Drugs This Week on Drugs
posted by October 13 at 16:08 PM
onBolder Colorado: Teachers confiscate a student’s cell phone, search the text messages, find mention of marijuana, pose as that student and send messages to incriminate the student’s friends, and then punish them.
Potland Oregon: Files decriminalization initiative.
Tourist Rap: Netherlands bans sale of psychedelic mushrooms after travelers flip out.
Poppy Culture: Myanmar junta presides over world’s second-largest opium market.
Where There’s Smoke: Baltimore considers self-extinguishing cigarettes after eight people die in fire.
Crack Myths: Top five.
Buy Cycle: Heroin replacing meth Down Under.
Exported: Bolivia sees future in coca-leaf market.
Isn’t that Kinda the Point, Though? Government Accountability Office calls boot camp for troubled teens a “nightmare.” Oh, but the kids are dying and staff are getting off the hook.
Rat Power: Scientist awarded for dispelling myth about morphine addiction.
Bug Powder: Holland receives beetles stuffed with blow.
Comments
Nice headline, Charm City. Never been prounder to be from Baltimore.
Damn tourists. They just had to go and ruin it for everyone.
@2
...and the owner of the shop, whose photo appears in the article? Fuggedaboutit. Why they gonna deprive that beautiful Dutch woman from selling the things? Have they seen her? Psshh.
I cannot remember the title of the book, but there was a novel about this guy in Australia who bummed around with his girl, went clubbing and did a lot of heroin. It was on my roommate's shelf and she said she didn't like the book. It was... it led to think that it's a more accurate picture of urban Aussie life than people want to admit.
If only I could remember the title and author....
The Burma opium thing is kind of bullshit. Yes, they preside over a significant section of the world's opium market, but being second in opium doesn't mean much when Afghanistan makes up better than 90% of the market. The junta is a pack of evil motherfuckers, but they've been good about reducing opium production.
It's Boulder, CO
Gomez @4 - are you possibly talking about 'Praise' by Andrew McGahan?
THAT WAS IT! Thank you, Bento. I swear I'd been trying for years to remember what it was called.
i'm not quite ure what makes people so upset about the addiction-debunking rat experiment. would someone venture a theory? ok, the pain med industry doesn't like it, but why would anyone else be angry?
@8 - my pleasure. I've actually just finished reading it. Not bad, if a little bleak.
If you want to see a lighter side of the Brisbane drug scene, try reading He Died With a Felafel in His Hand.
@6
It's a play on words, like Potland, Ore.
...As in the teachers in Colorado are getting... Get it?
Obviously you're not a golfer.
@5 - If by "good" you mean they go the the areas where opium is grown and burn hill tribe villages to the ground forcibly relocating, killing, or selling anyone there, then yes, they've been very "good" at controlling it. Great, in fact. Just a hair's breadth away from genocide, so "fantastic", really.
@10
-good book. good-ish movie.
@13 - Good book. Crap movie.
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