http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/02/06/this_week_on_drugs Comments On: This Week on Drugs by Dominic Holden en-us Copyright 2009 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:01 -0800 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:15:00 -0800 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Or like a rich white man whose been indignified]]> Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:41:40 -0800 The Stranger
Cretinous philistine.
Posted by COMTE]]> Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:46:33 -0800 The Stranger dolt
Posted by Michael eats flakes]]> Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:37:42 -0800 The Stranger Posted by COMTE]]> Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:41:31 -0800 The Stranger
really, what you put in your mouth is your choice

arrogant as you are, I agree, get laid three times a week, better than granola for a sense of well being

grain flakes for breakfast is likely the biggest boost in nutrition in the history of eating, sorry, suspect it is true

oh god, many are kellofgg products

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Posted by Michael]]> Sun, 08 Feb 2009 06:49:33 -0800 The Stranger
@38: Kellogg Co. manufactures some 300-odd breakfasty-type foods, "All BRAN" (sic) being just one of the least offensive - read some of the nutritional labeling on some of the rest for a real "edjumacation" on how much processed crap goes into 'em.

@40: Kellogg Co. has said they're not renewing Phelps' contract SPECIFICALLY because of the pot-huffing photo; I guess you can try to spin it however you want, but when their own PR Dept. weighs in, you sort of have to take them at their word, now don't you?

And yes, many of us have already read "The Road To Wellville", so we're quite aware of just how bat-shite crazy J.H.K. really was, and how that didn't stop his brother from cashing in on his pseudo-scientific health regimen.

And BTW, that's exactly what your mama said when I did her last night...
Posted by COMTE]]> Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:12:53 -0800 The Stranger
Plus it's a win-win: if Kellogg's caves and re-hires Phelps, it's a pothead victory. If Kellogg's stands firm (they will), it keeps the story alive a bit longer, forcing people to confront the cognitive dissonance of the world's greatest athlete also being a regular smoker of those reefers that will make you a slovenly loser.

But the link is stash.norml.org/boycottkelloggs or the now easy to use boycottkelloggs.net. You can post your picture of creative ways to boycott Kellogg's.
Posted by RadicalRuss]]> Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:40:53 -0800 The Stranger
Dominic, I've never noticed many of your posts but from now on I will, something tells me your an average Stranger employee who got called a fag in high school by a football player and still can't let it go. You probably will give ECB and Savage a run for dumbest stranger staffer.
Posted by Thought I Saw A Bum]]> Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:52:28 -0800 The Stranger
Also, batshit John Harvey Kellogg didn't really have much to do with the company. He ran the sanitorium in Battle Creek, MI, out of which the company sprang, but his much less crazy brother W.K. Kellogg was the cereal guy. AMUSING SIDE NOTE: C.W. Post used to work in the sanitorium as well, before he started his own cereal company, and was like super nemesis-y with W.K. One time, he was walking down the street and ran into W.K. and was all "You're a dog," and W.K. was like "Yes, and you know what dogs do to posts..." And so really, W.K. Kellogg deserves our admiration and respect for having such a bad-ass come-back.

Oh, and @ 32: you need to get laid so bad. Shit.
Posted by Jocelyn]]> Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:19:05 -0800 The Stranger
A bit of a slow start to bring them down - have some good reefer while waiting for the movement to build the boycott.
Posted by Michael from Montana]]> Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:01:55 -0800 The Stranger
Oh honey - do get a grip - Kellogg started and still boxes ALL BRAND - good laxitive stuff. You sound like you need a joint as your mind is straying into nooks and crannies.

Cereal makes are guilty of - duh, boxing cereal.

Most of which most of us do not eat - perfectly cooked oatmeal is my favorite, with fresh fruit.

Curious, who in American business is not criminal in your mind?

If I were a pot head right now I would focus big time on the Peanut Butter thing - NOW, that is serious.
Posted by No toke for you Michael]]> Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:58:01 -0800 The Stranger Posted by mAlissa]]> Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:44:30 -0800 The Stranger
Go for the money, and more and more GOLD.

Potheads never make sense, one of the attractions of the stuff. Giggle, giggle, munch.

