Tag: Cocaine
Yes, this is a skull made of cocaine. It’s called Ecce Animal, and it’s a sculpture by the Dutch artist Diddo (who also made this hypothetical “cure for greed“). As far as skulls go, it ranks somewhere below Noah Scalin’s skull made of VHS tapes and above Dan Aykroyd’s skull made of glass filled with vodka. Once, […]
Cops busted the Bronx’s hardest-partying day care this week, turning up 1,000 oxycodone pills, tens of thousands of dollars in cash, guns, and at least a kilo of cocaine at Parkchester’s Fun World Childcare. Three hundred grams of that coke was stuffed into what looked like a kid’s lunchbox. Gregorio Hanley and Johanna Vasquez, the married, […]
Cocaine use has long been associated with keeping users/addicts on the thin side (really thin side). Science has often mostly attributed this to cocaine’s appetite-suppressing effects. However, a new study recently published by four neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge suggests otherwise. The paper goes into detail of the food habits of cocaine-addicted men: They had initially reported eating more […]
As the great scholar Rick James once said, cocaine is a hell of a drug. Alas, it’s also very expensive, is responsible for more annual U.S. emergency room visits than any other drug, and turns users into selfish, paranoid, sexually impotent jerks. Er, so we hear. And yet, according to the National Survey on Drug Use […]
Just one day after announcing at his final State of the City address that he’d reduce the penalty for the possession of small amounts of weed, Mayor Bloomberg took to his radio show to explain why he doesn’t support full-on legalization like what’s currently happening in Colorado and Washington. Never mind the fact that small […]
