test shown in the video.

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marzipanandminutiae

(for a historical perspective, by the 19th century at least, people believed lead was poisonous. they just didn't have better alternatives yet, so they kind of. did their best and hoped)

(also lead pipes build up a layer of scale over time, which shields the water passing through it from some of the harmful leaching. that's why our ancestors didn't all keel over from lead poisoning)

(I've also looked into safety precautions for using antique fine china with leaded decorative glazes, but that's a whole other matter)

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becuzitisbitter

Shout out to this guy (link)

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argyrocratie

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“The store, which was parked next to a police van, had bright yellow sandwich boards featuring a price list for all the drugs, which ranged from $10 for a point (one-tenth of a gram) of meth to $250 for 2.5 grams of crack. Martin, who wore a stab-proof vest as he sold drugs from behind a plexiglas window inside the shop, said he wanted to stay close to street prices.

Martin told VICE News Wednesday that his plan was to get arrested eventually. He said he wants to launch a constitutional challenge arguing that prohibition has created a toxic drug supply that’s killing Canadians.

“He would allege that laws that prevent a safe supply and result in death by poisoning contravene section 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and must be struck down,” his lawyer, Paul Lewin, wrote in a letter to Martin’s potential business partners.

Martin already has a cannabis trafficking conviction.

Martin said he was partially inspired to open the store by his stepbrother Gord Rennie, who died of a drug overdose last year. Rennie was interviewed in the VICE News Tonight documentary, Beyond Fentanyl, about his addiction to benzo dope.”

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catgirltoes

[image description: a screenshotted excerpt from the article. It reads:

The Vancouver man who opened a store selling heroin, meth, cocaine, and MDMA was arrested less than 24 hours after launching the business.
Jerry Martin opened The Drugs Store, a mobile shop, in the Downtown Eastside Wednesday, a neighbourhood that’s been ravaged by the overdose epidemic. He said he wanted to give people a safe supply of drugs that have been tested to ensure they didn’t contain fentanyl.

Attached is a picture of Martin holding a yellow sign laying out the rules in front of his shop. End description]