Aromatherapy products

Are your scented fragrance products too weak? Do they only last for a week? You won’t have either of those problems with Fresh Scents sachets.

I know, I sound like a commercial, but this is a great product. 🙂

The company is based in North Carolina and only sells this one product — sachets — in 50 different scents. My favorites are Cotton, Tuscan Grape, and Ocean Life, but I haven’t tried them all. I also love the designs on the package — so colorful and decorative.

But the best thing about this product is how long the scent lasts, depending on where you place it. If it’s in an enclosed space, like a storage container with a lid, the scent can last for years. In an open space, it doesn’t last as long, and you need more than one for the scent to be strong enough. At $2.50 a piece, it’s a great product for a great price.

https://www.freshscents.com/

Legal Notice:  This is not a paid endorsement. I am a bona fide customer of Fresh Scents and that defines the extent of my relationship with this company. (However, if Fresh Scents wants to send me free gifts because they think I’m a nice person, I would humbly accept.)

Warning:  Please don’t scratch and sniff the featured image. That technology doesn’t exist yet. (But what if you could use a 3-D printer to create a scent?)

The Old Man

There once was an old man

who walked a crooked mile

who had a crooked smile

come, sit with him awhile

Battleground

I’ve been around

Had both feet on the ground

Busted my shoulder on the pitcher’s mound

Now I’m on the rebound

Another orphan from the pound

Always alone in a crowd

Lost but not found

I live on a battleground

Why The .Sucks Domain Doesn’t Have to Suck

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-19/why-the-sucks-domain-doesn-t-have-to-suck

Buying CysticFibrosis.sucks was an obvious investment for The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, although the site is still under construction. The same applies for Dyson.sucks and Hoover.sucks, both of which have been registered by their respective vacuum cleaner manufacturers…

Some are being more speculative. Tristan Tremblay bought MyEx.sucks and plans to turn it into a forum for people to share stories about disastrous former flames. “If the site takes off, it could become a focal point for people with similar experiences, which would then make it a good place to offer services targeted at their particular needs,” he said.

James Walthall, chief executive officer at New York-based Digital Branding, has spent around $10,000 on a range including: Eating.sucks, FastFood.sucks, MyLoveLife.sucks and Sleeping.sucks…

Software developer Tal Shprecher took a similar view, snapping up HealthInsurance.sucks and Law.sucks, among others. He said: “I thought they could be valuable one day.” …

TheDEA.sucks

ChronicPain.sucks

MyDoctor.sucks

BadBud.sucks

Dr. Bud Protocol is in the house

Dear Dr. Protocol:  I just spent my last $70 on a quarter that turned out to be bunk. Do I have any remedies? ShakenUp in Gallup

Dear ShakenUp:

Depends on where you bought it.  Was it at a legal dispensary?

When I first joined the Medical Cannabis Program in New Mexico, I didn’t ask questions about returning any product I was unhappy with. I didn’t even think that was an option. So, whenever I purchased bud that wasn’t strong enough for me, I pushed it aside and bought something else — another strain, another dispensary. I traveled from Albuquerque to Santa Fe in search of good bud. At one point, I was even thinking about driving to other cities a lot farther than Santa Fe.

Of course, it gets very expensive to keep trying out new strains and different dispensaries, especially when there are so few options.  When I was in the program, there were about 20 dispensaries in New Mexico, a rather large state. I was able to experiment with 50% of this market before I ran out of money. And about 80% of my purchases were not strong enough for my level of chronic pain.

After I was in the program about 6 months, I started asking about returns and exchanges. This issue makes both patient and dealer uncomfortable.  Dispensaries don’t like to hear that a customer is unhappy, but are rarely proactive in seeing that this doesn’t occur — which means the patient must ask the questions. Yes, I was finally able to make a handful of exchanges, but the real problem was that there weren’t any other strains I wanted from the menu. Usually that meant I was stuck with medicine that didn’t help me. (And the extra trip to make an exchange was no fun.)

But in a state like Colorado, patients have more choices, at more affordable prices. Competition means that dispensaries try harder to work with patients on things like returns and exchanges. And if you’re part of a collective, you have access to a group of patients you can make exchanges with. There’s no reason why any patient should be stuck with bud they don’t want, or bud that was advertised at a certain THC percentage that turns out to be bogus.

However, if you bought your bud from the underground market, different rules apply. Some dealers have more than one or two options at a time, but usually you’re stuck with whatever’s in stock. And most times you don’t get to try it out first, just like at the dispensaries. Underground dealers are not keen on the hassle of making exchanges or returns. If the person doesn’t offer it outright, then it’s probably best not to ask.

I have found that it’s best to buy small amounts at a time, try them out right away, and order more if it’s good. The best bud — whether in the dispensaries or the underground — always sells out quickly.

Yours in Bud, Dr. Bud

Legal Notice:  Dr. Bud Protocol is not a real doctor. But then, you already knew that, didn’t you?