Comments on This Week on Drugs

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.