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Funny YouTube Videos May Get Salvia Banned
Salvia: the legal drug that really works. Unlike most of the herbal fake-weed concoctions sold in the back pages of High Times, salvia is actually a powerful drug. As anyone who took one too many hits can attest. Now, New York state lawmakers are moving to ban salvia, with penalties of up to three months in jail for possession, and a year for distribution. And crazy kids have no one to blame but themselves; the state senator who proposed the ban "said he was convinced that the drug should be banned after he and his aides watched YouTube videos of people smoking salvia and having psychedelic experiences." Not so funny now, is it? Okay, it's still funny. The videos in question—which we've helpfully posted after the jump—mostly prove that salvia makes people do one thing very well: fall down. More »
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English singer Amy Winehouse, who holds many secrets in her beehive, has been arrested for the second time in two weeks. The first time it was for headbutting some poor 
Worst Spring Break Ever
The DEA has arrested nearly 75 students at San Diego State University for running a drug ring selling coke, weed, and ecstasy out of four frat houses. But let's not lose sight of the real victims in this sad affair: college drug users. [NYT]
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Hot Club Bans Fun
Beatrice Inn, the "babe central" Manhattan nightspot that already cracked down on sex and drugs with a sternly worded bathroom sign, has now also banned smoking and dancing. All that's left is for them to ban pretty women and young horny celebrity guys, and they can shut down in peace! Of course, Emily Brill knew about this months ago. [DBTH]
The Best Two New Blogs In the Internet, Today
- Things You Can't Do Coked Up—Guessing there's no book deal forthcoming. Prove me wrong, publishers!
- Final Jeopardy—God Bless Red Lasso. [Via Kottke]
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NYC Still Black People-Arresting Capital Of World
Shocking fact: in New York City, "arrests for marijuana possession began skyrocketing in the late 1990s during the Giuliani administration." Oh, and that's "a trend that continued under Mayor Michael Bloomberg," the responsible soft-spoken billionaire who's continued many of the grossest aspects of Giulinai's reign of terror, just without the blustery hardman talk. And thanks to their team effort, New York now leads the world in marijuana arrests! But you probably don't need to worry, stoner—the vast majority of these arrests were of poor black people, because when they "decriminialized" possession of small stashes in the '70s they only meant it for like college grads and other responsible types. [WCBS]
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Dr. Albert Hofmann, Father of LSD
Dr. Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who first synthesized Lysergic acid diethylamide in 1938 and first consumed it in 1943, has reportedly died at the age of 102. See, drugs will kill you. (In the attached clip, children at Timothy Leary's Millbrook estate describe their experiences on acid— "it can become even more important than reading the bible six times.")
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Counterpoint: Some People Were Totally Impaired on Absinthe Last Night
Apparently, there was an absinthe party at the Bowery Hotel last night, attended by some Gawker staffers. (Thanks for the freaking invite!) They report that they each drank a shitload of absinthe and were totally retarded, yet not drunk! Slurring words and strange thoughts were reported (our videographer Blakeley thought it perfectly logical to want to steal a car), yet: "I could still walk in a straight line," even after having "8 to 10 drinks in a 2 hour period." Their memory and ability to remember words was totally shot. Yet, no hangover occurred. They didn't feel high, exactly, yet were thinking and acting strangely. The following party pics of the event, from RandomNightOut (plus an informative History Channel vid) are not hallucinations.More »
A Vicious Circle
Hey, does anyone watch CSI? Yeah, me neither. Well just in case you were wondering, actor Gary Dourdan, who plays the ethnic scientist/policeman, was arrested early this morning when he was found sleeping in his automobile with piles and piles of drugs. And maybe it's because he was recently fired from the show. Or was he recently fired because he was doing drugs? Or maybe it's because famous people all have a strange blood disease that requires them to snort, swallow, and smoke lots of drugs lest they die. For whatever reason, poor guy's been having a bad week. [Image via TMZ]
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Absinthe Fairy Will Get You Drunk But Not High
I have a bottle of absinthe from Germany waiting on my shelf—I was hoping to get wild after a day of, you know, bloggin'. But that's just not going to happen: boring scientists recently analyzed century-old bottles of absinthe and concluded that its alleged hallucinogenic effect isn't caused by wormwood but by plain old concentrated alcohol: "The absinthe contained about 70 percent alcohol, giving it a 140-proof kick. In comparison, most gins, vodkas and whiskeys are just 80- to 100-proof." No way, they're wrong. I just opened the bottle and I swear I totally felt something psychedelic happening. [Live Science]
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A cast member of The Hills has a checkered, druggie past! Oh, wait. It's someone no one cares about. Stephanie Pratt, sister of mustache-curling puppet master Spencer, was one of those meth heads or tweekers or whatever you're calling them these days. Her family shipped her off to all-too-famous Promises in Pasadena, and now she's clean and sober and, after lots of procedures, mostly free of face-picking scars. Oh, and in The Hills she's found a new, safer (we think) way of demeaning herself! [LA Rag Mag]
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Anderson Cooper And Richard Quest Salute The Queen!
