Dancehall artist Buju Banton will have wait till April for defense attorney David Marcus to prove his innocence after a scheduling conflict on the prosecutor’s side prevented his cocaine trial from starting in March as originally planned. While that certainly sucks for Buju, that does give his super human lawyer even more time to summon his otherworldly powers and prove the feds set up the Grammy nominee and reggae legend from the get. |Jamaica Observer|
When she was coming up, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta aka Lady Gaga assumed artists had to live like rock stars to be a rock star and found herself doing mounds of blow in an effort to emulate her favorite idols, sometimes to the brink of death. In an a forthcoming new biography, “LADY GAGA: Just Dance,” by Helia Phoenix, the vagina-verified, pop music sensation admits, “I thought I was gonna die…I wanted to BE the artists I loved, like Mick Jagger and Andy Warhol – and I thought the only way to do it was to live the lifestyle.” Talk about sacrifice. Read more »
When an officer in Tennessee pulled over a driver after hitting a concrete barrier, the woman started scarfing down some white powder that she claimed was a donut. Surprise: it was 3 grams of blow. |Chicago Sun Times|
Hailed by mad scientists as an effective antidote against cocaine addiction and its jaw-swinging effects, the TA-CD vaccine was found to have one slight drawback: it leads to more cocaine use! Oops. Although the chemical does a great job blocking drug receptors in the brain so addicts can’t get high, that doesn’t mean they won’t try. In some cases, users had “10 times more cocaine coursing through their systems than researchers had encountered before,” reports the Washington Post, with a few even going broke after buying blow “from multiple drug dealers, hoping to find a variety that would get them high.” |Wa Post|
A supermarket worker in Spain stumbled across a few kilos of cocaine while unpacking crates of bananas from Ecuador and the bore that he is, alerted authorities. |Telegraph|
Following in the footsteps of their English countrymen, authorities in Scotland will start using the cocaine torch to inspect the noses of partygoers for contraband. |BBC|
Just when you thought only retarded movies like Smokin’ Aces could come up with implausible plot lines involving a criminal who takes extreme measures to remove his fingerprints to avoid getting ID’d by authorities comes the true story of convicted cocaine seller William Wallace Keegan. Read more »
Narcotics officers discovered 61 lbs. of cocaine and almost a million dollars cash in an apartment in Williamsburg on Wednesday, leading to the arrest of three individuals and the collective cries of neighborhood residents. |NYP|
South American “drug lords” are stepping up their game big time according to U.N. officials, who say its the first time they’ve ever seen a Boeing jet used to smuggle cocaine from one continent to another. Now if they could only manage a proper getaway. |AFP|
After visiting New York, street artist Blu apparently had a drug revelation and painted this mural in Colombia, of which he writes, “done. do you really like cocaine? now you can feel guilty.” |Blu|
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