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Drugs
Posted inDrugs
Drugs on the Table
Since when is Portland like an episode of The Wire? People have been overdosing on heroin at an increasing and alarming rate in PDX recently, and today the police announced that they have seized 10 pounds of heroin from an East Portland house and seven cars: Search warrants were served at 12238 SE Bush Street […]
Posted inCrime
The Worst. Night. Ever. Really.
Don’t you just hate it when you leave a party early, and for weeks afterward, have to endure your friends endlessly recounting all the drama you missed? That’s pretty much what’s been happening to me ever since I got the hell outta Dodge and left Humboldt County, California a few weeks ago. Just a couple […]
Posted inDrugs
Cokeheads are the New Zombies
Spot the difference. Well, not exactly. But according to a recent report in the Annals of Internal Medicine, over 80% of cocaine being imported into the United States is cut with levamisole, a veterinary anti-worming agent used to treat cattle, sheep and pigs. Although levamisole was once used to treat cancer and autoimmune diseases, the […]
Posted inDrugs
Cannabis Cafe Closes! Pot Prices Plummet!
Just your weekly stoner news update, y’all. Madeline Martinez at the Cannabis Cafe during happier times. First of all: the much-hyped Cannabis Cafe in North Portland is closing after a mere six months of business. I last stopped by the cafe, which took over the space formerly occupied by restaurant/erotic speakeasy Rumpspankers, on opening night. […]
Posted inDrugs
Dude, Your Surgeon Totally Smokes Pot.
See, if the Republicans really wanted to sink Health Care Reform, all they had to do was resurrect this classic anti-pot PSA from the ’80s. Death Panels are especially scary when they’re stoned!
Posted inMisc.
Agony-Fueled Euphoria
I recently took a tumble that involved a staircase and a complete lack of grace which resulted in a “severe sprain” on both sides of my ankle, a space boot/cast thing, crutches and some much needed Percocet. YES! I generally avoid prescription drugs, instead opting for whatever hippie bullshit DIY remedies I can find on […]
Posted inDrugs
Hey Guys? Don’t Drink the Punch in Arcata, California.
JESUS CHRIST. On April 18, officers responded to a residence to assist the Arcata Mad River Ambulance with a 31-year-old male subject who had just castrated himself. Medical personnel and officers were unable to locate the subject’s testicles. He later told officers that he flushed them down the toilet as he feared they contained “monsters.” […]
Posted inDrugs
Alright, Which One of You Blogtown Readers Left Your Crack on my Lawn?
Thanks to some unexpected police presence, or a very clumsy crackhead, I am now the proud owner of a pretty impressive bag of crack* that was abandoned on my lawn. Can we sanction a giveaway for this on Blogtown? Or, since I found it during business hours, do I now have to leave it on […]
Posted inAstronomy
I’m Starting to Get a Little Worried About Dan Aykroyd
This is from April 30’s episode of Larry King Live, and… well… I first thought Dan Aykroyd was kidding. Right? I mean, the way he suggests that aliens were watching 9/11, and then in the same sentence suggests that they didn’t see it—otherwise we’d all be dead? His weird, non-sequitur, 30-years-too-late condemnation of cocaine? The […]
Posted inMovies & TV
Details on the Dark Crystal Sequel.
Pictured above: freakish sewer rat, midget burn victims Attention stoners and Muppet fetishists! io9 has the details on a new Dark Crystal movie. This flick’s been rumored for a while—last I heard, Genndy Tartakovsky was attached, but apparently that version’s fallen apart, ’cause now the Spierig Brothers (Undead, Daybreakers) are attached to direct. From the […]
Posted inCops
District Attorney: Reed Needs “Zero Tolerance Policy” for Drugs at Renn Fayre
A Reedie tipped us off to an interesting email the entire Reed campus received this week from the a federal and Multnomah County District Attorney. The Reed community has been shaken this year by two student deaths, one from a heroin overdose. The attorneys say it’s time to clamp down on Renn Fayre, the annual […]