Just what we need, more teenagers hooked on dope...

Medical pot laws result in increased teen drug use

WHITE MOUNTAINS - Experts in Colorado are starting to study the impact medical marijuana has had on teen drug use in their state. Medical marijuana sales are scheduled to begin in April in Arizona. Fifteen states and the District of Columbia now have medical-marijuana programs.

Two recently released national surveys, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the University of Michigan's Monitoring the Future data have shown increases in teen marijuana use, marked by a decreased perception of harm in the drug.

"The basic rule with any drug is if the drug becomes more available in the society, there will be more use of the drug," said Thomas Crowley, a University of Colorado psychiatry professor and director of the university's Division of Substance Dependence. "And as use expands, there will be more people who have problems with the drug."

In Colorado treatment centers, clinicians are treating more and more teens for marijuana addiction since the state legalized marijuana for medicinal use. At the Denver Health Medical Center, treatment referrals have tripled with 83 percent of the teens that smoke pot daily saying they obtained it from a medical marijuana patient.

Demonstrators show their support for the use of medical marijuana, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011 in Las Vegas. About 25 people protested outside the Federal building in response to recent federal raids on dispensaries, cultivators and referral services in Nevada and Michigan. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

This, you see, is makes people want to vote for Ron Paul.

---

This morning I surfed around as usual on the New York Times (one of my startup 'homepage' tabs) and clicked on their "Most Popular" category to see what's hip amongst the far-lefty big city folk. Amazingly enough, 1936's "Reefer Madness" topped the list of popular movies. Why is that, I wondered? Can't these "The-City" denizens get enough of staying stoned, that they have to laugh at a decidedly over-the-top bit of "unabashed propoganda" ? Then I realized: 4 20.

4:20, and 4/20, is the doper's hour and day. There's various answers to the question "why 420?" A search gives conflicting answers: some say that according to "High Times" magazine, 4:20 was created by a group of high school students because they met to smoke pot after school at 4:20pm. Others say (erroneously I think) that 420 is/was police department code for "doper bust imminent". That's a hoot; police codes vary from city to city, and I doubt any PD would choose to use doper code for anything. For any reason. A google search of "4 20 doper" gives us this wonderful site, "Doper's Union Local 420", where there be microcephalics. Go figure. If you must visit, don't breathe the air.

Oh. Speaking of microcephalics...  )

---

And, we know that marijuana is safe, doesn't make you do stupid things like vote for Ron Paul. Right, libertarians?


Don't smoke dope, kids. That's so Civilization-in-Decline-ish.

---

---

(more photos here)

A couple of nice images spotted while surfing the web.



Don't ask where I found the first one. I can't remember. But the second, the marijuana seizure pic, comes from here.

From Obama's Drug Czar (doesn't that phraseology just bring feelings and tingles of incipient authoritarian hegemony running up and down your leg? Chris Matthews, I know how you felt, buddy)...

The nation's drug czar, who viewed a foothill marijuana farm on U.S. Forest Service land with state and local officials earlier Wednesday, said the federal government will not support legalizing marijuana.

"Legalization is not in the president's vocabulary, and it's not in mine," he said.

Get you some of that, Liberals, Libertarians who supported this guy. (Have I said "Dirty Hippy" lately? No? I'm slacking I suppose.)

Oh, and nice finger positioning, outside the trigger guard. Cowboy Blob would be pleased.

---

---

OBONGA !

~Jerry Garcia’s ghost endorses Obama [Karl]@Protein Wisdom~

---

From glendean at Tennesseefree.com, an unusual, unexpected side note...

Ann Coulter is a Deadhead! (NTTAWWT)

From the interview by Taylor Hill at jambands.com...

Taylor Hill: When and how was your first Dead show?

Ann Coulter: I have no recollection of it whatsoever, other than that it was awesome.

TH: When and how was your last Dead show?

