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Midnight Cabaret

FILM SYNOPSIS (SHORT VERSION): Meet Adam. Intelligent, scholarship award-winning... more

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Flashback! Psychedelic research returns

"Today I don't have a sense of death like I used to. I see it as part of the... more

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Ice Bongs Picked By Stoners

Check out the the top ice bongs Now!... more

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LGFUAD: A Grotesque Rampage of Jaded Sex, Drugs and Violence

“LGFUAD” (an acronym for Let’s Get Fucked Up and Die) is an... more

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Columnist offers to fund Drug Tests for Florida lawmakers

Posted on 09.29.11 By David Edwards Categories: Featured, Nation Miami... more

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Russian Pol Coldcocks Rival

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Will "Smart Drugs" Give Me a Sharp, Fresh Brain?

provides a list of about 10 of the most effective nootropics available now

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Ice? No Big Deal.

Take it easy.

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Article: Wachoiva Bank and Wells Fargo launder drug money for the world

great follow though on an old story but I bet it still is going on

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“Cultural De-Programming”

Images are powerful and can control your subconscious. Think about the images of Jesus... more

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Pot brownies give Canadian office workers the buzz

Three office workers in Canada were taken to hospital after unwittingly munching some... more

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Fungus 'developing resistance to drugs'

A fungus which is one of the main causes of infection in hospitals each year is... more

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Are walnuts a drug? The FDA thinks so.

Hey man, you know where I can score a quarter ounce of walnuts?
The Food and Drug Administration is telling California-based Diamond Foods that they need to remove wording from their walnut packages that advertises the health benefits of the tasty nut.

Unless, that is, they want to apply for an application that would consider their product a drug.

The FDA is cracking down hard on Diamond and says that the distributors can’t advertise the health benefits of the nut’s omega-3 fatty acids, even if they are verified by doctors. Three dozen published medical papers currently attest that eating walnuts improves vascular health and can combat heart attack risk. Even if doctors stand by those statements, the FDA does not and says that Diamond needs to nix the nut note that goes on their packages.

According to the FDA, Diamond is “misbranding” their nuts because they “are offered for conditions that are not amenable to self-diagnosis and treatment by individuals who are not medical practitioners.”

“Therefore,” continues the Administration, “adequate directions for use cannot be written so that a layperson can use these drugs safely for their intended purposes.”
The intended purpose, of course, is to satisfy never-ending cravings for tasty nuts. It just so happens that some docs say that walnuts aren’t so bad for the ol’ ticker, too.
According to PotatoPro.com (which provides services for the vast and competitive potato industry), Diamond is “the premier processor and marketer of culinary, inshell snack and ingredient nuts,” and provides products to more than three-quarters of the supermarkets in the US.

Even if they are king of the nut world, the FDA says they can’t be all advertising the magical healing powers of the walnut all willy-nilly. William Faloon from Life Extension Magazine tells the Daily Mail that this is just typical of the tyrannical “police-state” that is the Food and Drug Administration.

“This kind of bureaucratic tyranny sends a strong signal to the food industry not to innovate in a way that informs the public about foods that protect against disease,” says Faloon. “While consumers increasingly reach for healthier dietary choices, the federal government wants to deny food companies the ability to convey findings from scientific studies about their products.”

In the meantime, you can check out Diamond Foods’ official website to get your fix of all things nutty. Did you know that King Solomon spoke of the walnut in the Old Testament? And that walnut grove existed at the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and in Mesopotamia?

Fascinating stuff, really. Just don’t think for a second you can boast about the benefits of vitamin B6, folacin and thiamin without getting a scolding from those FDA fellas. They are the real nuts right there.Are walnuts a drug? The FDA thinks so. Hey man, you know where I can score a... more

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Drunk girl in a bikini drives through a crime scene barricade

Raw video of the arrest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8qA2Geo8sc

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Bad Girl Makes Her Escape

"A cow called Yvonne, who escaped from a Bavarian farm after apparently sensing... more

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Drugs in Portugal: Did Decriminalization Work?

Pop quiz: Which European country has the most liberal drug laws? (Hint: It's not the Netherlands.)

Although its capital is notorious among stoners and college kids for marijuana haze–filled "coffee shops," Holland has never actually legalized cannabis — the Dutch simply don't enforce their laws against the shops. The correct answer is Portugal, which in 2001 became the first European country to officially abolish all criminal penalties for personal possession of drugs, including marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine.

At the recommendation of a national commission charged with addressing Portugal's drug problem, jail time was replaced with the offer of therapy. The argument was that the fear of prison drives addicts underground and that incarceration is more expensive than treatment — so why not give drug addicts health services instead? Under Portugal's new regime, people found guilty of possessing small amounts of drugs are sent to a panel consisting of a psychologist, social worker and legal adviser for appropriate treatment (which may be refused without criminal punishment), instead of jail.
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The question is, does the new policy work? At the time, critics in the poor, socially conservative and largely Catholic nation said decriminalizing drug possession would open the country to "drug tourists" and exacerbate Portugal's drug problem; the country had some of the highest levels of hard-drug use in Europe. But the recently released results of a report commissioned by the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, suggest otherwise.

The paper, published by Cato in April, found that in the five years after personal possession was decriminalized, illegal drug use among teens in Portugal declined and rates of new HIV infections caused by sharing of dirty needles dropped, while the number of people seeking treatment for drug addiction more than doubled.

"Judging by every metric, decriminalization in Portugal has been a resounding success," says Glenn Greenwald, an attorney, author and fluent Portuguese speaker, who conducted the research. "It has enabled the Portuguese government to manage and control the drug problem far better than virtually every other Western country does."

Compared to the European Union and the U.S., Portugal's drug use numbers are impressive. Following decriminalization, Portugal had the lowest rate of lifetime marijuana use in people over 15 in the E.U.: 10%. The most comparable figure in America is in people over 12: 39.8%. Proportionally, more Americans have used cocaine than Portuguese have used marijuana.

The Cato paper reports that between 2001 and 2006 in Portugal, rates of lifetime use of any illegal drug among seventh through ninth graders fell from 14.1% to 10.6%; drug use in older teens also declined. Lifetime heroin use among 16-to-18-year-olds fell from 2.5% to 1.8% (although there was a slight increase in marijuana use in that age group). New HIV infections in drug users fell by 17% between 1999 and 2003, and deaths related to heroin and similar drugs were cut by more than half. In addition, the number of people on methadone and buprenorphine treatment for drug addiction rose to 14,877 from 6,040, after decriminalization, and money saved on enforcement allowed for increased funding of drug-free treatment as well.

Portugal's case study is of some interest to lawmakers in the U.S., confronted now with the violent overflow of escalating drug gang wars in Mexico. The U.S. has long championed a hard-line drug policy, supporting only international agreements that enforce drug prohibition and imposing on its citizens some of the world's harshest penalties for drug possession and sales. Yet America has the highest rates of cocaine and marijuana use in the world

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1893946,00.html#ixzz1WcNUeNJUPop quiz: Which European country has the most liberal drug laws? (Hint: It's not... more

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The 5 Worst States To Get Busted With Pot

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America's Anti-War Movement

Obama's imperial wars, permanent ones, will destroy another generation of... more

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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials-August 18, 2011

US Hires Blackwater for Afghan Drug-Heroin War, Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street... more

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Ecstasy may be used to treat leukaemia

The drug of choice for clubbers worldwide could help fight blood cancers – such... more

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