Slog - Comments on This Week on Drugs http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_drugs_38 Bolder 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... Copyright 2008 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:08:37 -0800 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:17:45 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Gidge Nice headline, Charm City. Never been prounder to be from Baltimore.

]]> Gidge http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_drugs_38#c824954 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_drugs_38#c824954 Drugs Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:14:51 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi Damn tourists. They just had to go and ruin it for everyone.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_drugs_38#c824976 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_drugs_38#c824976 Drugs Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:52:15 -0800 Comment by bearseatbeats @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.

]]> bearseatbeats http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_drugs_38#c824978 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_drugs_38#c824978 Drugs Sat, 13 Oct 2007 18:03:43 -0800 Comment by Gomez 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....

]]> Gomez http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_drugs_38#c824980 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_drugs_38#c824980 Drugs Sat, 13 Oct 2007 18:16:10 -0800 Comment by Gitai 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.

]]> Gitai http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_drugs_38#c824982 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_drugs_38#c824982 Drugs Sat, 13 Oct 2007 18:29:46 -0800 Comment by Mike It's Boulder, CO

]]> Mike http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_drugs_38#c824985 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_drugs_38#c824985 Drugs Sat, 13 Oct 2007 18:40:32 -0800 Comment by Bento Gomez @4 - are you possibly talking about 'Praise' by Andrew McGahan?

]]> Bento http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_drugs_38#c825003 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_drugs_38#c825003 Drugs Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:48:13 -0800 Comment by Gomez THAT WAS IT! Thank you, Bento. I swear I'd been trying for years to remember what it was called.

]]> Gomez http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_drugs_38#c825011 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_drugs_38#c825011 Drugs Sat, 13 Oct 2007 21:30:44 -0800 Comment by ellarosa 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?

]]> ellarosa http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_drugs_38#c825019 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_drugs_38#c825019 Drugs Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:03:46 -0800 Comment by Bento @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.

]]> Bento http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_drugs_38#c825071 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_drugs_38#c825071 Drugs Sun, 14 Oct 2007 05:11:17 -0800 Comment by bearseatbeats @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.

]]> bearseatbeats http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_drugs_38#c825092 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_drugs_38#c825092 Drugs Sun, 14 Oct 2007 09:37:36 -0800 Comment by wench @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.

]]> wench http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_drugs_38#c825128 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_drugs_38#c825128 Drugs Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:36:36 -0800 Comment by GW2 @10

-good book. good-ish movie.

]]> GW2 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_drugs_38#c825391 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_drugs_38#c825391 Drugs Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:37:37 -0800 Comment by Bento @13 - Good book. Crap movie.

]]> Bento http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_drugs_38#c826085 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_drugs_38#c826085 Drugs Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:17:45 -0800