He left the northern hills to seek his princess
A lone mad man with only insane love to guide
He carved a kingdom of snow
Ice King, sitting on his frozen throne
I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money
David Lee Roth
“M.F….I think that drugs must become a part of our culture.
Q. As a pleasure?
M.F. As a pleasure. We have to study drugs. We have to experience drugs. We have to do good drugs that can produce very intense pleasure. I think this puritanism about drugs, which implies that you can either be for drugs or against drugs, is mistaken. Drugs have now become a part of our culture. Just as there is bad music and good music, there are bad drugs and good drugs. So we can’t say we are ‘against’ drugs any more than we can say we’re ‘against music.’”
Mystifying yet endearing latest follow.
tired of hearing about weed and nothing else
“Hey dude, I already have my card, I voted no on proposition 19”
The Magic Jews
I watched them speechlessly for a moment before posing the question “What’s going on?” A voice in the dark made an incomprehensible remark about LSD, and everybody broke out in bouts of electrified laughter. And then the chanting began again. I only stayed for a few minutes, watching them in awe before I felt for the doorknob and got up to leave. Back in the other room, a Hasid I had not noticed before informed me that the party was over, the acid was gone, and I should come back the next day. I asked him when and how frequently this sort of thing happened. He responded: “Constantly.”
Bill aims to tackle difficulty over head shop drug sales
By applying to the District Court they would be following a civil rather than criminal procedure and the proof required would be on the “balance of probabilities” rather than “beyond reasonable doubt”.
The war on drugs is being won! Giving cops less accountability will certainly uphold justice.
Of course, the political grandstanding of pandering to the fundamentalists bombing shops in Dublin with no accountability shouldn’t be expected to bear fruit. If anyone actually cared about the fact that psychoactives are being sold, this law would be a simple analogue law instead of a fuzzy welcoming sign for the sale of unscheduled substituted cathinones by street drug dealers.
These dealers herald the introduction of an even more risky drug-buying process where an even larger range of substances will be sold as an increasingly vague range. It is incredibly foolish to assume that drug dealers are doing anything other than stockpiling huge amounts of mephedrone to sell as everything from cocaine to whatever the next big anonymous powder on the market is.
Man consuming qat in Sana’a, Yemen, January 2009. This is not the first time I’ve linked to this article but it is the first time I’ve noticed this awesome picture. (via Wikipedia)
The true face of cathonine use! How could a man enjoying himself this much fit into the moral panic?
Related: sense, ignored as ever no doubt.
Needless drug use interferes with productivity. Advice issued by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.(via Teacher Dude’s BBQ)
Bongripper’s tasteful Heroin.
nthposition: The globalisation of addiction
A look at addiction that starts off by citing this rather fascinating study:
A colony of rats, who are naturally gregarious, were allowed to roam together in a large vivarium enriched with wheels, balls and other playthings, on a deep bed of aromatic cedar shavings and with plenty of space for breeding and private interactions. Pleasant woodland vistas were even painted on the surrounding walls. In this situation, the rats’ responses to drugs such as opiates were transformed. They no longer showed interest in pressing levers for rewards of morphine: even if forcibly addicted, they would suffer withdrawals rather than maintaining their dependence. Even a sugar solution could not tempt them to the morphine water (though they would choose this if naloxone was added to block the opiate effects).
