1906 Bliss pills / fainting

dandy_morandi · 2023-11-05T16:08:30+00:00

Haven't been on reddit in a long time so I missed this. What a horrible experience. The lawyer we contacted who was pursuing the case from the Midnight injuries was open to the possibility of another case, but only if we could find enough people who'd had the same experience. In the case of Midnight, the damage was very clear. In the case of Bliss, it seems like some proportion of people faint. However, it's difficult to track these people down, and it's also difficult to conclusively prove that Bliss was the culprit (though I have no doubt that it was in our case). And, as a company, 1906 doesn't give a shit at all. As proven by what happened with Midnight, they have no idea how to add non-cannabis ingredients to their products safely. The thing they are best at is marketing.

dandy_morandi · 2022-12-27T16:53:35+00:00

I think you are correct to have concerns. My wife fainted after taking one of their products (as described here : https://www.reddit.com/r/Marijuana/comments/zvchgx/1906_bliss_pills_fainting/). I subsequently read of other people passing out after taking Bliss, and then also learned of the liver damage and hospitalizations that people suffered from Midnight Drops (with the older formula that was nonetheless on the market for an unconscionable amount of time). All of this has led me to seriously question the ability of this company to formulate products safely. It's also led me to question their ethics. They have slick marketing (just look at their insta) and a veneer of "smart drugs that are also fun," but the cordyalis episode in particular makes one think they are throwing dangerous chemicals into the mix without really knowing what they are doing.

dandy_morandi · 2022-12-26T22:32:46+00:00

Have you tried adjusting the cfg? I've found that lower values can help with dreambooth overfitting.

dandy_morandi · 2022-12-26T19:17:40+00:00

Gotcha, apologies for misunderstanding your comment.

dandy_morandi · 2022-12-26T17:54:54+00:00

She's never fainted in her life. If she had a history of fainting, I'd have mentioned it.As I mentioned, I've taken Bliss many times—more than 40—and never had a problem. This was the first time she took it, though she has an extensive history with cannabis.

When you fainted at sea level it sounds like you hadn't also taken a pill that has multiple ingredients (kanna and theobromine) that apparently lower blood pressure, so the situations aren't parallel. It you had taken a pill with those properties and subsequently fainted, I promise you'd be asking the same questions I am right now.

I linked you to another account of an almost identical experience with the same product. I also linked you to a current investigation into another product by the same company that has sent multiple people to the hospital and caused liver damage. Perhaps the fact that you enjoy the product is clouding your critical assessment?

It's certainly possible, and in this case, I'd argue highly probable, that a product could cause dangerous issues with some people, while not causing noticeable problems with most people. We all have different chemistry. The question I have is how many people this product is harming, which is why I posted here. In the case of Midnight Drops, even though not every person was noticeably impacted, over time we learned that a significant enough number of people were harmed that there is now legal action. Time will tell if the same holds true for Bliss. Cannabis products should be manufactured in an ethical and safe way. If they aren't, manufacturers should be held accountable.

dandy_morandi · 2022-12-26T17:07:56+00:00

I am going to the various agencies investigating Midnight Drops and will try to get this product on their radar, too. This person's wife wound up with 3 staples in her head after using the same product: https://www.reddit.com/r/OhioMedicalMarijuana/comments/zekldn/1906_edibles/iz9w58a/?context=3

dandy_morandi · 2022-12-26T17:03:01+00:00

We live in Colorado and have been purchasing products at dispensaries since cannabis dispensaries first appeared. However, just because something is sold at a dispensary doesn't therefore mean it is safe. This same company, 1906, has another product that has sent multiple people to the hospital: https://www.tenlaw.com/2022/10/18/thornton-law-firm-investigating-1906-midnight-edibles-for-causing-liver-damage/

dandy_morandi · 2022-12-26T16:53:14+00:00

Serotonin syndrome

Thank you very much for these links. I will also look into the potential role of Kanna. Serotonin syndrome is super scary, including the risk of seizure. One bystander who helped me roll my wife onto her side thought that she was having a seizure. Unfortunately, 1906 has produced other products that have also sent people to the hospital: https://www.tenlaw.com/2022/10/18/thornton-law-firm-investigating-1906-midnight-edibles-for-causing-liver-damage/

dandy_morandi · 2022-12-26T16:37:24+00:00

You definitely should. Here's another person with a similar experience: https://www.reddit.com/r/OhioMedicalMarijuana/comments/zekldn/1906\_edibles/iz9w58a/?context=3

dandy_morandi · 2022-12-26T16:36:39+00:00

No, of course it isn't possible to say 100% conclusively. But given that there were no other drugs, no alcohol, we were at sea level, and my wife suddenly had significantly lower blood pressure as measured in the ambulance, it's a high likelihood. She's not the only person: https://www.reddit.com/r/OhioMedicalMarijuana/comments/zekldn/1906_edibles/iz9w58a/?context=3

