drugs
Study: Legal Weed Could Raise $12 Billion a Year in Taxes
Hamilton Nolan · 08/01/16 12:00PMTax Weed, Save the Homeless
Hamilton Nolan · 07/13/16 08:30AMThe Washington Post May Finally Stop Testing Its Employees for Weed
Andy Cush · 06/08/16 05:11PMSadly, Bubba Is an Addict Who Cannot Be Trusted
Hamilton Nolan · 05/23/16 03:09PMStop Drug-Testing Your Employees
Andy Cush · 05/17/16 09:15AMCanada to Legalize It
Hamilton Nolan · 04/20/16 04:20PMChilly but civilized American neighbor Canada announced today that it plans to legalize weed by this time next year.
The Myth of the Addictive Personality
Maia Szalavitz · 04/05/16 02:30PMWhen people think of someone with an “addictive personality,” the image typically isn’t a pretty one. “When is an addict lying?” goes a joke told by addiction counselors: the snide answer is “when his lips are moving.” Media portrayals of addiction tend to depict people with addictions as “fiends” or “demons” whose debauchery is driven by a ravenous hedonism, not a human or understandable search for safety and comfort. Consequently, the “addictive personality” is seen as a bad one: weak, unreliable, selfish, and out of control.
You May Have Already Missed Your Chance to Freak the Fuck Out on Flakka
Andy Cush · 04/05/16 08:30AMNYPD Is Using Elaborate Undercover Stings to Arrest Penniless Drug Addicts
Andy Cush · 04/04/16 12:24PMISIS Releases Good Anti-ISIS Propaganda Image
Sam Biddle · 03/28/16 03:32PMAir Force Investigating Cocaine Use at Nuclear Missile Base
Sam Biddle · 03/18/16 11:55AMStudy Finds “Bath Salts” in About Half of the “Molly” At the Club
Rich Juzwiak · 02/22/16 05:00PMA recently released study by NYU confirms something that should have been obvious to anyone whose brain hasn’t yet jumped ship waving a white flag: You shouldn’t trust that whatever white, powdery substance you think you’re putting in your body to actually be that substance. A recently released NYU study determined that 40 percent of people who thought they were popping molly—the supposed pure form of ecstasy’s main ingredient, MDMA—actually had unwittingly ingested synthetic cathinones, the active ingredients in bath salts, “and/or” other psychoactive substances new on the market, “intended to mimic the effects of traditional illegal drugs.”
There Is No Way in Which the War on Drugs Is Not a Failure
Hamilton Nolan · 02/22/16 10:10AMEven Sarah Palin Knows "Just Say No" Was Never Going to Work
Rich Juzwiak · 02/15/16 03:45PMLast night, the National Geographic Channel kicked off its six-episode series Generation X, an uncommonly sharp talking-head recap show that explores various cultural events and phenomena that helped shape the generation after the Baby Boomers. The War on Drugs, specifically how it targeted crack in the ‘80s and was made tangible in the “Just Say No” campaign, was among the topics on last night’s premiere. The segment featured commentary from Senator Cory Booker, journalist Alison Stewart, and none other than Sarah Palin, who pointed out the impracticality of the campaign spearheaded by Nancy Reagan:
$900 Million Worth Of Liquid Meth Found Inside Push Up Bras and Art Supplies
Marina Galperina · 02/15/16 02:52PMIn one of Australia’s biggest drug busts ever, 50 gallons of liquid methylamphetamine were discovered inside silicon push-up bra inserts shipped from mainland China. An investigation lead to 140 more gallons (worth $900 million in total) inside some art supplies stashed in five storage units in Sydney, the AP reports.
El Chapo May Follow His Product to Brooklyn, Face Prosecution There
Andy Cush · 02/12/16 10:12AMDrug Companies Now Have New Drugs to Treat the Side Effects of the Drugs They're Selling You
Marina Galperina · 02/11/16 04:33PMPoop! It’s funny! So when White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest was asked to comment on a Super Bowl opioid-induced constipation “awareness” ad, paid for by the pharmaceutical companies which spent hundreds of millions of dollars to acquire a new constipation drug for painkiller users, soft giggles rippled through the press pit. Drug companies profiting off drug users who can’t poop! Poop is funny, but this is bad. The White House is on it! Sort of.