April 2009
102 posts
“Taste” by Animal Collective
Have you reserved your CSA Share yet? →
this looks promising.
poortaste:
Over 2750 farms and counting in the U.S. currently waiting on you to get with the program.
Morgan Feeman: Pot Smoker?
drugpics:
In an April interview with UK newspaper “The Guardian”, actor Morgan Freeman explained that he had stopped using cocaine and other “hard drugs” but that he would “never give up on the ganja”
Morgan, age 65, has been nominated for three Academy Awards. He called marijuana “God’s own weed” and explained how Moses’ encounter with the “burning bush” was an early Biblical reference to the...
Colbert Study: Conservatives Don't Know He's... →
“Additionally, there was no significant difference between the groups in thinking Colbert was funny, but conservatives were more likely to report that Colbert only pretends to be joking and genuinely meant what he said while liberals were more likely to report that Colbert used satire and was not serious when offering political statements. Conservatism also significantly predicted...
What If Marijuana Were Legal?
drugpics:
National Public Radio wants to know what America would be like if pot were legalized.
The US radio network asks the question in a recent radio broadcast, where it poses a hypothetical herb scenario to some marijuana ‘experts’.
NPR came up with a hypothetical scenario and asked experts to play along, commenting on their imagined outcomes. The scenario: Marijuana has been legal for two...
Pot Smoking Athlete Controversy →
diaz is the man. I think weed definitely helps with motivation in that it allows you to unwind and relax at the end of a hard day. it purges all the negativity and doubt you’d been carrying around, and allows you to wake up the next day refreshed and ready to tackle a new batch of challenges.
people who don’t partake build up tension and paralyzing self-doubt unless they have other...
“Wolfram Alpha is a system for computing the answers to questions. To accomplish...”
– Wolfram Alpha Computes Answers To Factual Questions. This Is Going To Be Big.
Download GPULife for Mac - Game of Life... →
cool screen saver. I guess it’s somewhat common, but I had never heard of it before reading this article:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/08/wolfram-alpha-computes-answers-to-factual-questions-this-is-going-to-be-big/
Bands to look out for according to Lovegodsway.org →
hilarious
toonajuana:
(via liveandlistening)
One of the most dangerous ways Homosexuality invades family life is through popular music. Parents, please keep careful watch over your children’s listening habits. Especially in this age of Internet mp3 piracy. There are multiple levels of Gay Music. Some bands are what we like to call Gateway Bands. They lure children in with Pop Grooves and...
“So if you take a stance against file sharing, and argue that it is harmful to...”
– Terminally Incoherent (via azspot) (via slantback) (via parx)
North America Lights Up For 4/20 →
drugpics:
Pot smokers sparked joints across Canada and the US yesterday for 4/20, the international day to celebrate marijuana.
Activists handed out hundreds of prohibition-reform pamphlets and information on legalizing marijuana. BC Green Party candidate and CC Editor Jodie Emery gave a spirited speech and demanded an end to drug prohibition.
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Obama Backs Prosecution of Medical Marijuana... →
fuck
drugpics:
It’s official – under Barack Obama, the Department of Justice will not restrain federal prosecutors targeting medical marijuana providers.
Any lingering hopes that the new Administration would implement change in this area were blasted April 17 when U.S. Attorney Thomas O’Brien forwarded to District Judge George Wu a letter from DOJ clarifying ObamAdmin policy.
“Or how about the four or five billion dollars we spent annually for the last...”
– Matt Taibbi (via azspot)
fmylife:
Today, my mother called me downstairs to give me what I assumed was going to be “The Talk” (About four years too late). So she sits me down, holds my hands, and with the gentlest, most motherly expression on her face tells me, “Honey, if you ever come home pregnant, I’ll kill you and the baby.” FML
“The legalization of marijuana in Mexico would create more misery and more...”
– DEA chief of intelligence Joe Placido (via drugpics)
“Together” by The Raconteurs
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Watchazspot:
The Political Prosecutions of Karl Rove
“The prohibitionist view of human nature is that if a potentially dangerous...”
– Jeffrey A. Miron, senior lecturer in economics at Harvard University (via katharinec)
“The real Boston Tea Party was a protest against huge corporate tax cuts for the...”
– Thom Hartmann (via azspot)
Obama's Marijuana Buzz Kill - The Daily Beast →
The argument, meanwhile, that pot is a gateway drug to harder substances is true only to the extent that kids who try pot realize they’ve been lied to. If the pot-will-make-you-insane warning is so obviously false, then kids may figure that warnings about more serious drugs must also be so much smoke.
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As a bonus, we’d empty court logs of frivolous possession cases; redirect resources to...
Begin discussion on legalizing drugs - Leonard... →
Watchhttp://www.democracynow.org/2009/4/13/noam_chomsky_on_the_global_economic
if you only watch one thing today…
worth watching the whole thing.
“The Spanish researchers focused on two patients suffering from “recurrent...”
– Active Ingredient in Marijuana Kills Brain Cancer Cells - Forbes.com
Abolish the Federal Reserve - Ron Paul →
the economic “stimulus” we really need.
“Let me read to you from your newspaper… the Atlanta Journal Constitution. “Will...”
– David Cross (via thetimelime) 