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How to Help the Next 10 Legal Weed Battleground States Without Leaving Your Couch

You can make a difference.

No excuses.

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Raising Awareness of the Discriminatory Treatment of Women’s  in the Medical Field

The ability to receive medical attention is a necessity. Whatever one’s gender happens to be should be irrelevant in the face of injury, or debilitating health issues. Just skimming over reports from the medical field can reveal that the consensus is clear: women are mistreated in the health industry. A particularly harrowing account is from a student at Yale who reported:

     “We went to Yale Health Urgent Care, at around 11:00 p.m., where a doctor bandaged my leg. A psychiatrist appeared. I told her that I had experienced suicidal thoughts the night before, but that the cuts had not been a suicide attempt…stripped of all my belongings, including my pants (they had a drawstring), and shunted into a cubicle containing nothing but a bed. I was here for my own good, they told me.” (Williams)

    Obviously, this is cruel and unusual punishment that does not seem to, in any way, address the issue. Another, albeit closer to home example, includes a student on Christopher Newport University’s campus who has struggled to procure financial aid. She dropped out of school for a year due to oppressive mental illness and worked  to reinstate herself within the supposedly secure assumption that medical counseling would offer acknowledgement and relief. Recently, however, she has been denied financial aid on the basis of a single insufficient grade amidst A’s and B’s. What’s striking about this example is that despite many males on campus having admitted to similar personal academic struggles amidst family tragedy, there was never an instance of being denied financial aid, despite similar dis-satisfactory grades.This is a prejudicial gap with severe consequences to the success of relieving mental illness symptoms.

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How much water should you be drinking?

September 15, 2016

We are currently in the midst of an explosion of the drinking water market. Fueled by the growth of the health & fitness industry and the expansion of bottled water culture, there is masses of information out there about how much water we should be drinking per day. However, as is often the case when there is such a depth of information, there is also a substantial amount of conflicting information.

One of the most common suggestions is the famous ‘8 glasses a day’ theory. The NHS, despite not officially advising a guideline in relation to water consumption per se, still state that you should consume 6-8 glasses of ‘fluids’ per day. The European Food Safety Authority advises that adequate intake (AI) of water per day is 2.0L for females and 2.5L for males.

You may often hear people of older generations question why such a fuss is made about the need to drink a certain amount of water. However, with the scope of information now available, the health benefits of adequate hydration are well established. To say that everyone should be consuming an adequate intake of water is not to say that they won’t survive without it. However, it is clear that good levels of hydration has a wide range of benefits including; increased energy, relieves fatigue, improves digestion, flushes out toxins and improves brain function.

Just as important as the amount water you drink is the quality of the water you drink. Many people have taken on board the information surrounding water consumption, hence the aforementioned growth in the industry. Bottled water companies have capitalised most upon this because the quality of many peoples’ tap water is not good enough, and so they reach for a bottle. Despite the perceived faith in the standard of bottled water, we have seen with Aquafina that bottled water is sometimes not all it appears to be.

With a Kinetic Water filter you have the ability to harness adequate water quality straight from your tap without the financial cost involved with plastic bottled water. The Kinetic Water five-stage filtering process removes tap water’s unwanted contaminants (like chlorine) while also eradicating that horrible tap water odour. It also increases the pH level of the water enhancing the acidic balance in your body.

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A photo from yuunei on divianart I love this picture! Is kinda depicting a bit of what’s going on lately

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I Am Not a Marxist, Not a Leninist, Not a Trotskyite, Not a Maoist, I Am a Socialist (@The_Activists)

Posted on February 1, 2012

As much as I love the writings of Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, and many other socialist comrades, I am a socialist with no strict association to any historical figure. Socialism is not about turning the ideas of a man into a political cult, it is about the application of human ideas about sharing, equality and justice to the real world.

Socialism is not about hiding your political ideas behind another man’s books, it is about creating revolutionary movements in your own life, here and now. I identify myself with the cause of humanity, and I will not be restricted to the structural ideologies of one man or another.

Long live the revolution!

Long live life!

The Activists Editorial Collective