Sky High

Some NASA staff searched after cocaine discovered in shuttle hangar.

Reality Czech

Czech rules for drug possession.

The Czech government Monday set the drug possession limits under which the possession of up to 1.5 grammes of heroin, up to one gramme of cocaine and up to two grammes of methamphetamine (pervitine) will not be punishable as of New Year.

Czechs will also be able to legally possess up to 15 grammes of marijuana, according to the Justice Ministry's proposal approved by the government Monday.

Edible Art

LSD blotter art

The Friendly Skies

Two California airlines allow some passengers to fly with herb.

A little noticed policy at two California airports allows properly qualified passengers to fly the friendly skies carrying up to a half pound of marijuana, news agencies revealed Friday.

Wake & Bake News

Smoking pot does not cause lung cancer.

New research shows there seems to be something in pot that actually undermines cancer, instead of causing it. -- and the media are doing their best to ignore it.

Reboot Your Mind

I've been revisiting some Terence McKenna shit lately.

Cops in Hot Water

UK cops waterboarding pot suspects?

Kat Smokes

Portugal!

Did decriminalizing drugs in Portugal do the trick?

Pop quiz: Which European country has the most liberal drug laws? (Hint: It's not the Netherlands.)

Although its capital is notorious among stoners and college kids for marijuana haze–filled "coffee shops," Holland has never actually legalized cannabis — the Dutch simply don't enforce their laws against the shops. The correct answer is Portugal, which in 2001 became the first European country to officially abolish all criminal penalties for personal possession of drugs, including marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine.

Head Buzz

Marijuana helps fight brain cancer?

Pot Shot

Student shot for smoking pot?

Apartment neighbors of Grand Valley State University student Derek Copp say they cannot fathom what prompted police to shoot him late Wednesday in a drug-related raid. But they said they were aware of marijuana odors in the complex.

Watch a newscast clip at the link above.

Drug Wars

Legalizing weed could curb drug cartel violence.

On Friday, Democrat Terry Goddard, Arizona's Attorney General, said that while he's not in favor of legalizing marijuana, he thinks it should be debated as a way of curbing violence in the increasingly deadly clashes between Mexico's gangs.

He emphasized that over 1,000 people have been killed in cartel-related violence "this year."

Put This in Your Pipe

How do we end the recession?

It's simple: First we tax the booze. Then we legalize the pot. Done.

Snow Sale

If you like doing blow, you'll be glad to know the price of cocaine will be plunging.

Plant Life

Marijuana better than anti-depressants when treating PTSD.

Herbal Unity

Photo of Olympian Michael Phelps smoking pot unites herb smokers.

Barf After Reading

A man known as the "Stew Maker" was busted recently.

He was known as El Pozolero — The Stew Maker — but his ingredients were less than savoury.

The job of Santiago Meza López was to dispose of the enemies of a notorious drug baron by dissolving them in tubs of acid. Over several years he claims to have "disappeared" 300 enemies of Teodoro García Semental, a former henchman for one of the largest cartels in Mexico and now in a bloody struggle for supremacy over the trade.

Meza, 45, told police that, once their remains had been in the acid baths for 24 hours, he would bury them. In a twisted act of chivalry, he said he only dissolved men, refusing to make women vanish this way. He said that he was paid $600 (£440) a week by García.

Special Delivery

30-pound brick of weed delivered to wrong address.

A man in Denton, Texas who was expecting a shipment of tools instead received a 30-pound brick of marijuana that police say is worth more than $10,000. Officer Ryan Grelle says the man opened the box Monday night, realized it contained drugs and contacted police.

The High Life

Rocker Steven Tyler's advice to men: "Don't get fuckin' married" and "Lie till you die." Sounds good to me. Although I'm a terrible liar.

Transcendental Medication

CNN on the lasting positive effects of "magic mushrooms":



I haven't shroomed in years. Now I'm tempted...

Higher Pay

Report warns troops stationed in Afghanistan could be tempted to join the drug trade.

There's a "high probability" some Canadian troops serving in Afghanistan – one of the world's biggest sources of illegal drugs – will get involved in the drug trade, a military police report warns.

"Access to illicit drugs in Afghanistan is routine," reads the report obtained by the Star.

"Easy access to heroin, hashish, cannabis presents a temptation for (Canadian) troops in the form of personal use and in the form of importation for the purpose of trafficking," it reads.

The High Seas

Semi-submarines being used to smuggle cocaine.

Drug War

Were the Mumbai terrorists fueled by cocaine and LSD?

