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  1. Around the League: 2019 Off Season

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    4 minutes ago, USABomberfan said:

    I don't know if that's good or bad though.  I am all for the Riders getting embarrassed by us like they did in this playoff game and if his staying there does that, then good.

    On the other hand, his bush league twist the rules roster management tactics and unstable personality look bad on the league, and him leaving Regina would be a win for the league IMO.

    Agreed. I cannot think of another team that would put up with such deliberate flouting of rules and still keep the GM on. This speaks to the desperation of the Rider board of directors and executive to win at all costs, even if it means signing felons.

  8. Around the League: 2019 Off Season

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    45 minutes ago, J5V said:

    Yeah you're right. I have a lot of experience with this issue and I definitely have a lot of compassion for people with mental health issues (all of us). One of the problems with marijuana is that there are thousands of chemicals involved. Yes some are beneficial and some are not. More research needs to be done to hopefully extract the right compounds for specific medical issues, CBDs, for example. THC, and getting high, is not a necessarily good side effect. There are far better medicines that cannabis for treating many mental health issues. It is not a cure-all.

    With pretty much all psychotropic meds, there are iatrogenic and paradoxical effect for a few, and these are unpredictable and serious.

  12. 3 stars plus hh long cold winter edition

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    10 hours ago, SPuDS said:

    Sorry to necropost but I felt this needed to be asked..

     

    What exactly do you need from Nichols here?  a pound of flesh?  maybe he could whip himself and share the blood from his wounds?? He said he didnt provide championship QB play.. that's him saying I didnt play well..

     

    What QB have you ever seen come out and say "yup.. I was pathetic. Worst player out there. I sucked..".? I've never seen one because it's not a QBs sole responsibility to shoulder a loss.  they are also far too confident in their own skillsets to do that.  he admits when he plays poor.  I don't expect him to dive on  hand grenade to appease the fanbase and I dont quite understand why you all do?? I half expect it is so that you can go..

     

    "See!! Even he admits he sucks, time to pack it in..."

     

    Nichols, like every QB... with the exception of Kevin Glenn.. hates to lose.  They dont ouff themselves up in a loss when they have great stats.. why would they imply their completely to blame when they lose??

    Id rather a confident QB then one who is second guessing themselves any day of the week...

    And lastly.. nobody here has any iota of how Nichols grades out in his games in the eyes of the coach or OC.. Nor do we know if the blocking was right, if his reads were right, if his receivers were in their places or if Harris was in his right spot....

    So if he says "I felt I played ok or good.." I dont think anyone of us can really say he did or didnt without knowing all the variables..  otherwise you're just kinda talking out of your ass and expecting people to agree with you or believe you know what you're talking about.. 

     

    Agreed to an extent. All we have is what we see on the field, and with O'Shea and Co. being so close-mouthed about what really went on during the game, we are left with speculation, and any one point of view has as much validity as the next.

  14. Bombers Free Agent List

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    1 hour ago, TBURGESS said:

    Most players likely don't look at the cost of living. They are only in town for 6 months. They stay with other players, not by themselves. They get help from 'boosters'. They get invited out. They get their drinks paid for at bars.

    All players on their first contract have zero choice where they go. Once they've had a couple of years in a place it's more like 'home' than another CFL city, unless it's actually home.

    If I was 20 something, I'd rather go to BC or Montreal or even Toronto than some prairie town that's a bit cheaper.

    Who you calling cheap????????????

  21. The MBB All-time Blue Bomber Team: Safety

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    4 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

     

     

    I absolutely loved the way Brian Herosian played safety. For a few short years he was the dominant safety in the CFL before his tragic car accident. But the best safety we ever had was Paul Bennett without a doubt. He deserves to win this round of the competition at that position.

    My first thought was Brian Herosian, but on reflection, it should be Paul Bennett, and he was a Canuck to boot, was he not?

