… Americans!

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 »

Getting “Sexiled” By Your Roommate

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]