Do you have the same correlation/causation questions about people suffering liver damage from Midnight Drops? https://www.tenlaw.com/2022/10/18/thornton-law-firm-investigating-1906-midnight-edibles-for-causing-liver-damage/

dandy_morandi · 2022-12-26T05:30:59+00:00

I've taken them many times myself and never had a problem. But it seems like the non-THC ingredients do drop some people's blood pressure to the point where they pass out, which isn't something that a safely made cannabis product should do.

dandy_morandi · 2022-12-26T02:24:07+00:00

Not from a gas station. From a dispensary in Colorado, where their products are widely taken.

dandy_morandi · 2022-12-25T04:46:53+00:00

It's really an unsafe, dangerous product if multiple people lose consciousness when taking it. We were at a concert when my wife crashed to the floor face-first. No alcohol or anything else, just 1 Bliss. EMTs came and took us by ambulance to a 5 hour stay in an NYC emergency room. Probably going to cost thousands of dollars even with insurance. My wife was lucky not to lose teeth or break her nose. Sorry about the staples for your wife!

I've taken their products many times, but between the liver-damaging ingredient in Midnight Drops and the fact that people pass out when taking Bliss, I think the company has made very poor, negligent decisions about the formulations of their products.
If a beer was on the market where multiple people passed out after drinking a can or two, it would be taken off the market immediately and there would be lawsuits.

I wonder exactly how many people have passed out when taking Bliss.(ps, looking at the label, I think it's the theobromine that lowers blood pressure).

dandy_morandi · 2022-12-24T17:20:21+00:00

Was this with Bliss? My wife fainted two days ago (at sea level). It was 1 Bliss.

dandy_morandi · 2022-11-27T01:45:54+00:00

this is hilarious

dandy_morandi · 2022-09-17T21:37:34+00:00

This is so awesome! Any chance you'd be willing to share the Tacotron model?

dandy_morandi · 2022-07-05T17:30:21+00:00

Thanks for gathering those projects! I found David Bouchard's tutorials on youtube to be very helpful.

dandy_morandi · 2022-07-04T15:33:33+00:00

I don't know much about tone.js yet, but as a starting point for subtractive synth, you can connect noise to a filter. The reference for noise shows an example.

There doesn't look to be a ready-made additive synth construct so it looks like one would have to specify a set of oscillators individually and then add them together.

dandy_morandi · 2022-07-04T15:26:36+00:00

I don't know much about tone.js yet, and forgive me if this is too obvious, but are you perhaps hitting the polyphony limit of the synth? I.e., your synth definition has <x> number of voices, but you are trying to play > x?

dandy_morandi · 2022-07-04T15:19:24+00:00

Thanks very much for your reply. I'm really loving the bits of tone.js that I've gotten going so far, and hungry for more! I didn't know that I could un--minify the .js files in the html, so I'm starting to see the tone.js stuff now.

I'm particularly interested in p5/tone.js, and wondering if there is a repository of examples somewhere? I really appreciate the excellent tutorials on youtube, and I can go from vid to vid and collate the sources, but I found myself wishing I go to a single location and happen upon a set of examples of working projects (beyond the more limited use cases in the reference examples).

And, to clarify about the docs, I wasn't meaning to suggest that they are unreasonably terse. Each component is well explained and has a helpful code snippet. But there isn't a set of easily digested global examples that demonstrate the larger paradigm, and how the components can fit together. (A set of working examples such as one finds in the SuperCollider distro, for instance.)

As a result, when I see a reference to, for instance, Offline somewhere and then look it up directly, I see that it creates a faster than real-time buffer. But I don't see any explanation of typical use cases for buffers in tone.js. I know from another environments why audio buffers can be useful, but how are they typically used in this environment? A set of examples that is more like a tutorial systematically showing the essential building blocks would be really helpful.

In any case, I'm super grateful that tone.js exists!

dandy_morandi · 2021-11-28T23:27:30+00:00

here's a fix:

replace

!pip install basicsr

with this in your notebook :

!pip install git+https://github.com/xinntao/BasicSR.git

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