Slog - Comments on This Week on Drugs http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/this_week_on_drugs_49 Cancer Cells Are Like People: Less ambitious when stoned. I’m Definitely Switching: They’re replacing regular coffee with genetically modified coffee. Let’s see if you can tell the difference. Capitol Bill: Federal ban on D.C. needle exchange lifted. Imported: More meth in 2007. Highway Patrol: Officer charged with stealing $1 million in cocaine. Europe: Where cocaine’s wind blows. Vietnam: 43 traffickers sent to the firing squad. Ecuador President: My father was a drug mule. Australian Smokers: 6-in-10 are dolts.... Copyright 2008 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:22:40 -0800 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:31:11 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Natalie Is the coffee variety GMO? The article doesn't actually say that.

]]> Natalie http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/this_week_on_drugs_49#c884668 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/this_week_on_drugs_49#c884668 Drugs Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:37:13 -0800 Comment by Dominic Holden The article doesn't say specifically, but it does reference the related coffee genome sequencing research--so it appears that these beans are genetically engineered somehow.

]]> Dominic Holden http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/this_week_on_drugs_49#c884684 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/this_week_on_drugs_49#c884684 Drugs Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:48:19 -0800 Comment by laterite Australia is basically an entire continent of Omak residents.

]]> laterite http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/this_week_on_drugs_49#c884695 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/this_week_on_drugs_49#c884695 Drugs Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:15:28 -0800 Comment by Donovan Yes. As far as Australia is concerned, a 6/10 idiocy rate is something to _aim_ for. Australia is a country modelled on English prisoners and wardens beating the shit out of dark-skinned natives and forcing them out to the desert in tin shacks, then having the audacity to tell others not to "invade" "our country". On the whole, Australia is even dumber than America.

]]> Donovan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/this_week_on_drugs_49#c884715 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/this_week_on_drugs_49#c884715 Drugs Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:28:29 -0800 Comment by RainMan Let's not be too hard on the Aussies. First, it seems a bit hypocritical for Americans to criticize the way another country has treated its dark skinned residents. Also, they did recently get rid of their Bush toady Prime Minister and elect someone who opposes the Iraq war and is committed to the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas. Maybe someday we'll do the same.

]]> RainMan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/this_week_on_drugs_49#c884758 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/this_week_on_drugs_49#c884758 Drugs Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:50:59 -0800 Comment by Colton Australians: Gee, so a little propaganda by the tobacco companies produces serious denial by the local population; never knew *cough cough* global climate change denial *cough cough* that could EVER happen !

]]> Colton http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/this_week_on_drugs_49#c884762 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/this_week_on_drugs_49#c884762 Drugs Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:00:17 -0800 Comment by gnossos Yeah, the Ozzies also pretty much rule the known world when it comes to harm reduction programs...they've got something like 6 times the number of syringe exchange as the US, with a fraction of the population.

Despite the frat boys on Fosters image, they're actually quite pragmatic and sensible.

]]> gnossos http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/this_week_on_drugs_49#c884803 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/this_week_on_drugs_49#c884803 Drugs Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:46:56 -0800 Comment by David In Wedgwood 10 out of 10 smokers, no matter the continent, are dolts.

]]> David In Wedgwood http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/this_week_on_drugs_49#c884843 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/this_week_on_drugs_49#c884843 Drugs Sat, 29 Dec 2007 06:50:20 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi Once Australians reached the New Guinean highlands (pretty much the only inhabitable part of the island) in the 1930s, they begged off conquering and colonizing the area. It would seem that they finally learned their lesson in that regard, too bad for Australian Aborigines that they didn't learn it soon enough.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/this_week_on_drugs_49#c884954 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/this_week_on_drugs_49#c884954 Drugs Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:31:11 -0800