Slog - Comments on This Week on Drugs http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_63 South American Way: Argentine court decriminalizes drug possession. American Way: World's leading jailer. Higher Educators: Teaching marijuana classes in Oakland. Alcohol Regulators: Don’t like Weed pun on beer caps. 3000: Sentences commuted for cocaine convicts. 29: In Western Washington. Boy Dies After Drinking Meth: Lynnwood police may try to build a relatively unusual case of homicide by a controlled substance against a 29-year-old man who has been arrested in connection with the death of a Lynnwood teen. According to court documents, the suspect is alleged to have punched Jamie D. Leavitt, 16, after the teen drank meth-laced water and then,... Copyright 2008 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:37:26 -0800 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:47:29 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by NaFun I love that stupid hippie name generator. I wanna show it to all the burners I know.

Also, GO ARGEN-FUCKING-TINA!!

Lastly, I really like that the article on the 29 commuted crack sentences didn't take the angle of "Crack dealers released to rape children in your neighborhood!" that so many other news orgs have done.

]]> NaFun http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_63#c1007171 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_63#c1007171 Drugs Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:39:31 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle I think Starbucks getting out of the music biz is a good thing.

And bring back Chantico - no, we're not kidding, we "non-druggies" need our hot chocolate drink fix ...

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_63#c1007173 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_63#c1007173 Drugs Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:40:25 -0800 Comment by PopTart @2 Have you tried the Chocolate Box? At an event I attended they were handing out free samples of their hot chocolate and it reminded me of Chantico but better.

]]> PopTart http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_63#c1007213 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_63#c1007213 Drugs Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:35:37 -0800 Comment by Michigan Matt (soon to be Balt-o-matt) Thank the heavens above for Carmen Miranda. First you guys give me Jem! and now this. What's a gay to do?

]]> Michigan Matt (soon to be Balt-o-matt) http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_63#c1007248 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_63#c1007248 Drugs Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:01:05 -0800 Comment by Ed The dead worb water boy's myspace is rather heartbreaking.

]]> Ed http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_63#c1007283 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_63#c1007283 Drugs Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:19:55 -0800 Comment by antiuser Uh, Carmen Miranda was Brazilian, not Argentine (actually, she was born in Portugal but moved to Brazil at a young age)... could've gone with some Carlos Gardel instead!

]]> antiuser http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_63#c1007288 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_63#c1007288 Drugs Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:27:49 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle @3 - thanks for the tip.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_63#c1007324 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_63#c1007324 Drugs Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:05:23 -0800 Comment by Dominic Holden @ 6) With all due respect for your penchant for specifics, I believe you're overthinking a simple joke. The humor, if there is any, isn't that the nation in which the court ruled to decriminalize drugs and the birthplace of Carmen Miranda are the same--though that would have been clever. Rather, it's a cheap joke about the headline, "South American Way." Carmen Miranda's seemingly drugged performance of it juxtaposed with the news that Argentina court had decriminali... God, this gets a lot less amusing the more it's explained. It's a funny video... and I think it's time for bed.

]]> Dominic Holden http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_63#c1007345 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_63#c1007345 Drugs Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:31:06 -0800 Comment by antiuser @8 - I didn't mean for it to come off snarky. I just thought it was funny, since I lived in Brazil for a long time, and they often make the joke that Americans know so little about the country that they think the capital is Buenos Aires... I can be a pedantic wanker sometimes but I didn't mean it to come across that way. Sorry for ruining the fun.

]]> antiuser http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_63#c1007362 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_63#c1007362 Drugs Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:20:42 -0800 Comment by Dominic Holden It's all good, antiuser. Don't put much stock in anything I write at 2:30 in the morning.

]]> Dominic Holden http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_63#c1007366 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_63#c1007366 Drugs Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:52:28 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV Or 4:20 in the afternoon.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_63#c1007426 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_63#c1007426 Drugs Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:47:29 -0800