AC: I have no recollection of it whatsoever, other than that it was awesome. Actually, my last Dead show wasn't quite a Dead show since Jerry wasn't there, but I flew out to the Jerry Garcia memorial in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco with a fellow Deadhead from D.C. the weekend after Jerry went to the great psychedelic rock concert in the sky. The rest of the band played and it was great to be with my fellow Deadheads. It was very sad after Jerry died, not because I felt like I had a psychic connection to him or anything, but only because something really fun I liked to do, I couldn't do anymore. It would be as if all ski resorts just shut down one day. So the Golden Gate Park memorial was a good way to end it.

TH: How many Dead shows did you see?

AC: I used to keep all my ticket stubs from Dead shows – it was just something Deadheads did, like keeping lists of songs – but I didn't know why. So, in a lunatic cleaning frenzy around 1990, I threw them all out – as if a small section of a drawer devoted to Dead ticket stubs was messing up the whole place. After Jerry died, I said, “Eureka! That's why we keep ticket stubs!” These are usually the sort of factual minutiae Deadheads excel at, but I failed because of my OCD cleaning obsession. So I'm not exactly, precisely 100 percent sure. I frantically tried to figure it out by checking with some of my fellow Deadheads after Jerry died and adding up the number of shows we had been to together, and I estimated it was about 67 shows. And they were awesome.

So, did Ann inhale?

TH: What exactly do you love about the Grateful Dead?

AC: The tie-dye of course. Truth be told I hated tie-dye, though I finally broke down and would wear tie-dyed Dead shirts to concerts solely as a tribute to my fellow Deadheads.

Oddly enough, I like the music. No one believes that I never took drugs at Dead shows (except for the massive clouds of passive marijuana smoke) but I went because I really liked the music. There are various groups I get enthusiastic about for awhile, but of all the music I've listened to over the years, the Grateful Dead is the one band I never grow tired of. Apparently, the same is true of me for ski-lift operators.

Moreover, I really like Deadheads and the whole Dead concert scene: the tailgating, the tie-dye uniforms, the camaraderie – it was like NASCAR for potheads. You always felt like you were with family at a Dead show – a rather odd, psychedelic family that sometimes lived in a VW bus and sold frightening looking “veggie burritos.” But whatever their myriad interests, clothing choices, and interest in illicit drugs, true Deadheads are what liberals claim to be but aren't: unique, free-thinking, open, kind, and interested in different ideas.

I'm not a Deadhead. I am a Pink Floyd 'head', if there's such a thing. Pink Floyd is more cerebral; psychedelica for grown ups...

;D

---

Terry McCormick, Nashville City Paper's lead sportswriter covering the Titans, is doing his homework, today.

About a year too late.

Don't feel too badly, Terry, not even the Titans brass were aware of the 'slight' felonious incident in Fayetteville, Georgia, Pac's old hometown just south of Atlanta; this situation happened February 6, 2006, and is reported today by Cindy Moley of the Fayette Daily News:

"He was charged with one felony count obstruction of officers, and two misdemeanor charges of obstruction of officers, according to Lt. Beverly Trainor of the Fayetteville Police Department.
Police reports indicate that Jones and Lewis James Kuffour of Valdosta, were sitting in a car outside a house on Argonne Drive on Feb. 6, 2006 around 1 a.m. when police approached the car and asked them to leave.

"We had been watching the area because of a number of thefts and burglaries that had been taking place," said Trainor.

"One of our officers were performing a security check of Argonne Forrest, and noticed a car parked in the roadway for a few minutes," Trainor said.
"The officer asked them to leave, and it ended in a fight with the police," said Trainor.

The police report states that Jones "did willingful hinder this officer."

Police reports also state that "when Kuffuor was searched in the jail, the jail staff located marijuana in a plastic bag in the offenders small front pocket. The roach was located in the ashtray in the back seat area of the car."

State court records also shows that Jones was arrested and charged with marijuana possession in Fayette County in March 2006, but those charges were nol prossed.[sic]"

Something in this litany of Pac's Problems is the giant "Screw Authority" theme. It seems to me that the maryjane problems should have a mellowing effect on Pac, you know; blow that joint, and just be caalm, dude....dunno.

