Slog - Comments on This Week on Drugs http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/this_week_on_drugs_69 Alchemy: In the Daily Mail. AF Harrier jump jets have blown up the world's biggest drug haul in Afghanistan by dropping three 1,000lb bombs on a 237-ton stash of cannabis. Officials believe the area - near to the Taliban stronghold of Quetta in Pakistan - was turning dried cannabis leaves into heroin. Opium Brides: Poppy eradication linked to sex slavery. High Tides: Pot’s better than ever. Marijuana potency increased last year to the highest level in more than 30 years, posing greater health risks to people who may view the drug as harmless, according to a report released Thursday by... Copyright 2008 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:50:36 -0800 Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:11:08 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by scary tyler moore celebrity stoners, honey, not celerity stoners. unless you're gettin' all intellectual on our collective asses.

]]> scary tyler moore http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/this_week_on_drugs_69#c1050725 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/this_week_on_drugs_69#c1050725 Drugs Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:35:23 -0800 Comment by E "Officials believe the area - near to the Taliban stronghold of Quetta in Pakistan - was turning dried cannabis leaves into heroin." - Maybe they were then going to turn the heroin into Colombian cocaine from 1980? Memories of Hermes Trismegistus and John Locke! These are the beliefs of the people in charge? If so, it would be so very nice of the Afghani alchemical mages to share their transmutation abilities with the rest of the world. We could learn to turn greenhouse gases into chocolate, tea into crude oil, water into wine, and ethanol back into edible corn.

]]> E http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/this_week_on_drugs_69#c1050768 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/this_week_on_drugs_69#c1050768 Drugs Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:02:44 -0800 Comment by PopTart OK, I didn't click on the link cause I'm lazy, exactly how did they turn cannabis into heroin? Is that possible?

]]> PopTart http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/this_week_on_drugs_69#c1050810 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/this_week_on_drugs_69#c1050810 Drugs Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:28:05 -0800 Comment by herbert browne Maybe "celerity stoners" is a new euphemism for tweakers? Or maybe they've managed to cross marijuana (or "heroin bush") with Celerity... who can know? Celerity sticks that get you high? ^..^

]]> herbert browne http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/this_week_on_drugs_69#c1051038 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/this_week_on_drugs_69#c1051038 Drugs Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:34:08 -0800 Comment by ecce homo Keep doing drugs,

You'll go far.

]]> ecce homo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/this_week_on_drugs_69#c1051100 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/this_week_on_drugs_69#c1051100 Drugs Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:32:56 -0800 Comment by Greg @3: No.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/this_week_on_drugs_69#c1051188 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/this_week_on_drugs_69#c1051188 Drugs Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:11:08 -0800