to put a stop to this practice?

town that is all on the drug. This is a terrible crime. What they may have gotten a couple hundred/thousand has caused irreparable harm.

it becomes "the 101" somewhere around San Luis Obispo.

not natural...my appreciation of burl furniture just took a dive

...which then become incorporated in wood. Meristems are the growing parts at the tips of branches, in the axils of leaves, and so on. Most are suppressed by growth regulating secretions from branch tips, otherwise plants would grow like big green fuzzy spheres, pretty much. When dense collections of "extra," usually poorly functioning meristems occur on the sides of stems, they create protruding growths, in essence woody tumors that are not following the programmed growth plan that normally produces linear growth from the tips. The abundant subsidiary meristems create chaotic growth patterns that are reflected in the swirly grain of the resulting "tumor," which is better known as a "burl."

Redwood trees are especially likely to form burls because they have abundant subsidiary meristems. Those are also the reason redwood coppices readily.

Yet another problem that we can tie to opiate painkiller addiction. Jeez, is there an aspect of life in the USA that hasn't been screwed up by painkiller overuse and addiction? I sure hope that the rapid legalization of cannabis will help with this. Maybe people can start legally self medicating with weed while they ween off opiates.

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