Topic: DRUGS - on September 28, 2009 at 10:00:00 AM CEST
Österreichs neuer Revoluzzer gibt Anlass zur Hoffnung
Kaum hat die Amtszeit des steirischen Landtagspräsidenten Kurt Flecker (SPÖ) begonnen, schwärmt er vom „Amsterdamer Modell“, was ihn „beeindruckt“ habe. Dort sei ein Rückgang beim Konsum harter Drogen feststellbar, außerdem gebe es durch eine Legalisierung eine „gewisse Qualitätskontrolle, weil es nicht mehr notwendig ist, den Stoff zu strecken“.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 28, 2009 at 9:57:00 AM CEST
War on drugs 40 years on
First announced by President Nixon in 1969, the war on drugs’ forty-year old effort of aggressive criminalization, interdiction and eradication has left a high body-count.
Critics argue that it has driven the drug trade underground, fueling transnational organized crime, corruption, and narcoinsurgency around the world. And many blame the war on drugs for the heavy US incarceration rate, the highest in the world.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 28, 2009 at 9:55:00 AM CEST
California mulls legalising marijuana
In 1996, voters in California approved a referendum that made it legal for the first time in decades in the US for people to consume cannabis for medicinal purposes.
More than a dozen states have followed suit since and several others - the most recent of which is Massachusetts - have approved laws decriminalising the possession of small amounts of the drug.
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Topic: food - on September 27, 2009 at 10:30:00 AM CEST
The whisky social network
Site designed and produced by Jean-Luc Thiébaut, web developer and all round whisky enthusiast.
This site is independently owned and aims provide an impartial reviewing service for all to share.
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Topic: STRANGE - on September 27, 2009 at 10:28:00 AM CEST
The 10 Most Outrageous Military Experiments
A super soldier program produces Marvel superhero Wolverine in the movie "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," along with rivals Sabretooth and Weapon XI. Now LiveScience looks back on real experiments that the U.S. government ran on soldiers and citizens to advance the science of war.
The military didn't replicate Wolverine's indestructible skeleton and retractable claws. Rather, they shot accident victims up with plutonium, tested nerve gas on sailors, and tried out ESP. While some of the tests seem outlandish in hindsight, the military continues to push the envelope in seeking new warfare techniques based on cutting-edge science and technology.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on September 27, 2009 at 10:26:00 AM CEST
5 Unpopular Questions About God’s Love
The God of the Bible is a mean, nasty control freak, but yet many of his followers still claim that their God gives them comfort and endless love. I not only find this type of love to be based on fiction, but also out of unquestionable obedience and submission.
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Topic: NATURE - on September 27, 2009 at 10:21:00 AM CEST
Haunting face crying a river of tears as glacier melts into the sea
At first glimpse it looks like any other glacier you might find in the freezing Arctic wastes of Norway.
But on closer inspection an eerie face is depicted in the melting ice wall that appears to be crying a river of tears.
The forlorn-looking 'Mother Nature' figure appeared to locals during a thaw, with the melting ice and snow falling towards the sea below.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 27, 2009 at 10:18:00 AM CEST
Artificial Cannabis JWH-018 - The Taste Test
With all the news surrounding the still-legal cannabis-replacing psychoactive substance which is romantically named JWH-018, there are a lot of people who may be inclined to think they are missing out on something?
For those out the loop, JWH-018 is the laboratory-synthesized substance which has been designed 'from the ground up', just to get people high. At least that was the explanation JW Huffman gave it. He's the fella who invented this stuff as well as the man who put the JWH in JWH-018.
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Topic: TV - on September 26, 2009 at 12:27:00 PM CEST
The Best Guides to Watching TV Online
Now that the fall TV season is back in full swing, Mad Men and Wipeout fans aren’t the only ones able to watch new episodes of their favorite shows. But while you were out enjoying the summer, arrangements between networks and distributors were renegotiated, web site navigations changed and new shows came on the air, so finding what you want to watch online may be a bit of a challenge.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 26, 2009 at 12:23:00 PM CEST
The Future Of Medical Marijuana :)
American pot smokers have been punished with everything from life in prison to having one's "mellow harshed." Like their early 20th Century teetotaling counterparts, marijuana prohibitionists appeal to public health and safety.
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Topic: TESLA - on September 24, 2009 at 10:23:00 AM CEST
Thomas Edison versus Nikola Tesla: Who is more productive?
Thomas Edison is widely known as the greatest inventor the world has ever known. Nikola Tesla is also known as a great inventor and many people say he was more brilliant than Edison was. In our last post, two weeks ago, we discussed Edison’s 5 million page note-taking system and received a reaction from some of Tesla’s fans.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 24, 2009 at 10:09:00 AM CEST
Vancouver Protests Prince of Pot's Imprisonment
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Vancouver on Saturday as part of 'The Worldwide Rally for the Prince of Pot', a global rally held in over 100 cities to demand freedom for marijuana activist Marc Emery.
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