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Also, I read in The Week this week (so I guess it was last week's news?), that the LA Times recently reported on a "new drug craze" of kids using cough medicine for the dextromethorphan, or "dex." Yup, never heard of that one before! Brand new!

Amazingly, more people are using "dex" (ready-to-use, easily and legally purchasable) than meth (illegal, sketchy, scary).

Posted by Levislade | December 22, 2006 10:53 AM
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36.5 percent of high school seniors reported using illicit drugs in the past year.

More than a third. Wow, that War On Drugs sure is working wonders, ain't it?!

Posted by Nathan | December 22, 2006 11:03 AM
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Immortal Superpot, you say?

Posted by monkey | December 22, 2006 11:15 AM
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I love this quote from the article about Snoho inmates testing positive:

"Marijuana is king, it's number one, but meth is toxic"

Brilliant.

Posted by Beth | December 22, 2006 11:27 AM
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Now if we can only get the super pot from "America Beauty".

Posted by elswinger | December 22, 2006 11:45 AM
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Less kids smoking pot means more for me.

Posted by Boomer | December 22, 2006 2:20 PM
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G-13 exists, it's not all that great...

Interesting that the plant can be planted year round, as MJ is usually a photoperiod sensitive plant, although there is the Ruderalis strain which flowers based on age, not the length of the day.

As for roundup resistant plants, natural selection will take care of that, it worked for the coca plants in colombia..

Posted by Nick W | December 23, 2006 12:45 AM
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7,000 troops and only 45 lousy arrests? That's a ratio of 156 soldiers for every bust - what a terrifically inefficient use of manpower!

And ooh, all that for less than 600 acres? And gotta love that estimated $626M loss-of-income - that's less than 2% of the total value of U.S. produced weed, as cited in the final article link - and based primarily on the "potential value" of a bunch of seeds! Shit, if that's the case, I'm sure I can find an old matchbox buried in a forgotten corner of a drawer somewhere worth several tens of thousands of dollars, if that's how these guys are going to gauge cash-value.

Look, I totally understand the impulse to want to get rid of these incredibly violent cartels, but rather than sounding like some tremendous "victory" in the War On Drugs (tm), this comes off as nothing more than a Press Release with more spin on it than a spitball.

Posted by COMTE | December 25, 2006 11:12 PM

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