Swimmer boy and his endorsement is shee r business, in this real commercial make money world- sure he should die for Stranger staff rights to puff all day.

Hardly.

(small point, he has passed all drug tests, doubt he is a pot head at all - very party casual - he won't miss it - NOT addicted)
Posted by No toke for you Michael]]> Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:42:08 -0800 The Stranger Posted by remy]]> Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:03:17 -0800 The Stranger
And to be fair, we are all complicit because we don't demand change on this enough, and most of us, too, don't come forward and say hey yeah I smoke pot and it helps me write sofwtware programs if you want to know the truth.

This whole issue is just another one where the left is cowed and submissive and doesn't have the balls to take on the right. Everyone saying "well you wouldn't speak out either!" is just subscribing to the philosphy of life that can be summed up in one word:

pussy.
Posted by PC(JStewartsaiditsoit'snotsexisttosayitokay?)]]> Sat, 07 Feb 2009 09:58:25 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Catman]]> Sat, 07 Feb 2009 09:53:40 -0800 The Stranger
I might be the only one around here who hasn't missed the irony in the fact that a multi-national corporation that pushes processed foods laden with sodium, hydrogenated vegetable oils and high-fructose corn syrup -substances proven to have disastrous health effects on Teh Youth Of Amurka - is suddenly running around like a chicken with its head cut off over a photo of an Olympic athlete huffing ganga. I guess I'd be a lot more sympathetic to their "concern" if the company in question perhaps took a moment to reflect on its own egregious behavior in pursuit of the almighty dollar.

And let's not kid ourselves here; this is precisely what all this non-controversy is all about. It's not about Phelps losing an endorsement contract - that's already happened, as Kellogg's has issued a statement to that effect - so, at least so far as they're concerned his apology is moot. What they're really afraid of is losing tens of millions of dollars in revenue because of the rather remote possibility that a bunch of suburban housewives will stop buying their product for their little Johnnys and Suzies because a POT SMOKING GOLD-MEDAL WINNING OLYMPIC ATHLETE is on the box.

Right. Like mom, who probably spends a good portion of her busy day washing down Vicodins with a piquant California Cabernet really gives a shit. She doesn't. In fact, the only people who DO are the same gaggle of religious do-gooders that call for a national boycott of some company whenever it deviates a fraction of a point from their already anorexically narrow moral code.

As for Phelps himself, well, yeah it would be great if he had the guts to be able to stand up and say, "I won EIGHT FUCKING OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALS, bee-yotches! AND I smoke pot! Fuck you and your hypocritical sanctimony", but clearly that’s not going to happen because, apparently everyone agrees that whoring yourself out to a corporation that sells sugar-laden swill, turning America’s children into obese, lethargic diabetics is morally defensible, while taking a toke or two on your own damn time isn’t.
Posted by COMTE]]> Sat, 07 Feb 2009 09:34:30 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Jubilation T. Cornball]]> Sat, 07 Feb 2009 08:44:59 -0800 The Stranger
Legalize it or don't, doesn't matter to me...although I do see the logic behind the argument for legalizing and taxing it.
Posted by Not_A_Weedman]]> Sat, 07 Feb 2009 08:36:14 -0800 The Stranger Posted by and you know it too]]> Sat, 07 Feb 2009 08:18:36 -0800 The Stranger
I'm surprised there are people who honestly believe weed spurs violent crime. Weed is a correlation, not a causation. Legalization is the only way to regulate a highly demanded natural substance. Just ignoring the high demand and easily-created (try it sometime, easy as pie) supply through prohibition doesn't work...that is the point of the argument. Legalize it.
Posted by Sorry Kelloggs, I'm Kashi's Bitch]]> Sat, 07 Feb 2009 08:06:56 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Whurr Duh Wite Wimminz At?]]> Sat, 07 Feb 2009 07:41:18 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Max Solomon @ home]]> Sat, 07 Feb 2009 05:43:36 -0800 The Stranger asshole.
Posted by chilla flavor]]> Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:32:25 -0800 The Stranger Posted by W.C. Fields Forever]]> Sat, 07 Feb 2009 02:23:39 -0800 The Stranger