drugs

Tuesday 24 June

Calvin (22:40) - | 1 Comments

Friday 8 February

4 Years in Prison for 0.003g of Marijuana (10:37) - A father-of-three who was found with a microscopic speck of cannabis stuck to the bottom of one of his shoes has been sentenced to four years in a Dubai prison. Keith Brown, a council youth development officer, was travelling through... | 0 Comments

Thursday 10 January

Cary Grant Reflects on Controlled LSD Use (17:24) - Classic film star Cary Grant dedicated a chapter of his autobiography to discussing his controlled LSD use during therapy sessions with a psychiatrist. He was 53 at the time of these sessions, the year would have been around 1957. Under... | 0 Comments

Monday 26 November

Light Cigarettes just as Harmful (11:47) - Ever thought you were doing yourself less harm when smoking a Marlboro Light? Well, you can safely bury that illusion now. Information released during a Senate committee hearing last week bolstered the case that "light" or "ultra light" cigarettes are... | 4 Comments

Tuesday 19 June

The best anti-pot ad ever. (11:40) - Slate has an article about the best anti-pot ad ever. I admit, it is pretty sweet. But now a crop of knockoffs is coming down the ol' youtube that are equally as hilarious. The original: var config = new Array();config['videoId']... | 0 Comments

Monday 29 January

Remember, Remember the 22nd of November (22:46) - This was the last time a hacker took over the television airwaves. New Coke, Catch the Wave! ... | 0 Comments

Sunday 17 September

Ghetto Latte (19:09) - Over at Starbucks Gossip, a reader points out that some customers are ordering a "ghetto latte", meaning an Iced Americano, with no water and half ice, then adding their own dairy to it at the condiments bar. A customer's two... | 0 Comments

Friday 16 December

Check It! (10:18) - Ravers in Vienna are safer due to an agreement between local police and a group of scientists and social workers who test the purity and make-up of pills. The police agree not to arrest anyone for drugs in the vicinity... | 2 Comments

Monday 4 April

Whew, we're making progress (11:13) - On Tuesday, five unidentified US soldiers working in Colombia as part of a US anti-narcotics force were arrested as they allegedly attempted to ship 16 kilograms of cocaine into the United States. ... The arrests come as analysts claim the... | 2 Comments

Wednesday 16 March

Crack Baby Dolls (20:52) - Robotic dolls that behave like babies addicted to drugs and alcohol are being used to teach teenagers on Teesside (England) the dangers of drink and drugs. The dolls shake and scream as they go through withdrawal and teenagers will... | 2 Comments

Thursday 3 February

Death blamed on alcohol enema (13:29) - Investigators say a Lake Jackson woman caused her husband's death by giving him a sherry enema, leading to alcohol poisoning. Tammy Jean Warner, 42, was indicted on a charge of negligent homicide. ...

Monday 24 January

The Fourth Amendment grows narrower (14:05) - The Supreme Court, in a 6-2 decision Monday, ruled that police do not violate the Fourth Amendment when they use a drug-detecting dog to locate illegal drugs in the trunk of a car during a legal traffic stop. The...
it's just a plant (13:55) - It's Just a Plant, a storybook for children about marijuana, doesn't deliver your average Just Say No message. From the FAQ: Does It's Just a Plant advocate marijuana use for children?No. It's Just a Plant explicitly addresses the potential harm...

Tuesday 9 November

Chronic Pain (09:15) - Pain, whether it's chronic and debilitating or just regular old pain, costs the U.S. economy $60 billion each year and affects more than 50 million Americans. Seems like we need better drugs but this doesn't necessarily add up to a...

Monday 8 November

Terrorism at school (09:19) - On November 5, 2003, police raided a high school in Goose Creek, South Carolina, in an effort to purge the school of drugs. After rounding up the students and searching their lockers, no drugs were found and no charges have...

Thursday 4 November

My kind of Juice (10:52) - It appears that who ever sent a shipment of fruit juice called "Hit Fruit Drink" to Miami last week had a different type of "hit" in mind.Authorities say they intercepted a shipment of 100 tiny boxes of fruit juice drinks...

Tuesday 2 November

Alaska voting to legalize marijuana today (13:20) - WHITEHORSE - Voters in Alaska will decide Tuesday whether to make their state the first in the U.S. to legalize the sale, possession or use of marijuana by adults. Alaska already allows legal possession of small amounts of marijuana...

Thursday 21 October

Party affiliation switched to Republican after signing medical marijuana petition (11:15) - Whoops. More shady shit. P.S. DrugReporter has a list of state and local medical marijuana initiatives coming up for vote. Ann Arbor: Vote YES on Proposal C for compassionate care. ...

Tuesday 5 October

Anheuser-Busch to release a Caffeinated Beer (16:58) - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Brewer Anheuser-Busch says it will introduce a caffeinated, sweet-flavored beer for twentysomething club goers to compete with the flavored rums and vodkas gaining ground on the dance floor.The new beer B(E) -- read as "B to...

Wednesday 29 September

Stoned slackers apparently still more well-informed and more well-educated than Fox viewers (00:50) - NEW YORK (AP) -- The folks at Comedy Central were annoyed when Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly kept referring to "The Daily Show" audience as "stoned slackers." So they did a little research. And guess whose audience is more educated?...
Medical Mushrooms to treat debilitating cluster headaches (00:43) - ...Bob Wold, a 51-year-old construction firm owner who suffered from debilitating cluster headaches, which are rare but brutal, until four years ago when he tried psilocybin to treat them. ...he was in the midst of choosing between three surgeries for...

Tuesday 31 August

Israeli army okays trial use of marijuana to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (20:17) - Damn, this is from almost a month ago but... The IDF will soon begin using cannabis to treat soldiers suffering from combat stress, the military said Wednesday. Haha, will it work out? Like most drugs to treat mental disorders it...

Thursday 15 July

When does alcohol become a drug? (00:32) - It seems that only when you start inhaling vaporized alcohol does it become a drug. "Inhalation or snorting of alcohol is basically synonymous with drug use and that kind of practice should not be encouraged."Because we all know that alcohol...

Tuesday 13 July

War on Drugs is damaging Colombian science (15:32) - Scientists from Colombia experience disproportionate difficulties obtaining visas to attend conferences in foreign countries. Isolating Colombian researchers from others in their field stifles progress (on both sides) by limiting knowledge transfer from and to the Colombian scientists. According to Wasserman,...

Monday 12 July

Fear and Loathing Somewhere on a Mountain in Northwest Connecticut (18:42) - "I think I stole a car," Cunningham told a dispatcher. "I'm not sure." Police said Cunningham, of Dover, Del., confessed that eating an entire bag of mushrooms, "probably wasn't a good idea." He allegedly told investigators that he had no...

Friday 2 July

Moment Magazine (21:19) - The June/August issue of Moment has just been published. Moment is a magazine based in Ann Arbor that stands "for Social Justice, Diversity, and Humanity. Against Oppression, Exploitation, and Exclusion". The theme of this issue is the Prison-Industrial Complex, the...

Thursday 25 March

John Ashcroft the Terrorist (01:51) - During the Bush administration's first few months in office, Attorney General John Ashcroft downgraded terrorism as a priority, choosing to place more emphasis on drug trafficking... An unjust war. A costly war. An endless, unwinnable war. A war that produces...

Tuesday 28 October

Free Heroin (23:33) - A few hundred heroin addicts in three Canadian cities will get free heroin under a controversial federally funded new study expected to begin next year. [The Age] Now that I've got your attention.. you've seen the government-paid ads that...