When park-cruising meth-head CNN correspondent Richard Quest wasn't busy with rope tricks, he was pouring forth more innuendo-laden quotes on his globetrotting assignments. Here, Quest makes Anderson Cooper, the third most powerful gay man in America, break out into an embarrassed fit of giggles with his salutation: "As Dame Helen Mirren famously said when she picked up her Oscar: I give you...the Queen!" Cheerio, indeed!
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Only Spending Can Save Our Fat Dogs
American dogs, like American people, are turning into a bunch of dumpy, couch-ridden fatties. But the pharmaceutical industry is rushing to the rescue! Slentrol, a diet drug for dogs, recently launched a new ad campaign [NYS] to convince guilty dog owners that what their mutt needs is chemicals, not a stick thrown a long way, over and over. Furthermore, some stern doggie personal trainers are warning about the dangers of "the wrong kind of exercise"—specifically, "uncontrolled play." Give those dogs a structured exercise program and diet drugs at once, foolish yuppies! More »
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Would the downtown Manhattan nightspot Beatrice Inn like to shed its reputation as a coke den where insiders say that two of the Six Rules For Getting Laid are to flout the rules, then flout the rules some more? There should certainly be no rule-flouting in the presence of these small paper signs warning against sex and drugs, which are posted in the bathrooms, where they can do the most good. Of course, they might make an exception for Josh Hartnett and friends.
Beatrice Inn Shuts Down Sex And Drugs Forever
Would the downtown Manhattan nightspot Beatrice Inn like to shed its reputation as a coke den where insiders say that two of the Six Rules For Getting Laid are to flout the rules, then flout the rules some more? There should certainly be no rule-flouting in the presence of these small paper signs warning against sex and drugs, which are posted in the bathrooms, where they can do the most good. Of course, they might make an exception for Josh Hartnett and friends.
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Eleven Ways The Internet Can Kill You
While I was pulling an all-nighter this weekend watching YouTube, my stomach started to growl even though I'd had like a whole thing of goldfish crackers and a bottle of Kahlua, and as I popped a diet pill and scratched a couple scabs off my forearm, I had a vision of the eleven ways the Internet could kill you. (Please don't sue: Of course not all the sites and practices listed below are directly responsible for any deaths. But if you're already at risk, you might just get yourself killed when you use them.) More »
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"That, of course, after they sparked the weed they had come to smoke."
Which is funnier: hippie college kids engaging in a weed smoking festival, or the local paper trying to cover that event in respectable language? You decide! In honor of 4/20, 10,000 kids at the University of Colorado hit the quad for a massive smoke-out, and the Boulder Daily Camera was on the scene to record all the magical high-ass quotes that spilled forth from the participants. Here is just one, from freshman Emily Benson: "We're at the starting point of a movement," she said. "This is a big part of the reason I applied here — for the weed atmosphere." Ha, yes you did! And there are so many more: More »
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