Hello and welcome to Episode 17 of Smoke Til It’s Gone or Die! This week, we’ve got quite the body count...Rylee tells the wicked tale of Catherine Monviosin, a woman from 1600s France who dipped her toes in many different pools. A high-priestess in the Catholic Church, a con-artist, poison-maker, and attempted assassin of The Sun King; Catherine taught us a valuable lesson. And that is: Poison First Prison Later! Going along with this theme, Patty covers the story of Kristen Gilbert. The Wicked Nurse of Western Mass, armed with epinephrine and a battery-operated voice-changer, wreaked havoc on the C Ward of a VA Hospital in Northampton MA in the 80s and 90s. Like we said...quite the body count.
Rylee’s Probable Cause this week is Feeding America, please read up and donate at https://www.feedingamerica.org/. Their mission is to feed America’s hungry through a nationwide network of member food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger.
Patty’s Probable Cause this week is The American Nurses Association’s dedicated Coronavirus Response Fund. Please consider making a donation at https://www.nursingworld.org/foundation/programs/coronavirus-response-fund/
The Fund has four focus areas: Supporting the mental health of nurses – today and in the future. Ensuring nurses everywhere have access to the latest science-based information to protect themselves, prevent infection, and care for those in need. Driving the national advocacy focused on nurses and patients. Provide direct financial assistance to nurses facing hardship due to a COVID diagnosis.
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Under Massachusetts’ Chapter 94G and California’s Proposition 64 Bills it is legal for us two assholes to possess and consume MaryJane, medically known as cannabis, in our respective states. We do NOT condone the illegal consumption, possession, or sale of cannabis in places it’s not supposed to be smoked, man handled, or acquired from a legal dispensary. But we DO condone what the awesome humans at Marijuana Policy Project are doing to support legislation at the state and federal level to decriminalize cannabis across the country, and advocate for those who have been incarcerated for cannabis possession. Visit mpp.org for more details.