"We found injections containing traces of cocaine and LSD left behind by the terrorists, and later found drugs in their blood," the Telegraph was told by one official, whose nationality and relation to the investigation were not specified. "This explains why they managed to battle the commandos for over 50 hours with no food or sleep."

The Stoned Age

Cavemen used to get high, dude.

Scientists have discovered evidence suggesting Stone Age man used herbal mixtures to get high.

Shwag Kills Forests

Another reason to smoke the chronic or pray for legalization of cannabis:

National forests and parks — long popular with Mexican marijuana-growing cartels — have become home to some of the most polluted pockets of wilderness in America because of the toxic chemicals needed to eke lucrative harvests from rocky mountainsides, federal officials said.

Weed and bug sprays, some long banned in the U.S., have been smuggled to the marijuana farms. Plant growth hormones have been dumped into streams, and the water has then been diverted for miles in PVC pipes.

Rat poison has been sprinkled over the landscape to keep animals away from tender plants. And many sites are strewn with the carcasses of deer and bears poached by workers during the five-month growing season that is now ending.

"What's going on on public lands is a crisis at every level," said Forest Service agent Ron Pugh. "These are America's most precious resources, and they are being devastated by an unprecedented commercial enterprise conducted by armed foreign nationals. It is a huge mess."

Read more here

Body Count

Mexican drug lords & their hitmen have been very busy lately.

Bodies are cut up and dumped in acid. Victims are stripped naked and hung from bridges. Others have their tongues cut out before being killed – Mexican gangs are using horrifying tactics in an escalating drugs war.

Hitmen working for the cartels have massacred 70 people in the past ten days in Tijuana on the US-Mexico border. Once a freewheeling city serving Americans tequila, cheap medicines and sex, Tijuana is being devastated by the war.

Trippy Chocolates

Police closed down a Berlin sweet shop after discovering the owner was selling chocolates and lollipops laced with hallucinogenic mushrooms and marijuana.

Read more here. Now why can't I find a nice shop like this in town? I couldn't find magic mushrooms these days if my life depended on it.

Give the Puffers a Pass

Mayor's panel wants cops to leave pot smokers alone at the Democratic National Convention.

Denver police should refrain from penalizing adults for possession of small amounts of cannabis, up to an ounce, during the Democratic National Convention, the mayor's advisory panel said Wednesday.

Land of the Pee

A short but sweet video revealing the truth about cannabis, marijuana & its prohibition.



From the film: 1 in every 40 prisoners is a marijuana offender. The US is world's biggest jailer.

Raid

SWAT team raids mayor's house, kills his dogs in drug investigation.

A Maryland mayor is asking the federal government to investigate why SWAT team members burst into his home without knocking and shot his two dogs to death in an investigation into a drug smuggling scheme.

The raid last week was led by the Prince George's County Police Department, with the sheriff's special operations team assisting, after a package of marijuana was sent to Calvo's home.

Authorities say the package was part of a scheme in which drugs are mailed to unknowing recipients and then intercepted.

Pot Head

A couple teens in Texas dug up a corpse & used the skull as a bong. Goddamn, now that's just creative.

Smokin' Good Time

Cheech and Chong reunite.

The Magic of Mushrooms

This just in: Magic mushrooms offer a lasting spiritual experience. Well, duh! 

The "spiritual" effects of psilocybin from so-called sacred mushrooms last for more than a year and may offer a way to help patients with fatal diseases or addictions, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.

School Daze

This is funny in a sad way...

Plant Crimes

10 million Americans busted for pot since 1990.

Looking Back on Bush

Former White House press secretary on his days with President Bush and the cocaine rumors.

Writes McClellan: "'The media won't let go of these ridiculous cocaine rumors,' I heard Bush say. 'You know, the truth is I honestly don't remember whether I tried it or not. We had some pretty wild parties back in the day, and I just don't remember.'

"I remember thinking to myself, How can that be? How can someone simply not remember whether or not they used an illegal substance like cocaine? It didn't make a lot of sense."

And yet, McClellan concludes, "I think he meant what he said in that conversation about cocaine. It's the first time when I felt I was witnessing Bush convincing himself to believe something that probably was not true, and that, deep down, he knew was not true. And his reason for doing so is fairly obvious — political convenience…"

Yeah, you never forget cocaine. Never.

Sniffing Strangers

New drug to cure social phobia?

They found that people who inhaled the "love hormone" oxytocin continued to trust strangers with their money - even after they were betrayed.

Happy Harvest

Is weed Washington's largest cash crop?



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