It’s great that Michigan’s gonna require welfare recipients to take drug tests The legislation will issue mandatory treatment for those who test positive. And that’s fantastic. But will it be sufficient? You may be thinking “Wait a second. Jail and being cut off is exactly what we want for those money sucking junkies!” And I get where you’re coming from. But that could also be punishment for what may have.. Read More
Anchor can’t anchor himself as he inadvertently gets high on camera.
Ah, getting high on the job. It’s generally a pastime reserved for the acne speckled wake n’ bake professionals who man your local Taco Bell drive through. But even the most celebrated and respected T.V. reporters do it sometimes too. In fact, some of them even get paid to do it during work – while the cameras are rolling for an international audience. Like BBC reporter Quentin Sommerville (below). To.. Read More
Six 12-step meetings we need to create for my entertainment.
You’ve heard of 12 step programs before, yes? They’re meant to help people addicted to drugs or food or sex get their lives back on track after forming detrimental habits they can’t seem to easily kick solo. Awesome and transformative as they are, I’ve always felt like more than one group is too much. It separates types of addiction into different cliques when their central problem is all the same.. Read More
Finally, psychedelics may be losing their stigma.
You may’ve seen my posts on DMT and magic mushrooms before. No? If not, my stance is essentially that psychedelics are an amazing untapped medical resource. And we’re ignoring that fact. Lemme clarify: Do I think people should be able to buy a pack of psilocybin like cigarettes, eat it all, and spend their Friday nights speeding down a freeway made of magma from laser eyed pterodactyls? No. Like weed.. Read More
The Melancholia of clean living (letter to Lars)
So Lars von Trier (Dogville, Melancholia, etc.) got clean this year. Or that’s what he says. He’s just announced it after breaking his vow of silence (that followed some less-than-PC nazi comment he made). And now he’s telling the press he’s been in A.A. and staying clean. But now he’s having second thoughts because before recovery, he claims he required a bottle of vodka daily to help him enter a.. Read More
Salvia smokers make me glad I never did it.
“If morphine causes euphoria, a kappa agonist causes dysphoria.” The quote comes from a hippie doctor in a recent VICE article. And he’s referencing salvia. You may’ve heard of this stuff from when Hannah Montana smoked it a while ago and then subsequently morphed herself and her crew into real-time furry cabaret carnival in concert. I’d heard about salvia a bit earlier – in college – when a friend tried.. Read More
4 year old deals drugs at daycare, Mom blames it on the dog.
“I’ve been dealing dope since I was four.” That’s what Ashley Tull’s daughter will be undoubtedly be saying to build up her own street cred in about ten years or so. That’s if she ends up anything like her momma. Who let her go to daycare with hundreds of bags of heroin. And pass ‘em out to her pals in between naptime and macaroni collages. To be fair, Tull actually.. Read More
Go Fast to go: taco truck drug ring nailed in sting
Hey kids? In the mood for Methican food? No, I’m not channeling Fez from my fave retro sitcom. I’m talking about some real life Breaking Bad action – meth sold from a taco truck. “Dude, we could just write Lose Pollos on the van, and sell it straight outta there” Indeed, some crystal kingpin decided that it’d be a wise idea to inject a bit o’ ice in Coloradoans’ crunchy.. Read More
Junkie’s own ass betrays him by butt dialing the cops.
Once upon a time when I used to date human people, I remember being “butt dialed”. I was remaining faithful to what we in the field like to call a “non-monogamous-unbeknownst-to-the-bish-he-was-dating” dude at the time. To his credit, he was an excellent liar. But he was, unfortunately for him, very stupid when it came to putting in all the peripheral work it requires to protect a good lie. So, when.. Read More
Catching an Ibuprofen buzz?
Ever gotten high off motrin? Yes, I have got one! Well, kinda. No. Not really. More like “anti drug research results” – because I’m skeptical about everything. Especially when they talk about altering consciousness with OTC meds. I myself haven’t had the pleasure of feeling stoned on ibuprofen. But then again, with my former pharmaceutical diet, my body would’ve received Motrin the way most Americans do if you offer them.. Read More