raedusoleil: raedusoleil: The last presentation I went to on Saturday was a hands-on workshop for ma
raedusoleil: raedusoleil: The last presentation I went to on Saturday was a hands-on workshop for making your own abortion pills. The medicine that is 95% safe and effective and readily available to most of the world, and completely under attack in the United States.The first part was a lecture on the pharmaceuticals necessary (mifepristone and misoprostol) and how one might obtain such things, and exactly how they work when in pharmaceutical pill form. The lecturers (who work with Four Thieves Vinegar Collective) had the necessary ingredients to give to us, two types of manual tablet presses for us to try, and regular old powdered milk and confectioners sugar, which are used for practice tablet-making, and as buffer and binder in the final product.There were maybe a dozen people when we started the practice tablet session, and there were three of us when we really got down to making our own medicine. We had all tried the hammered press and the screw press and decided the screw press was the only way to go, and we’d worked out a slightly different tablet buffer/binder formula, and mixing process from we had been taught. The two teachers could not have been more stoked.You could tell the three of us (all dfab) were not leaving until we’d really made our own medicine, and easily fell into a routine where we shared the one screw press, getting a production rhythm going, and each working on a different step of the tablet crafting process in series so that no one had to sit and wait. Looking at timestamps on my photos, practice was about 45 minutes, and start to finish crafting of the medicine was one hour.I have no words to describe the empowerment I felt doing this, and having this in my possession. If kept in a cool, dark place, the meds are essentially good indefinitely.I poured my CBD mints into something else so that I could use my travel Altoids Smalls tin to hold the tablets and capsule. It got the same delighted reaction as when I built an altar kit into a Smalls tin at a pagan summer campout a decade ago. I held the tin in my hand and said to it, “I hope I never have to use you, and if I ever can save someone’s life with this, so be it,” and the guy who came all the way from Singapore (where he lives) to teach the workshop said he thought that was a great blessing, and I thought, wow, it is.And then he asked if he could have copies of my pictures. Abso-fucking-lutely. I knew two years ago when I had the chance to take and document this workshop, that the notes and info was going to be directly relevant irl before too long. -- source link
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