What stinks?
"Study shows cannabis popular with teens" by Associated Press | December 15, 2009
I gave a bag of weed to my sister once (over 20 years ago, readers).
The family was not happy.
DETROIT - Smoking marijuana is becoming even more popular among US teens and they have cut down on cigarettes, binge drinking, and methamphetamine, according to a federal survey released yesterday.
Actually, if they are going to choose one, this is it.
Related: Why Pot is No Longer a Problem
Yeah, it's okay for me to smoke, kiddo.
Yeah, the hypocritical double-standard is enraging, isn't it?
More teens also are getting high on prescription pain pills and attention-deficit drugs, according to eighth-, 10th-, and 12th-graders surveyed by the University of Michigan for the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Yeah, it is the PHARMACEUTICALS that are the REAL DANGER!!
The increase of teens smoking pot is partly because the national debate over medical use of marijuana can make the drug seem safer researchers said.
So it must be denied for medical use because of the kids, huh?
But it is okay to send them away to war over damnable lies?
In addition to marijuana, fewer teens view prescription drugs and Ecstasy as dangerous, which means more could use them in the future, said White House drug czar Gil Kerlikowske.
Well, when you have a CULTURE that BOMBARDS them with MAGIC PILLS, what do you expect?
The “continued erosion in youth attitudes and behavior toward substance abuse should give pause to all parents and policy-makers,’’ he said. “These latest data confirm that we must redouble our efforts to implement a comprehensive, evidence-based approach to preventing and treating drug use,’’ Kerlikowske, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, said yesterday at the National Press Club in Washington.
Sure smells like an agenda being pushed, doesn't it?
I'd rather smell the pungent aroma of the devil's weed!
Marijuana use, while well off peak levels of the late 1990s, has edged up....
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Just be careful where you light up, kiddo:
In a decision that troubled some individual-rights advocates, the Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled yesterday that Boston College police officers acted legally in 2007 when they searched a dormitory bedroom without a warrant and arrested two students after discovering large quantities of cocaine and marijuana.
The court, overturning a Superior Court decision that police infringed upon the students’ constitutional rights, concluded that the students who lived in the room, Daniel Carr and John Sherman, acted freely when they signed a consent form allowing the search. “The defendants were college students whose age and level of education equipped them to understand what was being asked of them and that they had an option to refuse,’’ the ruling stated. “They were not unusually susceptible or impressionable.’’
The appeals court also ruled that a BC police officer who first entered the room did so legally because he was investigating a report that there was a weapon, in a violation of college policy. Police found a plastic gun and two knives. But some critics said the ruling could curtail student rights and give campus police departments too much authority....
Welcome to AmeriKa, kids!
Some privacy advocates said the ruling could apply to a wide range of private security officers and specialized police....
Both defendants then agreed to a search of their room by signing consent forms. Police then found 12 small bags of cocaine that had fallen out of a winter jacket and two more bags under the bunkbeds. They also found a bag of hallucinogenic mushrooms under a backpack on the floor and a plastic bag of marijuana underneath a futon cushion. After discovering the items, police arrested the students and handcuffed them.
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Yeah, don''t deal it, kiddo:
"7 arrested as authorities break up major Western Mass. drug ring" by Associated Press | December 24, 2009
SPRINGFIELD - A drug ring authorities described as the largest in Western Massachusetts in recent history has been broken up with the arrest of seven people and a search for an eighth suspect.
That's a little too close to home, readers.
Hampden District Attorney William Bennett said yesterday that the drug operation, allegedly led by a cadre of Springfield-based traffickers, distributed more than 100 kilos of cocaine each year throughout the region. Although cocaine was its major offering, including 11 kilos seized during the investigation, the dealers also sold marijuana and some prescription drugs, Bennett said.
Why not just LEGALIZE THEM ALL?! I mean, LOOK AT THIS!!!!
Seven Springfield residents were being held on cocaine trafficking charges and an eighth, 31-year-old Vito Resto, was being sought on a warrant charging him with the same offense.
More arrests were expected. Bennett called the operation the largest drug ring in recent county history. He said tracing the drugs’ routes into Western Massachusetts also uncovered links to several other states, where separate investigations are underway.
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Maybe you might need this, too, kiddo:
SAN FRANCISCO - The proposal comes as policy makers and consumers await the results of an international study of cellphone radiation and brain tumors called Interphone. Some components of the multination study - the United States did not take part - have been released.
“The short-term studies generally did not find risk,’’ said Olga Naidenko, a senior scientist with the Environmental Working Group, a research and advocacy organization. “The long-term studies did.’’
CTIA, the trade group representing cellphone makers, opposes the San Francisco plan. John Walls, the group’s vice president for public affairs, said his industry has “always been guided by science and the views of impartial health organizations.’’
The most recent science is not conclusive.... The Federal Communications Commission, with the Food and Drug Administration’s support, has set limits for safe exposure to so-called radio frequency energy, the radiation emitted by a mobile phone and absorbed by the body....
And if they say there is a problem, there must be one.
The mayor has no plans, however, to give up his iPhone. In fact, the last thing the city wants to do is tell people that they should stop using their cellphones, said Debbie Raphael, toxics reduction program manager for the San Francisco Department of the Environment.....
Yeah, the kid didn't take kindly to my asking for the phone back.
Some hail the proposal as evidence of San Francisco’s long tradition of environmental activism; this was the first US city to ban plastic bags and prohibit a class of chemicals called phthalates from use in children’s products. Others view the move as proof of the increasing nannification of government, or as one online critic spat, “Thank Newsom we will be saved from our own dimwitted choices.’’
Which you will soon be using that cellphone, kiddo!
Come to think of it, that explains a lot.
I guess either way -- pot or phone -- you are frying your brain, kids.
Speaking of which, it is time for Xmas dinner:
"Mice infest Pa. Capitol, close cafe" by Associated Press | December 25, 2009
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Authorities found “excessive’’ droppings on food preparation equipment and in cabinets and utensil bins. That’s an imminent health risk. The ground-floor cafeteria, a popular coffee and lunch spot for State House visitors and employees, is now closed and is not expected to reopen until January.
Oh, it is the State House's cafeteria?
:-)
And I thought it was just the politicians making my stomach turn.
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Glad I never eat there.
I'll be back later, readers, to open more gifts.