"On the marijuana charges, Mike Pruitt of the Fayette County Drug Task Force said Jones had "just pulled into his neighborhood from Tennessee as officers were executing a search warrant on Jones' home.
"He pulled in with his Corvette smelling like marijuana," Pruitt said.
"I asked him why it smelled like marijuana and he said 'I've been smoking."' "He was arrested for marijuana possession."

Jeeze, Pac, smoking the stuff is bad enough, given the amount of money you stand to lose once the Titans cut your butt, but doing so in your car, while driving, and with the window up? WTF? Does subtely not come into your understanding? Where does he get these tendancies to be so moronical? From the NCP:

"In the other incident, according to Capt. Mike Pruitt, head of the Fayette County Drug Task Force, Jones was also arrested — along with his mother, Deborah Jones — and charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession in an April 14, 2006, incident in Fayette County. However, that charge was dismissed and declared non-prosecuted by the solicitor general, according to the Fayette Daily News."

Did I just read "ALONG WITH HIS MOTHER, DEBORAH JONES"....I think I did. Explains why, I suppose, he got off on these charges...'But, Officer, my mom said it was OK! And, I'll give you an autographed football, and what's left of this roach...'

From Mike (I don't know how to do hyperlinks to my posts) Florio on PFT, yesterday:

"POSTED 9:45 a.m. EST; UPDATED 10:20 a.m. EST, February 28, 2007

RAIN MAN "OUT OF DAMN CONTROL"

How bad have things gotten for Titans cornerback Rain Man Jones? Members of his family are now publicly declaring that he is out of control.

Or, as the case may be, "out of damn control."

Says his uncle, Robert "Qbert" Jones: "Everybody tries to talk to him. I do. His mother talks to him, his grandparents talk to him. . . . I don't know, I just think he is out of control. I've told him I think he is out of damn control, but he doesn't want to hear it. I hate to say things on the negative because I want to see him do good. But it is hard to see him keep getting involved in stuff like this."

Uh-oh. If Uncle Robert doesn't pipe down, Uncle Robert might end up getting a cap in his ass.

"I have told him about trying to be in the right place at the right time so much instead of always being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and it kind of goes on deaf ears," Robert Jones said. "All I want you to do is understand you are putting yourself in bad situations, and putting the Titans in bad situations.' I understand he is young and he wants to have fun and all, but sometimes he has to take into consideration the places he's at and the things he's doing."

Says Rain Man's grandfather, Claude Jones: "We are all worried about his future because it gives a bad impression of him, the things happening. Overall, he just seems to be hanging with the wrong people. The hangers-on just seem to keep staying around him and bringing him down.''

But Uncle Robert thinks that, despite the hangers-on, Rain Man isn't helping his situation. "Pacman just draws attention to himself with the way he carries himself. He goes into clubs with six cats that call themselves 'security.' Well, what kind of attention do you think that's going get? He doesn't need all that. They know he's there, but he has all these cats surrounding him like he's the Buddha or somebody."

(Oh, crap. Just when we were getting used to calling him "Rain Man," another viable nickname emerges.)

In all seriousness (okay, in some seriousness), we think it's great that Rain Man has male family members who are trying to keep him on the straight and narrow. But where were those guys when he was swinging pool cues in Morgantown or doing all of the other stuff he's gotten in trouble for before that fateful February night at a Vegas strip club? Rain Man hasn't turned turdish out of the blue; we get the feeling he's been out of damn control for a long time, and that this is just the first time that anyone has put a microphone in front of the men who should have been slapping him upside the head a long time ago."

Bottom line: Pacman is facing no telling what kind of charges in Las Vegas; he's facing trial this month in Fayette County Superior Court on felonious obstruction charges; and the Nashville Media has belatedly shaken off the PacMan/Titans glow of invincibility. Not having played that game in the Arcade Days, I can't remember whether or not that little round head with the big mouth had a 'shield'; but if he did, it's down now, and the Klingons are decloaking the media is on the case, Titans fans are fed up, and it's just about over.

....sigh....but Pac will have enough money left over to take care of his mom...
;D

powered by performancing firefox