Nothing makes for a relaxing vacation like toking on some dank sh*t. But if your plans involve flying, getting your stash from home to your destination involves breaking quite a few laws. So to keep you from having to track down a dealer when you’re from out of town–never a good plan–we’ve laid out exactly how to sneak a bit on board without the Department of Homeland security shoving a German shepherd up your a**. But remember, if you still get caught, we’ve never met…
Find out how to fly with pot after the break! Read More »
In the early nineties, Barenaked Ladies frontman Steven Page promised (in song no less) that he’d buy me and every other lady ever lots of frivolous and unnecessary items like a llama, Art Garfunkel and a monkey.
Looks like he forgot all about the little ditty that made his band famous and spent the money buying a ton of cocaine and marijuana. Page was arrested in New York last week for possession of a controlled substance.
The best part? When the cops showed up, Page and his female friend tried to hide the mound of coke under a napkin. I can’t believe that didn’t work! That’s how I hid a quarter pound of parmesan cheese when I spilled it at Pizza Hut 10-years ago. I guess the Syracuse PD are a little more thorough than the hapless staff at my local “Italian bistro.”
The news of this arrest is disappointing but not exactly surprising. Despite putting out a very good last effort and a popular kids album, Barenaked Ladies have been trying to run away from irrelevancy since “Pinch Me.” It looks like it finally caught up to them. Read More »
Despite spending $11.6 billion on policing the world in an attempt to shut down drug cartels, and spending $500 million in anti-drug campaigns, America is totally f**ked up.
Over 16.2 percent of Americans have tried cocaine at least once, and 42.4 percent have used marijuana, making us the world’s top consumers of these drugs. In two 2007 raids alone, the DEA seized 42 tons of coke worth $3.5 billion dollars. (If you want to see what 40,000 pounds of coke looks like then watch this video.)
It’s single, young adult men with high incomes, not the “leprechaun flute” toting crack heads, that are fueling the booming drug industry–so you can be sure that South American drug cartels are running wild producing drugs are a quicker pace than ever. Go War on Drugs!
Celebrate our drug use by watching Spiders on Drugs and Eric Clapton’s live performance of Cocaine after the jump!Read More »
Celebrities do a lot of drugs. With a ton of cash, and a job that doesn’t really require that much brain power, it’s no surprise the high profile people are, well, extra high…So it should come as no surprise that they are also getting busted, a lot.
Luckily for you, the good people at Pop Crunch have put together the most extensive list of substance-using suckers this side of “Behind the Music,” in “Busted! 100 Celebrities Arrested for Drug Possession.”
Are you sitting down? Ok. Apparently, a Tennessee Highway Patrol helicopter spotted a massive marijuana-growing operation in Cherokee National Forest, just miles from the Tennessee/North Carolina border. The officers seized 35,000 plants, equaling $700 million in “street value” prices.
Authorities found a campsite near the harvest, which is suspected to have been occupied by the illicit farmers. Though no one was found at the camp, arrests are expected soon, says KnoxNews.com.
Let’s just get something straight: That…is a f**kload of pot. We don’t know what they did with it, but probably the plants were destroyed. For a country that loves money (and smoking weed) as much as we do, that seems like an idiotic waste of product.
Back in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, weed was nothing much more than some funky grass that made you feel chill, silly and hungry. But today, the US government’s Office of National Drug Control Policy has announced that the average percentage of THC, the psychoactive ingredient, in the currently available marijuana has risen to 9.6-percent, up from 1983’s report of just under 4-percent.
The study was done by the University of Mississippi’s Potency Monitoring Project (how do we join?), which tested 62,797 cannabis samples, 1,302 hashish samples, and 468 hash oil samples, confiscated by law enforcement. “The increases in marijuana potency are of concern since they increase the likelihood of acute toxicity, including mental impairment,” said Dr. Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Increased mental impairment a concern? Well, our only concern is getting our hands on some of that bud.
One day during her freshman year, Yesenia Arellano walked into her dorm room to find her roommate with a guy, just about to have sex.
“He was lying on the bed and she was doing something with her shirt, taking it off or something. I told her, ‘Let me know when you’re done,’ and left,” said Arellano, a second-year biochemistry student.
But this wasn’t anything new for her. In fact, she regularly became a victim of “sexiling,” a casual term that describes kicking a roommate out of the room in order to hook up. [The Daily Bruin]
Rowling Charges Grads to Accept Failure, Cultivate Imagination
One could forgive J.K. Rowling for mistaking Thursday’s afternoon exercises for a Gryffindor reunion.
Despite a persistent drizzle, a lively audience—including more than its typical share of youngsters—gathered under an assortment of University shields, in Tercentenary Theater, to hear the author of the acclaimed “Harry Potter” series deliver the Commencement address. [Harvard Crimson]
Havard Law to Help Legalize Weed
When most people get caught smoking bud (marijuana) they usually follow a set step procedure:
1. They get angry because the cops just took away their weed.
2. They’re angrier because they realize that they’re going to have to pay a huge fine.
3. And they get even more angry because they can’t understand why smoking responsibly should be illegal.
Then they bite their lip, and pay the fines.
After getting busted with possession by an undercover police officer Richard Cusick and R. Keith Stroup followed the first three steps, but refused to lay down to the law. They have now turned to Harvard Law School professor, Charles R Nesson, for guidance. And they will make the argument that the outlawing of marijuana has no “rational basis.” [CollegeOTR]
Dr. Sir Paul McCartney Graduates From Yale, Pictures
You may have seen a link to this story in yesterday’s Daily Links, but there are new pictures. SI Campus Clicks said it best, “As if being a member of The Beatles wasn’t enough, Sir Paul McCartney is now Dr. Sir Paul McCartney after receiving an honorary doctor of music degree from Yale University on Monday.”
At the ripe old age of 65, Paul “the cute one” McCartney, still drives the girls bonkers. Good chance the girl in the back never washes her hand again. [SI Campus Clicks]
Harvard Law Prof Argues Marijuana Trial
Most marijuana users who get caught smoking a joint summarily pay a fine, but when an undercover police officer detained Richard E. Cusick and R. Keith Stroup, the two chose instead to challenge the constitutionality of Massachusetts laws banning marijuana for the first time in 30 years.
Arrested for sharing a marijuana cigarette at the annual Boston Freedom Rally in September, Cusick and Stroup turned to Harvard Law School professor Charles R. Nesson (class of 1960) for legal counsel. Nesson and his clients acknowledged that they had used the illegal drug, and decided upon an unusual defense: they argued that the statute outlawing marijuana in Massachusetts has no “rational basis,” and that the jury has the power of jury nullification, or ruling a defendant innocent while recognizing that he or she had violated a law. [The Harvard Crimson]
Students Fail — and Professor Loses Job
Who is to blame when students fail? If many students fail—a majority even—does that demonstrate faculty incompetence, or could it point to a problem with standards?
These are the questions at the center of a dispute that cost Steven D. Aird his job teaching biology at Norfolk State University. Today is his last day of work, but on his way out, he has started to tell his story — one that he suggests points to large educational problems at the university and in society. [Inside Highered]
This is a video from 2004 in which Barack Obama expresses his support for marijuana decriminalization. Asked about this, the candidate has said this is still his position.
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Harvard Law Prof Argues Marijuana Trial
Students Fail — and Professor Loses Job
