Slog - Comments on This Week on Drugs http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36 High Priority: A Department of Justice report shows marijuana arrests in 2006 hit record at 829,627. Tripped: Amsterdam supports three-day waiting period for mushroom buyers after too many tourists wig out in the Van Gogh Museum. Dogged: Vick on home detention after testing positive for pot. Measured Progress: Four marijuana initiatives on the ballot in Idaho town. "We made brownies and I think we're dead”: Pot-brownie eating cop charged with misdemeanor. Does this Cigarette Make Me Look Fat? Youtube criticized for tobacco clips. Score Bar: Feds charge maker of laced candy. Termination: After 15 years, Portland cuts drug-free zones.... Copyright 2008 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:00:19 -0800 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:21:35 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Will in Seattle In related news, smoking cigarettes is highly linked with male impotence.

So, if you're a girl, avoid guys who smoke.

If you're a guy who smokes, realize that it's not gonna help you do what you want to do ...

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814034 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814034 Drugs Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:11:15 -0800 Comment by NaFun Eight Hundred Fucking Thousand?!?!

And people wanna know why we're always talking about drug law reform. Jesus.

]]> NaFun http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814048 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814048 Drugs Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:19:11 -0800 Comment by dutch treat >>Tripped: Amsterdam enacts three-day waiting period for mushroom buyers after too many tourists wig out in the Van Gogh Museum.

Here's the entire text of the article you linked to:

Amsterdam city council backs plans by mayor Job Cohen to put tighter controls on the use of hallucinogenic mushrooms, after a number of serious incidents involving tourists. Cohen wants to introduce a three-day wait before tourists would be able to buy fresh mushrooms.


It doesn't say anything about museums, nor does it say this has been enacted; only that someone "wants to" have a 3 day wait. So basically the article is all pipe dream, and not actual news of anything happening, unlike what your slog post suggests.

either find a link that supports your reporting, or rewrite your slog post. as Nickels has proved, just because someone wants new restrictions, doesn't mean they've happened.

]]> dutch treat http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814086 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814086 Drugs Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:47:52 -0800 Comment by Cale i didn't know portland had "drug free zones".. sounds like something belltown would have come up with.

can we please legalize marajuana now? stop putting innocents in jail, diffuse some gang violence, and you know, if nothing else to stimulate the economy enough to pay off the war? oh and god forbid have a good time every once and awhile.

]]> Cale http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814090 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814090 Drugs Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:52:55 -0800 Comment by Dominic Holden Touche, Dutch Treat. Here's a link to a story that ran earlier this month about the mayor's proposal. The link in the post shows that the council now backs it, too, so it's not enacted but it looks like a done deal.

]]> Dominic Holden http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814096 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814096 Drugs Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:02:29 -0800 Comment by Dianna Well at least it's not all bad news. Afgani weed is the best.

]]> Dianna http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814105 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814105 Drugs Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:14:04 -0800 Comment by stats not defending, but for what it's worth, the arrests appear to be pretty even with population growth over the past 30 years... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:US_Population_Graph_-_1790_to_Present.svg

]]> stats http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814134 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814134 Drugs Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:37:08 -0800 Comment by K that was *supposed* to be an ANTI-drug message, right?

]]> K http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814154 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814154 Drugs Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:53:05 -0800 Comment by COMTE Cale @4:

Why do you hate America's for-profit incarceration industry so?

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814159 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814159 Drugs Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:58:25 -0800 Comment by Cale #9 oh... you know... something about life, liberty.. happiness something or other... can't quite seem to remember..

uh.

]]> Cale http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814168 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814168 Drugs Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:10:51 -0800 Comment by Dougsf That commercial is almost 10 years old. I thought they were running it in Seattle when I still lived there in 2000?

]]> Dougsf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814169 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814169 Drugs Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:11:21 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Remember how the budget of King County was running dry cause it was 50 percent for the justice system around 2000?

It's 70 percent now.

Time for a referendum at the County like we had in Seattle.

Tax payers unite! Stop jailing harmless people.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814174 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814174 Drugs Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:14:43 -0800 Comment by Dominic Holden Hey, stats. Even though that population graph shows a similar curve to the pot graph, pot arrests are increasing at a faster rate than the population--by far.

The number of residents in the US increased roughly 40 percent from 1970 to 2000 (from 200 million to 280 million), but marijuana arrests rose 367 percent in that time (from 200 thousand to 734 thousand). Another way to look at is by the increase in the number of pot arrests per capita. In 1970 there was one arrest for every 1000 US residents, but by 2000 there was one arrest per 378 residents.

]]> Dominic Holden http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814177 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814177 Drugs Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:15:30 -0800 Comment by Mahtli69 Looking at the graph, clearly this is Clinton's fault.

]]> Mahtli69 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814247 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814247 Drugs Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:13:17 -0800 Comment by gnossos among his many faults, Clinton's utter fucking criminal cowardice on drugs ranks right up there (along with caving in to homophobes).

Just see his caving in on the subject of needle exchange as one example...thus helping to ensure the continued spread of HIV/AIDS and hepatitis B and C.

Clinton's celebrated balls were made of glass.

]]> gnossos http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814306 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814306 Drugs Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:05:41 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle word, @15, true dat.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814324 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814324 Drugs Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:20:26 -0800 Comment by Vapo Rub Michael Vick is a big douchebag, but the linked article is ridiculous. He was worth giving a second chance....BUT he tested positive for weed use. So fuck, he REALLY must BE evil! Fry the bastard!

]]> Vapo Rub http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814328 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/this_week_on_drugs_36#c814328 Drugs Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:21:35 -0800