Topic: DRUGS - on January 11, 2012 at 12:33:00 PM CET
Marijuana Juicing is The Next Big Thing (or a Big Waste of Cash)
Weed can be smoked, vaporized and eaten.
But a practice advocated by Dr. William Courtney, an M.D. from Willits, California seems to be gaining traction in 2012:
He wants you to juice your marijuana. That's right, put that valuable green stuff in a blender and drink it up like a banana milkshake. Mmm.
And the best benefit (allegedly)?
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 10, 2012 at 1:26:00 PM CET
Snoop Dogg wegen Marihuana verhaftet - trotz Rezept
Texanische Polizisten haben US-Rapper Snoop Dogg (40) am Wochenende vorübergehend festgenommen, weil in seinem Tour-Bus Marihuana gefunden wurde. Der Musiker besitzt eigentlich ein ärztliches Rezept für die medizinische Verwendung.
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 10, 2012 at 12:46:00 PM CET
Snoop Dogg ARRESTED FOR WEED
Snoop Dogg isn't the only canine with a nose for weed ... TMZ has learned the rapper was ARRESTED in Texas this weekend after a drug-sniffing dog uncovered marijuana on his tour bus.
Law enforcement sources tell us ... Snoop's tour bus was stopped at a border patrol checkpoint in Sierra Blanca -- a small town in West Texas where Willie Nelson was popped for weed back in 2010.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 30, 2011 at 11:02:00 AM CET
Kiffen bis der Arzt kommt
Machten sich Bayerns Gesundheitspolitiker und die Krankenkassen bislang hauptsächlich Sorgen über die steigende Zahl der so genannten Koma-Säufer, so gibt es nun weitere erschreckende Entwicklungen. Nach Erkenntnissen der Techniker Krankenkasse (TK) gibt es im Freistaat immer mehr "Komakiffer", die nach exzessivem Cannabis-Konsum ärztliche Hilfe benötigen. "Die medizinischen Behandlungen aufgrund von Cannabis-Missbrauch sind in den zurückliegenden zehn Jahren um 160 Prozent gestiegen", teilte die Kasse am Donnerstag mit.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 24, 2011 at 11:30:00 AM CET
Jail for man who grew cannabis 'Christmas tree'
A man who grew a large cannabis plant to look like a Christmas tree will spend the festive season in prison after police found his home-based drug factory.
Ian Richards, 46, made the cannabis plant resemble a festive tree by growing it to 5ft tall and decorating it with brightly-coloured baubles.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 23, 2011 at 12:10:00 PM CET
It Turns Out That Smoking Marijuana May Actually Make You A Safer Driver
An amazing study authored by professors D. Mark Anderson (University of Montana) and Daniel Rees (University of Colorado) shows that traffic deaths have been reduced in states where medical marijuana is legalized.
According to their findings, the use of medical marijuana has caused traffic related fatalities to fall by nearly nine percent in states that have legalized medical marijuana
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 23, 2011 at 11:56:00 AM CET
Spanish model smuggles cocaine into Italy inside her implants
2.5 kilos of cocaine were found inside her breast and buttock implants when she was searched at Rome airport
The 33 year old model arrived there on a flight from Sao Paolo, Brazil, and aroused suspicion with her vague answers when she was questioned by police about her planned stay in Italy.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 19, 2011 at 1:09:00 PM CET
As the Drug War Goes Underground, Feds Call in the Robot
Suppose, for a minute, that you’re Joe Garcia, the deputy agent in charge of the San Diego office of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. You’ve just got word that your Border Tunnel Task Force has found a drug smuggling tunnel that’s clearly coming from Mexico. What you know about the tunnel: Somebody spent close to $1 million to build it -– tunnels usually turn up after neighbors have alerted police to truck traffic at unusual hours — signs that bales of marijuana are being loaded onto trucks and moved out of warehouses on the U.S. end. You know that it’s the work of a drug cartel –- these days mostly Sinaloa -– so you can assume dangerous people are involved.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 15, 2011 at 10:17:00 AM CET
Weed Wars: Medical Marijuana Hits Reality TV
"Most of our patients and our staff were really skeptical about doing a reality TV show because they were watching Jersey Shore and The Kardashians," says Andrew DeAngelo, general manager of Oakland, California's Harborside Health Center, the largest medical marijuana dispensary in the world. Andrew and his brother, Harborside's Executive Director Steve DeAngleo, are co-stars of Weed Wars, a new show by the Discovery Channel that looks into lives of those who run Harborside, the patients that seek out their services, and the politicians looking to shut them down.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 14, 2011 at 10:56:00 AM CET
Ending the Global War on Drugs
Ever since the War on Drugs, everything has hit the fan," says Romesh Bhattacharji, former Narcotics Commissioner of India. Rather than continue the unnecessary and costly drug war, Bhattacharji advises the United States to simply "Relax, take it easy, [and] tolerate."
Last month, at the Cato Institute's "Ending the Global War on Drugs" conference, Bhattacharji's sentiments were echoed by ex-drug czars, cops, politicians, intellectuals, liberal and conservative journalists, and even the former President of Brazil.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 14, 2011 at 10:54:00 AM CET
Selling the Drug War for $3 Billion? How the Pentagon Will Privatize an International War on Drugs
In part of a move to transfer tactics from the "war on terror" to the "war on drugs", the Pentagon is paying private security firms millions to fight the drug war internationally.
There is an increasing perception that the war on drugs is simply unwinnable. The scandalous death toll and socioeconomic impact so far suffered in the countries implicated either as producers or as transit routes has led to such assessment.
Inadequate, inefficient combat strategies and a continuously renewed global net of corruption are part of the complex problem.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 13, 2011 at 2:34:00 PM CET
Forget Taxing Marijuana; The Real Money's In Cocaine
A Harvard economist has estimated how much money states would raise by legalizing and taxing marijuana and cocaine.
In a podcast a while back, Harvard's Jeffrey Miron told us that his estimates for what California would bring in from taxing marijuana are much smaller than some of the numbers that are floating around out there (including a $1.4 billion estimate from state officials).
npr.org Podcast: An Economist Gets Stoned wiki/Jeffrey Miron
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