Slog - Comments on This Week on Drugs http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_61 Move It: Declining dollar shifts cocaine market to Europe. Push It: McDonald’s free-latte Fridays. Resist It: National D.A.R.E. day. Always Worth It: Budweiser’s link to McCain. “As Many Crack Offenders Are Freed Early, Will Crime Rise?” No. Of Mice and Monkeys: Drug protects from radiation. Rats: Marijuana linked to temporary lethargy and wimpy muscles. Brats: Teen calls cops on mom for growing pot. Stats: One-in-five scientists using mental performance-enhancing drugs. In Unrelated News: Three dead in suburban Vancouver house fire linked to marijuana grow-op DELTA, B.C. — Police have identified three people killed in a house fire in the Vancouver... Copyright 2008 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:54:11 -0800 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:15:42 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Phil M fishy:

At first, the 34-year-old woman said she only smoked marijuana. She declined to let the deputy search her house further without a warrant, then changed her mind.

"What the heck, you don't need a warrant. I'll show you," the deputy quoted the woman as saying.

In her closet, the deputy found 10 small marijuana plants. The woman said she was growing them for personal use. She also told the deputy "it is tough to get her son to respect authority when he knows she breaks the law growing pot," the report said.

]]> Phil M http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_61#c996700 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_61#c996700 Drugs Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:51:27 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle We have always been at war with Colombia.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_61#c996707 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_61#c996707 Drugs Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:57:29 -0800 Comment by Stoner The only thing left to do is drugs.

]]> Stoner http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_61#c996816 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_61#c996816 Drugs Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:33:37 -0800 Comment by Mike "One-in-five scientists using mental performance-enhancing drugs."

I guess they don't count caffeine and nicotine in that figure.

]]> Mike http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_61#c996878 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_61#c996878 Drugs Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:41:04 -0800 Comment by Karlheinz Arschbomber Really encouraging that Bush's torpedoing of the credibility of the dollar has done much more to stop cross-border drug trafficking than has the stupid fascist War on Drugs.

A fine weekend to all, from Scharbeutz, Scheswig-Holstein.

]]> Karlheinz Arschbomber http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_61#c996933 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_61#c996933 Drugs Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:15:42 -0800