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Friday, September 21, 2007

This Week on Drugs

posted by on September 21 at 13:08 PM

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Sniffed: Yakima opens school for drug dogs.

Laced: Dept. of Justice spends $13,000 on brownies for “Weed and Seed” conference.

Hired: Pentagon contracts $15 billion with five private companies for international “counter-narcoterrorism.”

Probed: Pot crusaders call for AG to investigate Yakima County law enforcement for ignoring medical-pot law.

Popped: NORML founder caught puffin’ at Boston Hempfest.

Freed: “We aim to right a wrong, and to exercise compassion, and to do it with grace,” said Florida Gov. Charlie Crist after pardoning a wheelchair-bound man who served three years of a 25-year sentence for Oxycontin.

Robbed: $25,000 in primo medicine stolen from South Seattle medical marijuana clinic.

Challenged: ACLU will sue Hawaii to stop random teacher drug testing.

Sealed and Delivered: Bush says he’ll sign FDA “Drug Safety Bill.”

Buzzed: Seattle is mocha Mecca for this sappy cocktwat.

Used: I hear Lowe’s needs tools, Federal Way Mirror.

Pissed: Pray tell, what clumsy national appearance would make someone think Ms. Spears would test positive for drugs?

Spun: A report released this week by the Government Accountability Office provides a clue why the White House rolled out a glitzy anti-meth media campaign last week. “Despite $397 million to support Mexican counternarcotics efforts… more than fivefold increase [in drug seizures] indicated a dramatic rise in supply. In addition, corruption persists within the Mexican government and challenges Mexico’s efforts to curb drug production and trafficking. Moreover, Mexican drug trafficking organizations operate with relative impunity along the U.S. border and in other parts of Mexico, and have expanded their illicit business to almost every region of the United States.” The Republican Sen. Charles E. Grassley who called for the report ads insult to injury: “The Office of National Drug Control Policy has to stop dropping the ball and doing sloppy work. They had plenty of time to forge a working relationship with the Mexican government, but it appears that nothing has been accomplished.” But meth, people!! Meth!!!

Since He Done Fucked Up Mexico, Colombia, and Afghanistan: Bush shifts gaze to Burma and Venezuela. For the love of God, Meth!!!!

Okay, Meth: So what do kids think about the new meth campaign?

Pie: Even once turns you into… Golum? Here’s the original version, called “Bathroom.”

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1

Dude, I love pie.

Posted by NaFun | September 21, 2007 1:23 PM
2

Is Oycontin the Jewish version?

Posted by jameyb | September 21, 2007 1:32 PM
3

Yup, and it's way stronger than Jewish Penicillin... But this guy just had the secular painkiller. Fixed it, Jameyb.

Posted by Dominic Holden | September 21, 2007 1:38 PM
4

That map of Mexico puts Culiacan where Guadalajara is. No one who is that ignorant of Mexican geography could have anything remotely valid to say about anything having to do with Mexico. That's like labeling Chicago as Memhpis on a map of the US and the drawing a big circle that says Bible belt from Mobile to Chicago. Retrasados!

Posted by kinaidos | September 21, 2007 2:12 PM
5

That map is from the DEA.

Posted by Dominic Holden | September 21, 2007 3:24 PM

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