Topic: TV - on November 21, 2007 at 11:47:00 AM CET
'Weeds' goes up in smoke
Weeds went to blazes in the hot-hot-hot final episode of Season 3 ("Go"). ML Parker Blame it on Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) who hired drug thug Guillermo (Guillermo Diaz) for muscle after bikers threatened her weed business. Guillermo wasted no time, torching the bikers' outdoor pot field, which turned into a raging forest-fire, mirroring the recent Southern California inferno.
Then Nancy literally burned down her house, leaving the bud-dealing family homeless as the head into Season 4 in 2008.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 21, 2007 at 11:45:00 AM CET
Salvia: The legal marijuana?
Experts are warning parents about a common houseplant that has been outlawed in several states due to its dangerous and potentially debilitating qualities.
Salvia, a legal hallucinogen, is known to yield an intense high. The substance has been used by the Mazatec Indians in Mexico for centuries, but several states recently banned the plant after a child in Delaware wrote about how salvia changed his life then later committed suicide.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 21, 2007 at 11:38:00 AM CET
The Most Dangerous Drug in the World
Scopolamine: Scopolamine is a colorless, tasteless, odorless drug. It is also known as hyoscine and is classified as a tropane alkaloid. The drug can be obtained from plants in the Solanacea (nightshade) family. Most scopolamine comes from jimsome weed, or as in Columbia, borrachero trees. The plants it can be derived from are many, and abundantly available. This makes its use widespread, and exceedingly dangerous. It is, surprisingly, one of the most feared substances in what is arguably the drug capital of the world, Columbia.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 21, 2007 at 11:37:00 AM CET
Smoking cannabis in public to remain a serious offence in Spain
A parliamentary commission in Congress has turned down a proposal under debate to depenalise possession of small amounts of cannabis. It was presented by Izquierda Unida, who placed the only vote in favour of the motion at a meeting of the Interior and Justice Committee in Congress on Tuesday: 35 voted against.
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Topic: food - on November 21, 2007 at 11:09:00 AM CET
Warning signs go up to stop Poles stealing river fish for Christmas dinner
To any peckish Poles or ravenous Romanians, the message could not be clearer.
Keep off our fish.
Three roadsign-style warnings were launched yesterday to stop Eastern European immigrants from spearing, taking home and cooking coarse fish from our rivers, lakes and canals.
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Topic: food - on November 21, 2007 at 10:46:00 AM CET
The 10 Most Overrated Wines
If you are particularly attached to some of wine's most sacred cows you might want to steer clear of The Upgrader's list of the ten most overrated wines. The article is an equal opportunity offender for those who pride themselves on their taste and selections.
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Topic: CARS - on November 21, 2007 at 10:41:00 AM CET
Moller Flying Car May Be Grounded Permanently
For decades, futurists have predicted (and science fiction types have just assumed) that we're on the verge of having flying cars. It's pretty much the standard prediction. And yet, despite years of hype, the idea of the flying car has always been the technology of tomorrow.
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