  22. Around the League: 2019 Off Season

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    4 hours ago, Bigblue204 said:

    THC is not cannabis. It is a single aspect of it. Which is why synthetic forms of THC have a long list of side effects that aren't always associated with whole plant treatments. Doing experiments with only THC is misleading at best and often flat out false, as the other cannabinoids as well as the terpenes present in the plant can alter the effects of THC as well as the ability of THC to properly bind to the cannabinoid cell receptors. The study your quoting did not take other lifestyle choices into consideration. Diet, exercise, careers etc etc etc. It may have also let the participants source their own cannabis, which brings on a whole other list of problems. This is unfortunately extremely common in cannabis studies, maybe false isn't the right word, but these studies are often done with a result already in mind. IE - "Cannabis lowers sperm count" Instead of "Does cannabis lower sperm count?" 

    Also, the original post talked about altering the DNA of sperm, not lowering the overall sperm count. 


    I really shouldn't discount these types of studies, and I'm certainly not trying to point out that cannabis is a miracle etc etc. But the vast majority of the studies done on it are trying to find out why its bad for us, not just conducting proper research and letting the results speak for themselves. Again, nothing against the people who did this study...these types of results are legitimately the only way you can continue to get funding to study cannabis in most countries. It's a fairly broken system.. The legalization of cannabis in Canada will bring about some very accurate results for better or worse.

     

    4 hours ago, Bigblue204 said:

    THC is not cannabis. It is a single aspect of it. Which is why synthetic forms of THC have a long list of side effects that aren't always associated with whole plant treatments. Doing experiments with only THC is misleading at best and often flat out false, as the other cannabinoids as well as the terpenes present in the plant can alter the effects of THC as well as the ability of THC to properly bind to the cannabinoid cell receptors. The study your quoting did not take other lifestyle choices into consideration. Diet, exercise, careers etc etc etc. It may have also let the participants source their own cannabis, which brings on a whole other list of problems. This is unfortunately extremely common in cannabis studies, maybe false isn't the right word, but these studies are often done with a result already in mind. IE - "Cannabis lowers sperm count" Instead of "Does cannabis lower sperm count?" 

    Also, the original post talked about altering the DNA of sperm, not lowering the overall sperm count. 


    I really shouldn't discount these types of studies, and I'm certainly not trying to point out that cannabis is a miracle etc etc. But the vast majority of the studies done on it are trying to find out why its bad for us, not just conducting proper research and letting the results speak for themselves. Again, nothing against the people who did this study...these types of results are legitimately the only way you can continue to get funding to study cannabis in most countries. It's a fairly broken system.. The legalization of cannabis in Canada will bring about some very accurate results for better or worse.

    Then they compared the sperm of 24 human men who smoked marijuana weekly versus a control group who used marijuana no more than 10 times in their life and not at all in the past half-year. In both cases — rats and humans — marijuana changed how genes work in sperm cells.

    By no means am I demonizing marijuana- in fact the evidence shows that it is likely less harmful, physically and socially than alcohol. But, for some 3-5% of users the effects are deleterious. One of the major problems in the debate is that the proponents cite research that is based on an era where the active ingredient was about 2-4% whereas the hybrid strains now have tested as high as 21%. There is no free lunch. There are benefits for some in using marijuana derivatives and there will be negative side effects for others.

  24. Around the League: 2019 Off Season

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    1 hour ago, Bigblue204 said:

    FTFY

    Disagree:

    We already know that cannabis lowers sperm count, but new research suggests that the drug actually causes changes to the sperm itself — which might have implications for the health of a potential baby.

    For a study published today in the journal Epigenetics, scientists at Duke University compared the sperm of two groups of rats: those who had been given tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, and those who had not. Then they compared the sperm of 24 human men who smoked marijuana weekly versus a control group who used marijuana no more than 10 times in their life and not at all in the past half-year. In both cases — rats and humans — marijuana changed how genes work in sperm cells.

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